1 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
10 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
11 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
19 for building debhelper.
20 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
24 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Fixed makefile commit target.
34 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
41 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
42 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
43 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
44 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
45 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
46 it's always available.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
53 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
54 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
55 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
59 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
62 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
63 modules. (Closes: #42171)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
76 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
89 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
90 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
91 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
95 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
98 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
103 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
106 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
107 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
109 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
110 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
114 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
120 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
128 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
129 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
136 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
137 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
139 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
146 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
147 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
148 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
155 things if CDPATH is set.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
168 seems to make sense for the transition.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
175 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
183 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
184 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
191 that version. (Closes: #40589)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
197 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
198 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
199 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
200 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
201 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
214 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
215 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
216 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
217 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
218 * debhelper.1: documented this.
219 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
220 current compatability level is equal to that number.
221 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
222 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
223 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
228 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
230 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
231 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
232 * README: mention doc/v2
233 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
234 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
238 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
240 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
241 be using this script RSN.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
245 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
248 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
249 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
250 more than 1 init script.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
254 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
257 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
261 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Changed perl version detection.
264 * Changed call to find.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
268 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
271 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
273 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
278 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Really include dh_installpam.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
284 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
287 * Wrote man page for same.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
291 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
294 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
295 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
300 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
307 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
310 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
311 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
312 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
317 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
320 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
321 well. (Closes: 38900)
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
325 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
328 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
329 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
333 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
339 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
352 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
354 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
355 help from Julian Gilbey.
356 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
357 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
358 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
359 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
360 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
361 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
362 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
367 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
373 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
375 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
380 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
386 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
395 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
399 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
402 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
406 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
409 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
413 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
419 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
422 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
428 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
432 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
434 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
441 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
442 may be deleted. (#35845)
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
446 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Various man page enhancements.
449 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
454 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
457 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
458 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
465 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
466 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
467 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
469 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
470 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
481 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Another very minor typo fix.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
487 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Very minor typo fix.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
493 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
496 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
497 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
501 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
507 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
509 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
510 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
511 variables properly (#34850).
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
515 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
517 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
521 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
524 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
525 (automatically generated by build process).
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
529 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
531 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
535 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
538 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
539 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
541 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
545 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
548 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
552 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
554 * README: minor typo fix.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
558 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
561 leave it at that. :-)
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
565 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
571 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
577 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
580 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
581 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
582 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
586 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
589 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
593 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
596 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
600 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
603 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
604 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
605 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
606 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
610 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
613 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
614 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
615 Craig Small for spotting this.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
619 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
622 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
623 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
627 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
636 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
640 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
642 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
643 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
644 working on the last version of debhelper.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
648 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
655 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
657 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
661 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
664 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
668 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
670 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
671 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
672 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
673 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
674 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
678 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
681 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
682 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
683 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
684 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
686 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
687 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
689 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
694 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
696 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
700 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
706 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
709 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
710 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
711 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
712 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
713 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
714 suidregister actually supports it.
715 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
716 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
720 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
727 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
730 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
731 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
732 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
733 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
734 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
735 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
736 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
740 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
742 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
743 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
747 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
750 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
751 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
752 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
753 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
757 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
760 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
762 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
763 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
764 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
765 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
766 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
767 effect, either. (#30118)
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
780 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
781 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
785 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Spelling and typo fixes.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
793 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
794 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
795 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
796 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
797 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
801 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
804 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
805 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
809 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
811 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
815 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
818 packages, painlessly.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
822 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
828 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
842 * The perl conversion is complete.
844 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
846 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
847 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
848 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
856 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
857 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
858 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
862 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
865 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
867 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
869 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
870 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
874 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
877 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
878 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
882 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
888 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
890 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
891 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
892 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
893 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
894 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
895 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
899 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
902 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
903 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
904 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
905 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
909 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
912 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
916 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
919 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
920 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
921 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
922 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
923 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
924 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
925 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
926 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
930 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
936 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
939 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
940 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
941 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
946 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
949 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
953 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
956 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
960 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
963 sections of shared libraries.
964 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
965 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
966 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
967 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
968 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
969 things you don't want them to.
970 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
971 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
975 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
978 shared libraries. (#26414)
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
982 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
984 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
985 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
986 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
987 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
991 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
995 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
997 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
998 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
999 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1000 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1001 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1005 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1008 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1015 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1016 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1021 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1024 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1031 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1032 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1033 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1034 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1035 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1037 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1038 remove debian/files properly.
1039 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1040 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1041 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1042 * Removed bogus menu file.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1049 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1056 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1057 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1058 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1059 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1060 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1061 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1065 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1068 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1069 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1070 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1071 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1085 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1086 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1088 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1089 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1090 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1091 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1092 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1093 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1097 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1100 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1101 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1102 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1103 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1104 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1105 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1106 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1107 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1108 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1109 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1110 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1111 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1112 passed any switches.
1113 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1120 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1121 at all for a long while.
1122 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1123 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1124 large chunks in the process.
1125 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1126 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1127 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1135 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1137 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1145 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1146 that don't always have the same files in them.
1147 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1148 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1149 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1153 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1157 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1158 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1159 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1160 updating 27 man pages.
1161 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1162 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1163 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1164 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1165 programs act on. (#25247)
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1169 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1173 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1174 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1175 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1176 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1177 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1178 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1183 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1190 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1197 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1200 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1204 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1210 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1213 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1214 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1215 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1216 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1217 package by accident.
1218 * Is version 1.0 next?
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1222 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1225 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1226 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1230 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1233 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1234 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1235 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1236 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1237 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1239 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1244 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1247 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1248 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1252 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1255 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1262 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1263 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1268 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1274 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1277 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1278 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1283 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1289 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1292 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1293 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1294 past week. Thanks, guys!
1296 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1297 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1298 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1299 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1300 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1301 would do in the same situation.
1302 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1303 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1305 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1307 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1308 permissions changed.
1309 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1310 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1311 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1312 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1313 files are treated identically.
1314 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1315 * Minor man page fixes.
1316 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1317 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1318 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1322 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1325 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1326 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1327 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1328 use -X multiple times, too.
1329 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1330 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1334 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1337 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1338 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1342 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1345 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1349 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1352 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1353 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1354 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1355 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1356 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1357 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1358 shape if you're starting a new package.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1362 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1365 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1372 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1373 because of missing symlinks.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1377 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1383 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1386 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1387 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1388 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1389 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1390 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1392 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1393 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1397 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1399 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1400 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1401 to be changed after the fact :-)
1402 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1406 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1409 no version string after the -V.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1413 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1415 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1416 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1421 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1424 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1428 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1431 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1432 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1433 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1434 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1435 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1436 I always welcome corrections!
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1440 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1446 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1449 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1450 * Documented this new switch.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1454 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1457 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1458 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1459 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1460 no packages use the old behavior.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1464 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1467 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1468 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1472 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1475 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1479 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1485 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1488 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1495 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1496 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1497 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1501 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1510 into the source package by accident.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1517 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1518 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1519 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1520 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1521 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1522 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1527 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1531 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1532 inspired to implement some of it.
1533 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1537 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1540 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1544 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1547 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1548 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1552 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1555 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1556 have done.) (#17598)
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1560 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1566 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1572 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1575 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1579 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1582 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1583 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1587 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1590 argument processor in perl.
1591 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1592 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1593 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1594 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1598 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1601 type directories. (#16933)
1602 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1603 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1604 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1605 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1606 are supported. (#16935)
1607 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1612 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1615 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1619 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1623 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1624 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1625 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1626 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1627 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1628 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1632 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1635 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1636 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1638 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1639 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1640 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1641 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1642 a given package, or -i or -a.
1643 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1644 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1645 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1646 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1647 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1648 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1649 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1650 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1651 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1653 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1654 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1655 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1659 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1662 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1663 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1668 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1671 does not have a section.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1678 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1679 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1680 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1684 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fixed typo #16215.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1690 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1693 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1694 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1695 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1696 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1697 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1702 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1705 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1706 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1707 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1712 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1724 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1727 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1728 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1729 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1730 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1731 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1732 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1736 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1742 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1745 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1749 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1752 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1753 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1754 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1758 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1761 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1765 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1771 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1774 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1781 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1785 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1791 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1794 postinst, postrm, etc.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1804 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1807 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1808 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1809 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1810 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1811 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1815 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1818 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1819 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1823 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1826 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1830 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1833 installing package files into.
1834 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1839 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1843 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1853 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1856 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1860 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1863 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1864 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1865 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1866 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1870 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1872 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1873 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1874 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1875 multiple binary packages.
1876 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1877 should rebuild them with this version.
1878 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1882 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1885 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1889 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1892 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1896 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1899 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1900 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1901 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1902 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1903 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1904 debian/README.debian.
1905 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1906 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1907 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1908 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1909 in a few situations.)
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1913 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1919 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1925 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1928 * Fixed several man pages.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1932 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1935 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1936 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1940 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1943 is ready for general use.
1944 * Added man pages for all commands.
1945 * Multiple binary package support.
1946 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1947 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1948 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1950 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1951 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1952 auto-installed as parameters.
1953 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1955 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1958 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1959 the package build directory it is to act on.
1960 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1961 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1962 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1966 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1968 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1969 ready to replace debstd.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400