1 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
5 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
6 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
10 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
13 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
17 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
23 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Typo, Closes: #92407
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
29 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
35 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
41 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
44 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
48 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
51 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
52 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
53 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
54 followed. Closes: #85483
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
58 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
60 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
61 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
62 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
66 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
69 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
70 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
71 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
72 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
73 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
74 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
75 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
76 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
77 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
78 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
79 Closes: #88464, #77743
80 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
81 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
82 us to deal with that gracefully.
83 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
85 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
86 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
87 a while, Closes: #51225
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
91 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
97 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
100 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
104 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
108 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
113 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
116 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
117 don't make packlist files.
118 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
119 debhelper coding standards.
120 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
121 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
125 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
128 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
132 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
135 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
136 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
137 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
138 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
139 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
140 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
141 but is mildly deprecated.
142 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
143 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
144 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
145 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
146 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
147 switching to statoverrides..
148 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
149 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
150 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
151 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
152 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
153 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
155 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
156 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
157 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
158 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
159 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
160 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
161 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
162 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
163 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
165 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
166 variable names, pod man pages).
167 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
168 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
169 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
170 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
171 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
172 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
173 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
177 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
183 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
190 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
193 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
197 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
199 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
200 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
201 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
205 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
207 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
208 they were previously ignored.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
212 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
214 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
215 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
219 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
221 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
222 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
223 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
227 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
229 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
233 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
235 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
236 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
240 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
242 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
243 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
244 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
245 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
246 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
247 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
248 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
249 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
250 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
251 it is an obsolete program.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
255 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
257 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
261 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
265 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
267 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
271 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
273 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
275 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
277 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
281 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
287 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
289 * typo: Closes, #78567
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
293 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
299 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
305 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
307 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
308 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
309 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
310 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
311 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
312 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
319 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
324 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
327 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
328 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
329 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
330 backwards-compatability.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
334 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
336 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
337 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
338 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
339 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
340 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
341 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
342 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
344 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
345 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
346 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
348 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
350 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
351 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
352 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
353 should now be raised to severity important..
354 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
355 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
359 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
362 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
367 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Typo, Closes: #77441
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
373 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Completed the fix from the last version.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
379 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
385 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
387 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
392 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
395 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
396 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
397 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
398 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
402 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
408 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
411 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
412 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
413 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
414 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
415 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
416 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
421 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
424 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
428 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
434 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
437 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
442 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
445 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
446 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
447 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
448 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
452 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
456 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
459 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
462 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
463 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
466 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
468 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
469 the TODO entry about it.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
473 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
480 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
483 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
484 prevent that. Closes: #73052
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
488 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Typo, Closes: #72932
491 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
492 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
493 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
494 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
498 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
504 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
511 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
514 (this appears to be logal).
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
518 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
521 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
522 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
523 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
524 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
528 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
534 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
536 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
537 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
538 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
539 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
540 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
544 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
550 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
553 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
557 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
564 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
567 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
568 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
569 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
574 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
581 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
587 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
590 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
591 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
592 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
593 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
594 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
595 notice until v2 is complete.
596 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
597 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
598 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
599 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
600 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
601 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
603 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
604 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
605 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
606 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
610 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
616 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
623 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
626 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
640 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
641 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
642 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
643 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
648 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
651 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
652 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
653 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
661 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
662 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
666 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
669 just skip files that end in -\d+.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
673 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
676 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
687 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
689 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
690 depend on the build and install targets.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
694 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
697 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
714 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
720 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
723 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
724 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
725 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
726 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
727 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
728 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
730 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
731 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
732 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
733 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
734 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
735 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
736 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
740 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
746 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
752 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
755 right place. Closes: #55065
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
759 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
766 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Make all examples rules files executable.
769 * Copyright date updates.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
773 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
776 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
781 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
787 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
794 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
800 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
806 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
812 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
815 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
816 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
817 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
818 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
819 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
820 bits until all files have been registered.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
824 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installmanpages:
827 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
828 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
829 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
830 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
831 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
832 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
833 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
834 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
835 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
836 otherwise change the result at all.
838 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
839 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
840 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
841 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
842 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
853 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
856 act on files that don't exist.
857 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
858 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
859 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
861 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
862 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
863 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
864 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
868 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
874 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
880 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
883 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
887 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
890 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
892 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
893 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
894 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
898 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
901 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
902 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
903 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
904 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
905 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
906 does not compress. Closes: #41733
907 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
909 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
911 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
915 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
922 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
937 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
953 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
956 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
957 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
958 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
959 I made some changes, though:
960 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
961 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
962 that is a clear violation of policy.
963 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
964 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
965 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
966 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
967 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
968 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
969 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
970 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
971 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
973 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
986 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
993 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
994 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
999 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1015 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1016 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1017 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1018 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1019 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1020 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1021 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1035 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1036 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1049 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1056 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1057 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1063 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1072 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1079 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1080 for the dependancies to be generated.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1084 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1087 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1091 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1094 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1095 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1096 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1104 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1105 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1124 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1128 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1134 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1137 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1138 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1139 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1140 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1141 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1142 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1143 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1144 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1145 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1146 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1147 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1148 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1155 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1156 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1158 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1159 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1160 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1161 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1162 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1163 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1165 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1166 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1173 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1187 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1195 for building debhelper.
1196 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1210 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1217 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1218 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1219 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1220 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1221 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1222 it's always available.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1229 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1230 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1231 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1238 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1239 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1252 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1265 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1266 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1267 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1274 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1279 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1282 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1283 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1285 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1286 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1305 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1312 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1313 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1315 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1322 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1323 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1324 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1331 things if CDPATH is set.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1344 seems to make sense for the transition.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1351 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1359 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1360 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1367 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1374 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1375 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1376 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1377 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1390 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1391 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1392 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1393 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1394 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1395 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1396 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1397 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1398 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1399 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1404 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1407 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1408 * README: mention doc/v2
1409 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1410 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1414 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1416 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1417 be using this script RSN.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1421 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1424 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1425 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1426 more than 1 init script.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1433 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1437 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Changed perl version detection.
1440 * Changed call to find.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1447 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1449 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1454 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Really include dh_installpam.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1460 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1463 * Wrote man page for same.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1467 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1470 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1471 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1476 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1486 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1487 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1488 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1489 x bit was being set!
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1496 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1497 well. (Closes: 38900)
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1501 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1504 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1505 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1528 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1531 help from Julian Gilbey.
1532 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1533 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1534 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1535 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1536 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1537 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1538 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1562 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1568 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1571 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1575 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1578 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1585 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1598 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1617 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1618 may be deleted. (#35845)
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Various man page enhancements.
1625 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1630 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1633 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1634 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1641 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1642 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1643 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1645 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1646 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1651 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1657 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Another very minor typo fix.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1663 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Very minor typo fix.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1669 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1672 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1673 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1677 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1683 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1686 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1687 variables properly (#34850).
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1691 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1697 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1700 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1701 (automatically generated by build process).
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1705 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1707 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1711 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1714 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1715 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1717 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1721 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1724 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1728 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * README: minor typo fix.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1734 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1737 leave it at that. :-)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1747 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1753 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1756 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1757 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1758 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1762 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1765 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1769 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1772 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1776 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1779 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1780 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1781 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1782 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1789 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1790 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1791 Craig Small for spotting this.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1795 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1798 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1799 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1812 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1818 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1819 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1820 working on the last version of debhelper.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1824 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1827 being made. (#23255)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1831 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1837 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1840 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1847 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1848 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1849 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1850 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1857 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1858 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1859 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1860 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1862 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1863 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1865 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1870 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1885 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1886 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1887 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1888 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1889 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1890 suidregister actually supports it.
1891 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1892 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1896 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1903 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1906 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1907 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1908 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1909 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1910 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1911 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1912 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1916 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1918 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1919 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1923 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1926 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1927 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1928 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1929 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1936 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1938 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1939 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1940 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1941 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1942 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1943 effect, either. (#30118)
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1953 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1956 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1957 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1967 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1970 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1971 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1972 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1973 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1980 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1981 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1985 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1991 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1994 packages, painlessly.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1998 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2004 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * The perl conversion is complete.
2020 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2022 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2023 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2024 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2032 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2033 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2034 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2041 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2043 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2045 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2046 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2050 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2053 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2054 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2058 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2064 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2067 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2068 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2069 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2070 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2071 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2075 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2078 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2079 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2080 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2081 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2088 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2095 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2096 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2097 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2098 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2099 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2100 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2101 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2102 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2106 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2112 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2115 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2116 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2117 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2125 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2132 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2139 sections of shared libraries.
2140 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2141 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2142 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2143 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2144 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2145 things you don't want them to.
2146 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2147 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2154 shared libraries. (#26414)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2160 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2161 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2162 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2163 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2167 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2171 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2173 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2174 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2175 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2176 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2177 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2184 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2191 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2192 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2200 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2204 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2207 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2208 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2209 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2210 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2211 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2213 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2214 remove debian/files properly.
2215 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2216 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2217 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2218 * Removed bogus menu file.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2225 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2232 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2233 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2234 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2235 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2236 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2237 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2241 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2244 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2245 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2246 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2247 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2251 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2258 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2261 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2262 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2264 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2265 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2266 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2267 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2268 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2269 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2273 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2276 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2277 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2278 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2279 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2280 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2281 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2282 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2283 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2284 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2285 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2286 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2287 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2288 passed any switches.
2289 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2296 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2297 at all for a long while.
2298 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2299 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2300 large chunks in the process.
2301 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2302 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2303 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2308 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2311 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2313 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2321 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2322 that don't always have the same files in them.
2323 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2324 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2325 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2329 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2333 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2334 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2335 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2336 updating 27 man pages.
2337 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2338 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2339 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2340 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2341 programs act on. (#25247)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2349 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2350 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2351 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2352 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2353 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2354 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2359 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2366 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2373 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2376 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2380 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2386 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2389 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2390 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2391 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2392 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2393 package by accident.
2394 * Is version 1.0 next?
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2398 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2401 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2402 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2406 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2409 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2410 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2411 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2412 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2413 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2415 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2420 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2423 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2424 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2428 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2431 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2435 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2438 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2439 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2444 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2450 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2453 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2454 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2459 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2465 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2468 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2469 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2470 past week. Thanks, guys!
2472 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2473 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2474 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2475 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2476 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2477 would do in the same situation.
2478 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2479 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2481 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2483 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2484 permissions changed.
2485 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2486 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2487 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2488 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2489 files are treated identically.
2490 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2491 * Minor man page fixes.
2492 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2493 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2494 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2498 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2501 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2502 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2503 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2504 use -X multiple times, too.
2505 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2506 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2510 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2513 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2514 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2518 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2521 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2525 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2528 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2529 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2530 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2531 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2532 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2533 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2534 shape if you're starting a new package.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2538 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2541 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2545 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2548 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2549 because of missing symlinks.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2553 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2559 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2562 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2563 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2564 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2565 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2566 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2568 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2569 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2573 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2575 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2576 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2577 to be changed after the fact :-)
2578 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2582 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2585 no version string after the -V.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2589 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2591 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2592 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2597 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2600 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2604 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2607 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2608 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2609 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2610 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2611 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2612 I always welcome corrections!
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2616 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2622 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2625 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2626 * Documented this new switch.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2630 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2633 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2634 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2635 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2636 no packages use the old behavior.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2640 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2643 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2644 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2648 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2651 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2655 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2661 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2664 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2668 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2671 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2672 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2673 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2677 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2683 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2686 into the source package by accident.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2690 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2693 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2694 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2695 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2696 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2697 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2698 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2703 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2707 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2708 inspired to implement some of it.
2709 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2713 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2716 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2720 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2723 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2724 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2728 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2731 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2732 have done.) (#17598)
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2736 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2742 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2748 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2751 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2755 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2758 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2759 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2763 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2766 argument processor in perl.
2767 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2768 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2769 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2770 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2774 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2777 type directories. (#16933)
2778 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2779 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2780 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2781 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2782 are supported. (#16935)
2783 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2788 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2791 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2799 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2800 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2801 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2802 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2803 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2804 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2808 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2811 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2812 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2814 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2815 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2816 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2817 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2818 a given package, or -i or -a.
2819 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2820 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2821 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2822 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2823 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2824 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2825 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2826 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2827 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2829 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2830 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2831 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2835 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2838 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2839 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2847 does not have a section.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2851 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2854 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2855 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2856 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2860 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Fixed typo #16215.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2866 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2869 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2870 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2871 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2872 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2873 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2878 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2881 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2882 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2883 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2888 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2900 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2903 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2904 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2905 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2906 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2907 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2908 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2912 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2918 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2921 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2925 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2928 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2929 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2930 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2937 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2947 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2950 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2954 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2957 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2961 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2967 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2970 postinst, postrm, etc.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2974 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2980 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2983 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2984 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2985 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2986 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2987 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2991 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2994 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2995 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3002 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3009 installing package files into.
3010 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3019 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3023 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3029 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3032 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3036 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3039 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3040 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3041 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3042 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3046 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3048 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3049 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3050 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3051 multiple binary packages.
3052 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3053 should rebuild them with this version.
3054 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3058 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3061 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3065 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3068 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3072 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3075 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3076 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3077 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3078 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3079 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3080 debian/README.debian.
3081 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3082 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3083 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3084 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3085 in a few situations.)
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3089 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3095 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3101 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3104 * Fixed several man pages.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3108 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3111 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3112 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3116 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3119 is ready for general use.
3120 * Added man pages for all commands.
3121 * Multiple binary package support.
3122 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3123 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3124 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3126 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3127 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3128 auto-installed as parameters.
3129 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3131 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3134 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3135 the package build directory it is to act on.
3136 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3137 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3138 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3142 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3144 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3145 ready to replace debstd.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400