1 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
8 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
10 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
11 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
12 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
16 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
18 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
19 they were previously ignored.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
23 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
26 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
30 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
32 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
33 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
34 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
38 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
40 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
44 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
46 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
47 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
51 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
53 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
54 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
55 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
56 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
57 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
58 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
59 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
60 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
61 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
62 it is an obsolete program.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
66 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
68 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
72 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
76 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
78 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
82 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
84 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
86 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
88 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
92 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
98 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
100 * typo: Closes, #78567
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
104 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
110 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
116 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
118 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
119 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
120 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
121 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
122 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
123 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
127 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
130 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
135 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
138 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
139 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
140 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
141 backwards-compatability.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
145 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
147 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
148 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
149 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
150 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
151 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
152 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
153 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
155 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
156 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
157 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
159 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
161 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
162 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
163 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
164 should now be raised to severity important..
165 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
166 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
170 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
173 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
178 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Typo, Closes: #77441
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
184 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Completed the fix from the last version.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
190 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
196 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
198 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
203 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
206 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
207 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
208 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
209 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
213 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
219 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
222 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
223 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
224 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
225 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
226 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
227 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
232 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
235 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
239 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
245 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
248 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
253 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
256 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
257 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
258 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
259 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
263 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
267 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
270 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
273 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
274 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
277 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
279 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
280 the TODO entry about it.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
284 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
291 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
294 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
295 prevent that. Closes: #73052
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
299 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Typo, Closes: #72932
302 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
303 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
304 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
305 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
309 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
315 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
322 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
325 (this appears to be logal).
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
329 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
332 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
333 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
334 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
335 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
339 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
345 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
347 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
348 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
349 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
350 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
351 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
355 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
361 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
364 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
368 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
375 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
378 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
379 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
380 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
385 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
392 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
398 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
401 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
402 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
403 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
404 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
405 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
406 notice until v2 is complete.
407 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
408 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
409 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
410 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
411 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
412 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
414 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
415 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
416 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
417 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
437 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
448 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
451 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
452 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
453 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
454 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
459 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
462 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
463 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
464 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
472 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
473 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
480 just skip files that end in -\d+.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
487 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
500 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
501 depend on the build and install targets.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
508 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
525 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
531 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
534 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
535 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
536 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
537 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
538 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
539 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
541 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
542 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
543 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
544 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
545 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
546 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
547 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
551 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
557 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
563 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
566 right place. Closes: #55065
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
570 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
577 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Make all examples rules files executable.
580 * Copyright date updates.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
584 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
587 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
592 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
598 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
605 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
611 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
617 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
623 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
626 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
627 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
628 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
629 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
630 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
631 bits until all files have been registered.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
635 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installmanpages:
638 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
639 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
640 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
641 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
642 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
643 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
644 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
645 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
646 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
647 otherwise change the result at all.
649 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
650 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
651 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
652 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
653 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
658 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
664 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
667 act on files that don't exist.
668 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
669 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
670 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
672 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
673 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
674 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
675 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
679 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
685 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
691 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
694 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
698 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
701 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
703 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
704 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
705 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
709 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
712 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
713 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
714 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
715 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
716 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
717 does not compress. Closes: #41733
718 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
720 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
722 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
726 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
733 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
745 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
748 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
758 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
764 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
767 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
768 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
769 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
770 I made some changes, though:
771 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
772 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
773 that is a clear violation of policy.
774 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
775 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
776 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
777 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
778 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
779 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
780 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
781 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
782 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
784 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
788 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
797 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
804 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
805 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
826 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
827 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
828 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
829 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
830 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
831 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
832 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
836 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
846 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
847 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
860 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
864 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
867 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
868 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
874 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
883 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
889 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
890 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
891 for the dependancies to be generated.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
898 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
905 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
906 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
907 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
915 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
916 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
935 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
939 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
945 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
947 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
948 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
949 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
950 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
951 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
952 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
953 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
954 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
955 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
956 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
957 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
958 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
959 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
965 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
966 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
967 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
969 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
970 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
971 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
972 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
973 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
974 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
976 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
977 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
984 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
997 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
998 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1003 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1006 for building debhelper.
1007 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1021 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1028 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1029 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1030 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1031 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1032 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1033 it's always available.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1040 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1041 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1042 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1049 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1050 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1063 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1073 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1076 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1077 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1078 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1085 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1093 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1094 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1096 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1097 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1116 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1123 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1124 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1126 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1133 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1134 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1135 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1142 things if CDPATH is set.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1155 seems to make sense for the transition.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1162 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1170 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1171 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1178 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1185 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1186 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1187 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1188 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1201 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1202 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1203 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1204 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1205 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1206 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1207 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1208 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1209 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1210 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1218 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1219 * README: mention doc/v2
1220 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1221 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1225 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1228 be using this script RSN.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1232 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1235 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1236 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1237 more than 1 init script.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1244 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Changed perl version detection.
1251 * Changed call to find.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1255 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1258 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1260 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1265 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Really include dh_installpam.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1271 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1274 * Wrote man page for same.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1281 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1282 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1287 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1294 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1297 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1298 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1299 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1300 x bit was being set!
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1304 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1307 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1308 well. (Closes: 38900)
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1312 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1315 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1316 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1326 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1333 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1339 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1342 help from Julian Gilbey.
1343 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1344 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1345 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1346 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1347 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1348 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1349 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1354 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1360 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1367 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1373 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1382 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1389 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1396 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1400 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1406 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1409 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1428 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1429 may be deleted. (#35845)
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1433 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Various man page enhancements.
1436 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1441 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1444 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1445 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1449 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1452 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1453 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1454 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1456 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1457 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1468 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Another very minor typo fix.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1474 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Very minor typo fix.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1480 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1483 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1484 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1488 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1494 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1497 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1498 variables properly (#34850).
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1502 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1508 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1511 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1512 (automatically generated by build process).
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1516 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1518 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1522 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1525 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1526 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1528 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1535 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * README: minor typo fix.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1548 leave it at that. :-)
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1558 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1564 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1567 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1568 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1569 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1573 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1576 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1580 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1583 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1590 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1591 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1592 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1593 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1597 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1600 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1601 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1602 Craig Small for spotting this.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1606 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1609 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1610 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1614 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1623 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1627 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1629 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1630 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1631 working on the last version of debhelper.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1638 being made. (#23255)
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1642 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1648 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1651 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1658 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1659 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1660 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1661 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1665 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1668 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1669 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1670 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1671 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1673 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1674 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1676 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1681 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1687 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1693 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1696 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1697 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1698 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1699 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1700 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1701 suidregister actually supports it.
1702 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1703 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1707 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1714 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1717 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1718 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1719 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1720 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1721 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1722 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1723 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1727 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1729 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1730 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1734 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1737 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1738 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1739 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1740 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1747 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1749 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1750 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1751 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1752 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1753 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1754 effect, either. (#30118)
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1767 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1768 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1781 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1782 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1783 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1784 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1788 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1791 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1792 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1805 packages, painlessly.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1827 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * The perl conversion is complete.
1831 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1833 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1834 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1835 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1840 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1843 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1844 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1845 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1849 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1852 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1854 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1856 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1857 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1861 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1864 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1865 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1869 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1875 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1878 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1879 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1880 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1881 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1882 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1889 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1890 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1891 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1892 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1899 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1903 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1906 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1907 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1908 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1909 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1910 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1911 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1912 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1913 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1917 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1923 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1926 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1927 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1928 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1933 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1936 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1943 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1947 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1950 sections of shared libraries.
1951 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1952 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1953 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1954 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1955 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1956 things you don't want them to.
1957 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1958 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1962 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1965 shared libraries. (#26414)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1971 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1972 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1973 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1974 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1978 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1982 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1984 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1985 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1986 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1987 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1988 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1992 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1995 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1999 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2002 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2003 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2008 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2011 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2015 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2018 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2019 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2020 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2021 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2022 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2024 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2025 remove debian/files properly.
2026 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2027 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2028 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2029 * Removed bogus menu file.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2036 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2040 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2043 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2044 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2045 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2046 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2047 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2048 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2052 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2055 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2056 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2057 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2058 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2072 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2073 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2075 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2076 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2077 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2078 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2079 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2080 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2087 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2088 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2089 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2090 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2091 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2092 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2093 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2094 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2095 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2096 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2097 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2098 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2099 passed any switches.
2100 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2104 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2107 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2108 at all for a long while.
2109 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2110 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2111 large chunks in the process.
2112 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2113 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2114 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2119 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2122 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2124 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2132 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2133 that don't always have the same files in them.
2134 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2135 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2136 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2144 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2145 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2146 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2147 updating 27 man pages.
2148 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2149 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2150 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2151 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2152 programs act on. (#25247)
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2156 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2160 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2161 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2162 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2163 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2164 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2165 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2170 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2177 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2184 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2187 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2191 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2197 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2200 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2201 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2202 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2203 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2204 package by accident.
2205 * Is version 1.0 next?
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2209 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2212 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2213 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2217 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2220 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2221 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2222 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2223 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2224 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2226 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2231 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2234 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2235 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2239 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2242 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2246 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2249 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2250 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2255 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2261 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2264 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2265 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2270 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2276 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2279 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2280 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2281 past week. Thanks, guys!
2283 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2284 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2285 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2286 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2287 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2288 would do in the same situation.
2289 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2290 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2292 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2294 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2295 permissions changed.
2296 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2297 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2298 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2299 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2300 files are treated identically.
2301 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2302 * Minor man page fixes.
2303 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2304 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2305 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2309 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2312 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2313 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2314 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2315 use -X multiple times, too.
2316 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2317 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2321 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2324 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2325 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2329 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2332 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2336 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2339 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2340 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2341 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2342 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2343 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2344 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2345 shape if you're starting a new package.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2349 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2352 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2356 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2359 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2360 because of missing symlinks.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2364 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2370 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2373 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2374 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2375 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2376 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2377 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2379 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2380 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2384 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2386 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2387 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2388 to be changed after the fact :-)
2389 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2393 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2396 no version string after the -V.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2400 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2402 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2403 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2408 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2411 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2415 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2418 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2419 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2420 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2421 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2422 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2423 I always welcome corrections!
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2427 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2433 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2436 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2437 * Documented this new switch.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2441 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2444 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2445 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2446 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2447 no packages use the old behavior.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2451 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2454 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2455 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2459 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2462 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2466 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2472 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2475 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2479 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2482 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2483 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2484 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2488 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2494 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2497 into the source package by accident.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2501 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2504 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2505 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2506 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2507 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2508 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2509 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2514 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2518 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2519 inspired to implement some of it.
2520 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2527 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2534 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2535 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2539 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2542 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2543 have done.) (#17598)
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2547 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2553 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2559 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2562 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2566 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2569 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2570 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2574 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2577 argument processor in perl.
2578 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2579 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2580 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2581 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2585 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2588 type directories. (#16933)
2589 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2590 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2591 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2592 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2593 are supported. (#16935)
2594 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2599 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2602 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2606 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2610 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2611 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2612 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2613 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2614 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2615 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2619 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2622 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2623 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2625 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2626 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2627 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2628 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2629 a given package, or -i or -a.
2630 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2631 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2632 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2633 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2634 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2635 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2636 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2637 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2638 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2640 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2641 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2642 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2646 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2649 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2650 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2655 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2658 does not have a section.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2665 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2666 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2667 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2671 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fixed typo #16215.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2677 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2680 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2681 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2682 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2683 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2684 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2689 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2692 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2693 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2694 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2699 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2705 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2711 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2714 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2715 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2716 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2717 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2718 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2719 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2723 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2729 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2732 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2736 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2739 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2740 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2741 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2745 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2748 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2752 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2758 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2761 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2765 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2768 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2772 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2778 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2781 postinst, postrm, etc.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2785 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2791 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2794 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2795 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2796 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2797 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2798 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2802 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2805 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2806 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2810 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2813 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2817 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2820 installing package files into.
2821 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2826 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2830 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2834 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2840 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2843 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2847 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2850 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2851 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2852 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2853 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2857 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2859 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2860 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2861 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2862 multiple binary packages.
2863 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2864 should rebuild them with this version.
2865 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2869 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2872 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2876 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2879 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2883 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2886 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2887 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2888 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2889 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2890 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2891 debian/README.debian.
2892 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2893 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2894 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2895 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2896 in a few situations.)
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2900 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2906 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2912 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2915 * Fixed several man pages.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2919 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2922 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2923 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2927 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2930 is ready for general use.
2931 * Added man pages for all commands.
2932 * Multiple binary package support.
2933 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2934 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2935 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2937 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2938 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2939 auto-installed as parameters.
2940 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2942 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2945 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2946 the package build directory it is to act on.
2947 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2948 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2949 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2953 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2955 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2956 ready to replace debstd.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400