1 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
5 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
6 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
10 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
13 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
14 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
15 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
19 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
22 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
26 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
32 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Typo, Closes: #92407
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
38 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
44 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
50 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
53 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
57 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
60 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
61 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
62 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
63 followed. Closes: #85483
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
67 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
69 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
70 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
71 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
75 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
78 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
79 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
80 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
81 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
82 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
83 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
84 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
85 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
86 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
87 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
88 Closes: #88464, #77743
89 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
90 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
91 us to deal with that gracefully.
92 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
94 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
95 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
96 a while, Closes: #51225
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
100 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
106 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
109 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
113 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
117 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
122 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
125 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
126 don't make packlist files.
127 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
128 debhelper coding standards.
129 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
130 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
134 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
137 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
141 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
144 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
145 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
146 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
147 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
148 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
149 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
150 but is mildly deprecated.
151 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
152 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
153 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
154 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
155 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
156 switching to statoverrides..
157 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
158 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
159 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
160 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
161 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
162 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
164 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
165 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
166 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
167 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
168 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
169 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
170 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
171 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
172 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
174 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
175 variable names, pod man pages).
176 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
177 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
178 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
179 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
180 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
181 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
182 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
186 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
192 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
199 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
202 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
206 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
208 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
209 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
210 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
214 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
216 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
217 they were previously ignored.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
221 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
223 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
224 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
228 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
230 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
231 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
232 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
236 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
238 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
242 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
244 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
245 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
249 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
251 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
252 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
253 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
254 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
255 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
256 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
257 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
258 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
259 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
260 it is an obsolete program.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
264 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
266 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
270 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
274 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
276 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
280 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
282 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
284 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
286 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
290 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
298 * typo: Closes, #78567
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
302 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
308 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
314 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
316 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
317 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
318 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
319 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
320 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
321 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
325 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
328 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
333 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
336 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
337 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
338 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
339 backwards-compatability.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
343 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
345 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
346 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
347 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
348 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
349 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
350 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
351 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
353 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
354 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
355 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
357 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
359 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
360 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
361 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
362 should now be raised to severity important..
363 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
364 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
368 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
371 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
376 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Typo, Closes: #77441
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
382 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Completed the fix from the last version.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
388 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
394 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
396 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
401 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
404 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
405 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
406 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
407 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
411 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
417 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
420 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
421 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
422 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
423 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
424 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
425 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
430 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
433 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
437 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
443 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
446 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
451 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
454 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
455 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
456 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
457 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
461 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
465 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
468 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
471 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
472 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
475 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
477 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
478 the TODO entry about it.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
482 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
489 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
492 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
493 prevent that. Closes: #73052
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
497 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Typo, Closes: #72932
500 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
501 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
502 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
503 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
507 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
513 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
520 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
523 (this appears to be logal).
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
527 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
530 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
531 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
532 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
533 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
537 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
543 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
545 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
546 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
547 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
548 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
549 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
553 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
559 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
562 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
566 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
573 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
576 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
577 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
578 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
583 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
590 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
596 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
599 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
600 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
601 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
602 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
603 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
604 notice until v2 is complete.
605 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
606 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
607 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
608 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
609 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
610 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
612 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
613 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
614 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
615 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
619 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
635 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
639 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
646 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
649 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
650 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
651 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
652 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
660 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
661 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
662 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
667 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
670 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
671 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
675 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
678 just skip files that end in -\d+.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
682 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
685 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
689 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
696 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
698 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
699 depend on the build and install targets.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
703 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
706 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
710 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
717 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
723 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
729 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
732 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
733 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
734 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
735 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
736 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
737 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
739 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
740 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
741 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
742 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
743 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
744 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
745 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
749 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
755 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
761 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
764 right place. Closes: #55065
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
768 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
775 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Make all examples rules files executable.
778 * Copyright date updates.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
782 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
785 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
790 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
796 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
803 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
809 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
815 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
821 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
824 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
825 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
826 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
827 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
828 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
829 bits until all files have been registered.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installmanpages:
836 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
837 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
838 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
839 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
840 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
841 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
842 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
843 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
844 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
845 otherwise change the result at all.
847 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
848 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
849 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
850 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
851 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
856 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
862 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
865 act on files that don't exist.
866 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
867 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
868 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
870 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
871 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
872 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
873 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
877 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
883 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
889 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
892 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
896 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
899 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
901 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
902 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
903 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
907 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
910 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
911 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
912 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
913 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
914 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
915 does not compress. Closes: #41733
916 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
918 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
920 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
924 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
931 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
943 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
946 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
950 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
965 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
966 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
967 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
968 I made some changes, though:
969 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
970 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
971 that is a clear violation of policy.
972 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
973 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
974 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
975 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
976 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
977 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
978 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
979 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
980 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
982 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
992 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
995 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
999 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1002 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1003 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1008 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1014 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1024 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1025 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1026 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1027 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1028 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1029 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1030 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1044 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1045 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1055 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1058 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1065 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1066 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1072 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1081 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1088 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1089 for the dependancies to be generated.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1096 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1103 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1104 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1105 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1113 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1114 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1133 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1146 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1147 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1148 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1149 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1150 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1151 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1152 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1153 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1154 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1155 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1156 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1157 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1164 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1165 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1167 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1168 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1169 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1170 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1171 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1172 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1174 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1175 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1182 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1196 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1204 for building debhelper.
1205 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1219 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1226 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1227 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1228 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1229 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1230 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1231 it's always available.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1238 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1239 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1240 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1247 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1248 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1261 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1274 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1275 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1276 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1283 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1291 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1292 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1294 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1295 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1299 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1314 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1318 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1321 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1322 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1324 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1331 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1332 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1333 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1340 things if CDPATH is set.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1353 seems to make sense for the transition.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1360 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1368 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1369 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1376 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1383 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1384 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1385 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1386 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1396 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1399 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1400 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1401 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1402 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1403 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1404 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1405 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1406 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1407 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1408 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1416 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1417 * README: mention doc/v2
1418 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1419 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1423 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1425 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1426 be using this script RSN.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1433 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1434 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1435 more than 1 init script.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1439 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1442 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Changed perl version detection.
1449 * Changed call to find.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1456 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1458 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Really include dh_installpam.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1472 * Wrote man page for same.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1476 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1479 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1480 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1485 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1495 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1496 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1497 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1498 x bit was being set!
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1505 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1506 well. (Closes: 38900)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1510 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1513 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1514 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1524 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1531 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1537 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1540 help from Julian Gilbey.
1541 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1542 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1543 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1544 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1545 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1546 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1547 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1552 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1558 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1577 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1580 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1584 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1587 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1591 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1594 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1598 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1604 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1607 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1617 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1623 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1626 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1627 may be deleted. (#35845)
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Various man page enhancements.
1634 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1642 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1643 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1647 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1650 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1651 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1652 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1654 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1655 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1660 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1666 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Another very minor typo fix.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1672 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Very minor typo fix.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1678 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1681 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1682 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1686 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1692 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1695 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1696 variables properly (#34850).
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1709 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1710 (automatically generated by build process).
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1714 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1716 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1720 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1723 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1724 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1726 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1730 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1733 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * README: minor typo fix.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1746 leave it at that. :-)
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1750 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1756 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1762 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1765 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1766 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1767 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1771 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1774 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1781 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1785 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1788 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1789 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1790 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1791 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1795 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1798 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1799 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1800 Craig Small for spotting this.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1804 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1807 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1808 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1812 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1818 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1821 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1827 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1828 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1829 working on the last version of debhelper.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1833 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1836 being made. (#23255)
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1840 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1846 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1849 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1853 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1856 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1857 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1858 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1859 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1863 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1866 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1867 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1868 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1869 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1871 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1872 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1874 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1879 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1885 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1891 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1894 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1895 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1896 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1897 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1898 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1899 suidregister actually supports it.
1900 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1901 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1905 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1912 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1915 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1916 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1917 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1918 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1919 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1920 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1921 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1925 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1927 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1928 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1935 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1936 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1937 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1938 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1945 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1947 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1948 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1949 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1950 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1951 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1952 effect, either. (#30118)
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1956 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1962 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1965 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1966 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1979 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1980 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1981 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1982 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1986 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1989 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1990 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2003 packages, painlessly.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2013 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2019 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2025 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * The perl conversion is complete.
2029 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2031 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2032 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2033 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2041 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2042 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2043 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2047 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2050 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2052 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2054 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2055 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2062 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2063 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2067 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2076 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2077 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2078 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2079 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2080 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2087 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2088 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2089 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2090 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2094 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2097 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2104 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2105 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2106 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2107 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2108 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2109 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2110 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2111 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2115 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2121 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2124 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2125 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2126 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2134 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2141 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2145 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2148 sections of shared libraries.
2149 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2150 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2151 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2152 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2153 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2154 things you don't want them to.
2155 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2156 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2163 shared libraries. (#26414)
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2167 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2169 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2170 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2171 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2172 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2180 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2182 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2183 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2184 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2185 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2186 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2193 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2200 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2201 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2209 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2216 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2217 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2218 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2219 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2220 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2222 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2223 remove debian/files properly.
2224 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2225 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2226 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2227 * Removed bogus menu file.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2234 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2241 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2242 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2243 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2244 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2245 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2246 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2250 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2253 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2254 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2255 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2256 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2260 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2270 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2271 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2273 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2274 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2275 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2276 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2277 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2278 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2285 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2286 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2287 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2288 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2289 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2290 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2291 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2292 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2293 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2294 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2295 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2296 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2297 passed any switches.
2298 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2305 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2306 at all for a long while.
2307 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2308 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2309 large chunks in the process.
2310 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2311 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2312 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2320 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2322 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2330 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2331 that don't always have the same files in them.
2332 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2333 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2334 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2338 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2342 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2343 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2344 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2345 updating 27 man pages.
2346 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2347 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2348 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2349 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2350 programs act on. (#25247)
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2354 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2358 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2359 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2360 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2361 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2362 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2363 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2368 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2375 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2382 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2385 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2389 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2395 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2398 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2399 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2400 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2401 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2402 package by accident.
2403 * Is version 1.0 next?
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2407 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2410 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2411 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2415 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2418 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2419 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2420 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2421 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2422 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2424 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2429 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2432 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2433 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2437 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2440 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2444 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2447 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2448 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2453 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2459 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2462 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2463 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2468 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2474 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2477 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2478 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2479 past week. Thanks, guys!
2481 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2482 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2483 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2484 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2485 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2486 would do in the same situation.
2487 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2488 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2490 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2492 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2493 permissions changed.
2494 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2495 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2496 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2497 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2498 files are treated identically.
2499 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2500 * Minor man page fixes.
2501 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2502 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2503 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2507 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2510 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2511 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2512 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2513 use -X multiple times, too.
2514 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2515 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2519 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2522 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2523 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2527 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2530 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2534 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2537 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2538 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2539 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2540 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2541 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2542 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2543 shape if you're starting a new package.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2547 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2550 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2554 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2557 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2558 because of missing symlinks.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2562 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2568 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2571 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2572 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2573 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2574 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2575 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2577 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2578 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2582 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2584 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2585 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2586 to be changed after the fact :-)
2587 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2591 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2594 no version string after the -V.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2598 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2600 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2601 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2606 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2609 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2613 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2616 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2617 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2618 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2619 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2620 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2621 I always welcome corrections!
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2625 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2631 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2634 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2635 * Documented this new switch.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2639 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2642 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2643 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2644 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2645 no packages use the old behavior.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2649 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2652 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2653 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2657 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2660 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2664 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2670 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2673 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2677 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2680 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2681 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2682 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2686 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2695 into the source package by accident.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2699 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2702 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2703 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2704 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2705 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2706 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2707 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2712 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2716 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2717 inspired to implement some of it.
2718 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2722 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2725 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2729 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2732 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2733 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2737 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2740 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2741 have done.) (#17598)
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2745 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2751 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2757 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2760 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2764 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2767 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2768 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2772 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2775 argument processor in perl.
2776 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2777 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2778 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2779 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2783 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2786 type directories. (#16933)
2787 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2788 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2789 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2790 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2791 are supported. (#16935)
2792 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2797 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2800 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2808 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2809 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2810 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2811 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2812 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2813 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2817 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2820 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2821 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2823 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2824 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2825 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2826 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2827 a given package, or -i or -a.
2828 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2829 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2830 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2831 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2832 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2833 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2834 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2835 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2836 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2838 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2839 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2840 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2847 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2848 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2853 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2856 does not have a section.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2863 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2864 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2865 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2869 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Fixed typo #16215.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2875 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2878 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2879 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2880 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2881 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2882 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2887 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2890 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2891 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2892 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2897 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2912 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2913 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2914 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2915 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2916 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2917 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2921 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2930 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2937 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2938 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2939 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2943 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2946 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2956 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2959 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2963 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2966 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2970 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2976 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2979 postinst, postrm, etc.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2989 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2992 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2993 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2994 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2995 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2996 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3000 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3003 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3004 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3008 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3011 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3018 installing package files into.
3019 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3028 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3032 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3038 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3041 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3045 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3048 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3049 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3050 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3051 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3055 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3057 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3058 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3059 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3060 multiple binary packages.
3061 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3062 should rebuild them with this version.
3063 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3067 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3070 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3074 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3077 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3081 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3084 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3085 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3086 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3087 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3088 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3089 debian/README.debian.
3090 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3091 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3092 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3093 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3094 in a few situations.)
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3098 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3104 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3110 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3113 * Fixed several man pages.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3117 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3120 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3121 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3125 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3128 is ready for general use.
3129 * Added man pages for all commands.
3130 * Multiple binary package support.
3131 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3132 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3133 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3135 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3136 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3137 auto-installed as parameters.
3138 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3140 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3143 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3144 the package build directory it is to act on.
3145 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3146 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3147 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3151 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3153 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3154 ready to replace debstd.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400