1 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
11 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
14 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
18 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
21 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
25 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
28 sections of shared libraries.
29 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
30 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
31 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
32 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
33 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
34 things you don't want them to.
35 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
36 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
40 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
43 shared libraries. (#26414)
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
47 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
49 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
50 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
51 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
52 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
56 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
60 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
62 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
63 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
64 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
65 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
66 the program to not fail. (#26214)
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
70 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
73 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
77 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
80 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
81 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
86 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
89 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
93 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
95 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
96 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
97 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
98 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
99 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
100 I apologize for the inconvenience.
102 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
103 remove debian/files properly.
104 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
105 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
106 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
107 * Removed bogus menu file.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
111 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
114 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
118 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
121 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
122 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
123 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
124 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
125 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
126 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
130 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
132 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
133 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
134 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
135 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
136 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
140 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
147 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
150 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
151 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
153 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
154 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
155 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
156 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
157 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
158 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
162 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
165 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
166 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
167 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
168 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
169 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
170 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
171 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
172 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
173 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
174 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
175 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
176 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
178 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
182 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
185 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
186 at all for a long while.
187 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
188 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
189 large chunks in the process.
190 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
191 install many oddly named files it died on before.
192 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
197 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
200 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
202 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
207 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
210 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
211 that don't always have the same files in them.
212 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
213 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
214 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
218 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
220 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
222 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
223 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
224 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
225 updating 27 man pages.
226 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
227 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
228 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
229 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
230 programs act on. (#25247)
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
234 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
238 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
239 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
240 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
241 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
242 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
243 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
248 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
255 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
262 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
265 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
269 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
275 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
277 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
278 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
279 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
280 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
281 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
283 * Is version 1.0 next?
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
287 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
290 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
291 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
295 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
297 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
298 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
299 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
300 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
301 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
302 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
304 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
309 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
312 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
313 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
317 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
320 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
324 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
327 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
328 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
333 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
339 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
342 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
343 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
348 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
354 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
356 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
357 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
358 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
359 past week. Thanks, guys!
361 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
362 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
363 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
364 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
365 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
366 would do in the same situation.
367 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
368 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
370 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
372 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
374 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
375 some people enjoy changing root's name.
376 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
377 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
378 files are treated identically.
379 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
380 * Minor man page fixes.
381 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
382 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
383 --no-act is on. (#23054)
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
387 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
389 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
390 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
391 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
392 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
393 use -X multiple times, too.
394 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
395 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
399 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
402 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
403 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
407 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
410 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
414 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
417 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
418 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
419 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
420 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
421 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
422 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
423 shape if you're starting a new package.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
427 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
430 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
434 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
437 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
438 because of missing symlinks.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
442 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
448 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
451 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
452 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
453 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
454 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
455 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
457 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
458 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
462 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
464 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
465 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
466 to be changed after the fact :-)
467 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
471 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
473 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
474 no version string after the -V.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
478 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
480 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
481 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
486 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
489 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
493 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
496 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
497 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
498 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
499 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
500 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
501 I always welcome corrections!
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
505 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
511 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
514 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
515 * Documented this new switch.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
519 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
522 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
523 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
524 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
525 no packages use the old behavior.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
529 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
532 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
533 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
537 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
540 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
544 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
550 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
553 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
557 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
559 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
560 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
561 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
562 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
566 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
572 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
575 into the source package by accident.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
579 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
582 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
583 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
584 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
585 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
586 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
587 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
592 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
596 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
597 inspired to implement some of it.
598 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
602 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
605 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
609 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
612 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
613 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
617 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
620 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
625 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
631 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
637 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
640 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
644 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
647 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
648 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
652 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
655 argument processor in perl.
656 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
657 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
658 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
659 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
663 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
666 type directories. (#16933)
667 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
668 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
669 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
670 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
671 are supported. (#16935)
672 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
677 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
680 This has been broken since version 0.30.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
684 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
688 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
689 version requirements in the shlibs file.
690 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
691 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
692 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
693 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
697 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
700 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
701 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
703 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
704 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
705 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
706 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
707 a given package, or -i or -a.
708 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
709 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
710 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
711 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
712 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
713 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
714 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
715 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
716 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
718 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
719 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
720 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
724 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
727 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
728 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
733 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
736 does not have a section.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
740 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
743 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
744 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
745 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
749 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
755 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
757 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
758 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
759 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
760 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
761 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
762 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
767 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
770 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
771 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
772 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
777 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
783 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
789 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
792 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
793 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
794 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
795 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
796 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
797 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
801 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
807 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
809 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
810 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
814 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
817 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
818 the dh_* programs (#15497).
819 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
823 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
826 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
830 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
836 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
839 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
843 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
846 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
850 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
856 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
859 postinst, postrm, etc.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
863 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
869 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
871 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
872 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
873 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
874 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
875 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
876 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
880 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
883 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
884 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
888 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
891 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
895 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
897 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
898 installing package files into.
899 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
904 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
908 * Install examples/rules* executable.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
912 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
918 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
921 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
925 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
928 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
929 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
930 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
931 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
935 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
937 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
938 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
939 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
940 multiple binary packages.
941 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
942 should rebuild them with this version.
943 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
947 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
950 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
954 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
957 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
961 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
964 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
965 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
966 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
967 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
968 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
969 debian/README.debian.
970 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
971 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
972 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
973 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
974 in a few situations.)
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
978 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
984 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
990 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
993 * Fixed several man pages.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
997 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1000 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1001 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1005 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1008 is ready for general use.
1009 * Added man pages for all commands.
1010 * Multiple binary package support.
1011 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1012 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1013 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1015 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1016 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1017 auto-installed as parameters.
1018 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1020 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1023 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1024 the package build directory it is to act on.
1025 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1026 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1027 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1031 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1033 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1034 ready to replace debstd.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400