1 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
5 don't make packlist files.
6 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
7 debhelper coding standards.
8 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
9 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
13 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
16 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
20 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
23 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
24 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
25 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
26 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
27 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
28 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
29 but is mildly deprecated.
30 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
31 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
32 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
33 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
34 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
35 switching to statoverrides..
36 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
37 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
38 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
39 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
40 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
41 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
43 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
44 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
45 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
46 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
47 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
48 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
49 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
50 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
51 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
53 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
54 variable names, pod man pages).
55 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
56 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
57 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
58 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
59 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
60 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
61 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
65 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
71 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
78 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
81 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
85 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
87 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
88 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
89 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
93 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
95 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
96 they were previously ignored.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
100 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
102 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
103 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
107 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
109 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
110 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
111 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
115 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
117 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
121 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
123 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
124 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
128 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
130 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
131 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
132 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
133 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
134 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
135 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
136 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
137 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
138 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
139 it is an obsolete program.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
143 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
145 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
149 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
153 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
155 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
159 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
161 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
163 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
165 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
169 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
175 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
177 * typo: Closes, #78567
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
181 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
187 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
193 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
195 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
196 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
197 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
198 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
199 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
200 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
204 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
207 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
212 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
215 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
216 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
217 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
218 backwards-compatability.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
222 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
224 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
225 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
226 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
227 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
228 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
229 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
230 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
232 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
233 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
234 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
236 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
238 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
239 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
240 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
241 should now be raised to severity important..
242 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
243 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
247 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
250 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
255 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Typo, Closes: #77441
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
261 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Completed the fix from the last version.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
267 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
273 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
275 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
280 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
283 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
284 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
285 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
286 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
290 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
296 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
299 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
300 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
301 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
302 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
303 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
304 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
309 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
312 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
316 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
322 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
325 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
330 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
333 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
334 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
335 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
336 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
340 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
344 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
347 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
350 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
351 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
354 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
356 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
357 the TODO entry about it.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
361 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
368 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
371 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
372 prevent that. Closes: #73052
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
376 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Typo, Closes: #72932
379 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
380 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
381 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
382 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
386 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
392 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
399 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
402 (this appears to be logal).
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
406 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
409 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
410 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
411 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
412 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
416 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
422 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
424 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
425 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
426 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
427 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
428 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
432 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
438 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
441 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
445 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
452 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
455 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
456 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
457 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
462 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
469 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
475 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
477 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
478 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
479 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
480 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
481 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
482 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
483 notice until v2 is complete.
484 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
485 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
486 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
487 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
488 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
489 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
491 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
492 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
493 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
494 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
514 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
525 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
528 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
529 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
530 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
531 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
539 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
540 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
541 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
546 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
549 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
550 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
554 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
557 just skip files that end in -\d+.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
564 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
575 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
577 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
578 depend on the build and install targets.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
585 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
602 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
608 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
611 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
612 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
613 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
614 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
615 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
616 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
618 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
619 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
620 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
621 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
622 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
623 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
624 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
628 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
634 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
640 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
643 right place. Closes: #55065
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
647 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
654 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Make all examples rules files executable.
657 * Copyright date updates.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
661 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
664 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
669 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
675 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
682 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
688 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
694 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
700 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
703 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
704 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
705 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
706 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
707 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
708 bits until all files have been registered.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
712 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installmanpages:
715 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
716 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
717 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
718 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
719 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
720 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
721 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
722 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
723 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
724 otherwise change the result at all.
726 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
727 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
728 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
729 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
730 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
735 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
741 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
744 act on files that don't exist.
745 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
746 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
747 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
749 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
750 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
751 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
752 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
756 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
762 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
768 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
771 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
775 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
778 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
780 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
781 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
782 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
786 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
789 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
790 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
791 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
792 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
793 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
794 does not compress. Closes: #41733
795 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
797 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
799 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
803 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
810 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
825 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
841 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
844 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
845 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
846 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
847 I made some changes, though:
848 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
849 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
850 that is a clear violation of policy.
851 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
852 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
853 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
854 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
855 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
856 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
857 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
858 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
859 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
861 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
874 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
878 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
881 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
882 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
893 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
900 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
903 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
904 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
905 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
906 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
907 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
908 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
909 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
923 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
924 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
937 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
944 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
945 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
949 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
951 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
960 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
964 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
966 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
967 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
968 for the dependancies to be generated.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
972 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
975 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
982 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
983 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
984 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
989 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
992 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
993 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1012 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1025 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1026 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1027 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1028 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1029 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1030 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1031 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1032 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1033 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1034 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1035 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1036 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1043 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1044 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1046 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1047 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1048 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1049 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1050 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1051 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1053 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1054 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1061 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1065 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1075 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1083 for building debhelper.
1084 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1098 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1105 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1106 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1107 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1108 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1109 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1110 it's always available.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1117 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1118 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1119 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1126 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1127 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1140 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1153 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1154 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1155 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1162 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1170 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1171 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1173 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1174 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1193 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1200 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1201 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1203 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1210 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1211 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1212 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1219 things if CDPATH is set.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1229 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1232 seems to make sense for the transition.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1236 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1239 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1247 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1248 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1255 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1262 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1263 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1264 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1265 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1278 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1279 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1280 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1281 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1282 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1283 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1284 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1285 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1286 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1287 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1292 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1295 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1296 * README: mention doc/v2
1297 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1298 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1302 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1304 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1305 be using this script RSN.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1309 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1312 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1313 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1314 more than 1 init script.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1321 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1325 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Changed perl version detection.
1328 * Changed call to find.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1332 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1335 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1337 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Really include dh_installpam.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1348 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1351 * Wrote man page for same.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1355 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1358 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1359 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1371 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1374 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1375 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1376 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1377 x bit was being set!
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1381 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1384 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1385 well. (Closes: 38900)
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1389 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1392 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1393 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1403 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1410 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1419 help from Julian Gilbey.
1420 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1421 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1422 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1423 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1424 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1425 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1426 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1431 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1437 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1456 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1459 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1466 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1470 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1473 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1477 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1486 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1496 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1505 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1506 may be deleted. (#35845)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1510 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Various man page enhancements.
1513 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1521 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1522 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1526 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1529 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1530 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1531 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1533 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1534 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1539 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Another very minor typo fix.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1551 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Very minor typo fix.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1560 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1561 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1574 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1575 variables properly (#34850).
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1579 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1585 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1588 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1589 (automatically generated by build process).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1593 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1595 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1599 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1602 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1603 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1605 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1609 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1612 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1616 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * README: minor typo fix.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1622 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1625 leave it at that. :-)
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1629 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1644 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1645 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1646 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1650 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1653 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1660 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1664 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1667 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1668 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1669 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1670 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1677 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1678 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1679 Craig Small for spotting this.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1686 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1687 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1691 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1697 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1700 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1704 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1706 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1707 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1708 working on the last version of debhelper.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1715 being made. (#23255)
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1719 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1725 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1728 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1735 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1736 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1737 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1738 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1742 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1745 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1746 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1747 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1748 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1750 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1751 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1753 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1770 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1773 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1774 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1775 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1776 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1777 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1778 suidregister actually supports it.
1779 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1780 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1784 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1791 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1794 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1795 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1796 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1797 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1798 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1799 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1800 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1804 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1806 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1807 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1811 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1814 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1815 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1816 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1817 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1824 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1826 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1827 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1828 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1829 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1830 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1831 effect, either. (#30118)
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1841 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1844 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1845 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1849 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1855 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1858 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1859 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1860 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1861 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1868 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1869 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1879 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1882 packages, painlessly.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1904 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * The perl conversion is complete.
1908 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1910 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1911 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1912 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1920 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1921 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1922 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1929 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1931 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1933 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1934 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1941 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1942 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1946 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1955 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1956 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1957 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1958 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1959 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1966 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1967 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1968 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1969 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1976 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1983 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1984 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1985 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1986 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1987 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1988 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1989 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1990 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1994 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2000 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2003 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2004 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2005 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2013 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2017 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2020 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2024 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2027 sections of shared libraries.
2028 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2029 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2030 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2031 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2032 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2033 things you don't want them to.
2034 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2035 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2039 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2042 shared libraries. (#26414)
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2046 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2048 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2049 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2050 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2051 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2059 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2061 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2062 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2063 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2064 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2065 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2072 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2079 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2080 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2088 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2095 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2096 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2097 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2098 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2099 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2101 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2102 remove debian/files properly.
2103 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2104 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2105 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2106 * Removed bogus menu file.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2110 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2113 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2120 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2121 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2122 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2123 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2124 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2125 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2132 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2133 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2134 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2135 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2139 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2146 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2149 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2150 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2152 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2153 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2154 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2155 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2156 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2157 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2164 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2165 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2166 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2167 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2168 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2169 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2170 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2171 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2172 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2173 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2174 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2175 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2176 passed any switches.
2177 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2184 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2185 at all for a long while.
2186 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2187 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2188 large chunks in the process.
2189 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2190 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2191 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2196 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2199 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2201 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2209 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2210 that don't always have the same files in them.
2211 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2212 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2213 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2221 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2222 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2223 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2224 updating 27 man pages.
2225 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2226 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2227 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2228 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2229 programs act on. (#25247)
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2237 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2238 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2239 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2240 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2241 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2242 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2247 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2254 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2261 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2264 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2268 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2274 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2277 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2278 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2279 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2280 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2281 package by accident.
2282 * Is version 1.0 next?
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2286 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2289 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2290 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2294 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2297 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2298 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2299 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2300 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2301 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2303 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2308 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2311 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2312 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2316 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2319 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2323 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2326 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2327 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2332 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2338 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2341 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2342 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2347 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2353 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2356 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2357 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2358 past week. Thanks, guys!
2360 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2361 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2362 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2363 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2364 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2365 would do in the same situation.
2366 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2367 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2369 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2371 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2372 permissions changed.
2373 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2374 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2375 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2376 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2377 files are treated identically.
2378 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2379 * Minor man page fixes.
2380 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2381 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2382 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2386 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2389 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2390 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2391 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2392 use -X multiple times, too.
2393 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2394 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2398 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2401 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2402 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2406 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2409 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2413 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2416 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2417 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2418 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2419 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2420 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2421 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2422 shape if you're starting a new package.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2426 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2429 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2433 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2436 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2437 because of missing symlinks.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2441 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2447 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2450 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2451 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2452 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2453 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2454 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2456 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2457 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2461 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2463 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2464 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2465 to be changed after the fact :-)
2466 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2470 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2473 no version string after the -V.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2477 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2479 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2480 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2485 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2488 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2492 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2495 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2496 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2497 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2498 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2499 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2500 I always welcome corrections!
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2504 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2510 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2513 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2514 * Documented this new switch.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2518 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2521 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2522 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2523 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2524 no packages use the old behavior.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2528 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2531 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2532 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2536 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2539 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2543 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2549 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2552 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2556 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2559 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2560 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2561 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2565 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2571 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2574 into the source package by accident.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2578 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2581 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2582 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2583 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2584 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2585 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2586 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2591 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2595 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2596 inspired to implement some of it.
2597 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2601 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2604 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2608 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2611 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2612 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2616 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2619 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2620 have done.) (#17598)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2624 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2630 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2636 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2639 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2643 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2646 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2647 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2651 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2654 argument processor in perl.
2655 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2656 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2657 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2658 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2665 type directories. (#16933)
2666 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2667 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2668 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2669 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2670 are supported. (#16935)
2671 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2676 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2679 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2683 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2687 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2688 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2689 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2690 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2691 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2692 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2696 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2699 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2700 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2702 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2703 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2704 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2705 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2706 a given package, or -i or -a.
2707 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2708 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2709 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2710 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2711 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2712 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2713 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2714 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2715 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2717 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2718 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2719 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2726 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2727 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2732 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2735 does not have a section.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2739 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2742 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2743 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2744 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Fixed typo #16215.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2754 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2757 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2758 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2759 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2760 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2761 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2766 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2769 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2770 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2771 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2776 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2782 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2788 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2791 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2792 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2793 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2794 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2795 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2796 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2800 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2806 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2809 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2813 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2816 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2817 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2818 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2822 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2825 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2838 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2842 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2845 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2849 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2855 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2858 postinst, postrm, etc.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2862 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2868 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2871 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2872 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2873 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2874 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2875 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2879 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2882 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2883 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2887 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2890 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2897 installing package files into.
2898 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2907 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2911 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2917 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2920 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2924 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2927 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2928 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2929 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2930 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2934 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2936 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2937 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2938 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2939 multiple binary packages.
2940 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2941 should rebuild them with this version.
2942 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2946 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2949 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2953 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2956 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2960 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2963 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2964 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2965 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2966 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2967 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2968 debian/README.debian.
2969 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2970 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2971 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2972 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2973 in a few situations.)
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2977 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2983 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2989 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2992 * Fixed several man pages.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2996 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2999 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3000 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3004 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3007 is ready for general use.
3008 * Added man pages for all commands.
3009 * Multiple binary package support.
3010 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3011 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3012 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3014 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3015 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3016 auto-installed as parameters.
3017 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3019 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3022 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3023 the package build directory it is to act on.
3024 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3025 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3026 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3030 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3032 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3033 ready to replace debstd.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400