1 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
6 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
10 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
13 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
18 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
21 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
22 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
24 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
25 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
35 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
41 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
43 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
44 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
48 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
51 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
52 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
54 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
61 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
62 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
63 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
70 things if CDPATH is set.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
83 seems to make sense for the transition.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
90 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
95 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
98 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
99 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
103 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
106 that version. (Closes: #40589)
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
112 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
113 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
114 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
115 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
116 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
120 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
129 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
130 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
131 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
132 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
133 * debhelper.1: documented this.
134 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
135 current compatability level is equal to that number.
136 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
137 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
138 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
143 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
145 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
146 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
147 * README: mention doc/v2
148 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
149 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
153 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
155 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
156 be using this script RSN.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
160 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
163 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
164 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
165 more than 1 init script.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
169 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
172 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
176 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Changed perl version detection.
179 * Changed call to find.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
183 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
186 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
188 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
193 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Really include dh_installpam.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
199 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
202 * Wrote man page for same.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
206 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
209 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
210 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
215 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
222 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
225 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
226 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
227 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
232 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
235 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
236 well. (Closes: 38900)
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
240 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
243 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
244 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
248 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
254 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
261 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
267 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
269 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
270 help from Julian Gilbey.
271 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
272 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
273 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
274 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
275 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
276 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
277 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
282 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
288 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
290 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
295 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
301 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
307 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
310 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
314 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
317 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
321 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
324 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
328 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
334 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
337 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
341 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
343 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
347 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
349 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
353 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
356 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
357 may be deleted. (#35845)
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
361 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Various man page enhancements.
364 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
372 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
373 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
380 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
381 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
382 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
384 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
385 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
390 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
396 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Another very minor typo fix.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
402 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Very minor typo fix.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
408 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
411 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
412 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
416 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
422 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
424 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
425 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
426 variables properly (#34850).
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
430 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
432 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
436 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
439 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
440 (automatically generated by build process).
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
444 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
446 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
450 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
453 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
454 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
456 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
460 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
463 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
467 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
469 * README: minor typo fix.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
473 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
476 leave it at that. :-)
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
480 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
486 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
492 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
495 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
496 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
497 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
501 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
504 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
508 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
511 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
515 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
518 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
519 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
520 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
521 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
525 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
528 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
529 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
530 Craig Small for spotting this.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
534 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
537 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
538 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
542 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
548 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
551 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
555 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
557 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
558 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
559 working on the last version of debhelper.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
563 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
570 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
572 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
576 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
579 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
583 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
585 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
586 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
587 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
588 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
589 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
593 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
596 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
597 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
598 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
599 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
601 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
602 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
604 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
609 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
611 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
615 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
621 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
624 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
625 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
626 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
627 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
628 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
629 suidregister actually supports it.
630 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
631 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
635 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
642 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
645 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
646 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
647 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
648 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
649 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
650 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
651 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
655 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
657 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
658 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
662 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
665 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
666 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
667 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
668 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
672 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
675 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
677 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
678 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
679 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
680 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
681 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
682 effect, either. (#30118)
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
692 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
695 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
696 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
700 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Spelling and typo fixes.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
706 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
708 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
709 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
710 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
711 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
712 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
716 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
719 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
720 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
724 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
726 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
730 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
733 packages, painlessly.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
737 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
755 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
757 * The perl conversion is complete.
759 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
761 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
762 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
763 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
768 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
771 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
772 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
773 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
780 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
782 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
784 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
785 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
789 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
792 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
793 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
803 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
805 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
806 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
807 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
808 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
809 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
810 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
814 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
817 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
818 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
819 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
820 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
824 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
827 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
831 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
834 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
835 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
836 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
837 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
838 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
839 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
840 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
841 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
845 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
851 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
854 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
855 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
856 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
861 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
864 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
868 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
871 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
875 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
878 sections of shared libraries.
879 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
880 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
881 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
882 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
883 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
884 things you don't want them to.
885 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
886 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
890 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
893 shared libraries. (#26414)
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
897 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
899 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
900 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
901 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
902 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
906 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
910 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
912 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
913 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
914 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
915 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
916 the program to not fail. (#26214)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
920 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
923 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
927 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
930 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
931 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
936 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
939 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
943 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
945 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
946 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
947 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
948 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
949 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
950 I apologize for the inconvenience.
952 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
953 remove debian/files properly.
954 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
955 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
956 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
957 * Removed bogus menu file.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
961 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
964 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
968 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
971 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
972 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
973 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
974 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
975 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
976 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
980 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
982 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
983 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
984 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
985 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
986 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
990 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
997 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1000 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1001 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1003 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1004 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1005 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1006 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1007 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1008 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1015 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1016 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1017 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1018 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1019 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1020 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1021 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1022 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1023 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1024 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1025 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1026 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1027 passed any switches.
1028 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1032 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1035 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1036 at all for a long while.
1037 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1038 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1039 large chunks in the process.
1040 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1041 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1042 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1047 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1050 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1052 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1057 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1060 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1061 that don't always have the same files in them.
1062 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1063 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1064 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1072 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1073 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1074 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1075 updating 27 man pages.
1076 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1077 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1078 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1079 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1080 programs act on. (#25247)
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1084 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1088 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1089 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1090 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1091 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1092 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1093 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1098 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1105 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1112 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1115 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1119 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1125 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1128 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1129 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1130 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1131 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1132 package by accident.
1133 * Is version 1.0 next?
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1137 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1140 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1141 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1145 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1148 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1149 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1150 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1151 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1152 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1154 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1159 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1162 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1163 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1167 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1170 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1174 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1177 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1178 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1183 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1189 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1192 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1193 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1198 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1204 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1207 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1208 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1209 past week. Thanks, guys!
1211 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1212 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1213 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1214 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1215 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1216 would do in the same situation.
1217 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1218 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1220 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1222 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1223 permissions changed.
1224 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1225 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1226 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1227 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1228 files are treated identically.
1229 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1230 * Minor man page fixes.
1231 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1232 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1233 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1237 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1240 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1241 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1242 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1243 use -X multiple times, too.
1244 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1245 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1249 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1252 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1253 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1257 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1260 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1264 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1267 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1268 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1269 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1270 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1271 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1272 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1273 shape if you're starting a new package.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1277 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1280 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1284 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1287 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1288 because of missing symlinks.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1292 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1298 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1301 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1302 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1303 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1304 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1305 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1307 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1308 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1312 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1314 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1315 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1316 to be changed after the fact :-)
1317 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1321 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1324 no version string after the -V.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1328 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1330 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1331 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1336 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1339 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1343 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1346 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1347 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1348 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1349 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1350 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1351 I always welcome corrections!
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1355 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1361 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1364 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1365 * Documented this new switch.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1369 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1372 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1373 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1374 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1375 no packages use the old behavior.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1379 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1382 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1383 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1387 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1390 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1394 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1400 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1403 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1407 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1410 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1411 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1412 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1416 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1422 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1425 into the source package by accident.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1429 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1432 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1433 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1434 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1435 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1436 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1437 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1442 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1446 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1447 inspired to implement some of it.
1448 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1452 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1455 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1459 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1462 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1463 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1467 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1470 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1471 have done.) (#17598)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1475 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1481 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1487 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1490 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1494 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1497 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1498 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1502 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1505 argument processor in perl.
1506 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1507 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1508 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1509 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1513 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1516 type directories. (#16933)
1517 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1518 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1519 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1520 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1521 are supported. (#16935)
1522 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1527 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1530 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1534 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1538 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1539 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1540 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1541 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1542 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1543 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1547 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1550 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1551 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1553 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1554 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1555 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1556 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1557 a given package, or -i or -a.
1558 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1559 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1560 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1561 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1562 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1563 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1564 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1565 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1566 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1568 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1569 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1570 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1574 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1577 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1578 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1583 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1586 does not have a section.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1590 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1593 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1594 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1595 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1599 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Fixed typo #16215.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1605 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1608 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1609 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1610 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1611 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1612 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1617 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1620 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1621 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1622 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1627 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1633 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1639 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1642 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1643 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1644 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1645 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1646 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1647 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1651 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1657 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1660 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1664 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1667 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1668 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1669 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1673 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1676 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1680 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1686 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1689 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1693 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1696 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1700 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1706 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1709 postinst, postrm, etc.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1713 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1719 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1722 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1723 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1724 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1725 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1726 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1730 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1733 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1734 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1738 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1741 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1745 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1748 installing package files into.
1749 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1754 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1758 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1762 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1768 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1771 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1775 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1778 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1779 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1780 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1781 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1785 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1787 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1788 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1789 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1790 multiple binary packages.
1791 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1792 should rebuild them with this version.
1793 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1797 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1800 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1804 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1807 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1811 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1814 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1815 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1816 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1817 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1818 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1819 debian/README.debian.
1820 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1821 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1822 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1823 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1824 in a few situations.)
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1828 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1834 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1840 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1843 * Fixed several man pages.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1847 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1850 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1851 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1855 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1858 is ready for general use.
1859 * Added man pages for all commands.
1860 * Multiple binary package support.
1861 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1862 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1863 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1865 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1866 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1867 auto-installed as parameters.
1868 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1870 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1873 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1874 the package build directory it is to act on.
1875 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1876 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1877 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1881 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1883 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1884 ready to replace debstd.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400