1 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed a simmy typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
13 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
16 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
17 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
18 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
19 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
20 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
21 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
23 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
24 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
25 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
26 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
27 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
28 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
29 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
33 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
39 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
45 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
48 right place. Closes: #55065
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
52 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
59 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Make all examples rules files executable.
62 * Copyright date updates.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
66 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
69 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
74 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
80 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
93 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
99 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
105 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
108 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
109 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
110 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
111 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
112 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
113 bits until all files have been registered.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
117 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installmanpages:
120 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
121 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
122 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
123 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
124 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
125 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
126 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
127 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
128 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
129 otherwise change the result at all.
131 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
132 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
133 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
134 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
135 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
146 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
149 act on files that don't exist.
150 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
151 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
152 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
154 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
155 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
156 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
157 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
161 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
167 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
173 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
176 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
180 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
183 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
185 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
186 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
187 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
191 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
194 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
195 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
196 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
197 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
198 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
199 does not compress. Closes: #41733
200 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
202 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
204 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
208 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
215 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
227 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
230 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
246 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
249 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
250 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
251 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
252 I made some changes, though:
253 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
254 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
255 that is a clear violation of policy.
256 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
257 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
258 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
259 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
260 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
261 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
262 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
263 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
264 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
266 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
270 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
276 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
279 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
283 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
286 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
287 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
308 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
309 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
310 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
311 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
312 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
313 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
314 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
328 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
329 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
339 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
342 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
349 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
350 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
356 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
361 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
365 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
369 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
371 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
372 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
373 for the dependancies to be generated.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
377 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
380 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
384 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
387 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
388 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
389 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
394 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
397 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
398 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
402 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
417 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
429 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
430 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
431 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
432 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
433 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
434 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
435 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
436 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
437 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
438 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
439 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
440 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
441 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
445 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
447 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
448 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
449 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
451 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
452 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
453 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
454 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
455 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
456 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
458 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
459 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
466 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
470 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
479 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
480 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
488 for building debhelper.
489 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
493 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
500 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Fixed makefile commit target.
503 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
507 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
510 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
511 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
512 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
513 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
514 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
515 it's always available.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
522 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
523 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
524 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
531 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
532 modules. (Closes: #42171)
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
545 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
558 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
559 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
560 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
567 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
575 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
576 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
578 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
579 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
597 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
598 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
602 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
605 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
606 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
608 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
612 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
615 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
616 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
617 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
621 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
624 things if CDPATH is set.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
634 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
637 seems to make sense for the transition.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
641 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
644 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
652 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
653 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
657 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
660 that version. (Closes: #40589)
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
664 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
666 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
667 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
668 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
669 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
670 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
683 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
684 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
685 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
686 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
687 * debhelper.1: documented this.
688 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
689 current compatability level is equal to that number.
690 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
691 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
692 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
697 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
699 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
700 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
701 * README: mention doc/v2
702 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
703 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
707 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
709 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
710 be using this script RSN.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
714 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
717 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
718 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
719 more than 1 init script.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
723 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
726 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
730 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Changed perl version detection.
733 * Changed call to find.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
737 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
740 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
742 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
747 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Really include dh_installpam.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
753 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
756 * Wrote man page for same.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
760 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
763 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
764 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
769 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
776 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
779 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
780 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
781 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
786 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
789 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
790 well. (Closes: 38900)
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
794 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
797 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
798 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
802 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
808 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
821 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
823 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
824 help from Julian Gilbey.
825 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
826 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
827 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
828 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
829 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
830 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
831 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
842 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
844 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
849 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
855 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
861 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
864 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
868 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
871 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
875 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
878 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
882 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
888 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
891 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
895 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
897 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
901 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
903 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
907 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
910 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
911 may be deleted. (#35845)
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
915 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Various man page enhancements.
918 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
923 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
926 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
927 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
931 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
934 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
935 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
936 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
938 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
939 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
944 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Another very minor typo fix.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Very minor typo fix.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
962 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
965 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
966 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
976 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
978 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
979 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
980 variables properly (#34850).
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
986 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
993 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
994 (automatically generated by build process).
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1000 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1007 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1008 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1010 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1014 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1017 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1021 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * README: minor typo fix.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1027 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1030 leave it at that. :-)
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1046 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1049 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1050 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1051 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1055 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1058 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1065 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1069 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1072 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1073 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1074 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1075 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1079 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1082 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1083 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1084 Craig Small for spotting this.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1088 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1091 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1092 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1102 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1105 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1109 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1111 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1112 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1113 working on the last version of debhelper.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1117 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1120 being made. (#23255)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1133 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1140 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1141 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1142 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1143 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1147 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1150 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1151 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1152 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1153 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1155 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1156 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1158 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1163 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1169 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1175 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1178 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1179 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1180 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1181 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1182 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1183 suidregister actually supports it.
1184 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1185 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1189 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1196 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1199 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1200 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1201 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1202 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1203 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1204 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1205 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1209 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1211 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1212 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1216 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1219 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1220 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1221 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1222 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1229 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1231 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1232 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1233 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1234 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1235 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1236 effect, either. (#30118)
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1240 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1246 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1249 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1250 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1263 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1264 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1265 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1266 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1273 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1274 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1284 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1287 packages, painlessly.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1303 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1309 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * The perl conversion is complete.
1313 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1315 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1316 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1317 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1322 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1325 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1326 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1327 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1331 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1334 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1336 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1338 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1339 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1346 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1347 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1351 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1360 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1361 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1362 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1363 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1364 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1368 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1371 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1372 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1373 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1374 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1381 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1388 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1389 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1390 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1391 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1392 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1393 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1394 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1395 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1399 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1408 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1409 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1410 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1415 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1418 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1422 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1425 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1429 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1432 sections of shared libraries.
1433 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1434 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1435 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1436 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1437 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1438 things you don't want them to.
1439 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1440 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1444 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1447 shared libraries. (#26414)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1451 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1453 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1454 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1455 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1456 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1460 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1464 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1466 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1467 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1468 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1469 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1470 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1474 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1477 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1481 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1484 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1485 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1493 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1497 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1500 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1501 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1502 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1503 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1504 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1506 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1507 remove debian/files properly.
1508 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1509 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1510 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1511 * Removed bogus menu file.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1518 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1525 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1526 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1527 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1528 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1529 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1530 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1537 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1538 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1539 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1540 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1544 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1551 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1554 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1555 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1557 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1558 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1559 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1560 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1561 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1562 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1569 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1570 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1571 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1572 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1573 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1574 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1575 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1576 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1577 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1578 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1579 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1580 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1581 passed any switches.
1582 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1589 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1590 at all for a long while.
1591 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1592 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1593 large chunks in the process.
1594 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1595 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1596 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1601 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1604 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1606 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1614 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1615 that don't always have the same files in them.
1616 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1617 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1618 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1626 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1627 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1628 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1629 updating 27 man pages.
1630 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1631 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1632 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1633 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1634 programs act on. (#25247)
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1642 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1643 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1644 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1645 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1646 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1647 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1652 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1659 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1666 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1669 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1673 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1679 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1682 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1683 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1684 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1685 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1686 package by accident.
1687 * Is version 1.0 next?
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1691 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1694 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1695 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1699 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1702 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1703 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1704 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1705 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1706 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1708 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1713 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1716 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1717 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1721 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1724 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1728 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1731 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1732 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1737 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1743 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1746 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1747 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1752 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1758 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1761 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1762 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1763 past week. Thanks, guys!
1765 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1766 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1767 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1768 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1769 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1770 would do in the same situation.
1771 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1772 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1774 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1776 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1777 permissions changed.
1778 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1779 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1780 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1781 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1782 files are treated identically.
1783 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1784 * Minor man page fixes.
1785 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1786 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1787 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1791 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1794 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1795 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1796 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1797 use -X multiple times, too.
1798 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1799 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1803 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1806 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1807 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1811 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1814 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1818 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1821 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1822 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1823 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1824 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1825 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1826 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1827 shape if you're starting a new package.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1831 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1834 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1838 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1841 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1842 because of missing symlinks.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1846 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1852 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1855 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1856 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1857 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1858 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1859 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1861 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1862 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1866 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1868 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1869 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1870 to be changed after the fact :-)
1871 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1875 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1878 no version string after the -V.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1882 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1884 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1885 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1890 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1893 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1897 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1900 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1901 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1902 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1903 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1904 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1905 I always welcome corrections!
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1909 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1915 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1918 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1919 * Documented this new switch.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1923 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1926 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1927 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1928 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1929 no packages use the old behavior.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1933 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1936 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1937 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1941 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1944 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1948 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1954 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1957 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1961 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1964 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1965 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1966 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1970 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1976 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1979 into the source package by accident.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1983 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1986 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1987 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1988 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1989 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1990 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1991 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1996 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2000 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2001 inspired to implement some of it.
2002 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2006 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2009 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2013 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2016 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2017 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2021 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2024 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2025 have done.) (#17598)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2029 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2035 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2041 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2044 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2048 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2051 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2052 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2056 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2059 argument processor in perl.
2060 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2061 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2062 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2063 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2067 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2070 type directories. (#16933)
2071 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2072 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2073 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2074 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2075 are supported. (#16935)
2076 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2081 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2084 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2092 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2093 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2094 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2095 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2096 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2097 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2104 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2105 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2107 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2108 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2109 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2110 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2111 a given package, or -i or -a.
2112 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2113 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2114 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2115 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2116 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2117 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2118 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2119 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2120 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2122 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2123 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2124 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2128 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2131 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2132 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2137 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2140 does not have a section.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2144 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2147 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2148 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2149 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2153 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Fixed typo #16215.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2159 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2162 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2163 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2164 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2165 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2166 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2171 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2174 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2175 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2176 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2181 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2187 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2193 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2196 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2197 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2198 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2199 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2200 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2201 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2205 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2211 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2214 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2218 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2221 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2222 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2223 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2227 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2230 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2234 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2240 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2243 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2247 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2250 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2254 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2260 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2263 postinst, postrm, etc.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2267 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2273 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2276 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2277 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2278 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2279 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2280 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2284 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2287 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2288 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2292 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2295 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2299 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2302 installing package files into.
2303 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2312 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2316 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2322 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2325 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2329 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2332 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2333 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2334 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2335 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2339 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2341 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2342 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2343 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2344 multiple binary packages.
2345 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2346 should rebuild them with this version.
2347 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2351 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2354 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2358 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2361 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2365 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2368 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2369 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2370 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2371 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2372 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2373 debian/README.debian.
2374 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2375 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2376 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2377 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2378 in a few situations.)
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2382 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2388 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2394 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2397 * Fixed several man pages.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2401 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2404 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2405 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2409 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2412 is ready for general use.
2413 * Added man pages for all commands.
2414 * Multiple binary package support.
2415 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2416 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2417 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2419 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2420 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2421 auto-installed as parameters.
2422 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2424 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2427 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2428 the package build directory it is to act on.
2429 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2430 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2431 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2435 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2437 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2438 ready to replace debstd.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400