1 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
17 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
18 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
26 for building debhelper.
27 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Fixed makefile commit target.
41 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
45 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
48 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
49 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
50 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
51 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
52 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
53 it's always available.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
57 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
60 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
61 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
62 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
66 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
69 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
70 modules. (Closes: #42171)
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
83 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
96 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
97 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
98 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
105 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
113 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
114 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
116 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
117 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
127 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
135 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
136 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
143 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
144 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
146 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
150 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
153 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
154 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
155 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
162 things if CDPATH is set.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
175 seems to make sense for the transition.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
182 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
187 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
190 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
191 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
198 that version. (Closes: #40589)
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
204 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
205 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
206 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
207 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
208 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
212 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
221 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
222 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
223 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
224 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
225 * debhelper.1: documented this.
226 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
227 current compatability level is equal to that number.
228 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
229 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
230 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
235 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
237 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
238 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
239 * README: mention doc/v2
240 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
241 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
245 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
247 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
248 be using this script RSN.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
252 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
255 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
256 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
257 more than 1 init script.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
261 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
264 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
268 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Changed perl version detection.
271 * Changed call to find.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
275 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
278 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
280 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
285 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Really include dh_installpam.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
291 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
294 * Wrote man page for same.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
298 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
301 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
302 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
307 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
314 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
317 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
318 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
319 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
324 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
327 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
328 well. (Closes: 38900)
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
332 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
335 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
336 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
340 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
353 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
359 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
361 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
362 help from Julian Gilbey.
363 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
364 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
365 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
366 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
367 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
368 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
369 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
374 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
380 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
382 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
387 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
393 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
399 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
402 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
406 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
409 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
413 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
416 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
420 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
429 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
433 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
435 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
439 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
441 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
445 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
448 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
449 may be deleted. (#35845)
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
453 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Various man page enhancements.
456 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
461 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
464 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
465 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
469 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
472 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
473 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
474 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
476 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
477 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
482 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
488 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Another very minor typo fix.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
494 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Very minor typo fix.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
500 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
503 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
504 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
508 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
514 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
516 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
517 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
518 variables properly (#34850).
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
522 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
524 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
528 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
531 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
532 (automatically generated by build process).
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
536 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
538 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
542 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
545 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
546 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
548 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
552 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
555 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
559 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
561 * README: minor typo fix.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
565 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
568 leave it at that. :-)
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
572 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
578 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
584 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
587 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
588 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
589 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
593 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
596 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
600 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
603 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
607 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
610 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
611 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
612 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
613 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
617 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
620 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
621 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
622 Craig Small for spotting this.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
626 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
629 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
630 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
634 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
640 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
643 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
647 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
649 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
650 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
651 working on the last version of debhelper.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
655 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
662 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
664 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
668 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
671 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
675 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
677 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
678 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
679 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
680 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
681 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
685 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
688 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
689 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
690 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
691 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
693 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
694 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
696 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
703 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
707 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
713 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
716 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
717 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
718 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
719 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
720 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
721 suidregister actually supports it.
722 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
723 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
727 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
734 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
737 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
738 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
739 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
740 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
741 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
742 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
743 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
747 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
749 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
750 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
754 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
757 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
758 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
759 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
760 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
767 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
769 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
770 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
771 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
772 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
773 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
774 effect, either. (#30118)
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
778 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
787 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
788 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Spelling and typo fixes.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
798 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
800 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
801 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
802 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
803 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
804 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
808 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
811 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
812 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
816 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
818 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
822 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
825 packages, painlessly.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
829 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
835 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
841 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
847 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
849 * The perl conversion is complete.
851 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
853 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
854 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
855 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
860 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
863 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
864 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
865 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
869 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
872 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
874 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
876 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
877 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
881 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
884 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
885 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
889 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
895 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
897 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
898 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
899 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
900 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
901 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
902 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
906 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
909 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
910 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
911 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
912 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
916 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
919 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
923 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
926 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
927 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
928 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
929 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
930 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
931 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
932 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
933 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
937 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
943 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
946 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
947 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
948 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
953 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
956 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
960 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
963 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
967 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
970 sections of shared libraries.
971 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
972 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
973 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
974 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
975 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
976 things you don't want them to.
977 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
978 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
982 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
985 shared libraries. (#26414)
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
989 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
991 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
992 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
993 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
994 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
998 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1002 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1004 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1005 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1006 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1007 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1008 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1015 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1022 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1023 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1031 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1035 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1038 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1039 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1040 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1041 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1042 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1044 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1045 remove debian/files properly.
1046 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1047 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1048 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1049 * Removed bogus menu file.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1056 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1063 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1064 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1065 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1066 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1067 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1068 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1072 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1075 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1076 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1077 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1078 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1092 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1093 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1095 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1096 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1097 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1098 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1099 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1100 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1104 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1107 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1108 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1109 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1110 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1111 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1112 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1113 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1114 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1115 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1116 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1117 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1118 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1119 passed any switches.
1120 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1124 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1127 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1128 at all for a long while.
1129 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1130 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1131 large chunks in the process.
1132 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1133 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1134 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1139 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1142 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1144 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1149 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1152 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1153 that don't always have the same files in them.
1154 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1155 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1156 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1164 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1165 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1166 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1167 updating 27 man pages.
1168 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1169 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1170 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1171 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1172 programs act on. (#25247)
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1176 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1180 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1181 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1182 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1183 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1184 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1185 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1190 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1197 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1204 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1207 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1211 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1217 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1220 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1221 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1222 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1223 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1224 package by accident.
1225 * Is version 1.0 next?
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1229 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1232 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1233 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1237 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1240 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1241 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1242 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1243 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1244 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1246 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1251 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1254 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1255 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1262 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1266 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1269 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1270 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1275 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1281 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1284 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1285 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1290 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1296 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1299 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1300 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1301 past week. Thanks, guys!
1303 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1304 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1305 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1306 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1307 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1308 would do in the same situation.
1309 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1310 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1312 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1314 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1315 permissions changed.
1316 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1317 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1318 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1319 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1320 files are treated identically.
1321 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1322 * Minor man page fixes.
1323 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1324 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1325 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1329 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1332 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1333 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1334 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1335 use -X multiple times, too.
1336 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1337 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1341 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1344 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1345 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1349 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1352 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1356 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1359 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1360 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1361 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1362 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1363 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1364 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1365 shape if you're starting a new package.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1372 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1376 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1379 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1380 because of missing symlinks.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1384 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1390 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1393 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1394 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1395 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1396 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1397 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1399 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1400 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1404 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1406 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1407 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1408 to be changed after the fact :-)
1409 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1413 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1416 no version string after the -V.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1420 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1422 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1423 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1428 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1431 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1435 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1438 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1439 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1440 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1441 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1442 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1443 I always welcome corrections!
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1447 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1453 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1456 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1457 * Documented this new switch.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1461 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1464 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1465 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1466 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1467 no packages use the old behavior.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1471 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1474 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1475 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1479 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1482 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1486 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1495 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1499 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1502 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1503 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1504 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1508 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1517 into the source package by accident.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1521 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1524 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1525 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1526 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1527 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1528 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1529 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1534 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1538 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1539 inspired to implement some of it.
1540 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1544 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1547 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1551 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1554 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1555 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1559 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1562 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1563 have done.) (#17598)
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1567 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1573 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1579 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1582 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1586 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1589 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1590 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1594 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1597 argument processor in perl.
1598 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1599 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1600 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1601 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1605 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1608 type directories. (#16933)
1609 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1610 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1611 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1612 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1613 are supported. (#16935)
1614 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1619 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1622 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1626 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1630 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1631 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1632 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1633 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1634 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1635 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1639 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1642 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1643 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1645 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1646 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1647 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1648 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1649 a given package, or -i or -a.
1650 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1651 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1652 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1653 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1654 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1655 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1656 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1657 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1658 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1660 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1661 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1662 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1666 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1669 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1670 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1678 does not have a section.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1682 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1685 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1686 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1687 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1691 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Fixed typo #16215.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1697 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1700 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1701 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1702 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1703 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1704 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1709 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1712 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1713 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1714 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1719 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1725 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1731 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1734 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1735 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1736 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1737 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1738 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1739 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1743 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1749 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1752 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1756 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1759 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1760 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1761 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1765 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1768 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1772 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1781 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1785 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1788 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1801 postinst, postrm, etc.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1805 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1811 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1814 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1815 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1816 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1817 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1818 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1822 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1825 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1826 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1830 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1833 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1837 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1840 installing package files into.
1841 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1846 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1850 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1854 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1860 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1863 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1867 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1870 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1871 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1872 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1873 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1877 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1879 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1880 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1881 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1882 multiple binary packages.
1883 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1884 should rebuild them with this version.
1885 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1889 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1892 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1896 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1899 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1903 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1906 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1907 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1908 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1909 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1910 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1911 debian/README.debian.
1912 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1913 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1914 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1915 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1916 in a few situations.)
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1920 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1926 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1932 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1935 * Fixed several man pages.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1939 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1942 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1943 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1947 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1950 is ready for general use.
1951 * Added man pages for all commands.
1952 * Multiple binary package support.
1953 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1954 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1955 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1957 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1958 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1959 auto-installed as parameters.
1960 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1962 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1965 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1966 the package build directory it is to act on.
1967 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1968 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1969 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1973 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1975 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1976 ready to replace debstd.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400