1 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
9 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
10 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
11 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
12 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
13 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
14 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
15 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
16 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
17 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
18 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
19 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
20 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
21 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
25 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
27 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
28 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
29 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
31 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
32 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
33 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
34 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
35 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
36 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
38 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
39 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
46 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
59 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
60 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
68 for building debhelper.
69 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fixed makefile commit target.
83 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
90 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
91 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
92 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
93 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
94 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
95 it's always available.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
99 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
102 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
103 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
104 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
108 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
111 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
112 modules. (Closes: #42171)
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
116 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
122 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
125 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
138 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
139 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
140 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
147 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
155 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
156 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
158 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
159 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
177 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
178 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
185 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
186 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
188 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
192 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
195 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
196 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
197 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
204 things if CDPATH is set.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
217 seems to make sense for the transition.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
224 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
232 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
233 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
237 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
240 that version. (Closes: #40589)
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
246 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
247 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
248 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
249 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
250 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
263 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
264 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
265 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
266 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
267 * debhelper.1: documented this.
268 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
269 current compatability level is equal to that number.
270 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
271 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
272 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
277 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
279 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
280 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
281 * README: mention doc/v2
282 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
283 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
287 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
289 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
290 be using this script RSN.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
294 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
297 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
298 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
299 more than 1 init script.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
303 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
306 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
310 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Changed perl version detection.
313 * Changed call to find.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
317 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
320 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
322 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
327 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Really include dh_installpam.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
333 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
336 * Wrote man page for same.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
340 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
343 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
344 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
349 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
356 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
359 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
360 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
361 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
366 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
369 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
370 well. (Closes: 38900)
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
374 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
377 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
378 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
382 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
388 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
395 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
403 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
404 help from Julian Gilbey.
405 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
406 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
407 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
408 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
409 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
410 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
411 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
416 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
422 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
424 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
429 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
435 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
441 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
444 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
451 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
455 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
458 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
471 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
477 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
483 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
487 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
490 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
491 may be deleted. (#35845)
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
495 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Various man page enhancements.
498 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
503 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
506 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
507 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
514 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
515 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
516 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
518 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
519 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
530 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Another very minor typo fix.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
536 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Very minor typo fix.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
542 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
545 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
546 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
550 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
556 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
558 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
559 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
560 variables properly (#34850).
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
564 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
566 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
570 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
573 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
574 (automatically generated by build process).
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
578 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
580 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
584 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
587 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
588 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
590 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
594 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
597 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
601 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
603 * README: minor typo fix.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
607 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
610 leave it at that. :-)
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
614 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
620 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
626 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
629 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
630 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
631 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
635 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
638 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
642 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
645 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
649 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
652 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
653 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
654 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
655 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
662 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
663 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
664 Craig Small for spotting this.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
668 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
671 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
672 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
676 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
682 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
685 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
689 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
691 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
692 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
693 working on the last version of debhelper.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
697 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
704 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
706 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
710 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
713 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
719 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
720 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
721 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
722 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
723 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
727 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
730 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
731 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
732 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
733 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
735 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
736 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
738 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
745 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
755 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
758 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
759 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
760 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
761 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
762 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
763 suidregister actually supports it.
764 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
765 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
769 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
776 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
779 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
780 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
781 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
782 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
783 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
784 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
785 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
789 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
791 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
792 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
796 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
799 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
800 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
801 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
802 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
806 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
809 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
811 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
812 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
813 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
814 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
815 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
816 effect, either. (#30118)
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
826 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
829 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
830 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Spelling and typo fixes.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
842 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
843 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
844 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
845 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
846 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
850 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
853 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
854 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
860 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
864 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
867 packages, painlessly.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
883 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
889 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
891 * The perl conversion is complete.
893 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
895 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
896 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
897 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
905 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
906 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
907 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
911 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
914 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
916 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
918 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
919 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
926 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
927 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
931 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
937 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
939 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
940 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
941 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
942 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
943 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
944 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
948 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
951 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
952 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
953 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
954 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
958 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
961 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
965 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
968 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
969 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
970 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
971 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
972 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
973 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
974 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
975 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
979 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
985 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
988 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
989 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
990 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
995 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
998 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1002 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1005 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1009 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1012 sections of shared libraries.
1013 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1014 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1015 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1016 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1017 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1018 things you don't want them to.
1019 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1020 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1024 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1027 shared libraries. (#26414)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1031 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1033 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1034 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1035 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1036 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1040 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1044 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1046 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1047 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1048 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1049 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1050 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1054 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1057 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1061 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1064 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1065 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1070 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1073 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1080 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1081 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1082 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1083 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1084 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1086 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1087 remove debian/files properly.
1088 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1089 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1090 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1091 * Removed bogus menu file.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1095 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1098 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1105 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1106 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1107 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1108 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1109 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1110 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1117 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1118 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1119 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1120 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1131 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1134 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1135 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1137 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1138 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1139 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1140 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1141 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1142 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1146 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1149 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1150 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1151 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1152 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1153 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1154 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1155 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1156 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1157 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1158 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1159 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1160 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1161 passed any switches.
1162 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1166 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1169 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1170 at all for a long while.
1171 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1172 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1173 large chunks in the process.
1174 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1175 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1176 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1181 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1184 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1186 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1194 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1195 that don't always have the same files in them.
1196 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1197 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1198 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1202 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1206 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1207 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1208 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1209 updating 27 man pages.
1210 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1211 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1212 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1213 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1214 programs act on. (#25247)
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1222 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1223 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1224 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1225 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1226 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1227 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1232 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1239 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1246 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1249 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1253 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1262 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1263 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1264 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1265 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1266 package by accident.
1267 * Is version 1.0 next?
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1271 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1274 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1275 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1279 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1282 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1283 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1284 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1285 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1286 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1288 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1293 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1296 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1297 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1301 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1304 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1308 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1311 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1312 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1317 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1323 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1326 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1327 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1332 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1338 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1341 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1342 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1343 past week. Thanks, guys!
1345 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1346 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1347 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1348 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1349 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1350 would do in the same situation.
1351 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1352 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1354 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1356 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1357 permissions changed.
1358 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1359 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1360 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1361 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1362 files are treated identically.
1363 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1364 * Minor man page fixes.
1365 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1366 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1367 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1371 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1374 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1375 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1376 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1377 use -X multiple times, too.
1378 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1379 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1383 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1386 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1387 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1391 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1394 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1398 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1401 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1402 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1403 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1404 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1405 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1406 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1407 shape if you're starting a new package.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1411 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1414 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1418 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1421 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1422 because of missing symlinks.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1426 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1432 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1435 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1436 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1437 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1438 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1439 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1441 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1442 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1446 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1448 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1449 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1450 to be changed after the fact :-)
1451 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1455 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1458 no version string after the -V.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1462 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1464 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1465 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1470 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1473 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1477 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1480 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1481 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1482 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1483 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1484 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1485 I always welcome corrections!
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1489 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1495 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1498 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1499 * Documented this new switch.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1503 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1506 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1507 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1508 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1509 no packages use the old behavior.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1513 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1516 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1517 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1521 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1524 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1528 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1534 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1537 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1541 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1544 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1545 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1546 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1550 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1556 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1559 into the source package by accident.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1563 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1566 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1567 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1568 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1569 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1570 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1571 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1576 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1580 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1581 inspired to implement some of it.
1582 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1586 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1589 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1596 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1597 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1601 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1604 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1605 have done.) (#17598)
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1609 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1615 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1621 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1624 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1628 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1631 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1632 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1636 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1639 argument processor in perl.
1640 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1641 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1642 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1643 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1647 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1650 type directories. (#16933)
1651 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1652 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1653 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1654 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1655 are supported. (#16935)
1656 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1661 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1664 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1668 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1672 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1673 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1674 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1675 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1676 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1677 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1684 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1685 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1687 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1688 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1689 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1690 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1691 a given package, or -i or -a.
1692 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1693 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1694 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1695 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1696 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1697 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1698 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1699 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1700 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1702 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1703 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1704 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1708 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1711 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1712 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1717 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1720 does not have a section.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1724 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1727 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1728 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1729 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1733 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Fixed typo #16215.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1739 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1742 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1743 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1744 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1745 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1746 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1751 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1754 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1755 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1756 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1761 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1773 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1776 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1777 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1778 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1779 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1780 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1781 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1785 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1791 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1794 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1801 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1802 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1803 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1807 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1810 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1814 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1820 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1823 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1827 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1830 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1843 postinst, postrm, etc.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1856 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1857 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1858 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1859 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1860 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1864 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1867 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1868 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1872 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1875 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1879 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1882 installing package files into.
1883 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1888 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1892 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1902 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1905 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1909 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1912 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1913 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1914 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1915 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1919 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1921 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1922 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1923 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1924 multiple binary packages.
1925 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1926 should rebuild them with this version.
1927 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1931 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1934 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1938 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1941 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1945 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1948 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1949 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1950 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1951 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1952 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1953 debian/README.debian.
1954 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1955 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1956 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1957 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1958 in a few situations.)
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1962 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1968 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1974 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1977 * Fixed several man pages.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1981 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1984 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1985 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1989 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1992 is ready for general use.
1993 * Added man pages for all commands.
1994 * Multiple binary package support.
1995 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1996 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1997 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1999 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2000 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2001 auto-installed as parameters.
2002 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2004 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2007 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2008 the package build directory it is to act on.
2009 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2010 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2011 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2015 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2017 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2018 ready to replace debstd.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400