1 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
10 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
11 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
12 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
13 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
14 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
15 bits until all files have been registered.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
19 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
22 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
23 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
24 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
25 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
26 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
27 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
28 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
29 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
30 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
31 otherwise change the result at all.
33 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
34 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
35 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
36 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
37 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
48 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
51 act on files that don't exist.
52 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
53 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
54 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
56 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
57 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
58 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
59 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
63 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
69 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
75 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
78 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
82 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
85 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
87 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
88 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
89 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
93 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
96 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
97 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
98 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
99 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
100 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
101 does not compress. Closes: #41733
102 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
104 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
106 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
110 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
117 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
132 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
142 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
151 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
152 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
153 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
154 I made some changes, though:
155 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
156 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
157 that is a clear violation of policy.
158 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
159 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
160 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
161 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
162 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
163 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
164 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
165 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
166 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
168 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
178 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
181 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
185 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
188 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
189 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
207 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
210 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
211 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
212 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
213 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
214 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
215 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
216 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
220 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
230 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
231 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
235 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
244 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
251 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
252 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
258 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
263 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
267 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
271 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
273 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
274 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
275 for the dependancies to be generated.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
282 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
289 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
290 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
291 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
299 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
300 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
316 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
319 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
323 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
331 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
332 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
333 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
334 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
335 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
336 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
337 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
338 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
339 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
340 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
341 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
342 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
343 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
347 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
349 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
350 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
351 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
353 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
354 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
355 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
356 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
357 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
358 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
360 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
361 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
365 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
368 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
372 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
379 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
381 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
382 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
387 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
390 for building debhelper.
391 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
402 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Fixed makefile commit target.
405 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
409 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
412 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
413 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
414 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
415 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
416 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
417 it's always available.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
424 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
425 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
426 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
430 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
433 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
434 modules. (Closes: #42171)
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
447 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
451 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
460 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
461 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
462 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
469 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
474 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
477 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
478 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
480 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
481 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
499 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
500 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
507 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
508 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
510 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
517 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
518 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
519 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
526 things if CDPATH is set.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
539 seems to make sense for the transition.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
546 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
554 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
555 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
559 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
562 that version. (Closes: #40589)
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
568 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
569 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
570 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
571 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
572 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
585 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
586 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
587 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
588 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
589 * debhelper.1: documented this.
590 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
591 current compatability level is equal to that number.
592 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
593 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
594 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
599 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
601 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
602 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
603 * README: mention doc/v2
604 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
605 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
609 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
611 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
612 be using this script RSN.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
616 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
619 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
620 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
621 more than 1 init script.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
625 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
628 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
632 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Changed perl version detection.
635 * Changed call to find.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
639 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
642 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
644 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
649 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Really include dh_installpam.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
655 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
658 * Wrote man page for same.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
662 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
665 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
666 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
671 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
678 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
681 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
682 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
683 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
688 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
691 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
692 well. (Closes: 38900)
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
696 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
699 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
700 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
704 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
710 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
717 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
723 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
725 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
726 help from Julian Gilbey.
727 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
728 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
729 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
730 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
731 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
732 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
733 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
738 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
744 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
746 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
751 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
763 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
766 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
770 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
773 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
777 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
780 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
784 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
793 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
797 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
799 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
803 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
805 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
809 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
812 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
813 may be deleted. (#35845)
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
817 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Various man page enhancements.
820 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
825 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
828 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
829 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
833 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
836 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
837 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
838 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
840 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
841 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
846 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
852 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Another very minor typo fix.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Very minor typo fix.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
864 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
867 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
868 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
880 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
881 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
882 variables properly (#34850).
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
886 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
888 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
892 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
895 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
896 (automatically generated by build process).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
902 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
906 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
909 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
910 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
912 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
919 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
925 * README: minor typo fix.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
932 leave it at that. :-)
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
948 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
951 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
952 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
953 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
957 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
960 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
964 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
967 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
974 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
975 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
976 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
977 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
981 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
984 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
985 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
986 Craig Small for spotting this.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
993 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
994 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1007 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1011 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1013 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1014 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1015 working on the last version of debhelper.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1019 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1022 being made. (#23255)
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1032 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1035 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1039 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1042 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1043 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1044 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1045 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1049 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1052 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1053 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1054 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1055 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1057 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1058 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1060 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1065 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1080 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1081 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1082 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1083 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1084 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1085 suidregister actually supports it.
1086 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1087 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1091 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1098 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1101 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1102 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1103 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1104 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1105 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1106 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1107 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1111 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1113 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1114 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1121 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1122 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1123 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1124 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1128 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1131 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1133 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1134 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1135 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1136 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1137 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1138 effect, either. (#30118)
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1142 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1151 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1152 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1162 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1165 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1166 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1167 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1168 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1175 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1176 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1186 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1189 packages, painlessly.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1193 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1199 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1211 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * The perl conversion is complete.
1215 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1217 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1218 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1219 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1227 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1228 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1229 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1233 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1236 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1238 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1240 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1241 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1245 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1248 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1249 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1262 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1263 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1264 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1265 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1266 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1270 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1273 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1274 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1275 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1276 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1280 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1283 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1287 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1290 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1291 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1292 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1293 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1294 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1295 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1296 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1297 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1310 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1311 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1312 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1317 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1320 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1324 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1327 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1331 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1334 sections of shared libraries.
1335 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1336 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1337 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1338 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1339 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1340 things you don't want them to.
1341 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1342 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1346 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1349 shared libraries. (#26414)
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1355 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1356 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1357 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1358 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1362 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1366 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1368 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1369 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1370 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1371 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1372 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1376 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1379 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1383 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1386 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1387 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1392 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1395 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1399 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1402 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1403 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1404 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1405 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1406 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1408 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1409 remove debian/files properly.
1410 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1411 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1412 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1413 * Removed bogus menu file.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1417 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1420 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1424 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1427 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1428 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1429 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1430 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1431 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1432 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1439 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1440 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1441 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1442 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1456 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1457 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1459 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1460 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1461 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1462 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1463 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1464 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1468 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1471 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1472 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1473 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1474 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1475 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1476 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1477 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1478 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1479 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1480 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1481 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1482 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1483 passed any switches.
1484 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1488 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1491 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1492 at all for a long while.
1493 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1494 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1495 large chunks in the process.
1496 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1497 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1498 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1503 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1506 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1508 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1513 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1516 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1517 that don't always have the same files in them.
1518 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1519 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1520 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1524 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1528 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1529 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1530 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1531 updating 27 man pages.
1532 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1533 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1534 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1535 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1536 programs act on. (#25247)
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1544 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1545 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1546 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1547 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1548 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1549 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1554 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1561 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1568 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1571 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1575 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1581 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1584 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1585 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1586 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1587 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1588 package by accident.
1589 * Is version 1.0 next?
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1593 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1596 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1597 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1601 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1604 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1605 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1606 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1607 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1608 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1610 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1615 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1618 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1619 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1623 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1626 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1630 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1633 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1634 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1639 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1645 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1648 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1649 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1654 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1660 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1663 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1664 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1665 past week. Thanks, guys!
1667 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1668 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1669 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1670 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1671 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1672 would do in the same situation.
1673 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1674 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1676 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1678 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1679 permissions changed.
1680 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1681 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1682 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1683 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1684 files are treated identically.
1685 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1686 * Minor man page fixes.
1687 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1688 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1689 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1693 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1696 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1697 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1698 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1699 use -X multiple times, too.
1700 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1701 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1705 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1708 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1709 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1713 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1716 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1720 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1723 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1724 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1725 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1726 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1727 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1728 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1729 shape if you're starting a new package.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1733 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1736 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1740 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1743 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1744 because of missing symlinks.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1748 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1754 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1757 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1758 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1759 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1760 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1761 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1763 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1764 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1768 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1770 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1771 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1772 to be changed after the fact :-)
1773 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1777 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1780 no version string after the -V.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1784 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1786 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1787 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1792 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1795 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1799 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1802 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1803 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1804 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1805 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1806 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1807 I always welcome corrections!
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1811 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1817 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1820 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1821 * Documented this new switch.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1825 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1828 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1829 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1830 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1831 no packages use the old behavior.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1835 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1838 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1839 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1843 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1846 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1850 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1856 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1859 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1863 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1866 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1867 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1868 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1872 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1878 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1881 into the source package by accident.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1885 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1888 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1889 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1890 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1891 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1892 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1893 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1898 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1902 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1903 inspired to implement some of it.
1904 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1908 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1911 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1915 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1918 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1919 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1923 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1926 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1927 have done.) (#17598)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1931 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1946 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1950 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1953 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1954 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1958 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1961 argument processor in perl.
1962 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1963 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1964 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1965 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1972 type directories. (#16933)
1973 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1974 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1975 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1976 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1977 are supported. (#16935)
1978 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1983 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1986 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1990 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1994 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1995 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1996 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1997 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1998 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1999 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2003 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2006 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2007 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2009 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2010 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2011 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2012 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2013 a given package, or -i or -a.
2014 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2015 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2016 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2017 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2018 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2019 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2020 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2021 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2022 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2024 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2025 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2026 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2030 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2033 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2034 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2039 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2042 does not have a section.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2046 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2049 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2050 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2051 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2055 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Fixed typo #16215.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2061 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2064 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2065 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2066 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2067 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2068 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2073 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2076 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2077 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2078 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2083 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2089 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2098 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2099 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2100 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2101 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2102 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2103 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2107 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2113 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2116 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2120 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2123 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2124 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2125 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2129 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2132 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2136 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2142 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2145 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2149 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2152 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2156 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2165 postinst, postrm, etc.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2178 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2179 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2180 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2181 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2182 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2186 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2189 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2190 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2194 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2197 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2201 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2204 installing package files into.
2205 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2210 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2214 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2218 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2224 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2227 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2231 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2234 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2235 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2236 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2237 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2241 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2243 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2244 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2245 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2246 multiple binary packages.
2247 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2248 should rebuild them with this version.
2249 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2253 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2256 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2260 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2263 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2267 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2270 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2271 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2272 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2273 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2274 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2275 debian/README.debian.
2276 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2277 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2278 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2279 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2280 in a few situations.)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2284 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2290 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2296 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2299 * Fixed several man pages.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2303 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2306 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2307 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2311 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2314 is ready for general use.
2315 * Added man pages for all commands.
2316 * Multiple binary package support.
2317 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2318 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2319 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2321 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2322 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2323 auto-installed as parameters.
2324 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2326 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2329 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2330 the package build directory it is to act on.
2331 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2332 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2333 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2337 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2339 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2340 ready to replace debstd.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400