1 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
8 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
11 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
15 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
17 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
18 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
19 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
23 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
26 they were previously ignored.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
30 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
32 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
33 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
37 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
39 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
40 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
41 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
45 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
47 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
51 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
53 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
54 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
58 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
60 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
61 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
62 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
63 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
64 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
65 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
66 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
67 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
68 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
69 it is an obsolete program.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
73 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
75 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
79 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
83 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
85 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
89 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
91 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
93 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
95 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
99 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
105 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
107 * typo: Closes, #78567
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
111 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
117 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
123 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
126 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
127 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
128 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
129 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
130 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
134 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
137 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
142 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
145 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
146 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
147 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
148 backwards-compatability.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
152 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
154 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
155 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
156 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
157 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
158 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
159 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
160 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
162 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
163 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
164 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
166 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
168 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
169 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
170 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
171 should now be raised to severity important..
172 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
173 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
177 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
180 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
185 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Typo, Closes: #77441
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
191 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Completed the fix from the last version.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
197 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
203 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
205 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
210 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
213 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
214 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
215 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
216 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
220 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
226 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
229 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
230 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
231 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
232 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
233 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
234 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
239 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
242 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
246 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
252 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
255 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
260 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
263 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
264 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
265 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
266 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
270 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
274 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
277 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
280 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
281 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
284 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
286 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
287 the TODO entry about it.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
291 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
298 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
301 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
302 prevent that. Closes: #73052
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
306 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Typo, Closes: #72932
309 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
310 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
311 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
312 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
316 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
322 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
329 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
332 (this appears to be logal).
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
336 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
339 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
340 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
341 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
342 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
346 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
352 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
354 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
355 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
356 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
357 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
358 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
362 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
368 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
371 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
375 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
382 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
385 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
386 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
387 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
392 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
399 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
405 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
407 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
408 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
409 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
410 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
411 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
412 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
413 notice until v2 is complete.
414 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
415 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
416 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
417 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
418 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
419 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
421 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
422 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
423 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
424 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
428 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
444 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
448 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
455 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
458 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
459 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
460 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
461 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
469 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
470 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
471 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
479 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
480 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
487 just skip files that end in -\d+.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
494 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
507 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
508 depend on the build and install targets.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
515 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
519 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
526 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
532 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
538 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
541 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
542 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
543 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
544 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
545 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
546 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
548 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
549 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
550 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
551 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
552 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
553 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
554 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
558 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
564 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
570 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
573 right place. Closes: #55065
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
577 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
584 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Make all examples rules files executable.
587 * Copyright date updates.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
591 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
594 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
599 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
605 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
612 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
618 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
624 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
630 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
633 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
634 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
635 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
636 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
637 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
638 bits until all files have been registered.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
642 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installmanpages:
645 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
646 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
647 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
648 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
649 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
650 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
651 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
652 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
653 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
654 otherwise change the result at all.
656 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
657 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
658 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
659 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
660 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
665 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
671 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
674 act on files that don't exist.
675 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
676 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
677 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
679 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
680 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
681 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
682 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
686 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
692 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
698 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
701 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
705 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
708 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
710 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
711 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
712 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
716 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
719 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
720 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
721 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
722 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
723 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
724 does not compress. Closes: #41733
725 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
727 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
729 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
733 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
740 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
752 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
755 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
759 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
765 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
771 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
774 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
775 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
776 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
777 I made some changes, though:
778 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
779 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
780 that is a clear violation of policy.
781 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
782 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
783 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
784 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
785 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
786 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
787 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
788 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
789 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
791 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
804 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
811 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
812 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
823 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
833 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
834 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
835 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
836 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
837 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
838 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
839 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
843 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
853 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
854 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
864 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
867 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
871 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
874 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
875 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
881 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
886 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
890 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
896 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
897 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
898 for the dependancies to be generated.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
905 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
912 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
913 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
914 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
922 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
923 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
939 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
942 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
946 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
954 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
955 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
956 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
957 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
958 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
959 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
960 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
961 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
962 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
963 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
964 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
965 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
966 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
972 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
973 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
974 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
976 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
977 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
978 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
979 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
980 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
981 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
983 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
984 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
991 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
995 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1005 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1013 for building debhelper.
1014 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1028 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1032 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1035 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1036 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1037 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1038 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1039 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1040 it's always available.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1047 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1048 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1049 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1056 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1057 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1070 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1083 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1084 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1085 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1092 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1097 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1100 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1101 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1103 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1104 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1108 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1123 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1130 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1131 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1133 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1140 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1141 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1142 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1149 things if CDPATH is set.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1162 seems to make sense for the transition.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1169 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1177 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1178 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1185 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1192 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1193 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1194 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1195 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1208 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1209 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1210 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1211 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1212 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1213 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1214 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1215 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1216 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1217 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1222 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1225 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1226 * README: mention doc/v2
1227 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1228 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1232 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1234 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1235 be using this script RSN.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1242 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1243 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1244 more than 1 init script.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1251 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1255 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Changed perl version detection.
1258 * Changed call to find.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1265 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1267 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1272 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Really include dh_installpam.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1281 * Wrote man page for same.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1285 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1288 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1289 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1294 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1304 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1305 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1306 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1307 x bit was being set!
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1314 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1315 well. (Closes: 38900)
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1319 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1322 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1323 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1327 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1333 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1340 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1346 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1349 help from Julian Gilbey.
1350 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1351 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1352 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1353 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1354 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1355 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1356 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1361 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1367 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1374 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1380 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1389 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1396 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1400 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1403 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1407 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1416 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1435 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1436 may be deleted. (#35845)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1440 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Various man page enhancements.
1443 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1448 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1451 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1452 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1456 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1459 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1460 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1461 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1463 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1464 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1475 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Another very minor typo fix.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Very minor typo fix.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1487 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1490 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1491 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1504 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1505 variables properly (#34850).
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1515 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1518 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1519 (automatically generated by build process).
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1523 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1525 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1529 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1532 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1533 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1535 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1539 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1542 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1546 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * README: minor typo fix.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1552 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1555 leave it at that. :-)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1559 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1565 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1571 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1574 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1575 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1576 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1580 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1583 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1587 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1590 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1594 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1597 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1598 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1599 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1600 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1604 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1607 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1608 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1609 Craig Small for spotting this.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1613 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1616 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1617 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1621 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1627 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1630 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1634 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1636 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1637 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1638 working on the last version of debhelper.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1642 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1645 being made. (#23255)
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1649 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1655 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1658 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1662 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1665 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1666 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1667 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1668 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1672 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1675 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1676 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1677 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1678 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1680 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1681 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1683 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1688 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1694 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1700 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1703 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1704 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1705 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1706 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1707 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1708 suidregister actually supports it.
1709 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1710 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1714 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1721 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1724 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1725 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1726 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1727 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1728 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1729 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1730 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1734 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1736 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1737 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1741 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1744 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1745 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1746 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1747 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1754 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1756 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1757 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1758 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1759 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1760 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1761 effect, either. (#30118)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1765 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1771 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1774 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1775 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1785 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1788 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1789 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1790 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1791 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1795 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1798 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1799 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1812 packages, painlessly.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1828 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1834 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * The perl conversion is complete.
1838 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1840 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1841 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1842 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1847 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1850 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1851 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1852 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1856 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1859 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1861 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1863 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1864 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1868 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1871 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1872 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1885 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1886 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1887 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1888 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1889 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1893 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1896 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1897 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1898 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1899 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1903 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1906 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1910 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1913 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1914 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1915 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1916 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1917 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1918 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1919 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1920 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1924 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1930 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1933 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1934 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1935 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1943 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1947 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1950 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1954 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1957 sections of shared libraries.
1958 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1959 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1960 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1961 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1962 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1963 things you don't want them to.
1964 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1965 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1972 shared libraries. (#26414)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1976 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1978 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1979 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1980 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1981 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1989 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1991 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1992 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1993 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1994 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1995 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1999 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2002 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2006 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2009 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2010 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2015 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2018 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2022 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2025 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2026 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2027 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2028 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2029 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2031 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2032 remove debian/files properly.
2033 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2034 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2035 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2036 * Removed bogus menu file.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2040 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2043 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2050 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2051 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2052 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2053 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2054 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2055 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2059 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2062 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2063 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2064 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2065 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2079 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2080 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2083 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2084 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2085 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2086 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2087 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2091 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2094 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2095 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2096 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2097 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2098 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2099 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2100 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2101 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2102 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2103 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2104 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2105 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2106 passed any switches.
2107 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2114 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2115 at all for a long while.
2116 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2117 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2118 large chunks in the process.
2119 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2120 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2121 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2126 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2129 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2131 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2139 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2140 that don't always have the same files in them.
2141 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2142 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2143 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2151 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2152 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2153 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2154 updating 27 man pages.
2155 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2156 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2157 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2158 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2159 programs act on. (#25247)
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2163 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2167 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2168 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2169 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2170 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2171 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2172 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2177 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2184 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2191 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2194 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2198 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2204 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2207 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2208 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2209 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2210 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2211 package by accident.
2212 * Is version 1.0 next?
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2216 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2219 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2220 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2224 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2227 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2228 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2229 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2230 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2231 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2233 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2238 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2241 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2242 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2246 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2249 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2253 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2256 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2257 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2262 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2268 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2271 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2272 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2277 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2283 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2286 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2287 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2288 past week. Thanks, guys!
2290 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2291 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2292 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2293 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2294 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2295 would do in the same situation.
2296 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2297 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2299 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2301 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2302 permissions changed.
2303 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2304 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2305 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2306 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2307 files are treated identically.
2308 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2309 * Minor man page fixes.
2310 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2311 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2312 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2316 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2319 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2320 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2321 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2322 use -X multiple times, too.
2323 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2324 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2328 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2331 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2332 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2336 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2339 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2343 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2346 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2347 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2348 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2349 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2350 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2351 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2352 shape if you're starting a new package.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2356 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2359 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2363 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2366 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2367 because of missing symlinks.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2371 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2377 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2380 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2381 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2382 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2383 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2384 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2386 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2387 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2391 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2393 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2394 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2395 to be changed after the fact :-)
2396 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2400 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2403 no version string after the -V.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2407 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2409 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2410 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2415 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2418 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2422 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2425 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2426 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2427 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2428 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2429 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2430 I always welcome corrections!
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2434 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2440 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2443 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2444 * Documented this new switch.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2448 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2451 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2452 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2453 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2454 no packages use the old behavior.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2458 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2461 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2462 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2466 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2469 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2473 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2479 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2482 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2486 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2489 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2490 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2491 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2495 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2501 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2504 into the source package by accident.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2508 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2511 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2512 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2513 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2514 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2515 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2516 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2521 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2525 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2526 inspired to implement some of it.
2527 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2531 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2534 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2538 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2541 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2542 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2546 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2549 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2550 have done.) (#17598)
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2554 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2560 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2566 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2569 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2573 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2576 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2577 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2581 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2584 argument processor in perl.
2585 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2586 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2587 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2588 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2592 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2595 type directories. (#16933)
2596 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2597 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2598 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2599 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2600 are supported. (#16935)
2601 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2606 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2609 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2613 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2617 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2618 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2619 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2620 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2621 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2622 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2626 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2629 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2630 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2632 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2633 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2634 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2635 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2636 a given package, or -i or -a.
2637 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2638 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2639 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2640 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2641 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2642 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2643 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2644 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2645 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2647 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2648 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2649 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2653 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2656 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2657 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2662 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2665 does not have a section.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2669 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2672 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2673 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2674 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2678 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Fixed typo #16215.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2684 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2687 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2688 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2689 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2690 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2691 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2696 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2699 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2700 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2701 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2706 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2712 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2718 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2721 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2722 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2723 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2724 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2725 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2726 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2730 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2736 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2739 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2743 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2746 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2747 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2748 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2752 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2755 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2759 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2765 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2768 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2772 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2775 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2779 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2785 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2788 postinst, postrm, etc.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2792 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2798 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2801 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2802 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2803 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2804 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2805 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2809 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2812 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2813 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2817 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2820 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2824 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2827 installing package files into.
2828 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2833 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2837 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2841 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2847 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2850 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2854 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2857 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2858 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2859 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2860 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2864 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2866 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2867 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2868 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2869 multiple binary packages.
2870 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2871 should rebuild them with this version.
2872 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2876 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2879 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2883 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2886 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2890 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2893 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2894 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2895 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2896 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2897 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2898 debian/README.debian.
2899 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2900 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2901 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2902 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2903 in a few situations.)
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2907 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2913 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2919 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2922 * Fixed several man pages.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2926 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2929 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2930 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2934 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2937 is ready for general use.
2938 * Added man pages for all commands.
2939 * Multiple binary package support.
2940 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2941 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2942 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2944 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2945 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2946 auto-installed as parameters.
2947 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2949 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2952 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2953 the package build directory it is to act on.
2954 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2955 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2956 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2960 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2962 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2963 ready to replace debstd.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400