1 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5 for the dependancies to be generated.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
9 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
12 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
19 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
20 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
21 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
26 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
29 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
30 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
34 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
40 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
46 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
49 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
53 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
59 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
61 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
62 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
63 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
64 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
65 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
66 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
67 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
68 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
69 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
70 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
71 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
72 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
73 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
79 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
80 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
81 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
83 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
84 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
85 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
86 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
87 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
88 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
90 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
91 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
95 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
98 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
109 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
111 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
112 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
120 for building debhelper.
121 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fixed makefile commit target.
135 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
142 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
143 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
144 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
145 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
146 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
147 it's always available.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
154 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
155 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
156 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
160 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
163 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
164 modules. (Closes: #42171)
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
174 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
177 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
187 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
190 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
191 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
192 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
199 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
207 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
208 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
210 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
211 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
227 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
229 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
230 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
237 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
238 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
240 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
247 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
248 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
249 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
256 things if CDPATH is set.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
269 seems to make sense for the transition.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
276 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
284 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
285 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
292 that version. (Closes: #40589)
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
298 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
299 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
300 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
301 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
302 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
306 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
315 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
316 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
317 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
318 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
319 * debhelper.1: documented this.
320 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
321 current compatability level is equal to that number.
322 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
323 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
324 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
329 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
331 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
332 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
333 * README: mention doc/v2
334 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
335 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
339 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
341 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
342 be using this script RSN.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
349 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
350 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
351 more than 1 init script.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
355 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
358 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
362 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Changed perl version detection.
365 * Changed call to find.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
372 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
374 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
379 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Really include dh_installpam.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
385 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
388 * Wrote man page for same.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
395 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
396 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
408 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
411 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
412 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
413 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
418 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
421 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
422 well. (Closes: 38900)
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
429 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
430 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
434 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
440 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
447 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
453 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
455 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
456 help from Julian Gilbey.
457 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
458 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
459 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
460 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
461 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
462 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
463 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
474 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
476 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
487 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
493 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
496 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
503 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
507 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
510 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
514 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
520 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
523 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
527 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
529 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
533 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
535 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
539 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
542 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
543 may be deleted. (#35845)
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
547 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Various man page enhancements.
550 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
555 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
558 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
559 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
563 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
566 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
567 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
568 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
570 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
571 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
576 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
582 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Another very minor typo fix.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
588 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Very minor typo fix.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
594 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
597 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
598 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
602 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
608 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
610 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
611 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
612 variables properly (#34850).
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
616 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
618 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
622 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
625 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
626 (automatically generated by build process).
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
630 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
632 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
636 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
639 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
640 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
642 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
646 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
649 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
655 * README: minor typo fix.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
662 leave it at that. :-)
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
666 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
672 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
678 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
681 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
682 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
683 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
690 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
694 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
697 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
704 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
705 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
706 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
707 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
711 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
714 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
715 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
716 Craig Small for spotting this.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
720 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
723 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
724 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
728 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
734 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
737 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
741 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
743 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
744 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
745 working on the last version of debhelper.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
758 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
765 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
769 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
771 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
772 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
773 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
774 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
775 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
779 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
782 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
783 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
784 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
785 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
787 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
788 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
790 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
795 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
797 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
801 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
810 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
811 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
812 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
813 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
814 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
815 suidregister actually supports it.
816 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
817 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
821 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
828 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
831 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
832 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
833 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
834 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
835 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
836 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
837 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
841 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
843 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
844 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
848 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
851 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
852 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
853 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
854 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
861 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
863 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
864 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
865 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
866 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
867 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
868 effect, either. (#30118)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
881 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
882 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
886 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Spelling and typo fixes.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
892 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
894 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
895 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
896 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
897 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
898 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
905 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
906 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
912 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
919 packages, painlessly.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
935 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
941 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
943 * The perl conversion is complete.
945 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
947 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
948 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
949 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
954 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
957 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
958 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
959 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
966 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
968 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
970 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
971 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
975 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
978 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
979 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
989 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
991 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
992 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
993 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
994 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
995 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
996 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1000 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1003 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1004 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1005 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1006 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1010 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1013 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1017 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1020 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1021 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1022 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1023 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1024 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1025 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1026 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1027 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1031 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1040 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1041 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1042 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1047 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1050 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1054 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1057 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1061 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1064 sections of shared libraries.
1065 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1066 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1067 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1068 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1069 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1070 things you don't want them to.
1071 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1072 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1076 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1079 shared libraries. (#26414)
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1083 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1085 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1086 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1087 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1088 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1096 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1098 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1099 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1100 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1101 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1102 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1106 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1109 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1113 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1116 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1117 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1125 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1132 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1133 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1134 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1135 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1136 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1138 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1139 remove debian/files properly.
1140 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1141 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1142 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1143 * Removed bogus menu file.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1147 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1150 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1157 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1158 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1159 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1160 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1161 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1162 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1166 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1169 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1170 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1171 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1172 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1176 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1183 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1186 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1187 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1189 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1190 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1191 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1192 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1193 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1194 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1201 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1202 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1203 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1204 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1205 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1206 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1207 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1208 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1209 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1210 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1211 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1212 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1213 passed any switches.
1214 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1221 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1222 at all for a long while.
1223 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1224 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1225 large chunks in the process.
1226 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1227 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1228 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1233 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1236 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1238 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1246 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1247 that don't always have the same files in them.
1248 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1249 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1250 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1254 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1258 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1259 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1260 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1261 updating 27 man pages.
1262 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1263 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1264 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1265 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1266 programs act on. (#25247)
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1270 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1274 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1275 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1276 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1277 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1278 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1279 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1284 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1291 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1298 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1301 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1305 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1311 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1314 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1315 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1316 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1317 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1318 package by accident.
1319 * Is version 1.0 next?
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1323 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1326 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1327 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1331 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1334 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1335 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1336 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1337 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1338 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1340 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1345 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1348 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1349 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1353 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1356 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1360 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1363 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1364 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1375 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1378 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1379 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1384 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1390 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1393 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1394 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1395 past week. Thanks, guys!
1397 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1398 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1399 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1400 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1401 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1402 would do in the same situation.
1403 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1404 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1406 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1408 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1409 permissions changed.
1410 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1411 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1412 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1413 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1414 files are treated identically.
1415 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1416 * Minor man page fixes.
1417 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1418 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1419 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1423 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1426 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1427 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1428 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1429 use -X multiple times, too.
1430 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1431 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1435 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1438 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1439 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1443 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1446 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1450 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1453 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1454 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1455 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1456 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1457 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1458 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1459 shape if you're starting a new package.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1463 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1466 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1470 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1473 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1474 because of missing symlinks.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1478 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1484 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1487 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1488 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1489 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1490 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1491 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1493 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1494 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1498 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1500 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1501 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1502 to be changed after the fact :-)
1503 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1510 no version string after the -V.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1516 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1517 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1525 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1532 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1533 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1534 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1535 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1536 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1537 I always welcome corrections!
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1541 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1547 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1550 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1551 * Documented this new switch.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1555 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1558 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1559 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1560 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1561 no packages use the old behavior.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1565 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1568 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1569 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1573 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1576 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1580 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1586 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1589 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1596 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1597 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1598 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1602 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1608 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1611 into the source package by accident.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1615 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1618 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1619 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1620 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1621 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1622 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1623 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1628 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1632 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1633 inspired to implement some of it.
1634 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1638 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1641 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1645 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1648 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1649 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1653 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1656 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1657 have done.) (#17598)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1661 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1667 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1673 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1676 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1680 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1683 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1684 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1688 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1691 argument processor in perl.
1692 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1693 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1694 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1695 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1699 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1702 type directories. (#16933)
1703 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1704 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1705 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1706 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1707 are supported. (#16935)
1708 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1713 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1716 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1720 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1724 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1725 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1726 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1727 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1728 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1729 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1733 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1736 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1737 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1739 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1740 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1741 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1742 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1743 a given package, or -i or -a.
1744 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1745 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1746 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1747 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1748 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1749 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1750 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1751 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1752 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1754 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1755 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1756 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1760 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1763 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1764 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1769 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1772 does not have a section.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1779 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1780 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1781 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1785 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Fixed typo #16215.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1791 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1794 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1795 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1796 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1797 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1798 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1803 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1806 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1807 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1808 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1813 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1819 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1825 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1828 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1829 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1830 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1831 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1832 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1833 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1837 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1843 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1846 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1850 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1853 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1854 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1855 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1859 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1862 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1872 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1875 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1879 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1882 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1886 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1892 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1895 postinst, postrm, etc.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1899 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1905 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1908 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1909 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1910 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1911 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1912 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1916 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1919 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1920 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1924 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1927 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1931 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1934 installing package files into.
1935 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1940 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1944 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1948 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1954 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1957 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1961 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1964 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1965 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1966 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1967 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1971 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1973 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1974 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1975 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1976 multiple binary packages.
1977 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1978 should rebuild them with this version.
1979 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1983 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1986 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1990 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1993 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1997 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2000 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2001 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2002 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2003 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2004 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2005 debian/README.debian.
2006 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2007 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2008 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2009 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2010 in a few situations.)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2014 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2020 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2026 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2029 * Fixed several man pages.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2033 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2036 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2037 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2041 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2044 is ready for general use.
2045 * Added man pages for all commands.
2046 * Multiple binary package support.
2047 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2048 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2049 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2051 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2052 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2053 auto-installed as parameters.
2054 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2056 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2059 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2060 the package build directory it is to act on.
2061 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2062 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2063 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2067 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2069 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2070 ready to replace debstd.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400