1 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
13 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
16 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
20 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
26 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
28 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
29 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
30 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
31 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
32 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
33 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
34 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
35 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
36 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
37 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
38 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
39 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
40 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
46 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
47 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
48 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
50 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
51 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
52 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
53 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
54 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
55 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
57 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
58 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
62 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
65 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
69 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
76 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
78 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
79 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
84 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
87 for building debhelper.
88 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
92 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
99 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Fixed makefile commit target.
102 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
106 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
109 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
110 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
111 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
112 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
113 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
114 it's always available.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
118 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
121 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
122 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
123 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
127 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
130 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
131 modules. (Closes: #42171)
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
141 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
144 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
157 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
158 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
159 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
166 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
171 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
174 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
175 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
177 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
178 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
196 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
197 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
201 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
204 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
205 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
207 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
214 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
215 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
216 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
220 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
223 things if CDPATH is set.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
227 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
233 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
236 seems to make sense for the transition.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
243 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
251 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
252 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
259 that version. (Closes: #40589)
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
263 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
265 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
266 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
267 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
268 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
269 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
282 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
283 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
284 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
285 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
286 * debhelper.1: documented this.
287 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
288 current compatability level is equal to that number.
289 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
290 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
291 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
296 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
298 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
299 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
300 * README: mention doc/v2
301 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
302 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
306 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
308 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
309 be using this script RSN.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
313 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
316 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
317 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
318 more than 1 init script.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
322 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
325 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
329 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Changed perl version detection.
332 * Changed call to find.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
336 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
339 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
341 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Really include dh_installpam.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
352 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
355 * Wrote man page for same.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
359 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
362 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
363 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
368 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
375 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
378 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
379 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
380 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
385 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
388 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
389 well. (Closes: 38900)
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
393 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
396 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
397 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
407 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
414 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
420 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
422 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
423 help from Julian Gilbey.
424 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
425 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
426 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
427 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
428 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
429 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
430 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
435 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
441 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
443 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
454 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
460 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
463 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
467 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
470 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
474 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
477 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
487 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
490 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
494 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
496 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
502 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
506 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
509 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
510 may be deleted. (#35845)
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
514 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Various man page enhancements.
517 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
522 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
525 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
526 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
530 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
533 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
534 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
535 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
537 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
538 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
543 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
549 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Another very minor typo fix.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
555 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Very minor typo fix.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
561 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
564 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
565 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
569 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
575 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
577 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
578 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
579 variables properly (#34850).
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
583 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
585 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
589 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
592 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
593 (automatically generated by build process).
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
597 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
599 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
603 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
606 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
607 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
609 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
613 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
616 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
620 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
622 * README: minor typo fix.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
626 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
629 leave it at that. :-)
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
639 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
645 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
648 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
649 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
650 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
654 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
657 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
661 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
664 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
668 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
671 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
672 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
673 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
674 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
678 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
681 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
682 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
683 Craig Small for spotting this.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
690 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
691 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
695 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
704 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
708 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
710 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
711 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
712 working on the last version of debhelper.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
716 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
725 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
729 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
732 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
736 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
738 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
739 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
740 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
741 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
742 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
746 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
749 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
750 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
751 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
752 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
754 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
755 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
757 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
764 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
768 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
774 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
777 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
778 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
779 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
780 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
781 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
782 suidregister actually supports it.
783 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
784 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
788 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
795 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
798 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
799 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
800 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
801 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
802 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
803 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
804 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
808 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
810 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
811 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
815 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
818 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
819 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
820 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
821 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
828 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
830 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
831 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
832 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
833 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
834 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
835 effect, either. (#30118)
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
839 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
845 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
848 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
849 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Spelling and typo fixes.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
859 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
861 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
862 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
863 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
864 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
865 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
869 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
872 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
873 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
879 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
883 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
886 packages, painlessly.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
890 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
896 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
908 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
910 * The perl conversion is complete.
912 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
914 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
915 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
916 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
921 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
924 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
925 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
926 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
933 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
935 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
937 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
938 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
945 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
946 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
959 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
960 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
961 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
962 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
963 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
967 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
970 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
971 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
972 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
973 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
977 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
980 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
984 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
987 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
988 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
989 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
990 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
991 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
992 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
993 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
994 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
998 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1004 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1007 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1008 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1009 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1014 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1017 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1021 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1024 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1028 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1031 sections of shared libraries.
1032 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1033 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1034 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1035 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1036 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1037 things you don't want them to.
1038 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1039 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1043 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1046 shared libraries. (#26414)
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1052 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1053 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1054 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1055 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1059 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1063 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1065 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1066 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1067 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1068 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1069 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1073 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1076 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1080 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1083 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1084 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1092 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1096 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1099 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1100 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1101 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1102 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1103 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1105 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1106 remove debian/files properly.
1107 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1108 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1109 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1110 * Removed bogus menu file.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1117 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1124 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1125 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1126 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1127 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1128 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1129 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1133 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1136 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1137 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1138 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1139 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1150 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1153 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1154 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1156 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1157 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1158 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1159 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1160 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1161 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1165 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1168 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1169 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1170 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1171 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1172 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1173 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1174 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1175 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1176 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1177 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1178 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1179 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1180 passed any switches.
1181 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1188 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1189 at all for a long while.
1190 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1191 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1192 large chunks in the process.
1193 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1194 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1195 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1200 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1203 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1205 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1210 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1213 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1214 that don't always have the same files in them.
1215 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1216 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1217 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1221 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1225 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1226 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1227 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1228 updating 27 man pages.
1229 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1230 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1231 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1232 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1233 programs act on. (#25247)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1237 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1241 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1242 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1243 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1244 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1245 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1246 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1251 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1258 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1265 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1268 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1272 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1278 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1281 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1282 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1283 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1284 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1285 package by accident.
1286 * Is version 1.0 next?
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1290 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1293 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1294 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1298 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1301 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1302 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1303 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1304 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1305 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1307 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1312 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1315 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1316 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1320 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1323 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1327 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1330 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1331 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1336 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1342 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1345 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1346 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1351 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1357 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1360 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1361 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1362 past week. Thanks, guys!
1364 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1365 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1366 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1367 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1368 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1369 would do in the same situation.
1370 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1371 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1373 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1375 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1376 permissions changed.
1377 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1378 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1379 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1380 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1381 files are treated identically.
1382 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1383 * Minor man page fixes.
1384 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1385 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1386 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1390 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1393 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1394 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1395 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1396 use -X multiple times, too.
1397 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1398 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1402 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1405 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1406 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1410 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1413 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1417 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1420 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1421 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1422 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1423 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1424 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1425 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1426 shape if you're starting a new package.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1430 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1433 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1437 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1440 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1441 because of missing symlinks.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1445 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1451 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1454 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1455 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1456 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1457 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1458 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1460 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1461 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1465 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1467 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1468 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1469 to be changed after the fact :-)
1470 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1474 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1477 no version string after the -V.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1481 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1483 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1484 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1489 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1492 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1496 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1499 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1500 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1501 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1502 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1503 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1504 I always welcome corrections!
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1508 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1517 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1518 * Documented this new switch.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1525 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1526 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1527 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1528 no packages use the old behavior.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1532 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1535 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1536 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1540 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1543 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1547 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1553 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1556 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1560 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1563 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1564 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1565 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1569 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1575 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1578 into the source package by accident.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1582 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1585 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1586 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1587 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1588 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1589 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1590 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1595 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1599 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1600 inspired to implement some of it.
1601 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1605 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1608 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1612 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1615 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1616 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1620 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1623 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1624 have done.) (#17598)
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1628 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1634 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1640 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1643 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1647 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1650 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1651 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1655 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1658 argument processor in perl.
1659 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1660 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1661 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1662 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1666 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1669 type directories. (#16933)
1670 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1671 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1672 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1673 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1674 are supported. (#16935)
1675 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1680 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1683 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1687 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1691 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1692 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1693 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1694 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1695 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1696 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1700 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1703 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1704 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1706 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1707 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1708 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1709 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1710 a given package, or -i or -a.
1711 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1712 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1713 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1714 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1715 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1716 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1717 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1718 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1719 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1721 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1722 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1723 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1730 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1731 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1736 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1739 does not have a section.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1743 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1746 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1747 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1748 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1752 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Fixed typo #16215.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1758 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1761 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1762 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1763 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1764 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1765 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1770 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1773 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1774 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1775 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1780 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1786 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1795 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1796 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1797 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1798 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1799 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1800 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1804 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1813 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1817 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1820 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1821 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1822 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1826 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1829 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1833 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1839 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1842 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1846 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1849 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1859 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1862 postinst, postrm, etc.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1872 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1875 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1876 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1877 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1878 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1879 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1883 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1886 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1887 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1891 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1894 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1898 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1901 installing package files into.
1902 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1907 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1911 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1915 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1921 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1924 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1928 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1931 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1932 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1933 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1934 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1938 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1940 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1941 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1942 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1943 multiple binary packages.
1944 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1945 should rebuild them with this version.
1946 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1950 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1953 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1957 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1960 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1964 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1967 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1968 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1969 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1970 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1971 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1972 debian/README.debian.
1973 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1974 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1975 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1976 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1977 in a few situations.)
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1981 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1987 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1993 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1996 * Fixed several man pages.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2000 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2003 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2004 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2008 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2011 is ready for general use.
2012 * Added man pages for all commands.
2013 * Multiple binary package support.
2014 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2015 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2016 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2018 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2019 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2020 auto-installed as parameters.
2021 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2023 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2026 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2027 the package build directory it is to act on.
2028 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2029 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2030 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2034 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2036 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2037 ready to replace debstd.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400