1 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
17 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
18 depend on the build and install targets.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
25 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
48 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
51 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
52 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
53 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
54 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
55 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
56 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
58 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
59 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
60 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
61 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
62 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
63 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
64 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
68 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
74 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
80 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
83 right place. Closes: #55065
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
94 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Make all examples rules files executable.
97 * Copyright date updates.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
101 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
104 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
109 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
115 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
122 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
128 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
134 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
143 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
144 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
145 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
146 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
147 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
148 bits until all files have been registered.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
152 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installmanpages:
155 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
156 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
157 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
158 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
159 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
160 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
161 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
162 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
163 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
164 otherwise change the result at all.
166 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
167 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
168 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
169 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
170 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
175 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
181 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
184 act on files that don't exist.
185 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
186 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
187 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
189 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
190 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
191 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
192 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
196 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
202 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
208 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
211 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
215 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
218 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
220 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
221 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
222 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
226 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
229 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
230 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
231 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
232 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
233 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
234 does not compress. Closes: #41733
235 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
237 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
239 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
243 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
250 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
262 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
265 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
269 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
284 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
285 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
286 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
287 I made some changes, though:
288 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
289 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
290 that is a clear violation of policy.
291 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
292 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
293 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
294 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
295 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
296 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
297 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
298 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
299 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
301 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
314 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
321 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
322 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
327 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
343 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
344 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
345 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
346 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
347 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
348 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
349 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
359 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
363 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
364 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
368 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
374 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
377 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
381 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
384 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
385 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
391 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
400 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
404 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
406 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
407 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
408 for the dependancies to be generated.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
415 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
422 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
423 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
424 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
432 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
433 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
437 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
443 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
452 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
464 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
465 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
466 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
467 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
468 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
469 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
470 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
471 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
472 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
473 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
474 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
475 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
476 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
482 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
483 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
484 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
486 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
487 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
488 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
489 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
490 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
491 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
493 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
494 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
501 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
514 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
515 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
523 for building debhelper.
524 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
535 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fixed makefile commit target.
538 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
545 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
546 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
547 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
548 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
549 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
550 it's always available.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
554 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
557 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
558 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
559 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
566 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
567 modules. (Closes: #42171)
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
571 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
580 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
593 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
594 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
595 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
602 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
607 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
610 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
611 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
613 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
614 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
624 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
630 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
632 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
633 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
637 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
640 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
641 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
643 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
647 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
650 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
651 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
652 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
656 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
659 things if CDPATH is set.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
663 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
672 seems to make sense for the transition.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
676 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
679 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
684 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
687 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
688 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
692 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
695 that version. (Closes: #40589)
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
699 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
701 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
702 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
703 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
704 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
705 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
709 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
715 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
718 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
719 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
720 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
721 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
722 * debhelper.1: documented this.
723 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
724 current compatability level is equal to that number.
725 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
726 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
727 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
732 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
734 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
735 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
736 * README: mention doc/v2
737 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
738 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
742 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
744 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
745 be using this script RSN.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
749 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
752 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
753 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
754 more than 1 init script.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
758 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
761 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
765 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Changed perl version detection.
768 * Changed call to find.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
772 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
775 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
777 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
782 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Really include dh_installpam.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
788 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
791 * Wrote man page for same.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
795 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
798 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
799 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
804 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
811 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
814 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
815 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
816 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
821 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
824 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
825 well. (Closes: 38900)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
829 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
832 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
833 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
837 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
843 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
850 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
856 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
858 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
859 help from Julian Gilbey.
860 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
861 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
862 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
863 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
864 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
865 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
866 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
871 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
877 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
879 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
884 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
890 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
896 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
899 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
906 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
910 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
913 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
917 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
923 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
926 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
930 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
932 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
936 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
938 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
942 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
945 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
946 may be deleted. (#35845)
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
950 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Various man page enhancements.
953 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
958 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
961 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
962 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
966 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
969 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
970 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
971 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
973 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
974 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
979 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
985 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Another very minor typo fix.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
991 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Very minor typo fix.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
997 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1000 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1001 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1011 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1014 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1015 variables properly (#34850).
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1019 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1028 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1029 (automatically generated by build process).
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1033 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1035 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1039 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1042 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1043 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1045 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1049 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1052 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * README: minor typo fix.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1062 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1065 leave it at that. :-)
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1069 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1075 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1081 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1084 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1085 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1086 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1093 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1097 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1100 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1104 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1107 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1108 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1109 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1110 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1114 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1117 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1118 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1119 Craig Small for spotting this.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1123 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1126 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1127 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1140 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1144 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1146 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1147 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1148 working on the last version of debhelper.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1152 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1155 being made. (#23255)
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1159 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1165 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1168 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1172 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1175 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1176 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1177 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1178 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1182 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1185 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1186 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1187 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1188 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1190 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1191 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1193 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1198 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1204 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1210 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1213 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1214 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1215 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1216 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1217 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1218 suidregister actually supports it.
1219 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1220 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1224 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1231 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1234 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1235 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1236 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1237 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1238 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1239 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1240 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1244 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1246 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1247 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1251 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1254 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1255 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1256 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1257 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1261 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1264 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1266 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1267 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1268 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1269 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1270 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1271 effect, either. (#30118)
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1284 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1285 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1289 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1295 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1298 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1299 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1300 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1301 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1305 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1308 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1309 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1313 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1319 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1322 packages, painlessly.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1326 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1332 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1338 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1344 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * The perl conversion is complete.
1348 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1350 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1351 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1352 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1357 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1360 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1361 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1362 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1366 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1369 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1371 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1373 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1374 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1381 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1382 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1386 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1392 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1395 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1396 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1397 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1398 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1399 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1403 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1406 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1407 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1408 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1409 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1413 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1416 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1423 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1424 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1425 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1426 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1427 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1428 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1429 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1430 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1434 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1440 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1443 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1444 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1445 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1453 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1457 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1460 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1464 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1467 sections of shared libraries.
1468 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1469 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1470 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1471 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1472 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1473 things you don't want them to.
1474 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1475 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1482 shared libraries. (#26414)
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1488 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1489 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1490 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1491 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1495 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1499 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1501 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1502 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1503 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1504 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1505 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1512 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1516 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1519 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1520 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1528 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1535 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1536 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1537 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1538 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1539 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1541 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1542 remove debian/files properly.
1543 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1544 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1545 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1546 * Removed bogus menu file.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1553 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1560 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1561 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1562 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1563 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1564 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1565 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1569 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1572 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1573 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1574 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1575 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1589 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1590 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1592 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1593 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1594 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1595 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1596 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1597 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1601 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1604 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1605 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1606 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1607 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1608 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1609 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1610 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1611 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1612 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1613 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1614 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1615 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1616 passed any switches.
1617 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1621 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1624 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1625 at all for a long while.
1626 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1627 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1628 large chunks in the process.
1629 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1630 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1631 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1636 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1639 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1641 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1646 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1649 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1650 that don't always have the same files in them.
1651 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1652 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1653 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1661 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1662 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1663 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1664 updating 27 man pages.
1665 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1666 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1667 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1668 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1669 programs act on. (#25247)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1677 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1678 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1679 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1680 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1681 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1682 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1687 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1694 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1701 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1704 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1708 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1714 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1717 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1718 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1719 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1720 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1721 package by accident.
1722 * Is version 1.0 next?
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1726 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1729 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1730 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1734 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1737 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1738 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1739 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1740 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1741 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1743 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1748 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1751 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1752 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1756 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1759 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1763 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1766 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1767 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1772 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1778 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1781 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1782 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1787 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1793 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1796 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1797 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1798 past week. Thanks, guys!
1800 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1801 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1802 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1803 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1804 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1805 would do in the same situation.
1806 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1807 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1809 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1811 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1812 permissions changed.
1813 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1814 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1815 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1816 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1817 files are treated identically.
1818 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1819 * Minor man page fixes.
1820 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1821 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1822 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1826 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1829 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1830 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1831 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1832 use -X multiple times, too.
1833 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1834 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1838 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1841 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1842 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1846 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1849 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1853 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1856 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1857 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1858 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1859 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1860 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1861 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1862 shape if you're starting a new package.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1866 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1869 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1873 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1876 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1877 because of missing symlinks.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1881 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1887 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1890 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1891 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1892 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1893 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1894 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1896 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1897 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1901 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1903 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1904 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1905 to be changed after the fact :-)
1906 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1910 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1913 no version string after the -V.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1919 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1920 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1925 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1928 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1932 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1935 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1936 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1937 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1938 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1939 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1940 I always welcome corrections!
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1944 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1950 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1953 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1954 * Documented this new switch.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1958 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1961 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1962 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1963 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1964 no packages use the old behavior.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1968 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1971 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1972 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1976 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1979 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1983 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1989 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1992 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1996 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1999 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2000 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2001 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2005 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2011 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2014 into the source package by accident.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2018 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2021 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2022 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2023 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2024 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2025 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2026 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2031 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2035 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2036 inspired to implement some of it.
2037 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2041 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2044 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2048 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2051 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2052 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2056 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2059 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2060 have done.) (#17598)
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2064 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2070 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2076 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2079 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2083 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2086 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2087 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2091 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2094 argument processor in perl.
2095 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2096 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2097 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2098 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2105 type directories. (#16933)
2106 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2107 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2108 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2109 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2110 are supported. (#16935)
2111 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2116 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2119 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2123 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2127 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2128 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2129 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2130 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2131 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2132 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2136 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2139 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2140 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2142 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2143 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2144 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2145 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2146 a given package, or -i or -a.
2147 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2148 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2149 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2150 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2151 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2152 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2153 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2154 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2155 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2157 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2158 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2159 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2163 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2166 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2167 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2172 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2175 does not have a section.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2179 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2182 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2183 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2184 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2188 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Fixed typo #16215.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2194 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2197 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2198 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2199 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2200 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2201 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2206 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2209 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2210 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2211 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2216 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2228 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2231 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2232 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2233 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2234 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2235 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2236 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2240 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2246 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2249 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2253 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2256 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2257 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2258 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2262 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2265 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2269 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2275 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2278 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2282 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2285 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2289 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2295 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2298 postinst, postrm, etc.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2308 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2311 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2312 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2313 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2314 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2315 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2319 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2322 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2323 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2327 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2330 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2334 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2337 installing package files into.
2338 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2343 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2347 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2351 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2357 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2360 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2364 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2367 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2368 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2369 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2370 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2374 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2376 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2377 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2378 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2379 multiple binary packages.
2380 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2381 should rebuild them with this version.
2382 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2386 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2389 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2393 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2396 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2400 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2403 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2404 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2405 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2406 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2407 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2408 debian/README.debian.
2409 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2410 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2411 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2412 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2413 in a few situations.)
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2417 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2423 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2429 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2432 * Fixed several man pages.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2436 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2439 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2440 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2444 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2447 is ready for general use.
2448 * Added man pages for all commands.
2449 * Multiple binary package support.
2450 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2451 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2452 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2454 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2455 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2456 auto-installed as parameters.
2457 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2459 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2462 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2463 the package build directory it is to act on.
2464 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2465 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2466 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2470 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2472 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2473 ready to replace debstd.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400