1 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
5 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
6 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
7 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
8 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
9 bits until all files have been registered.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
13 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
16 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
17 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
18 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
19 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
20 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
21 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
22 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
23 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
24 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
25 otherwise change the result at all.
27 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
28 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
29 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
30 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
31 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
36 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
45 act on files that don't exist.
46 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
47 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
48 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
50 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
51 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
52 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
53 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
57 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
63 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
69 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
72 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
76 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
79 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
81 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
82 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
83 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
90 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
91 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
92 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
93 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
94 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extentions dh_compress
95 does not compress. Closes: #41733
96 * Also, made all extentions dh_compress skips be looked at case
98 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
100 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
104 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
111 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
126 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
130 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
142 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
145 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
146 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
147 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
148 I made some changes, though:
149 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
150 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
151 that is a clear violation of policy.
152 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
153 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
154 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
155 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
156 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
157 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
158 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
159 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
160 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
162 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
175 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
182 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
183 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
204 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
205 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
206 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
207 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
208 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
209 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
210 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
220 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
224 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
225 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
235 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
238 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
245 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
246 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
250 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
261 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
265 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
267 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
268 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
269 for the dependancies to be generated.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
276 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
283 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
284 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
285 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
290 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
293 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
294 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
313 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
323 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
325 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
326 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
327 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
328 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
329 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
330 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
331 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
332 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
333 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
334 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
335 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
336 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
337 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
341 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
343 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
344 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
345 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
347 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
348 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
349 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
350 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
351 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
352 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
354 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
355 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
359 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
362 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
366 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
373 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
375 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
376 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
381 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
384 for building debhelper.
385 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Fixed makefile commit target.
399 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
403 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
406 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
407 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
408 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
409 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
410 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
411 it's always available.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
418 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
419 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
420 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
424 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
427 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
428 modules. (Closes: #42171)
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
432 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
441 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
445 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
451 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
454 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
455 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
456 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
460 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
463 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
471 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
472 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
474 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
475 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
479 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
493 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
494 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
501 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
502 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
504 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
508 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
511 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
512 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
513 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
517 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
520 things if CDPATH is set.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
524 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
533 seems to make sense for the transition.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
540 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
545 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
548 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
549 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
553 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
556 that version. (Closes: #40589)
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
560 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
562 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
563 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
564 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
565 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
566 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
579 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
580 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
581 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
582 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
583 * debhelper.1: documented this.
584 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
585 current compatability level is equal to that number.
586 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
587 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
588 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
593 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
595 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
596 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
597 * README: mention doc/v2
598 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
599 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
603 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
605 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
606 be using this script RSN.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
610 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
613 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
614 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
615 more than 1 init script.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
619 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
622 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
626 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Changed perl version detection.
629 * Changed call to find.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
633 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
636 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
638 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
643 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Really include dh_installpam.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
649 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
652 * Wrote man page for same.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
656 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
659 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
660 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
665 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
672 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
675 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
676 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
677 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
685 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
686 well. (Closes: 38900)
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
690 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
693 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
694 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
698 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
704 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
711 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
717 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
719 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
720 help from Julian Gilbey.
721 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
722 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
723 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
724 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
725 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
726 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
727 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
732 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
738 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
740 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
745 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
751 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
760 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
764 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
767 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
771 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
774 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
778 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
784 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
787 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
791 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
793 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
797 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
799 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
803 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
806 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
807 may be deleted. (#35845)
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
811 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Various man page enhancements.
814 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
819 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
822 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
823 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
827 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
830 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
831 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
832 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
834 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
835 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
840 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Another very minor typo fix.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
852 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Very minor typo fix.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
861 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
862 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
866 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
872 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
874 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
875 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
876 variables properly (#34850).
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
880 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
882 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
886 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
889 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
890 (automatically generated by build process).
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
894 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
896 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
903 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
904 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
906 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
913 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
919 * README: minor typo fix.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
926 leave it at that. :-)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
945 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
946 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
947 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
951 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
954 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
958 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
961 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
965 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
968 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
969 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
970 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
971 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
975 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
978 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
979 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
980 Craig Small for spotting this.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
987 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
988 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
992 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1001 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1007 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1008 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1009 working on the last version of debhelper.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1013 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1016 being made. (#23255)
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1020 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1029 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1033 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1036 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1037 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1038 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1039 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1043 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1046 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1047 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1048 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1049 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1051 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1052 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1054 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1059 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1065 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1074 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1075 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1076 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1077 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1078 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1079 suidregister actually supports it.
1080 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1081 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1085 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1092 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1095 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1096 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1097 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1098 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1099 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1100 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1101 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1105 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1107 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1108 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1115 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1116 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1117 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1118 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1122 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1125 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1127 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1128 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1129 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1130 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1131 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1132 effect, either. (#30118)
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1136 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1142 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1145 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1146 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1150 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1156 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1159 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1160 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1161 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1162 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1166 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1169 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1170 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1174 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1180 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1183 packages, painlessly.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1187 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1193 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1199 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * The perl conversion is complete.
1209 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1211 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1212 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1213 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1221 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1222 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1223 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1227 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1230 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1232 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1234 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1235 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1242 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1243 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1256 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1257 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1258 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1259 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1260 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1267 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1268 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1269 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1270 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1274 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1277 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1281 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1284 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1285 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1286 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1287 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1288 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1289 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1290 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1291 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1295 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1301 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1304 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1305 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1306 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1311 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1314 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1318 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1321 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1325 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1328 sections of shared libraries.
1329 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1330 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1331 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1332 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1333 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1334 things you don't want them to.
1335 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1336 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1340 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1343 shared libraries. (#26414)
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1349 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1350 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1351 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1352 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1356 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1360 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1362 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1363 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1364 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1365 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1366 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1370 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1373 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1377 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1380 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1381 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1389 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1396 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1397 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1398 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1399 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1400 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1402 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1403 remove debian/files properly.
1404 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1405 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1406 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1407 * Removed bogus menu file.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1411 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1414 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1421 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1422 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1423 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1424 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1425 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1426 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1433 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1434 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1435 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1436 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1440 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1447 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1450 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1451 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1453 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1454 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1455 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1456 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1457 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1458 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1465 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1466 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1467 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1468 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1469 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1470 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1471 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1472 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1473 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1474 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1475 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1476 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1477 passed any switches.
1478 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1482 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1485 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1486 at all for a long while.
1487 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1488 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1489 large chunks in the process.
1490 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1491 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1492 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1497 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1500 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1502 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1510 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1511 that don't always have the same files in them.
1512 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1513 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1514 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1522 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1523 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1524 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1525 updating 27 man pages.
1526 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1527 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1528 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1529 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1530 programs act on. (#25247)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1538 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1539 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1540 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1541 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1542 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1543 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1548 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1555 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1562 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1565 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1569 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1575 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1578 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1579 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1580 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1581 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1582 package by accident.
1583 * Is version 1.0 next?
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1587 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1590 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1591 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1595 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1598 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1599 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1600 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1601 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1602 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1604 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1609 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1612 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1613 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1617 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1620 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1624 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1627 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1628 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1633 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1639 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1642 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1643 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1648 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1654 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1657 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1658 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1659 past week. Thanks, guys!
1661 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1662 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1663 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1664 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1665 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1666 would do in the same situation.
1667 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1668 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1670 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1672 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1673 permissions changed.
1674 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1675 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1676 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1677 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1678 files are treated identically.
1679 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1680 * Minor man page fixes.
1681 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1682 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1683 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1687 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1690 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1691 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1692 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1693 use -X multiple times, too.
1694 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1695 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1699 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1702 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1703 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1707 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1710 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1714 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1717 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1718 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1719 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1720 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1721 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1722 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1723 shape if you're starting a new package.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1727 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1730 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1734 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1737 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1738 because of missing symlinks.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1742 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1748 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1751 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1752 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1753 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1754 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1755 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1757 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1758 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1762 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1764 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1765 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1766 to be changed after the fact :-)
1767 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1771 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1774 no version string after the -V.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1778 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1780 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1781 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1786 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1789 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1793 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1796 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1797 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1798 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1799 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1800 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1801 I always welcome corrections!
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1805 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1811 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1814 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1815 * Documented this new switch.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1819 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1822 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1823 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1824 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1825 no packages use the old behavior.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1829 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1832 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1833 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1837 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1840 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1844 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1850 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1853 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1857 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1860 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1861 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1862 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1866 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1872 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1875 into the source package by accident.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1879 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1882 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1883 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1884 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1885 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1886 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1887 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1892 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1896 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1897 inspired to implement some of it.
1898 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1902 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1905 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1909 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1912 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1913 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1920 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1921 have done.) (#17598)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1925 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1931 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1940 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1944 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1947 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1948 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1952 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1955 argument processor in perl.
1956 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1957 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1958 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1959 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1963 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1966 type directories. (#16933)
1967 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1968 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1969 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1970 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1971 are supported. (#16935)
1972 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1977 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1980 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1984 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1988 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1989 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1990 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1991 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1992 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1993 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1997 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2000 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2001 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2003 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2004 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2005 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2006 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2007 a given package, or -i or -a.
2008 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2009 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2010 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2011 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2012 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2013 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2014 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2015 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2016 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2018 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2019 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2020 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2024 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2027 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2028 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2033 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2036 does not have a section.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2040 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2043 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2044 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2045 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2049 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Fixed typo #16215.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2055 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2058 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2059 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2060 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2061 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2062 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2067 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2070 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2071 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2072 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2077 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2083 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2089 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2092 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2093 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2094 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2095 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2096 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2097 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2107 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2110 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2114 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2117 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2118 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2119 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2123 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2126 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2130 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2136 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2139 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2143 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2146 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2150 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2156 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2159 postinst, postrm, etc.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2163 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2172 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2173 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2174 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2175 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2176 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2180 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2183 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2184 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2188 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2191 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2195 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2198 installing package files into.
2199 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2204 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2208 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2212 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2218 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2221 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2225 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2228 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2229 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2230 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2231 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2235 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2237 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2238 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2239 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2240 multiple binary packages.
2241 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2242 should rebuild them with this version.
2243 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2247 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2250 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2254 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2257 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2261 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2264 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2265 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2266 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2267 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2268 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2269 debian/README.debian.
2270 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2271 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2272 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2273 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2274 in a few situations.)
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2278 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2284 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2290 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2293 * Fixed several man pages.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2297 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2300 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2301 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2305 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2308 is ready for general use.
2309 * Added man pages for all commands.
2310 * Multiple binary package support.
2311 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2312 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2313 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2315 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2316 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2317 auto-installed as parameters.
2318 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2320 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2323 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2324 the package build directory it is to act on.
2325 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2326 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2327 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2331 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2333 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2334 ready to replace debstd.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400