1 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
11 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
25 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
26 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
27 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
28 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
36 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
37 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
38 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
46 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
47 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
51 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
54 just skip files that end in -\d+.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
61 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
74 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
75 depend on the build and install targets.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
82 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
99 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
105 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
108 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
109 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
110 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
111 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
112 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
113 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
115 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
116 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
117 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
118 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
119 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
120 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
121 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
125 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
131 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
137 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
140 right place. Closes: #55065
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
144 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
151 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Make all examples rules files executable.
154 * Copyright date updates.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
158 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
161 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
166 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
172 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
179 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
185 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
191 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
197 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
200 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
201 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
202 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
203 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
204 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
205 bits until all files have been registered.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
209 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_installmanpages:
212 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
213 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
214 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
215 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
216 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
217 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
218 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
219 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
220 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
221 otherwise change the result at all.
223 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
224 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
225 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
226 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
227 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
232 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
238 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
241 act on files that don't exist.
242 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
243 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
244 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
246 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
247 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
248 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
249 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
253 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
259 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
265 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
268 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
272 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
275 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
277 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
278 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
279 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
283 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
286 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
287 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
288 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
289 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
290 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
291 does not compress. Closes: #41733
292 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
294 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
296 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
300 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
307 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
313 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
322 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
332 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
341 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
342 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
343 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
344 I made some changes, though:
345 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
346 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
347 that is a clear violation of policy.
348 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
349 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
350 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
351 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
352 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
353 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
354 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
355 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
356 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
358 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
371 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
375 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
378 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
379 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
384 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
390 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
400 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
401 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
402 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
403 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
404 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
405 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
406 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
410 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
416 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
420 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
421 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
425 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
434 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
441 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
442 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
446 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
448 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
453 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
457 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
461 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
463 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
464 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
465 for the dependancies to be generated.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
472 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
479 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
480 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
481 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
486 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
489 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
490 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
494 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
500 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
506 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
509 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
521 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
522 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
523 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
524 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
525 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
526 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
527 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
528 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
529 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
530 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
531 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
532 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
533 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
539 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
540 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
541 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
543 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
544 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
545 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
546 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
547 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
548 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
550 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
551 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
558 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
569 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
571 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
572 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
580 for building debhelper.
581 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Fixed makefile commit target.
595 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
602 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
603 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
604 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
605 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
606 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
607 it's always available.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
614 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
615 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
616 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
623 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
624 modules. (Closes: #42171)
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
637 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
650 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
651 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
652 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
659 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
667 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
668 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
670 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
671 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
681 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
689 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
690 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
694 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
697 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
698 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
700 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
707 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
708 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
709 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
713 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
716 things if CDPATH is set.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
720 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
726 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
729 seems to make sense for the transition.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
736 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
741 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
744 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
745 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
752 that version. (Closes: #40589)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
758 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
759 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
760 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
761 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
762 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
766 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
772 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
775 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
776 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
777 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
778 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
779 * debhelper.1: documented this.
780 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
781 current compatability level is equal to that number.
782 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
783 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
784 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
789 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
791 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
792 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
793 * README: mention doc/v2
794 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
795 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
799 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
801 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
802 be using this script RSN.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
806 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
809 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
810 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
811 more than 1 init script.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
818 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
822 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Changed perl version detection.
825 * Changed call to find.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
829 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
832 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
834 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
839 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Really include dh_installpam.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
845 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
848 * Wrote man page for same.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
852 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
855 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
856 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
861 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
868 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
871 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
872 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
873 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
878 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
881 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
882 well. (Closes: 38900)
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
886 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
889 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
890 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
894 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
900 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
907 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
913 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
915 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
916 help from Julian Gilbey.
917 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
918 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
919 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
920 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
921 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
922 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
923 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
928 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
934 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
936 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
941 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
947 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
953 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
956 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
960 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
963 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
967 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
970 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
974 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
980 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
983 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
987 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
989 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
993 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
995 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
999 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1002 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1003 may be deleted. (#35845)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1007 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Various man page enhancements.
1010 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1015 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1018 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1019 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1023 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1026 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1027 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1028 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1030 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1031 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1036 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1042 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Another very minor typo fix.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1048 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Very minor typo fix.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1054 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1057 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1058 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1068 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1071 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1072 variables properly (#34850).
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1076 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1085 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1086 (automatically generated by build process).
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1092 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1099 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1100 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1102 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1106 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1109 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1113 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * README: minor typo fix.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1119 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1122 leave it at that. :-)
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1126 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1132 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1138 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1141 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1142 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1143 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1147 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1150 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1157 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1164 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1165 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1166 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1167 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1171 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1174 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1175 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1176 Craig Small for spotting this.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1183 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1184 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1188 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1194 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1197 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1201 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1203 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1204 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1205 working on the last version of debhelper.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1209 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1212 being made. (#23255)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1216 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1222 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1225 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1232 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1233 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1234 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1235 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1242 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1243 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1244 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1245 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1247 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1248 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1250 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1255 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1261 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1267 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1270 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1271 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1272 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1273 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1274 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1275 suidregister actually supports it.
1276 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1277 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1281 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1288 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1291 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1292 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1293 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1294 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1295 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1296 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1297 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1301 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1303 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1304 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1308 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1311 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1312 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1313 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1314 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1318 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1321 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1323 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1324 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1325 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1326 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1327 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1328 effect, either. (#30118)
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1332 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1338 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1341 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1342 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1346 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1355 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1356 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1357 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1358 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1365 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1366 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1370 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1376 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1379 packages, painlessly.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1395 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1401 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * The perl conversion is complete.
1405 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1407 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1408 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1409 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1414 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1417 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1418 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1419 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1423 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1426 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1428 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1430 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1431 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1435 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1438 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1439 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1452 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1453 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1454 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1455 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1456 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1460 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1463 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1464 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1465 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1466 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1470 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1473 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1480 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1481 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1482 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1483 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1484 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1485 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1486 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1487 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1491 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1497 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1500 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1501 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1502 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1510 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1514 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1517 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1521 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1524 sections of shared libraries.
1525 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1526 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1527 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1528 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1529 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1530 things you don't want them to.
1531 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1532 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1536 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1539 shared libraries. (#26414)
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1545 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1546 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1547 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1548 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1552 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1556 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1558 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1559 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1560 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1561 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1562 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1569 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1576 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1577 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1585 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1592 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1593 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1594 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1595 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1596 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1598 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1599 remove debian/files properly.
1600 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1601 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1602 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1603 * Removed bogus menu file.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1607 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1610 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1617 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1618 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1619 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1620 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1621 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1622 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1626 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1629 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1630 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1631 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1632 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1636 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1646 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1647 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1649 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1650 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1651 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1652 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1653 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1654 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1658 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1661 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1662 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1663 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1664 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1665 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1666 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1667 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1668 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1669 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1670 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1671 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1672 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1673 passed any switches.
1674 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1681 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1682 at all for a long while.
1683 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1684 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1685 large chunks in the process.
1686 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1687 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1688 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1693 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1696 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1698 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1703 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1706 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1707 that don't always have the same files in them.
1708 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1709 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1710 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1718 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1719 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1720 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1721 updating 27 man pages.
1722 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1723 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1724 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1725 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1726 programs act on. (#25247)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1734 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1735 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1736 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1737 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1738 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1739 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1744 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1751 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1758 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1761 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1765 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1771 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1774 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1775 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1776 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1777 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1778 package by accident.
1779 * Is version 1.0 next?
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1783 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1786 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1787 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1791 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1794 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1795 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1796 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1797 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1798 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1800 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1805 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1808 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1809 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1813 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1816 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1820 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1823 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1824 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1829 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1835 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1838 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1839 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1844 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1850 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1853 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1854 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1855 past week. Thanks, guys!
1857 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1858 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1859 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1860 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1861 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1862 would do in the same situation.
1863 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1864 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1866 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1868 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1869 permissions changed.
1870 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1871 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1872 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1873 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1874 files are treated identically.
1875 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1876 * Minor man page fixes.
1877 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1878 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1879 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1883 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1886 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1887 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1888 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1889 use -X multiple times, too.
1890 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1891 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1895 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1898 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1899 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1903 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1906 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1910 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1913 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1914 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1915 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1916 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1917 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1918 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1919 shape if you're starting a new package.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1923 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1926 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1930 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1933 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1934 because of missing symlinks.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1938 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1944 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1947 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1948 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1949 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1950 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1951 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1953 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1954 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1958 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1960 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1961 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1962 to be changed after the fact :-)
1963 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1967 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1970 no version string after the -V.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1974 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1976 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1977 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1982 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1985 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1989 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1992 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1993 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1994 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1995 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1996 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1997 I always welcome corrections!
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2001 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2007 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2010 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2011 * Documented this new switch.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2015 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2018 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2019 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2020 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2021 no packages use the old behavior.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2025 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2028 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2029 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2033 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2036 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2040 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2046 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2049 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2053 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2056 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2057 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2058 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2062 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2068 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2071 into the source package by accident.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2075 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2078 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2079 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2080 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2081 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2082 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2083 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2088 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2092 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2093 inspired to implement some of it.
2094 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2098 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2101 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2105 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2108 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2109 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2113 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2116 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2117 have done.) (#17598)
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2121 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2127 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2133 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2136 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2140 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2143 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2144 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2148 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2151 argument processor in perl.
2152 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2153 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2154 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2155 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2159 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2162 type directories. (#16933)
2163 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2164 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2165 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2166 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2167 are supported. (#16935)
2168 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2173 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2176 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2180 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2184 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2185 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2186 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2187 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2188 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2189 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2193 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2196 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2197 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2199 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2200 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2201 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2202 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2203 a given package, or -i or -a.
2204 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2205 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2206 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2207 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2208 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2209 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2210 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2211 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2212 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2214 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2215 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2216 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2220 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2223 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2224 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2229 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2232 does not have a section.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2236 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2239 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2240 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2241 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2245 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Fixed typo #16215.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2251 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2254 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2255 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2256 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2257 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2258 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2263 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2266 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2267 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2268 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2273 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2279 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2285 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2288 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2289 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2290 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2291 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2292 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2293 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2297 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2303 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2306 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2310 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2313 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2314 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2315 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2319 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2322 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2326 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2332 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2335 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2339 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2342 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2346 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2352 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2355 postinst, postrm, etc.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2359 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2365 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2368 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2369 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2370 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2371 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2372 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2376 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2379 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2380 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2384 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2387 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2391 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2394 installing package files into.
2395 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2400 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2404 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2408 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2414 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2417 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2421 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2424 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2425 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2426 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2427 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2431 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2433 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2434 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2435 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2436 multiple binary packages.
2437 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2438 should rebuild them with this version.
2439 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2443 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2446 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2450 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2453 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2457 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2460 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2461 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2462 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2463 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2464 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2465 debian/README.debian.
2466 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2467 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2468 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2469 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2470 in a few situations.)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2474 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2480 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2486 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2489 * Fixed several man pages.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2493 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2496 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2497 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2501 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2504 is ready for general use.
2505 * Added man pages for all commands.
2506 * Multiple binary package support.
2507 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2508 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2509 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2511 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2512 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2513 auto-installed as parameters.
2514 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2516 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2519 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2520 the package build directory it is to act on.
2521 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2522 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2523 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2527 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2529 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2530 ready to replace debstd.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400