1 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
10 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
14 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
17 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
18 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
39 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
40 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
41 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
42 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
43 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
44 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
45 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
55 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
59 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
60 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
70 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
73 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
80 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
81 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
87 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
92 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
96 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
102 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
103 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
104 for the dependancies to be generated.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
108 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
111 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
115 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
118 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
119 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
120 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
128 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
129 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
148 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
160 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
161 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
162 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
163 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
164 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
165 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
166 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
167 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
168 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
169 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
170 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
171 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
172 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
178 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
179 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
180 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
182 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
183 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
184 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
185 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
186 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
187 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
189 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
190 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
197 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
210 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
211 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
216 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
219 for building debhelper.
220 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
224 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fixed makefile commit target.
234 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
241 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
242 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
243 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
244 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
245 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
246 it's always available.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
250 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
253 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
254 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
255 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
259 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
262 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
263 modules. (Closes: #42171)
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
276 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
289 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
290 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
291 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
298 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
306 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
307 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
309 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
310 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
320 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
328 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
329 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
336 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
337 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
339 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
346 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
347 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
348 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
355 things if CDPATH is set.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
359 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
368 seems to make sense for the transition.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
372 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
375 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
380 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
383 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
384 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
391 that version. (Closes: #40589)
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
397 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
398 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
399 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
400 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
401 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
411 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
414 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
415 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
416 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
417 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
418 * debhelper.1: documented this.
419 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
420 current compatability level is equal to that number.
421 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
422 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
423 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
428 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
430 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
431 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
432 * README: mention doc/v2
433 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
434 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
440 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
441 be using this script RSN.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
445 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
448 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
449 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
450 more than 1 init script.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
454 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
457 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
461 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Changed perl version detection.
464 * Changed call to find.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
471 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
473 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
478 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Really include dh_installpam.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
484 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
487 * Wrote man page for same.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
491 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
494 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
495 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
507 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
510 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
511 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
512 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
517 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
520 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
521 well. (Closes: 38900)
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
525 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
528 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
529 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
533 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
539 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
546 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
552 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
554 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
555 help from Julian Gilbey.
556 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
557 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
558 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
559 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
560 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
561 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
562 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
567 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
573 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
575 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
580 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
586 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
592 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
595 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
599 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
602 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
606 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
609 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
613 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
619 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
622 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
626 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
628 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
632 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
634 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
638 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
641 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
642 may be deleted. (#35845)
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
646 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Various man page enhancements.
649 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
654 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
657 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
658 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
662 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
665 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
666 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
667 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
669 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
670 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
675 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
681 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Another very minor typo fix.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Very minor typo fix.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
693 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
696 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
697 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
707 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
709 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
710 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
711 variables properly (#34850).
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
715 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
717 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
721 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
724 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
725 (automatically generated by build process).
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
729 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
731 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
735 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
738 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
739 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
741 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
745 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
748 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
752 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
754 * README: minor typo fix.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
758 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
761 leave it at that. :-)
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
780 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
781 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
782 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
789 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
793 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
796 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
803 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
804 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
805 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
806 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
810 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
813 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
814 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
815 Craig Small for spotting this.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
819 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
822 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
823 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
827 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
836 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
842 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
843 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
844 working on the last version of debhelper.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
857 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
861 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
864 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
868 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
870 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
871 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
872 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
873 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
874 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
881 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
882 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
883 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
884 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
886 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
887 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
889 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
894 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
896 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
906 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
909 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
910 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
911 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
912 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
913 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
914 suidregister actually supports it.
915 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
916 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
920 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
927 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
930 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
931 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
932 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
933 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
934 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
935 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
936 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
940 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
942 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
943 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
947 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
950 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
951 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
952 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
953 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
957 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
960 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
962 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
963 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
964 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
965 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
966 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
967 effect, either. (#30118)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
977 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
980 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
981 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
985 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Spelling and typo fixes.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
991 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
993 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
994 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
995 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
996 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
997 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1001 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1004 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1005 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1015 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1018 packages, painlessly.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1022 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * The perl conversion is complete.
1044 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1046 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1047 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1048 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1053 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1056 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1057 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1058 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1065 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1067 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1069 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1070 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1074 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1077 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1078 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1088 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1091 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1092 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1093 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1094 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1095 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1099 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1102 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1103 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1104 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1105 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1109 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1112 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1116 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1119 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1120 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1121 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1122 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1123 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1124 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1125 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1126 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1130 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1136 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1139 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1140 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1141 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1146 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1149 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1153 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1156 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1163 sections of shared libraries.
1164 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1165 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1166 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1167 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1168 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1169 things you don't want them to.
1170 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1171 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1178 shared libraries. (#26414)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1182 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1184 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1185 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1186 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1187 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1195 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1197 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1198 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1199 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1200 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1201 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1208 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1212 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1215 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1216 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1221 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1224 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1228 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1231 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1232 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1233 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1234 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1235 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1237 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1238 remove debian/files properly.
1239 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1240 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1241 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1242 * Removed bogus menu file.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1246 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1249 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1253 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1256 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1257 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1258 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1259 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1260 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1261 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1265 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1268 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1269 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1270 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1271 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1275 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1282 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1285 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1286 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1288 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1289 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1290 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1291 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1292 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1293 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1300 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1301 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1302 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1303 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1304 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1305 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1306 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1307 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1308 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1309 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1310 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1311 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1312 passed any switches.
1313 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1317 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1320 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1321 at all for a long while.
1322 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1323 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1324 large chunks in the process.
1325 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1326 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1327 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1332 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1335 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1337 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1342 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1345 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1346 that don't always have the same files in them.
1347 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1348 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1349 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1357 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1358 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1359 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1360 updating 27 man pages.
1361 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1362 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1363 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1364 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1365 programs act on. (#25247)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1369 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1373 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1374 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1375 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1376 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1377 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1378 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1383 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1390 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1397 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1400 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1404 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1410 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1413 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1414 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1415 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1416 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1417 package by accident.
1418 * Is version 1.0 next?
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1422 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1425 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1426 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1430 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1433 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1434 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1435 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1436 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1437 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1439 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1444 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1447 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1448 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1452 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1455 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1459 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1462 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1463 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1468 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1474 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1477 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1478 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1483 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1489 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1492 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1493 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1494 past week. Thanks, guys!
1496 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1497 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1498 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1499 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1500 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1501 would do in the same situation.
1502 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1503 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1505 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1507 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1508 permissions changed.
1509 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1510 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1511 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1512 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1513 files are treated identically.
1514 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1515 * Minor man page fixes.
1516 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1517 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1518 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1522 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1525 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1526 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1527 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1528 use -X multiple times, too.
1529 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1530 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1534 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1537 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1538 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1542 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1545 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1549 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1552 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1553 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1554 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1555 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1556 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1557 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1558 shape if you're starting a new package.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1562 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1565 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1569 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1572 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1573 because of missing symlinks.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1577 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1583 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1586 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1587 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1588 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1589 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1590 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1592 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1593 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1597 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1599 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1600 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1601 to be changed after the fact :-)
1602 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1606 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1609 no version string after the -V.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1613 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1615 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1616 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1621 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1624 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1628 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1631 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1632 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1633 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1634 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1635 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1636 I always welcome corrections!
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1640 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1646 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1649 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1650 * Documented this new switch.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1654 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1657 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1658 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1659 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1660 no packages use the old behavior.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1664 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1667 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1668 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1672 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1675 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1685 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1688 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1692 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1695 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1696 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1697 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1701 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1707 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1710 into the source package by accident.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1714 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1717 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1718 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1719 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1720 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1721 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1722 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1727 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1731 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1732 inspired to implement some of it.
1733 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1737 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1740 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1744 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1747 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1748 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1752 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1755 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1756 have done.) (#17598)
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1760 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1766 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1772 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1775 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1779 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1782 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1783 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1787 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1790 argument processor in perl.
1791 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1792 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1793 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1794 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1801 type directories. (#16933)
1802 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1803 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1804 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1805 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1806 are supported. (#16935)
1807 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1812 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1815 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1819 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1823 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1824 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1825 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1826 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1827 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1828 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1832 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1835 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1836 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1838 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1839 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1840 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1841 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1842 a given package, or -i or -a.
1843 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1844 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1845 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1846 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1847 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1848 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1849 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1850 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1851 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1853 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1854 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1855 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1859 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1862 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1863 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1868 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1871 does not have a section.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1875 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1878 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1879 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1880 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1884 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Fixed typo #16215.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1893 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1894 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1895 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1896 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1897 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1902 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1905 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1906 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1907 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1912 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1918 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1924 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1927 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1928 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1929 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1930 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1931 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1932 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1936 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1942 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1945 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1949 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1952 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1953 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1954 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1958 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1961 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1965 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1971 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1974 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1978 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1981 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1985 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1994 postinst, postrm, etc.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1998 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2007 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2008 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2009 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2010 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2011 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2015 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2018 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2019 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2023 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2026 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2030 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2033 installing package files into.
2034 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2039 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2043 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2047 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2053 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2056 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2060 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2063 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2064 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2065 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2066 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2070 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2072 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2073 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2074 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2075 multiple binary packages.
2076 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2077 should rebuild them with this version.
2078 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2082 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2085 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2089 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2092 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2096 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2099 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2100 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2101 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2102 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2103 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2104 debian/README.debian.
2105 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2106 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2107 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2108 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2109 in a few situations.)
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2113 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2119 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2125 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2128 * Fixed several man pages.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2132 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2135 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2136 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2140 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2143 is ready for general use.
2144 * Added man pages for all commands.
2145 * Multiple binary package support.
2146 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2147 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2148 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2150 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2151 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2152 auto-installed as parameters.
2153 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2155 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2158 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2159 the package build directory it is to act on.
2160 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2161 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2162 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2166 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2168 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2169 ready to replace debstd.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400