1 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
8 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
11 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
15 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
18 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
19 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
20 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
21 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
25 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
28 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
29 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
30 Craig Small for spotting this.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
34 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
37 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
38 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
42 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
48 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
51 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
55 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
57 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
58 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
59 working on the last version of debhelper.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
63 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
70 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
72 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
76 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
79 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
83 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
85 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
86 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
87 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
88 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
89 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
93 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
96 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
97 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
98 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
99 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
101 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
102 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
104 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
109 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
111 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
115 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
121 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
124 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
125 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
126 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
127 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
128 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
129 suidregister actually supports it.
130 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
131 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
135 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
142 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
145 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
146 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
147 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
148 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
149 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
150 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
151 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
155 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
157 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
158 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
162 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
165 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
166 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
167 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
168 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
172 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
175 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
177 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
178 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
179 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
180 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
181 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
182 effect, either. (#30118)
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
186 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
192 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
195 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
196 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
200 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Spelling and typo fixes.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
206 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
208 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
209 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
210 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
211 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
212 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
216 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
219 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
220 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
224 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
226 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
230 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
233 packages, painlessly.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
237 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
243 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
249 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
255 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
257 * The perl conversion is complete.
259 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
261 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
262 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
263 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
268 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
271 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
272 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
273 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
277 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
280 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
282 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
284 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
285 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
289 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
292 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
293 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
297 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
303 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
305 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
306 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
307 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
308 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
309 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
310 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
314 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
317 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
318 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
319 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
320 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
324 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
327 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
331 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
334 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
335 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
336 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
337 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
338 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
339 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
340 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
341 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
345 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
351 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
354 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
355 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
356 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
361 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
364 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
368 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
371 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
375 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
378 sections of shared libraries.
379 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
380 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
381 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
382 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
383 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
384 things you don't want them to.
385 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
386 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
390 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
393 shared libraries. (#26414)
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
397 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
399 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
400 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
401 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
402 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
406 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
410 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
412 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
413 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
414 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
415 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
416 the program to not fail. (#26214)
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
420 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
423 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
427 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
430 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
431 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
436 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
439 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
443 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
445 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
446 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
447 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
448 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
449 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
450 I apologize for the inconvenience.
452 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
453 remove debian/files properly.
454 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
455 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
456 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
457 * Removed bogus menu file.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
461 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
464 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
468 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
471 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
472 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
473 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
474 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
475 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
476 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
480 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
482 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
483 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
484 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
485 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
486 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
490 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
497 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
500 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
501 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
503 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
504 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
505 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
506 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
507 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
508 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
512 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
515 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
516 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
517 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
518 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
519 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
520 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
521 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
522 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
523 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
524 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
525 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
526 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
528 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
532 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
535 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
536 at all for a long while.
537 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
538 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
539 large chunks in the process.
540 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
541 install many oddly named files it died on before.
542 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
547 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
550 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
552 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
557 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
560 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
561 that don't always have the same files in them.
562 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
563 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
564 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
568 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
570 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
572 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
573 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
574 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
575 updating 27 man pages.
576 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
577 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
578 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
579 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
580 programs act on. (#25247)
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
584 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
588 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
589 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
590 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
591 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
592 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
593 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
598 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
605 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
612 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
615 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
619 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
625 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
627 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
628 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
629 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
630 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
631 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
633 * Is version 1.0 next?
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
637 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
640 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
641 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
645 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
647 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
648 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
649 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
650 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
651 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
652 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
654 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
659 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
662 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
663 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
667 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
670 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
674 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
677 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
678 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
683 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
689 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
692 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
693 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
698 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
704 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
706 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
707 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
708 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
709 past week. Thanks, guys!
711 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
712 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
713 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
714 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
715 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
716 would do in the same situation.
717 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
718 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
720 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
722 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
724 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
725 some people enjoy changing root's name.
726 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
727 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
728 files are treated identically.
729 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
730 * Minor man page fixes.
731 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
732 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
733 --no-act is on. (#23054)
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
737 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
739 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
740 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
741 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
742 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
743 use -X multiple times, too.
744 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
745 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
749 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
752 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
753 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
757 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
760 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
764 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
767 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
768 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
769 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
770 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
771 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
772 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
773 shape if you're starting a new package.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
777 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
780 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
784 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
787 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
788 because of missing symlinks.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
792 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
798 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
801 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
802 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
803 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
804 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
805 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
807 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
808 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
812 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
814 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
815 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
816 to be changed after the fact :-)
817 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
821 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
824 no version string after the -V.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
828 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
830 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
831 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
836 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
839 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
843 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
846 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
847 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
848 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
849 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
850 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
851 I always welcome corrections!
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
855 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
861 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
864 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
865 * Documented this new switch.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
869 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
872 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
873 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
874 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
875 no packages use the old behavior.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
879 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
882 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
883 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
887 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
890 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
894 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
900 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
903 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
907 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
909 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
910 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
911 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
912 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
916 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
922 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
925 into the source package by accident.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
929 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
932 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
933 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
934 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
935 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
936 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
937 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
942 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
946 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
947 inspired to implement some of it.
948 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
952 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
955 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
959 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
962 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
963 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
967 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
970 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
975 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
981 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
987 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
990 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
994 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
997 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
998 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1002 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1005 argument processor in perl.
1006 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1007 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1008 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1009 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1013 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1016 type directories. (#16933)
1017 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1018 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1019 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1020 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1021 are supported. (#16935)
1022 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1027 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1030 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1034 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1038 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1039 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1040 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1041 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1042 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1043 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1047 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1050 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1051 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1053 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1054 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1055 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1056 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1057 a given package, or -i or -a.
1058 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1059 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1060 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1061 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1062 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1063 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1064 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1065 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1066 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1068 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1069 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1070 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1074 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1077 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1078 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1083 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1086 does not have a section.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1090 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1093 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1094 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1095 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1099 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Fixed typo #16215.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1105 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1108 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1109 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1110 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1111 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1112 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1117 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1120 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1121 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1122 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1127 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1133 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1139 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1142 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1143 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1144 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1145 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1146 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1147 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1151 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1157 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1160 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1164 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1167 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1168 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1169 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1173 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1176 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1180 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1186 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1189 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1193 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1196 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1200 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1206 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1209 postinst, postrm, etc.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1213 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1219 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1222 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1223 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1224 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1225 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1226 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1230 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1233 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1234 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1238 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1241 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1245 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1248 installing package files into.
1249 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1254 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1258 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1262 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1268 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1271 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1275 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1278 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1279 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1280 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1281 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1285 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1287 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1288 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1289 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1290 multiple binary packages.
1291 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1292 should rebuild them with this version.
1293 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1297 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1300 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1304 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1307 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1311 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1314 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1315 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1316 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1317 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1318 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1319 debian/README.debian.
1320 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1321 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1322 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1323 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1324 in a few situations.)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1328 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1334 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1340 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1343 * Fixed several man pages.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1347 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1350 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1351 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1355 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1358 is ready for general use.
1359 * Added man pages for all commands.
1360 * Multiple binary package support.
1361 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1362 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1363 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1365 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1366 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1367 auto-installed as parameters.
1368 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1370 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1373 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1374 the package build directory it is to act on.
1375 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1376 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1377 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1381 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1383 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1384 ready to replace debstd.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400