1 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4 right place. Closes: #55065
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
8 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
15 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Make all examples rules files executable.
18 * Copyright date updates.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
22 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
25 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
30 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
36 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
43 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
49 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
55 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
61 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
64 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
65 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
66 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
67 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
68 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
69 bits until all files have been registered.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
73 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
76 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
77 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
78 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
79 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
80 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
81 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
82 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
83 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
84 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
85 otherwise change the result at all.
87 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
88 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
89 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
90 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
91 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
96 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
102 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
105 act on files that don't exist.
106 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
107 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
108 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
110 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
111 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
112 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
113 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
117 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
123 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
129 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
132 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
136 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
139 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
141 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
142 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
143 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
147 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
150 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
151 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
152 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
153 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
154 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
155 does not compress. Closes: #41733
156 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
158 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
160 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
164 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
171 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
186 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
205 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
206 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
207 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
208 I made some changes, though:
209 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
210 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
211 that is a clear violation of policy.
212 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
213 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
214 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
215 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
216 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
217 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
218 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
219 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
220 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
222 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
235 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
242 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
243 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
264 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
265 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
266 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
267 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
268 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
269 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
270 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
284 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
285 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
298 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
302 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
305 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
306 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
312 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
321 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
325 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
327 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
328 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
329 for the dependancies to be generated.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
336 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
343 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
344 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
345 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
350 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
353 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
354 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
358 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
364 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
373 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
377 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
385 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
386 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
387 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
388 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
389 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
390 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
391 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
392 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
393 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
394 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
395 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
396 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
397 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
403 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
404 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
405 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
407 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
408 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
409 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
410 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
411 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
412 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
414 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
415 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
422 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
433 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
435 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
436 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
444 for building debhelper.
445 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed makefile commit target.
459 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
466 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
467 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
468 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
469 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
470 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
471 it's always available.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
478 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
479 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
480 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
487 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
488 modules. (Closes: #42171)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
492 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
501 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
514 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
515 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
516 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
523 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
531 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
532 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
534 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
535 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
539 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
553 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
554 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
561 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
562 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
564 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
568 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
571 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
572 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
573 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
580 things if CDPATH is set.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
593 seems to make sense for the transition.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
600 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
605 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
608 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
609 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
613 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
616 that version. (Closes: #40589)
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
620 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
622 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
623 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
624 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
625 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
626 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
636 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
639 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
640 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
641 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
642 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
643 * debhelper.1: documented this.
644 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
645 current compatability level is equal to that number.
646 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
647 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
648 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
653 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
655 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
656 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
657 * README: mention doc/v2
658 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
659 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
663 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
665 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
666 be using this script RSN.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
670 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
673 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
674 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
675 more than 1 init script.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
679 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
682 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
686 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Changed perl version detection.
689 * Changed call to find.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
693 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
696 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
698 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
703 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Really include dh_installpam.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
709 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
712 * Wrote man page for same.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
719 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
720 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
725 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
732 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
735 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
736 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
737 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
742 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
745 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
746 well. (Closes: 38900)
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
750 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
753 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
754 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
758 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
764 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
771 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
777 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
779 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
780 help from Julian Gilbey.
781 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
782 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
783 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
784 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
785 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
786 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
787 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
792 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
798 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
800 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
805 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
811 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
817 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
820 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
824 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
827 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
831 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
834 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
838 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
844 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
847 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
851 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
853 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
857 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
859 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
863 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
866 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
867 may be deleted. (#35845)
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
871 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Various man page enhancements.
874 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
879 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
882 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
883 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
887 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
890 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
891 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
892 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
894 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
895 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
900 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
906 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Another very minor typo fix.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
912 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Very minor typo fix.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
918 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
921 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
922 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
926 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
932 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
934 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
935 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
936 variables properly (#34850).
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
940 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
942 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
946 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
949 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
950 (automatically generated by build process).
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
954 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
956 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
960 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
963 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
964 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
966 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
973 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
977 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
979 * README: minor typo fix.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
986 leave it at that. :-)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
996 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1002 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1005 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1006 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1007 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1011 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1014 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1021 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1028 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1029 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1030 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1031 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1035 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1038 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1039 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1040 Craig Small for spotting this.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1044 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1047 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1048 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1052 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1061 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1065 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1067 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1068 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1069 working on the last version of debhelper.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1073 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1076 being made. (#23255)
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1080 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1086 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1089 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1093 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1096 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1097 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1098 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1099 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1103 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1106 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1107 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1108 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1109 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1111 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1112 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1114 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1119 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1125 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1134 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1135 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1136 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1137 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1138 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1139 suidregister actually supports it.
1140 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1141 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1145 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1152 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1155 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1156 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1157 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1158 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1159 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1160 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1161 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1165 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1167 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1168 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1175 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1176 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1177 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1178 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1182 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1185 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1187 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1188 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1189 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1190 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1191 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1192 effect, either. (#30118)
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1196 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1202 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1205 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1206 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1210 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1216 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1219 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1220 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1221 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1222 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1229 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1230 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1234 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1240 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1243 packages, painlessly.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1265 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * The perl conversion is complete.
1269 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1271 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1272 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1273 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1281 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1282 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1283 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1287 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1290 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1292 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1294 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1295 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1302 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1303 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1307 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1313 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1316 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1317 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1318 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1319 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1320 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1324 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1327 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1328 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1329 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1330 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1334 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1337 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1341 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1344 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1345 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1346 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1347 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1348 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1349 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1350 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1351 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1355 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1361 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1364 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1365 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1366 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1371 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1374 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1381 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1385 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1388 sections of shared libraries.
1389 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1390 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1391 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1392 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1393 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1394 things you don't want them to.
1395 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1396 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1400 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1403 shared libraries. (#26414)
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1407 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1409 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1410 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1411 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1412 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1420 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1422 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1423 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1424 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1425 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1426 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1433 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1437 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1440 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1441 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1449 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1456 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1457 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1458 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1459 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1460 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1462 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1463 remove debian/files properly.
1464 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1465 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1466 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1467 * Removed bogus menu file.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1474 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1478 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1481 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1482 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1483 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1484 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1485 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1486 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1493 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1494 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1495 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1496 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1510 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1511 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1513 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1514 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1515 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1516 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1517 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1518 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1525 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1526 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1527 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1528 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1529 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1530 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1531 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1532 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1533 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1534 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1535 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1536 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1537 passed any switches.
1538 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1545 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1546 at all for a long while.
1547 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1548 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1549 large chunks in the process.
1550 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1551 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1552 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1560 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1562 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1570 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1571 that don't always have the same files in them.
1572 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1573 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1574 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1578 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1582 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1583 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1584 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1585 updating 27 man pages.
1586 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1587 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1588 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1589 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1590 programs act on. (#25247)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1598 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1599 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1600 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1601 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1602 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1603 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1608 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1615 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1622 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1625 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1629 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1635 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1638 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1639 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1640 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1641 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1642 package by accident.
1643 * Is version 1.0 next?
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1647 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1650 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1651 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1655 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1658 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1659 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1660 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1661 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1662 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1664 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1669 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1672 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1673 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1677 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1680 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1684 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1687 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1688 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1693 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1699 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1702 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1703 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1708 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1714 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1717 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1718 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1719 past week. Thanks, guys!
1721 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1722 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1723 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1724 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1725 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1726 would do in the same situation.
1727 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1728 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1730 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1732 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1733 permissions changed.
1734 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1735 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1736 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1737 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1738 files are treated identically.
1739 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1740 * Minor man page fixes.
1741 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1742 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1743 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1747 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1750 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1751 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1752 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1753 use -X multiple times, too.
1754 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1755 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1759 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1762 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1763 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1767 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1770 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1774 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1777 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1778 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1779 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1780 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1781 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1782 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1783 shape if you're starting a new package.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1787 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1790 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1794 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1797 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1798 because of missing symlinks.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1802 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1808 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1811 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1812 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1813 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1814 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1815 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1817 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1818 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1822 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1824 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1825 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1826 to be changed after the fact :-)
1827 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1831 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1834 no version string after the -V.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1838 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1840 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1841 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1846 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1849 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1853 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1856 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1857 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1858 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1859 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1860 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1861 I always welcome corrections!
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1865 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1871 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1874 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1875 * Documented this new switch.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1879 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1882 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1883 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1884 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1885 no packages use the old behavior.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1889 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1892 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1893 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1897 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1900 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1904 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1910 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1913 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1920 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1921 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1922 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1926 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1932 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1935 into the source package by accident.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1939 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1942 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1943 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1944 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1945 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1946 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1947 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1952 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1956 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1957 inspired to implement some of it.
1958 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1962 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1965 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1969 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1972 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1973 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1977 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1980 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1981 have done.) (#17598)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1985 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1997 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2000 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2007 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2008 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2012 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2015 argument processor in perl.
2016 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2017 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2018 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2019 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2023 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2026 type directories. (#16933)
2027 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2028 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2029 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2030 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2031 are supported. (#16935)
2032 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2037 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2040 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2044 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2048 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2049 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2050 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2051 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2052 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2053 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2057 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2060 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2061 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2063 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2064 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2065 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2066 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2067 a given package, or -i or -a.
2068 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2069 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2070 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2071 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2072 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2073 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2074 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2075 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2076 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2078 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2079 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2080 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2084 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2087 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2088 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2093 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2096 does not have a section.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2100 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2103 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2104 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2105 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2109 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fixed typo #16215.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2115 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2118 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2119 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2120 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2121 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2122 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2127 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2130 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2131 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2132 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2137 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2143 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2149 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2152 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2153 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2154 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2155 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2156 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2157 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2161 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2167 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2170 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2174 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2177 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2178 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2179 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2183 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2186 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2190 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2196 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2199 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2203 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2206 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2210 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2216 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2219 postinst, postrm, etc.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2223 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2229 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2232 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2233 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2234 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2235 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2236 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2240 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2243 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2244 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2248 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2251 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2258 installing package files into.
2259 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2264 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2268 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2272 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2278 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2281 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2285 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2288 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2289 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2290 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2291 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2295 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2297 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2298 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2299 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2300 multiple binary packages.
2301 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2302 should rebuild them with this version.
2303 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2307 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2310 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2314 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2317 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2321 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2324 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2325 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2326 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2327 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2328 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2329 debian/README.debian.
2330 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2331 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2332 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2333 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2334 in a few situations.)
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2338 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2344 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2350 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2353 * Fixed several man pages.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2357 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2360 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2361 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2365 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2368 is ready for general use.
2369 * Added man pages for all commands.
2370 * Multiple binary package support.
2371 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2372 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2373 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2375 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2376 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2377 auto-installed as parameters.
2378 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2380 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2383 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2384 the package build directory it is to act on.
2385 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2386 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2387 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2391 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2393 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2394 ready to replace debstd.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400