1 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
9 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
15 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
22 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
28 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
30 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
31 help from Julian Gilbey.
32 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
33 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
34 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
35 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
36 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
37 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
38 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
43 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
49 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
51 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
56 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
62 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
68 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
71 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
75 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
78 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
82 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
85 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
89 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
95 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
98 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
102 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
104 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
108 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
110 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
114 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
117 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
118 may be deleted. (#35845)
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
122 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Various man page enhancements.
125 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
130 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
133 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
134 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
138 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
141 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
142 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
143 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
145 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
146 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
151 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
157 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Another very minor typo fix.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
163 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Very minor typo fix.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
169 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
172 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
173 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
177 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
183 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
185 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
186 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
187 variables properly (#34850).
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
191 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
193 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
197 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
200 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
201 (automatically generated by build process).
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
205 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
207 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
211 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
214 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
215 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
217 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
221 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
224 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
228 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
230 * README: minor typo fix.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
234 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
237 leave it at that. :-)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
241 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
247 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
253 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
256 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
257 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
258 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
262 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
265 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
269 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
272 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
276 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
279 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
280 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
281 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
282 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
286 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
289 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
290 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
291 Craig Small for spotting this.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
295 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
298 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
299 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
303 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
309 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
312 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
316 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
318 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
319 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
320 working on the last version of debhelper.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
324 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
331 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
333 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
337 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
340 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
344 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
346 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
347 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
348 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
349 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
350 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
354 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
357 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
358 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
359 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
360 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
362 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
363 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
365 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
370 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
372 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
376 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
382 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
385 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
386 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
387 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
388 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
389 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
390 suidregister actually supports it.
391 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
392 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
396 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
403 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
406 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
407 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
408 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
409 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
410 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
411 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
412 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
416 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
418 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
419 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
423 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
426 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
427 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
428 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
429 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
433 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
436 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
438 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
439 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
440 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
441 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
442 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
443 effect, either. (#30118)
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
447 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
453 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
456 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
457 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
461 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Spelling and typo fixes.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
467 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
469 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
470 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
471 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
472 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
473 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
477 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
480 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
481 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
485 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
487 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
491 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
494 packages, painlessly.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
498 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
504 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
510 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
516 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
518 * The perl conversion is complete.
520 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
522 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
523 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
529 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
532 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
533 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
534 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
538 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
541 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
543 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
545 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
546 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
550 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
553 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
554 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
558 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
564 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
566 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
567 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
568 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
569 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
570 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
571 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
575 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
578 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
579 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
580 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
581 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
585 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
588 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
592 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
595 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
596 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
597 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
598 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
599 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
600 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
601 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
602 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
606 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
612 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
615 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
616 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
617 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
622 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
625 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
629 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
632 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
636 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
639 sections of shared libraries.
640 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
641 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
642 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
643 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
644 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
645 things you don't want them to.
646 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
647 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
651 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
654 shared libraries. (#26414)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
658 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
660 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
661 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
662 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
663 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
667 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
671 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
673 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
674 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
675 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
676 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
677 the program to not fail. (#26214)
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
681 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
684 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
688 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
691 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
692 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
697 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
700 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
704 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
706 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
707 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
708 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
709 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
710 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
711 I apologize for the inconvenience.
713 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
714 remove debian/files properly.
715 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
716 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
717 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
718 * Removed bogus menu file.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
722 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
725 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
729 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
732 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
733 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
734 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
735 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
736 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
737 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
741 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
743 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
744 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
745 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
746 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
747 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
751 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
758 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
761 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
762 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
764 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
765 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
766 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
767 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
768 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
769 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
773 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
776 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
777 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
778 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
779 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
780 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
781 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
782 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
783 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
784 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
785 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
786 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
787 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
789 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
793 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
796 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
797 at all for a long while.
798 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
799 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
800 large chunks in the process.
801 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
802 install many oddly named files it died on before.
803 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
808 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
811 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
813 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
818 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
821 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
822 that don't always have the same files in them.
823 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
824 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
825 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
829 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
831 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
833 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
834 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
835 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
836 updating 27 man pages.
837 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
838 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
839 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
840 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
841 programs act on. (#25247)
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
845 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
849 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
850 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
851 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
852 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
853 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
854 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
859 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
866 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
873 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
876 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
880 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
886 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
888 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
889 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
890 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
891 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
892 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
894 * Is version 1.0 next?
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
898 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
901 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
902 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
906 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
908 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
909 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
910 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
911 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
912 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
913 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
915 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
920 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
923 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
924 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
928 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
931 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
935 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
938 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
939 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
944 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
950 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
953 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
954 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
959 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
965 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
967 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
968 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
969 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
970 past week. Thanks, guys!
972 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
973 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
974 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
975 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
976 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
977 would do in the same situation.
978 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
979 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
981 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
983 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
985 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
986 some people enjoy changing root's name.
987 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
988 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
989 files are treated identically.
990 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
991 * Minor man page fixes.
992 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
993 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
994 --no-act is on. (#23054)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
998 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1001 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1002 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1003 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1004 use -X multiple times, too.
1005 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1006 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1010 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1013 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1014 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1018 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1021 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1025 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1028 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1029 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1030 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1031 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1032 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1033 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1034 shape if you're starting a new package.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1038 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1041 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1045 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1048 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1049 because of missing symlinks.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1053 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1059 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1062 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1063 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1064 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1065 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1066 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1068 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1069 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1073 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1075 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1076 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1077 to be changed after the fact :-)
1078 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1082 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1085 no version string after the -V.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1089 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1091 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1092 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1097 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1100 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1104 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1107 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1108 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1109 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1110 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1111 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1112 I always welcome corrections!
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1116 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1122 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1125 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1126 * Documented this new switch.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1130 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1133 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1134 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1135 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1136 no packages use the old behavior.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1140 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1143 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1144 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1148 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1151 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1155 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1161 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1164 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1168 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1171 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1172 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1173 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1177 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1183 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1186 into the source package by accident.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1190 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1193 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1194 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1195 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1196 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1197 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1198 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1203 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1207 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1208 inspired to implement some of it.
1209 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1213 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1216 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1220 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1223 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1224 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1228 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1231 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1232 have done.) (#17598)
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1236 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1242 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1248 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1251 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1255 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1258 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1259 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1263 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1266 argument processor in perl.
1267 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1268 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1269 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1270 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1274 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1277 type directories. (#16933)
1278 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1279 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1280 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1281 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1282 are supported. (#16935)
1283 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1288 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1291 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1295 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1299 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1300 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1301 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1302 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1303 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1304 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1308 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1311 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1312 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1314 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1315 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1316 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1317 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1318 a given package, or -i or -a.
1319 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1320 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1321 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1322 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1323 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1324 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1325 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1326 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1327 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1329 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1330 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1331 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1335 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1338 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1339 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1344 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1347 does not have a section.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1351 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1354 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1355 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1356 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1360 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fixed typo #16215.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1366 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1369 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1370 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1371 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1372 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1373 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1378 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1381 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1382 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1383 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1388 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1394 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1400 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1403 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1404 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1405 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1406 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1407 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1408 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1412 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1418 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1421 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1425 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1428 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1429 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1430 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1434 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1437 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1441 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1447 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1450 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1454 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1457 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1461 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1467 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1470 postinst, postrm, etc.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1474 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1480 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1483 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1484 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1485 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1486 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1487 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1491 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1494 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1495 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1499 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1502 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1506 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1509 installing package files into.
1510 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1515 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1519 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1523 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1529 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1532 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1536 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1539 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1540 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1541 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1542 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1546 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1548 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1549 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1550 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1551 multiple binary packages.
1552 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1553 should rebuild them with this version.
1554 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1558 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1561 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1565 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1568 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1572 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1575 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1576 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1577 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1578 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1579 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1580 debian/README.debian.
1581 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1582 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1583 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1584 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1585 in a few situations.)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1589 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1595 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1601 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1604 * Fixed several man pages.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1608 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1611 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1612 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1616 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1619 is ready for general use.
1620 * Added man pages for all commands.
1621 * Multiple binary package support.
1622 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1623 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1624 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1626 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1627 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1628 auto-installed as parameters.
1629 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1631 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1634 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1635 the package build directory it is to act on.
1636 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1637 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1638 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1642 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1644 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1645 ready to replace debstd.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400