1 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
8 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
11 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
12 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
13 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
14 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
15 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
16 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
17 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
21 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
23 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
24 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
28 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
31 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
32 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
33 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
34 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
38 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
41 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
43 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
44 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
45 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
46 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
47 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
48 effect, either. (#30118)
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
52 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
58 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
61 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
62 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
66 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Spelling and typo fixes.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
72 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
74 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
75 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
76 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
77 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
78 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
82 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
85 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
86 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
90 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
92 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
96 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
103 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
109 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
115 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
121 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
123 * The perl conversion is complete.
125 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
127 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
128 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
129 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
134 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
137 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
138 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
139 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
143 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
146 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
148 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
150 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
151 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
155 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
158 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
159 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
163 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
169 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
171 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
172 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
173 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
174 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
175 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
176 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
180 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
183 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
184 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
185 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
186 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
190 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
193 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
197 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
200 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
201 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
202 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
203 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
204 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
205 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
206 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
207 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
211 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
217 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
220 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
221 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
222 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
227 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
230 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
234 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
237 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
241 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
244 sections of shared libraries.
245 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
246 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
247 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
248 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
249 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
250 things you don't want them to.
251 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
252 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
256 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
259 shared libraries. (#26414)
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
263 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
265 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
266 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
267 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
268 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
272 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
276 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
278 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
279 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
280 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
281 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
282 the program to not fail. (#26214)
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
286 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
289 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
293 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
296 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
297 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
302 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
305 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
309 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
311 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
312 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
313 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
314 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
315 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
316 I apologize for the inconvenience.
318 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
319 remove debian/files properly.
320 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
321 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
322 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
323 * Removed bogus menu file.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
327 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
330 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
334 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
337 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
338 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
339 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
340 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
341 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
342 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
346 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
348 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
349 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
350 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
351 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
352 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
356 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
363 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
366 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
367 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
369 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
370 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
371 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
372 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
373 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
374 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
378 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
381 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
382 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
383 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
384 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
385 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
386 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
387 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
388 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
389 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
390 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
391 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
392 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
394 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
398 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
401 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
402 at all for a long while.
403 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
404 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
405 large chunks in the process.
406 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
407 install many oddly named files it died on before.
408 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
413 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
416 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
418 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
423 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
426 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
427 that don't always have the same files in them.
428 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
429 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
430 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
434 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
436 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
438 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
439 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
440 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
441 updating 27 man pages.
442 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
443 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
444 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
445 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
446 programs act on. (#25247)
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
450 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
454 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
455 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
456 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
457 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
458 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
459 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
464 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
471 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
478 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
481 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
485 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
491 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
493 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
494 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
495 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
496 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
497 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
499 * Is version 1.0 next?
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
503 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
506 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
507 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
511 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
513 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
514 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
515 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
516 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
517 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
518 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
520 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
525 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
528 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
529 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
533 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
536 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
540 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
543 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
544 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
549 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
555 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
558 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
559 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
564 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
570 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
572 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
573 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
574 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
575 past week. Thanks, guys!
577 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
578 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
579 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
580 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
581 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
582 would do in the same situation.
583 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
584 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
586 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
588 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
590 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
591 some people enjoy changing root's name.
592 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
593 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
594 files are treated identically.
595 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
596 * Minor man page fixes.
597 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
598 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
599 --no-act is on. (#23054)
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
603 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
605 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
606 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
607 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
608 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
609 use -X multiple times, too.
610 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
611 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
615 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
618 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
619 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
623 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
626 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
630 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
633 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
634 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
635 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
636 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
637 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
638 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
639 shape if you're starting a new package.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
643 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
646 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
650 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
653 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
654 because of missing symlinks.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
658 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
664 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
667 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
668 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
669 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
670 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
671 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
673 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
674 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
678 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
680 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
681 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
682 to be changed after the fact :-)
683 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
687 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
689 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
690 no version string after the -V.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
694 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
696 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
697 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
702 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
705 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
709 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
712 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
713 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
714 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
715 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
716 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
717 I always welcome corrections!
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
721 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
727 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
730 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
731 * Documented this new switch.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
735 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
738 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
739 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
740 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
741 no packages use the old behavior.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
745 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
748 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
749 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
753 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
756 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
760 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
766 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
769 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
773 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
775 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
776 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
777 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
778 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
782 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
788 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
791 into the source package by accident.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
795 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
798 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
799 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
800 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
801 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
802 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
803 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
808 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
812 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
813 inspired to implement some of it.
814 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
818 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
821 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
825 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
828 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
829 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
833 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
836 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
841 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
847 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
853 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
856 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
860 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
863 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
864 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
868 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
871 argument processor in perl.
872 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
873 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
874 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
875 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
879 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
882 type directories. (#16933)
883 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
884 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
885 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
886 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
887 are supported. (#16935)
888 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
893 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
896 This has been broken since version 0.30.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
900 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
904 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
905 version requirements in the shlibs file.
906 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
907 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
908 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
909 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
913 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
916 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
917 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
919 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
920 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
921 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
922 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
923 a given package, or -i or -a.
924 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
925 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
926 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
927 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
928 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
929 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
930 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
931 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
932 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
934 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
935 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
936 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
940 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
943 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
944 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
949 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
952 does not have a section.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
956 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
959 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
960 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
961 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
965 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
971 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
973 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
974 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
975 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
976 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
977 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
978 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
983 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
986 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
987 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
988 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
993 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
999 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1005 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1008 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1009 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1010 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1011 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1012 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1013 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1017 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1023 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1026 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1030 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1033 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1034 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1035 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1039 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1042 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1046 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1052 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1055 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1059 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1062 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1066 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1072 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1075 postinst, postrm, etc.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1079 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1085 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1088 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1089 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1090 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1091 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1092 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1096 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1099 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1100 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1104 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1107 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1111 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1114 installing package files into.
1115 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1120 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1124 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1128 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1134 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1137 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1141 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1144 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1145 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1146 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1147 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1151 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1153 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1154 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1155 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1156 multiple binary packages.
1157 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1158 should rebuild them with this version.
1159 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1163 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1166 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1170 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1173 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1177 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1180 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1181 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1182 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1183 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1184 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1185 debian/README.debian.
1186 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1187 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1188 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1189 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1190 in a few situations.)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1194 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1200 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1206 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1209 * Fixed several man pages.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1213 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1216 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1217 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1221 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1224 is ready for general use.
1225 * Added man pages for all commands.
1226 * Multiple binary package support.
1227 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1228 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1229 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1231 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1232 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1233 auto-installed as parameters.
1234 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1236 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1239 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1240 the package build directory it is to act on.
1241 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1242 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1243 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1247 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1249 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1250 ready to replace debstd.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400