1 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Various man page enhancements.
4 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
9 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
12 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
13 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
17 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
20 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
21 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
22 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
24 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
25 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
30 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
36 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Another very minor typo fix.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
42 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Very minor typo fix.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
48 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
51 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
52 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
56 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
62 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
64 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
65 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
66 variables properly (#34850).
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
70 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
72 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
76 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
79 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
80 (automatically generated by build process).
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
84 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
86 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
90 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
93 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
94 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
96 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
100 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
103 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
107 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
109 * README: minor typo fix.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
113 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
116 leave it at that. :-)
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
120 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
126 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
132 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
135 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
136 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
137 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
141 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
144 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
148 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
151 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
155 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
158 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
159 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
160 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
161 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
165 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
168 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
169 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
170 Craig Small for spotting this.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
174 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
177 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
178 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
182 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
188 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
191 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
195 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
197 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
198 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
199 working on the last version of debhelper.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
203 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
210 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
212 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
216 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
219 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
223 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
225 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
226 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
227 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
228 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
229 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
233 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
236 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
237 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
238 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
239 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
241 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
242 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
244 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
249 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
251 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
255 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
261 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
264 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
265 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
266 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
267 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
268 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
269 suidregister actually supports it.
270 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
271 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
275 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
282 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
285 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
286 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
287 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
288 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
289 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
290 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
291 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
295 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
297 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
298 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
302 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
305 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
306 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
307 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
308 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
312 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
315 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
317 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
318 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
319 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
320 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
321 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
322 effect, either. (#30118)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
326 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
332 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
335 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
336 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
340 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Spelling and typo fixes.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
346 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
348 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
349 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
350 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
351 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
352 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
356 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
359 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
360 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
364 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
366 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
370 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
373 packages, painlessly.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
377 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
383 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
389 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
395 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
397 * The perl conversion is complete.
399 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
401 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
402 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
403 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
408 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
411 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
412 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
413 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
417 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
420 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
422 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
424 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
425 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
429 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
432 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
433 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
437 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
443 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
445 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
446 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
447 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
448 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
449 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
450 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
454 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
457 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
458 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
459 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
460 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
464 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
467 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
471 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
474 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
475 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
476 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
477 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
478 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
479 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
480 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
481 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
485 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
491 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
494 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
495 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
496 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
501 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
504 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
508 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
511 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
515 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
518 sections of shared libraries.
519 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
520 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
521 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
522 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
523 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
524 things you don't want them to.
525 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
526 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
530 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
533 shared libraries. (#26414)
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
537 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
539 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
540 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
541 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
542 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
546 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
550 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
552 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
553 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
554 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
555 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
556 the program to not fail. (#26214)
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
560 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
563 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
567 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
570 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
571 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
576 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
579 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
583 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
585 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
586 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
587 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
588 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
589 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
590 I apologize for the inconvenience.
592 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
593 remove debian/files properly.
594 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
595 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
596 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
597 * Removed bogus menu file.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
601 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
604 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
608 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
611 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
612 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
613 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
614 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
615 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
616 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
620 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
622 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
623 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
624 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
625 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
626 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
630 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
637 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
640 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
641 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
643 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
644 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
645 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
646 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
647 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
648 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
652 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
655 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
656 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
657 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
658 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
659 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
660 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
661 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
662 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
663 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
664 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
665 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
666 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
668 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
672 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
675 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
676 at all for a long while.
677 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
678 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
679 large chunks in the process.
680 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
681 install many oddly named files it died on before.
682 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
687 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
690 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
692 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
697 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
700 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
701 that don't always have the same files in them.
702 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
703 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
704 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
708 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
710 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
712 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
713 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
714 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
715 updating 27 man pages.
716 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
717 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
718 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
719 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
720 programs act on. (#25247)
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
724 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
728 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
729 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
730 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
731 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
732 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
733 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
738 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
745 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
752 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
755 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
759 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
765 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
767 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
768 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
769 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
770 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
771 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
773 * Is version 1.0 next?
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
777 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
780 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
781 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
785 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
787 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
788 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
789 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
790 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
791 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
792 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
794 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
799 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
802 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
803 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
807 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
810 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
814 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
817 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
818 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
823 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
829 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
832 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
833 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
838 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
844 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
846 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
847 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
848 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
849 past week. Thanks, guys!
851 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
852 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
853 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
854 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
855 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
856 would do in the same situation.
857 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
858 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
860 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
862 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
864 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
865 some people enjoy changing root's name.
866 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
867 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
868 files are treated identically.
869 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
870 * Minor man page fixes.
871 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
872 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
873 --no-act is on. (#23054)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
877 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
879 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
880 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
881 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
882 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
883 use -X multiple times, too.
884 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
885 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
889 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
892 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
893 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
897 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
900 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
904 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
907 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
908 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
909 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
910 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
911 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
912 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
913 shape if you're starting a new package.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
917 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
920 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
924 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
927 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
928 because of missing symlinks.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
932 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
938 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
941 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
942 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
943 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
944 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
945 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
947 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
948 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
952 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
954 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
955 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
956 to be changed after the fact :-)
957 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
961 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
964 no version string after the -V.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
968 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
970 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
971 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
976 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
979 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
983 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
986 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
987 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
988 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
989 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
990 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
991 I always welcome corrections!
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
995 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1001 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1004 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1005 * Documented this new switch.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1009 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1012 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1013 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1014 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1015 no packages use the old behavior.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1019 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1022 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1023 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1027 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1030 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1034 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1040 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1043 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1047 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1050 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1051 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1052 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1056 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1062 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1065 into the source package by accident.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1069 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1072 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1073 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1074 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1075 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1076 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1077 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1082 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1086 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1087 inspired to implement some of it.
1088 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1092 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1095 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1099 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1102 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1103 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1107 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1110 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1111 have done.) (#17598)
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1115 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1121 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1127 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1130 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1134 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1137 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1138 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1142 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1145 argument processor in perl.
1146 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1147 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1148 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1149 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1153 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1156 type directories. (#16933)
1157 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1158 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1159 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1160 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1161 are supported. (#16935)
1162 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1167 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1170 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1174 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1178 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1179 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1180 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1181 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1182 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1183 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1187 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1190 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1191 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1193 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1194 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1195 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1196 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1197 a given package, or -i or -a.
1198 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1199 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1200 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1201 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1202 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1203 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1204 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1205 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1206 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1208 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1209 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1210 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1214 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1217 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1218 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1223 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1226 does not have a section.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1230 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1233 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1234 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1235 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1239 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Fixed typo #16215.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1245 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1248 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1249 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1250 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1251 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1252 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1257 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1260 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1261 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1262 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1267 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1273 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1279 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1282 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1283 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1284 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1285 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1286 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1287 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1291 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1297 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1300 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1304 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1307 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1308 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1309 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1313 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1316 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1320 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1326 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1329 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1333 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1336 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1340 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1346 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1349 postinst, postrm, etc.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1353 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1359 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1362 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1363 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1364 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1365 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1366 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1370 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1373 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1374 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1378 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1381 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1385 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1388 installing package files into.
1389 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1394 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1398 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1402 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1408 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1411 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1415 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1418 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1419 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1420 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1421 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1425 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1427 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1428 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1429 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1430 multiple binary packages.
1431 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1432 should rebuild them with this version.
1433 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1437 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1440 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1444 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1447 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1451 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1454 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1455 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1456 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1457 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1458 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1459 debian/README.debian.
1460 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1461 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1462 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1463 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1464 in a few situations.)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1468 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1474 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1480 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1483 * Fixed several man pages.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1487 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1490 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1491 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1495 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1498 is ready for general use.
1499 * Added man pages for all commands.
1500 * Multiple binary package support.
1501 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1502 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1503 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1505 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1506 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1507 auto-installed as parameters.
1508 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1510 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1513 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1514 the package build directory it is to act on.
1515 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1516 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1517 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1521 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1523 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1524 ready to replace debstd.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400