1 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
9 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
12 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
13 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
14 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
15 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
19 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
23 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
26 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
29 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
30 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
33 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
35 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
36 the TODO entry about it.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
40 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
47 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
50 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
51 prevent that. Closes: #73052
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
55 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Typo, Closes: #72932
58 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
59 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
60 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
61 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
65 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
71 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
78 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
81 (this appears to be logal).
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
85 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
88 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
89 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
90 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
91 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
95 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
101 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
103 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
104 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
105 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
106 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
107 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
111 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
117 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
120 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
124 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
131 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
134 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
135 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
136 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
141 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
148 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
154 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
156 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
157 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
158 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
159 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
160 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
161 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
162 notice until v2 is complete.
163 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
164 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
165 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
166 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
167 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
168 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
170 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
171 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
172 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
173 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
193 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
197 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
207 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
208 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
209 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
210 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
218 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
219 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
220 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
228 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
229 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
233 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
236 just skip files that end in -\d+.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
243 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
247 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
256 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
257 depend on the build and install targets.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
264 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
268 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
281 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
287 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
290 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
291 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
292 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
293 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
294 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
295 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
297 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
298 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
299 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
300 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
301 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
302 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
303 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
307 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
313 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
319 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
322 right place. Closes: #55065
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
326 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
333 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Make all examples rules files executable.
336 * Copyright date updates.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
340 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
343 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
348 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
354 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
361 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
367 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
373 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
379 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
382 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
383 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
384 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
385 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
386 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
387 bits until all files have been registered.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
391 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_installmanpages:
394 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
395 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
396 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
397 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
398 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
399 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
400 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
401 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
402 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
403 otherwise change the result at all.
405 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
406 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
407 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
408 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
409 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
414 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
420 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
423 act on files that don't exist.
424 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
425 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
426 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
428 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
429 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
430 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
431 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
435 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
441 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
447 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
450 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
454 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
457 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
459 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
460 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
461 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
465 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
468 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
469 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
470 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
471 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
472 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
473 does not compress. Closes: #41733
474 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
476 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
478 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
482 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
489 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
495 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
501 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
504 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
508 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
523 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
524 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
525 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
526 I made some changes, though:
527 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
528 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
529 that is a clear violation of policy.
530 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
531 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
532 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
533 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
534 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
535 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
536 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
537 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
538 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
540 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
544 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
550 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
553 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
560 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
561 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
579 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
582 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
583 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
584 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
585 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
586 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
587 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
588 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
602 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
603 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
613 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
616 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
623 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
624 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
630 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
635 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
639 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
645 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
646 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
647 for the dependancies to be generated.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
654 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
661 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
662 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
663 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
671 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
672 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
688 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
691 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
703 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
704 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
705 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
706 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
707 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
708 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
709 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
710 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
711 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
712 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
713 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
714 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
715 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
721 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
722 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
723 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
725 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
726 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
727 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
728 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
729 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
730 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
732 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
733 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
737 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
740 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
744 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
753 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
754 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
762 for building debhelper.
763 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
767 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Fixed makefile commit target.
777 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
781 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
784 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
785 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
786 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
787 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
788 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
789 it's always available.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
796 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
797 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
798 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
802 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
805 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
806 modules. (Closes: #42171)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
819 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
832 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
833 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
834 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
841 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
846 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
849 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
850 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
852 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
853 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
869 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
871 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
872 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
879 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
880 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
882 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
886 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
889 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
890 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
891 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
898 things if CDPATH is set.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
911 seems to make sense for the transition.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
918 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
923 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
926 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
927 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
931 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
934 that version. (Closes: #40589)
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
938 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
940 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
941 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
942 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
943 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
944 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
957 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
958 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
959 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
960 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
961 * debhelper.1: documented this.
962 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
963 current compatability level is equal to that number.
964 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
965 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
966 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
971 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
973 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
974 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
975 * README: mention doc/v2
976 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
977 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
981 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
983 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
984 be using this script RSN.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
988 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
991 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
992 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
993 more than 1 init script.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
997 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1000 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Changed perl version detection.
1007 * Changed call to find.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1011 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1014 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1016 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1021 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Really include dh_installpam.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1027 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1030 * Wrote man page for same.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1034 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1037 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1038 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1043 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1053 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1054 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1055 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1056 x bit was being set!
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1063 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1064 well. (Closes: 38900)
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1071 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1072 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1076 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1098 help from Julian Gilbey.
1099 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1100 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1101 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1102 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1103 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1104 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1105 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1138 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1145 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1149 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1152 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1156 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1165 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1184 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1185 may be deleted. (#35845)
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1189 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Various man page enhancements.
1192 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1197 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1200 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1201 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1208 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1209 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1210 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1212 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1213 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Another very minor typo fix.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Very minor typo fix.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1236 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1239 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1240 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1250 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1253 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1254 variables properly (#34850).
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1258 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1267 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1268 (automatically generated by build process).
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1274 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1281 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1282 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1284 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1288 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1291 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1295 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * README: minor typo fix.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1301 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1304 leave it at that. :-)
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1308 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1314 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1323 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1324 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1325 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1329 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1332 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1336 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1339 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1346 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1347 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1348 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1349 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1353 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1356 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1357 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1358 Craig Small for spotting this.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1365 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1366 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1370 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1376 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1379 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1383 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1385 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1386 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1387 working on the last version of debhelper.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1391 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1394 being made. (#23255)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1398 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1404 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1407 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1411 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1414 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1415 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1416 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1417 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1421 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1424 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1425 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1426 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1427 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1429 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1430 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1432 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1437 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1443 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1449 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1452 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1453 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1454 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1455 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1456 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1457 suidregister actually supports it.
1458 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1459 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1463 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1470 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1473 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1474 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1475 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1476 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1477 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1478 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1479 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1483 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1485 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1486 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1490 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1493 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1494 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1495 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1496 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1500 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1503 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1505 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1506 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1507 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1508 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1509 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1510 effect, either. (#30118)
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1514 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1520 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1523 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1524 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1528 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1534 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1537 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1538 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1539 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1540 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1544 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1547 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1548 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1561 packages, painlessly.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1577 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1583 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * The perl conversion is complete.
1587 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1589 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1590 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1591 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1596 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1599 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1600 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1601 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1605 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1608 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1610 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1612 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1613 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1617 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1620 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1621 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1625 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1631 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1634 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1635 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1636 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1637 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1638 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1642 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1645 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1646 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1647 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1648 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1652 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1655 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1659 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1662 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1663 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1664 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1665 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1666 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1667 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1668 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1669 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1682 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1683 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1684 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1692 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1699 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1703 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1706 sections of shared libraries.
1707 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1708 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1709 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1710 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1711 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1712 things you don't want them to.
1713 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1714 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1721 shared libraries. (#26414)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1727 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1728 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1729 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1730 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1738 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1740 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1741 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1742 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1743 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1744 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1751 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1755 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1758 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1759 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1767 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1774 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1775 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1776 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1777 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1778 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1780 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1781 remove debian/files properly.
1782 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1783 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1784 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1785 * Removed bogus menu file.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1792 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1799 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1800 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1801 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1802 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1803 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1804 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1808 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1811 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1812 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1813 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1814 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1828 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1829 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1831 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1832 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1833 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1834 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1835 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1836 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1843 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1844 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1845 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1846 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1847 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1848 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1849 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1850 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1851 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1852 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1853 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1854 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1855 passed any switches.
1856 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1860 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1863 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1864 at all for a long while.
1865 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1866 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1867 large chunks in the process.
1868 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1869 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1870 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1878 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1880 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1885 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1888 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1889 that don't always have the same files in them.
1890 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1891 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1892 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1896 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1900 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1901 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1902 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1903 updating 27 man pages.
1904 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1905 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1906 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1907 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1908 programs act on. (#25247)
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1916 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1917 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1918 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1919 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1920 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1921 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1926 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1933 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1940 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1943 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1947 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1953 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1956 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1957 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1958 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1959 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1960 package by accident.
1961 * Is version 1.0 next?
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1965 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1968 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1969 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1973 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1976 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1977 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1978 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1979 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1980 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1982 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1987 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1990 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1991 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1995 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1998 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2002 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2005 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2006 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2011 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2017 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2020 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2021 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2026 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2032 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2035 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2036 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2037 past week. Thanks, guys!
2039 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2040 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2041 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2042 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2043 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2044 would do in the same situation.
2045 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2046 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2048 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2050 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2051 permissions changed.
2052 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2053 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2054 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2055 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2056 files are treated identically.
2057 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2058 * Minor man page fixes.
2059 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2060 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2061 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2065 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2068 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2069 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2070 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2071 use -X multiple times, too.
2072 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2073 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2077 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2080 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2081 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2085 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2088 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2092 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2095 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2096 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2097 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2098 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2099 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2100 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2101 shape if you're starting a new package.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2105 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2108 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2112 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2115 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2116 because of missing symlinks.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2120 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2126 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2129 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2130 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2131 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2132 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2133 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2135 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2136 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2140 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2142 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2143 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2144 to be changed after the fact :-)
2145 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2149 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2152 no version string after the -V.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2156 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2158 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2159 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2164 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2167 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2171 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2174 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2175 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2176 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2177 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2178 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2179 I always welcome corrections!
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2183 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2189 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2192 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2193 * Documented this new switch.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2197 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2200 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2201 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2202 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2203 no packages use the old behavior.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2207 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2210 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2211 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2215 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2218 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2222 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2228 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2231 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2235 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2238 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2239 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2240 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2244 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2250 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2253 into the source package by accident.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2257 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2260 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2261 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2262 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2263 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2264 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2265 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2270 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2274 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2275 inspired to implement some of it.
2276 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2280 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2283 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2287 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2290 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2291 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2295 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2298 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2299 have done.) (#17598)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2303 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2309 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2315 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2318 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2322 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2325 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2326 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2330 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2333 argument processor in perl.
2334 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2335 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2336 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2337 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2341 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2344 type directories. (#16933)
2345 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2346 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2347 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2348 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2349 are supported. (#16935)
2350 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2355 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2358 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2362 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2366 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2367 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2368 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2369 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2370 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2371 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2375 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2378 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2379 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2381 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2382 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2383 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2384 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2385 a given package, or -i or -a.
2386 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2387 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2388 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2389 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2390 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2391 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2392 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2393 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2394 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2396 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2397 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2398 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2402 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2405 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2406 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2411 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2414 does not have a section.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2418 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2421 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2422 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2423 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2427 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Fixed typo #16215.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2433 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2436 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2437 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2438 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2439 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2440 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2445 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2448 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2449 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2450 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2455 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2461 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2467 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2470 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2471 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2472 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2473 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2474 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2475 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2479 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2485 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2488 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2492 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2495 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2496 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2497 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2501 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2504 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2508 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2514 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2517 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2521 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2524 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2528 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2534 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2537 postinst, postrm, etc.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2541 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2547 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2550 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2551 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2552 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2553 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2554 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2558 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2561 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2562 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2566 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2569 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2573 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2576 installing package files into.
2577 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2582 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2586 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2590 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2596 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2599 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2603 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2606 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2607 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2608 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2609 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2613 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2615 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2616 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2617 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2618 multiple binary packages.
2619 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2620 should rebuild them with this version.
2621 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2625 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2628 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2632 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2635 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2639 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2642 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2643 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2644 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2645 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2646 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2647 debian/README.debian.
2648 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2649 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2650 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2651 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2652 in a few situations.)
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2656 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2662 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2668 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2671 * Fixed several man pages.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2675 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2678 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2679 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2683 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2686 is ready for general use.
2687 * Added man pages for all commands.
2688 * Multiple binary package support.
2689 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2690 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2691 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2693 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2694 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2695 auto-installed as parameters.
2696 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2698 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2701 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2702 the package build directory it is to act on.
2703 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2704 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2705 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2709 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2711 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2712 ready to replace debstd.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400