1 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
6 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
7 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
8 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
13 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
16 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
17 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
18 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
25 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
26 modules. (Closes: #42171)
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
30 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
39 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
52 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
53 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
54 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
61 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
66 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
69 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
70 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
72 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
73 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
83 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
89 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
91 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
92 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
96 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
99 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
100 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
102 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
106 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
109 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
110 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
111 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
118 things if CDPATH is set.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
122 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
131 seems to make sense for the transition.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
138 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
146 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
147 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
154 that version. (Closes: #40589)
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
160 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
161 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
162 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
163 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
164 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
174 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
177 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
178 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
179 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
180 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
181 * debhelper.1: documented this.
182 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
183 current compatability level is equal to that number.
184 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
185 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
186 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
191 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
193 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
194 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
195 * README: mention doc/v2
196 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
197 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
201 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
203 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
204 be using this script RSN.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
208 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
211 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
212 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
213 more than 1 init script.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
217 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
220 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
224 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Changed perl version detection.
227 * Changed call to find.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
231 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
234 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
236 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
241 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Really include dh_installpam.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
247 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
250 * Wrote man page for same.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
254 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
257 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
258 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
263 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
270 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
273 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
274 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
275 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
280 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
283 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
284 well. (Closes: 38900)
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
288 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
291 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
292 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
296 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
302 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
309 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
315 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
317 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
318 help from Julian Gilbey.
319 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
320 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
321 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
322 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
323 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
324 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
325 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
330 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
336 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
338 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
343 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
349 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
355 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
358 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
362 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
365 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
372 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
376 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
382 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
385 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
389 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
391 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
395 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
397 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
404 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
405 may be deleted. (#35845)
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
409 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Various man page enhancements.
412 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
417 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
420 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
421 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
425 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
428 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
429 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
430 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
432 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
433 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
444 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Another very minor typo fix.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
450 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Very minor typo fix.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
456 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
459 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
460 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
464 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
470 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
472 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
473 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
474 variables properly (#34850).
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
478 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
480 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
484 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
487 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
488 (automatically generated by build process).
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
492 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
494 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
498 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
501 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
502 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
504 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
508 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
511 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
515 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
517 * README: minor typo fix.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
521 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
524 leave it at that. :-)
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
528 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
534 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
540 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
543 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
544 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
545 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
549 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
552 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
556 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
559 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
563 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
566 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
567 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
568 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
569 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
573 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
576 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
577 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
578 Craig Small for spotting this.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
582 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
585 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
586 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
590 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
596 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
599 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
603 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
605 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
606 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
607 working on the last version of debhelper.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
611 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
618 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
620 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
624 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
627 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
631 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
633 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
634 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
635 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
636 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
637 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
641 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
644 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
645 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
646 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
647 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
649 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
650 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
652 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
657 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
659 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
663 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
669 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
672 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
673 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
674 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
675 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
676 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
677 suidregister actually supports it.
678 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
679 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
683 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
690 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
693 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
694 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
695 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
696 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
697 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
698 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
699 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
703 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
705 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
706 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
710 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
713 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
714 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
715 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
716 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
720 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
723 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
725 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
726 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
727 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
728 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
729 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
730 effect, either. (#30118)
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
734 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
740 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
743 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
744 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
748 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Spelling and typo fixes.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
754 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
756 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
757 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
758 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
759 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
760 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
767 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
768 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
772 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
774 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
778 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
781 packages, painlessly.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
785 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
803 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
805 * The perl conversion is complete.
807 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
809 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
810 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
811 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
816 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
819 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
820 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
821 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
828 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
830 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
832 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
833 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
837 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
840 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
841 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
845 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
851 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
853 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
854 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
855 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
856 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
857 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
858 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
862 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
865 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
866 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
867 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
868 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
872 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
875 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
879 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
882 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
883 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
884 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
885 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
886 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
887 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
888 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
889 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
893 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
899 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
902 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
903 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
904 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
909 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
912 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
916 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
919 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
923 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
926 sections of shared libraries.
927 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
928 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
929 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
930 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
931 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
932 things you don't want them to.
933 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
934 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
938 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
941 shared libraries. (#26414)
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
945 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
947 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
948 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
949 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
950 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
954 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
958 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
960 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
961 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
962 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
963 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
964 the program to not fail. (#26214)
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
968 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
971 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
975 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
978 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
979 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
984 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
987 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
991 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
993 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
994 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
995 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
996 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
997 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
998 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1000 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1001 remove debian/files properly.
1002 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1003 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1004 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1005 * Removed bogus menu file.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1012 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1019 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1020 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1021 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1022 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1023 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1024 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1031 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1032 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1033 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1034 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1038 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1045 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1048 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1049 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1051 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1052 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1053 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1054 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1055 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1056 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1063 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1064 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1065 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1066 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1067 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1068 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1069 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1070 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1071 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1072 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1073 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1074 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1075 passed any switches.
1076 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1080 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1083 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1084 at all for a long while.
1085 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1086 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1087 large chunks in the process.
1088 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1089 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1090 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1098 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1100 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1108 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1109 that don't always have the same files in them.
1110 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1111 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1112 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1120 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1121 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1122 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1123 updating 27 man pages.
1124 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1125 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1126 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1127 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1128 programs act on. (#25247)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1136 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1137 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1138 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1139 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1140 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1141 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1146 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1153 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1160 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1163 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1167 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1173 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1176 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1177 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1178 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1179 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1180 package by accident.
1181 * Is version 1.0 next?
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1185 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1188 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1189 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1193 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1196 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1197 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1198 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1199 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1200 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1202 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1207 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1210 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1211 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1215 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1218 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1222 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1225 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1226 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1231 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1237 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1240 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1241 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1246 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1252 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1255 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1256 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1257 past week. Thanks, guys!
1259 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1260 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1261 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1262 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1263 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1264 would do in the same situation.
1265 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1266 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1268 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1270 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1271 permissions changed.
1272 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1273 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1274 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1275 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1276 files are treated identically.
1277 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1278 * Minor man page fixes.
1279 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1280 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1281 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1285 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1288 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1289 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1290 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1291 use -X multiple times, too.
1292 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1293 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1297 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1300 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1301 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1305 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1308 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1312 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1315 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1316 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1317 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1318 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1319 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1320 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1321 shape if you're starting a new package.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1325 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1328 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1332 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1335 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1336 because of missing symlinks.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1340 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1346 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1349 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1350 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1351 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1352 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1353 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1355 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1356 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1360 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1362 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1363 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1364 to be changed after the fact :-)
1365 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1369 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1372 no version string after the -V.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1376 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1378 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1379 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1384 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1387 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1391 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1394 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1395 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1396 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1397 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1398 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1399 I always welcome corrections!
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1403 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1409 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1412 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1413 * Documented this new switch.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1417 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1420 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1421 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1422 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1423 no packages use the old behavior.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1427 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1430 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1431 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1435 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1438 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1442 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1448 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1451 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1455 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1458 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1459 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1460 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1464 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1470 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1473 into the source package by accident.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1477 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1480 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1481 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1482 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1483 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1484 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1485 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1490 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1494 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1495 inspired to implement some of it.
1496 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1500 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1503 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1510 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1511 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1515 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1518 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1519 have done.) (#17598)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1523 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1529 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1535 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1538 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1542 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1545 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1546 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1550 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1553 argument processor in perl.
1554 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1555 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1556 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1557 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1561 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1564 type directories. (#16933)
1565 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1566 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1567 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1568 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1569 are supported. (#16935)
1570 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1575 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1578 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1582 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1586 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1587 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1588 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1589 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1590 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1591 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1595 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1598 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1599 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1601 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1602 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1603 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1604 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1605 a given package, or -i or -a.
1606 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1607 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1608 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1609 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1610 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1611 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1612 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1613 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1614 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1616 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1617 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1618 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1622 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1625 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1626 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1631 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1634 does not have a section.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1638 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1641 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1642 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1643 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1647 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Fixed typo #16215.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1653 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1656 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1657 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1658 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1659 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1660 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1665 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1668 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1669 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1670 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1687 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1690 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1691 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1692 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1693 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1694 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1695 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1699 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1705 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1708 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1712 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1715 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1716 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1717 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1721 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1724 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1728 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1734 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1737 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1741 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1744 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1748 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1754 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1757 postinst, postrm, etc.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1761 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1770 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1771 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1772 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1773 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1774 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1781 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1782 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1786 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1789 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1793 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1796 installing package files into.
1797 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1802 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1806 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1816 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1819 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1823 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1826 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1827 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1828 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1829 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1833 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1835 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1836 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1837 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1838 multiple binary packages.
1839 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1840 should rebuild them with this version.
1841 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1845 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1848 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1852 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1855 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1859 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1862 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1863 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1864 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1865 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1866 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1867 debian/README.debian.
1868 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1869 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1870 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1871 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1872 in a few situations.)
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1876 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1882 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1888 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1891 * Fixed several man pages.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1895 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1898 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1899 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1903 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1906 is ready for general use.
1907 * Added man pages for all commands.
1908 * Multiple binary package support.
1909 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1910 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1911 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1913 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1914 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1915 auto-installed as parameters.
1916 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1918 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1921 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1922 the package build directory it is to act on.
1923 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1924 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1925 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1929 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1931 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1932 ready to replace debstd.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400