1 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
13 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
16 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
20 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
26 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
32 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
35 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
36 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
37 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
38 I made some changes, though:
39 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
40 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
41 that is a clear violation of policy.
42 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
43 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
44 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
45 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
46 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
47 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
48 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
49 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
50 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
52 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
56 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
62 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
65 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
69 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
72 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
73 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
78 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
84 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
94 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
95 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
96 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
97 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
98 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
99 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
100 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
114 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
115 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
119 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
128 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
135 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
136 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
142 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
151 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
155 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
157 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
158 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
159 for the dependancies to be generated.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
166 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
173 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
174 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
175 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
183 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
184 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
203 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
213 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
215 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
216 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
217 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
218 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
219 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
220 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
221 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
222 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
223 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
224 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
225 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
226 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
227 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
233 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
234 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
235 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
237 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
238 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
239 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
240 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
241 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
242 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
244 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
245 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
249 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
252 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
263 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
265 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
266 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
271 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
274 for building debhelper.
275 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fixed makefile commit target.
289 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
293 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
296 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
297 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
298 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
299 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
300 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
301 it's always available.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
308 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
309 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
310 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
317 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
318 modules. (Closes: #42171)
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
328 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
331 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
341 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
344 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
345 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
346 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
353 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
361 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
362 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
364 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
365 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
369 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
375 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
381 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
383 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
384 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
391 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
392 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
394 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
401 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
402 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
403 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
407 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
410 things if CDPATH is set.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
423 seems to make sense for the transition.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
430 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
435 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
438 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
439 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
443 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
446 that version. (Closes: #40589)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
452 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
453 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
454 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
455 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
456 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
460 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
469 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
470 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
471 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
472 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
473 * debhelper.1: documented this.
474 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
475 current compatability level is equal to that number.
476 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
477 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
478 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
483 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
485 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
486 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
487 * README: mention doc/v2
488 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
489 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
493 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
495 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
496 be using this script RSN.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
503 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
504 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
505 more than 1 init script.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
509 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
512 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
516 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Changed perl version detection.
519 * Changed call to find.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
523 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
526 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
528 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
533 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Really include dh_installpam.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
539 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
542 * Wrote man page for same.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
546 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
549 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
550 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
555 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
562 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
565 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
566 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
567 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
572 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
575 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
576 well. (Closes: 38900)
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
580 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
583 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
584 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
588 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
594 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
601 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
607 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
609 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
610 help from Julian Gilbey.
611 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
612 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
613 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
614 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
615 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
616 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
617 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
622 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
628 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
630 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
635 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
641 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
647 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
650 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
654 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
657 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
661 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
664 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
668 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
674 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
677 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
681 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
683 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
687 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
689 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
693 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
696 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
697 may be deleted. (#35845)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
701 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Various man page enhancements.
704 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
709 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
712 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
713 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
717 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
720 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
721 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
722 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
724 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
725 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
730 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
736 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Another very minor typo fix.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
742 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Very minor typo fix.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
748 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
751 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
752 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
764 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
765 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
766 variables properly (#34850).
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
772 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
779 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
780 (automatically generated by build process).
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
786 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
790 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
793 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
794 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
796 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
803 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
809 * README: minor typo fix.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
816 leave it at that. :-)
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
826 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
832 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
835 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
836 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
837 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
841 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
844 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
851 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
858 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
859 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
860 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
861 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
868 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
869 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
870 Craig Small for spotting this.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
874 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
877 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
878 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
882 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
888 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
891 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
895 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
897 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
898 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
899 working on the last version of debhelper.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
903 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
912 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
919 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
925 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
926 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
927 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
928 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
929 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
933 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
936 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
937 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
938 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
939 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
941 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
942 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
944 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
951 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
955 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
961 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
964 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
965 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
966 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
967 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
968 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
969 suidregister actually supports it.
970 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
971 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
975 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
982 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
985 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
986 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
987 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
988 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
989 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
990 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
991 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
995 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
997 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
998 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1002 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1005 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1006 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1007 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1008 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1012 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1015 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1017 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1018 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1019 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1020 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1021 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1022 effect, either. (#30118)
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1032 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1035 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1036 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1046 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1049 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1050 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1051 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1052 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1059 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1060 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1070 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1073 packages, painlessly.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1089 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1095 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * The perl conversion is complete.
1099 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1101 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1102 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1103 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1108 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1111 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1112 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1113 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1117 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1120 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1122 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1124 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1125 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1129 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1132 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1133 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1143 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1146 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1147 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1148 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1149 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1150 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1157 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1158 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1159 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1160 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1164 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1167 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1171 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1174 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1175 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1176 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1177 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1178 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1179 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1180 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1181 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1194 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1195 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1196 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1201 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1204 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1208 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1211 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1218 sections of shared libraries.
1219 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1220 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1221 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1222 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1223 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1224 things you don't want them to.
1225 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1226 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1230 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1233 shared libraries. (#26414)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1239 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1240 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1241 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1242 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1246 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1250 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1252 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1253 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1254 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1255 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1256 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1260 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1263 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1267 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1270 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1271 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1276 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1279 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1283 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1286 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1287 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1288 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1289 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1290 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1292 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1293 remove debian/files properly.
1294 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1295 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1296 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1297 * Removed bogus menu file.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1304 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1308 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1311 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1312 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1313 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1314 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1315 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1316 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1323 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1324 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1325 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1326 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1330 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1337 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1340 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1341 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1343 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1344 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1345 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1346 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1347 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1348 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1355 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1356 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1357 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1358 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1359 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1360 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1361 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1362 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1363 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1364 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1365 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1366 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1367 passed any switches.
1368 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1375 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1376 at all for a long while.
1377 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1378 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1379 large chunks in the process.
1380 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1381 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1382 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1387 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1390 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1392 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1400 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1401 that don't always have the same files in them.
1402 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1403 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1404 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1408 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1412 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1413 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1414 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1415 updating 27 man pages.
1416 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1417 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1418 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1419 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1420 programs act on. (#25247)
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1424 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1428 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1429 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1430 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1431 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1432 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1433 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1438 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1445 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1452 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1455 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1459 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1465 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1468 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1469 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1470 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1471 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1472 package by accident.
1473 * Is version 1.0 next?
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1477 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1480 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1481 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1485 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1488 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1489 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1490 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1491 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1492 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1494 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1499 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1502 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1503 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1507 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1510 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1514 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1517 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1518 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1523 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1529 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1532 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1533 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1538 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1544 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1547 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1548 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1549 past week. Thanks, guys!
1551 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1552 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1553 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1554 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1555 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1556 would do in the same situation.
1557 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1558 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1560 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1562 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1563 permissions changed.
1564 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1565 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1566 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1567 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1568 files are treated identically.
1569 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1570 * Minor man page fixes.
1571 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1572 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1573 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1577 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1580 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1581 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1582 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1583 use -X multiple times, too.
1584 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1585 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1589 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1592 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1593 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1597 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1600 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1604 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1607 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1608 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1609 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1610 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1611 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1612 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1613 shape if you're starting a new package.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1617 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1620 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1624 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1627 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1628 because of missing symlinks.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1632 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1638 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1641 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1642 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1643 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1644 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1645 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1647 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1648 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1652 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1654 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1655 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1656 to be changed after the fact :-)
1657 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1661 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1664 no version string after the -V.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1668 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1670 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1671 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1676 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1679 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1683 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1686 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1687 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1688 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1689 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1690 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1691 I always welcome corrections!
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1695 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1701 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1704 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1705 * Documented this new switch.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1709 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1712 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1713 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1714 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1715 no packages use the old behavior.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1719 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1722 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1723 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1727 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1730 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1734 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1740 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1743 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1747 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1750 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1751 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1752 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1756 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1762 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1765 into the source package by accident.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1769 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1772 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1773 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1774 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1775 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1776 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1777 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1782 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1786 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1787 inspired to implement some of it.
1788 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1792 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1795 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1799 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1802 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1803 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1807 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1810 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1811 have done.) (#17598)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1815 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1827 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1830 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1837 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1838 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1842 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1845 argument processor in perl.
1846 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1847 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1848 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1849 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1856 type directories. (#16933)
1857 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1858 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1859 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1860 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1861 are supported. (#16935)
1862 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1867 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1870 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1874 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1878 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1879 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1880 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1881 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1882 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1883 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1887 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1890 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1891 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1893 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1894 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1895 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1896 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1897 a given package, or -i or -a.
1898 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1899 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1900 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1901 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1902 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1903 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1904 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1905 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1906 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1908 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1909 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1910 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1914 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1917 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1918 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1923 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1926 does not have a section.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1933 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1934 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1935 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1939 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Fixed typo #16215.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1945 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1948 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1949 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1950 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1951 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1952 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1957 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1960 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1961 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1962 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1967 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1973 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1979 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1982 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1983 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1984 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1985 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1986 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1987 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1997 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2000 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2007 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2008 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2009 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2013 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2016 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2020 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2026 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2029 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2033 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2036 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2040 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2046 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2049 postinst, postrm, etc.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2053 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2059 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2062 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2063 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2064 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2065 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2066 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2070 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2073 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2074 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2078 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2081 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2085 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2088 installing package files into.
2089 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2094 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2098 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2108 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2111 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2115 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2118 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2119 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2120 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2121 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2125 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2127 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2128 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2129 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2130 multiple binary packages.
2131 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2132 should rebuild them with this version.
2133 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2137 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2140 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2144 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2147 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2151 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2154 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2155 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2156 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2157 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2158 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2159 debian/README.debian.
2160 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2161 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2162 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2163 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2164 in a few situations.)
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2168 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2174 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2180 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2183 * Fixed several man pages.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2187 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2190 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2191 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2195 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2198 is ready for general use.
2199 * Added man pages for all commands.
2200 * Multiple binary package support.
2201 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2202 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2203 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2205 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2206 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2207 auto-installed as parameters.
2208 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2210 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2213 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2214 the package build directory it is to act on.
2215 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2216 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2217 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2221 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2223 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2224 ready to replace debstd.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400