1 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
10 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
11 depend on the build and install targets.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
18 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
35 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
41 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
44 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
45 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
46 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
47 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
48 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
49 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
51 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
52 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
53 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
54 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
55 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
56 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
57 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
61 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
67 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
73 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
76 right place. Closes: #55065
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
80 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Make all examples rules files executable.
90 * Copyright date updates.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
94 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
97 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
102 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
108 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
115 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
121 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
127 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
133 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
136 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
137 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
138 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
139 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
140 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
141 bits until all files have been registered.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
145 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installmanpages:
148 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
149 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
150 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
151 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
152 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
153 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
154 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
155 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
156 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
157 otherwise change the result at all.
159 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
160 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
161 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
162 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
163 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
168 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
174 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
177 act on files that don't exist.
178 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
179 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
180 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
182 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
183 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
184 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
185 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
189 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
195 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
201 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
204 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
208 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
211 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
213 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
214 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
215 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
219 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
222 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
223 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
224 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
225 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
226 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
227 does not compress. Closes: #41733
228 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
230 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
232 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
236 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
243 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
249 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
258 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
262 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
268 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
277 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
278 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
279 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
280 I made some changes, though:
281 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
282 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
283 that is a clear violation of policy.
284 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
285 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
286 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
287 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
288 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
289 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
290 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
291 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
292 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
294 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
307 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
314 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
315 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
320 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
336 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
337 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
338 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
339 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
340 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
341 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
342 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
356 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
357 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
370 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
377 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
378 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
384 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
393 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
397 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
399 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
400 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
401 for the dependancies to be generated.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
408 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
415 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
416 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
417 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
422 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
425 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
426 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
430 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
436 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
445 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
457 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
458 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
459 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
460 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
461 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
462 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
463 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
464 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
465 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
466 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
467 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
468 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
469 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
473 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
475 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
476 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
477 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
479 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
480 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
481 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
482 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
483 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
484 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
486 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
487 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
494 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
507 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
508 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
516 for building debhelper.
517 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed makefile commit target.
531 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
538 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
539 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
540 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
541 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
542 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
543 it's always available.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
547 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
550 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
551 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
552 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
559 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
560 modules. (Closes: #42171)
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
573 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
586 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
587 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
588 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
595 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
600 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
603 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
604 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
606 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
607 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
611 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
617 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
623 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
625 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
626 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
633 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
634 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
636 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
640 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
643 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
644 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
645 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
652 things if CDPATH is set.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
665 seems to make sense for the transition.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
672 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
677 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
680 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
681 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
688 that version. (Closes: #40589)
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
694 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
695 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
696 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
697 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
698 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
702 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
708 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
711 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
712 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
713 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
714 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
715 * debhelper.1: documented this.
716 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
717 current compatability level is equal to that number.
718 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
719 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
720 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
725 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
727 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
728 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
729 * README: mention doc/v2
730 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
731 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
735 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
737 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
738 be using this script RSN.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
742 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
745 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
746 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
747 more than 1 init script.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
751 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
754 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
758 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Changed perl version detection.
761 * Changed call to find.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
765 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
768 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
770 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
775 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Really include dh_installpam.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
781 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
784 * Wrote man page for same.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
788 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
791 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
792 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
797 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
804 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
807 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
808 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
809 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
814 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
817 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
818 well. (Closes: 38900)
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
822 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
825 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
826 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
830 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
843 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
849 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
851 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
852 help from Julian Gilbey.
853 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
854 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
855 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
856 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
857 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
858 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
859 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
870 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
872 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
877 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
883 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
889 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
892 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
896 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
899 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
906 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
910 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
916 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
919 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
923 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
925 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
929 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
931 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
935 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
938 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
939 may be deleted. (#35845)
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
943 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Various man page enhancements.
946 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
951 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
954 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
955 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
959 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
962 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
963 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
964 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
966 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
967 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
972 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
978 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Another very minor typo fix.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Very minor typo fix.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
993 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
994 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1007 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1008 variables properly (#34850).
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1012 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1021 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1022 (automatically generated by build process).
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1028 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1032 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1035 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1036 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1038 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1042 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1045 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1049 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * README: minor typo fix.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1055 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1058 leave it at that. :-)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1068 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1074 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1077 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1078 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1079 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1086 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1093 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1097 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1100 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1101 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1102 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1103 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1107 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1110 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1111 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1112 Craig Small for spotting this.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1116 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1119 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1120 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1133 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1139 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1140 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1141 working on the last version of debhelper.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1145 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1148 being made. (#23255)
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1152 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1158 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1161 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1165 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1168 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1169 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1170 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1171 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1175 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1178 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1179 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1180 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1181 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1183 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1184 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1186 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1197 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1203 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1206 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1207 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1208 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1209 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1210 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1211 suidregister actually supports it.
1212 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1213 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1217 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1224 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1227 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1228 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1229 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1230 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1231 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1232 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1233 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1237 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1239 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1240 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1247 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1248 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1249 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1250 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1257 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1259 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1260 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1261 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1262 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1263 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1264 effect, either. (#30118)
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1268 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1274 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1277 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1278 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1282 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1288 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1291 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1292 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1293 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1294 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1298 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1301 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1302 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1312 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1315 packages, painlessly.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1319 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1331 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * The perl conversion is complete.
1341 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1343 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1344 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1345 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1350 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1353 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1354 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1355 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1359 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1362 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1364 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1366 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1367 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1371 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1374 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1375 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1379 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1385 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1388 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1389 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1390 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1391 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1392 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1396 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1399 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1400 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1401 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1402 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1406 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1409 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1416 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1417 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1418 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1419 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1420 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1421 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1422 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1423 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1427 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1433 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1436 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1437 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1438 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1446 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1453 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1457 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1460 sections of shared libraries.
1461 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1462 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1463 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1464 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1465 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1466 things you don't want them to.
1467 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1468 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1475 shared libraries. (#26414)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1481 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1482 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1483 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1484 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1488 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1492 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1494 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1495 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1496 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1497 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1498 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1505 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1512 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1513 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1521 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1528 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1529 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1530 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1531 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1532 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1534 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1535 remove debian/files properly.
1536 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1537 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1538 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1539 * Removed bogus menu file.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1546 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1553 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1554 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1555 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1556 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1557 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1558 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1562 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1565 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1566 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1567 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1568 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1572 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1582 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1583 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1585 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1586 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1587 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1588 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1589 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1590 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1597 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1598 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1599 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1600 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1601 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1602 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1603 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1604 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1605 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1606 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1607 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1608 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1609 passed any switches.
1610 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1617 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1618 at all for a long while.
1619 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1620 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1621 large chunks in the process.
1622 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1623 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1624 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1632 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1634 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1642 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1643 that don't always have the same files in them.
1644 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1645 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1646 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1650 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1654 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1655 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1656 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1657 updating 27 man pages.
1658 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1659 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1660 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1661 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1662 programs act on. (#25247)
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1666 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1670 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1671 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1672 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1673 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1674 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1675 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1680 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1687 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1694 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1697 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1701 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1707 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1710 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1711 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1712 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1713 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1714 package by accident.
1715 * Is version 1.0 next?
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1719 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1722 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1723 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1727 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1730 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1731 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1732 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1733 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1734 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1736 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1741 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1744 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1745 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1749 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1752 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1756 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1759 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1760 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1765 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1771 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1774 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1775 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1780 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1786 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1789 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1790 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1791 past week. Thanks, guys!
1793 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1794 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1795 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1796 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1797 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1798 would do in the same situation.
1799 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1800 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1802 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1804 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1805 permissions changed.
1806 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1807 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1808 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1809 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1810 files are treated identically.
1811 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1812 * Minor man page fixes.
1813 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1814 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1815 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1819 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1822 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1823 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1824 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1825 use -X multiple times, too.
1826 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1827 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1831 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1834 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1835 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1839 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1842 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1846 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1849 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1850 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1851 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1852 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1853 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1854 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1855 shape if you're starting a new package.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1859 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1862 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1866 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1869 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1870 because of missing symlinks.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1874 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1880 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1883 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1884 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1885 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1886 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1887 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1889 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1890 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1894 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1896 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1897 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1898 to be changed after the fact :-)
1899 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1903 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1906 no version string after the -V.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1910 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1912 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1913 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1918 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1921 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1925 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1928 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1929 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1930 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1931 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1932 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1933 I always welcome corrections!
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1937 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1943 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1946 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1947 * Documented this new switch.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1951 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1954 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1955 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1956 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1957 no packages use the old behavior.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1961 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1964 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1965 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1969 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1972 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1976 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1982 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1985 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1989 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1992 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1993 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1994 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1998 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2004 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2007 into the source package by accident.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2011 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2014 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2015 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2016 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2017 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2018 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2019 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2024 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2028 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2029 inspired to implement some of it.
2030 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2034 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2037 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2041 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2044 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2045 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2049 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2052 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2053 have done.) (#17598)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2057 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2063 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2069 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2072 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2076 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2079 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2080 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2084 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2087 argument processor in perl.
2088 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2089 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2090 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2091 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2098 type directories. (#16933)
2099 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2100 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2101 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2102 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2103 are supported. (#16935)
2104 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2109 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2112 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2116 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2120 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2121 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2122 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2123 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2124 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2125 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2129 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2132 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2133 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2135 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2136 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2137 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2138 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2139 a given package, or -i or -a.
2140 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2141 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2142 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2143 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2144 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2145 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2146 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2147 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2148 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2150 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2151 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2152 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2156 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2159 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2160 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2165 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2168 does not have a section.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2172 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2175 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2176 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2177 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2181 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Fixed typo #16215.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2187 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2190 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2191 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2192 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2193 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2194 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2199 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2202 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2203 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2204 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2209 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2221 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2224 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2225 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2226 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2227 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2228 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2229 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2233 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2239 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2242 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2246 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2249 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2250 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2251 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2258 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2262 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2268 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2271 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2275 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2278 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2282 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2288 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2291 postinst, postrm, etc.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2295 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2301 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2304 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2305 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2306 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2307 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2308 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2312 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2315 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2316 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2320 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2323 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2327 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2330 installing package files into.
2331 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2336 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2340 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2344 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2350 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2353 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2357 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2360 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2361 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2362 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2363 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2367 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2369 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2370 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2371 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2372 multiple binary packages.
2373 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2374 should rebuild them with this version.
2375 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2379 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2382 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2386 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2389 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2393 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2396 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2397 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2398 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2399 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2400 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2401 debian/README.debian.
2402 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2403 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2404 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2405 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2406 in a few situations.)
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2410 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2416 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2422 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2425 * Fixed several man pages.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2429 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2432 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2433 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2437 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2440 is ready for general use.
2441 * Added man pages for all commands.
2442 * Multiple binary package support.
2443 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2444 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2445 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2447 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2448 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2449 auto-installed as parameters.
2450 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2452 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2455 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2456 the package build directory it is to act on.
2457 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2458 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2459 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2463 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2465 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2466 ready to replace debstd.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400