1 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
9 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
15 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
22 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
28 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
34 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
40 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
43 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
44 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
45 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
46 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
47 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
48 bits until all files have been registered.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
52 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
55 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
56 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
57 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
58 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
59 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
60 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
61 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
62 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
63 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
64 otherwise change the result at all.
66 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
67 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
68 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
69 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
70 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
75 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
81 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
84 act on files that don't exist.
85 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
86 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
87 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
89 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
90 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
91 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
92 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
96 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
102 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
108 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
111 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
115 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
118 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
120 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
121 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
122 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
126 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
129 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
130 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
131 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
132 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
133 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
134 does not compress. Closes: #41733
135 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
137 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
139 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
143 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
150 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
156 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
162 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
165 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
184 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
185 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
186 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
187 I made some changes, though:
188 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
189 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
190 that is a clear violation of policy.
191 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
192 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
193 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
194 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
195 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
196 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
197 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
198 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
199 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
201 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
214 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
218 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
221 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
222 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
227 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
233 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
243 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
244 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
245 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
246 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
247 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
248 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
249 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
253 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
259 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
263 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
264 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
268 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
277 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
284 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
285 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
291 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
300 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
306 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
307 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
308 for the dependancies to be generated.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
315 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
322 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
323 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
324 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
332 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
333 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
349 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
352 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
356 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
364 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
365 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
366 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
367 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
368 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
369 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
370 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
371 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
372 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
373 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
374 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
375 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
376 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
380 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
382 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
383 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
384 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
386 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
387 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
388 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
389 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
390 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
391 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
393 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
394 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
401 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
414 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
415 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
423 for building debhelper.
424 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
428 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
435 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Fixed makefile commit target.
438 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
445 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
446 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
447 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
448 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
449 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
450 it's always available.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
457 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
458 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
459 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
466 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
467 modules. (Closes: #42171)
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
471 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
480 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
490 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
493 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
494 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
495 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
499 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
502 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
507 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
510 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
511 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
513 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
514 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
524 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
532 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
533 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
537 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
540 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
541 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
543 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
547 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
550 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
551 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
552 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
556 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
559 things if CDPATH is set.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
569 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
572 seems to make sense for the transition.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
579 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
584 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
587 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
588 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
592 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
595 that version. (Closes: #40589)
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
599 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
601 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
602 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
603 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
604 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
605 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
618 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
619 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
620 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
621 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
622 * debhelper.1: documented this.
623 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
624 current compatability level is equal to that number.
625 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
626 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
627 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
632 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
634 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
635 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
636 * README: mention doc/v2
637 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
638 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
642 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
644 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
645 be using this script RSN.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
649 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
652 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
653 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
654 more than 1 init script.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
658 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
661 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
665 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Changed perl version detection.
668 * Changed call to find.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
672 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
675 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
677 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Really include dh_installpam.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
688 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
691 * Wrote man page for same.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
695 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
698 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
699 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
704 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
711 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
714 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
715 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
716 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
721 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
724 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
725 well. (Closes: 38900)
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
732 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
733 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
737 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
743 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
750 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
756 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
758 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
759 help from Julian Gilbey.
760 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
761 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
762 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
763 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
764 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
765 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
766 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
771 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
777 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
779 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
784 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
796 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
799 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
803 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
806 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
810 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
813 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
817 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
823 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
826 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
830 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
832 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
838 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
842 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
845 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
846 may be deleted. (#35845)
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
850 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Various man page enhancements.
853 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
858 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
861 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
862 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
866 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
869 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
870 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
871 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
873 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
874 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
879 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
885 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Another very minor typo fix.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
891 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Very minor typo fix.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
897 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
900 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
901 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
905 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
911 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
913 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
914 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
915 variables properly (#34850).
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
921 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
928 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
929 (automatically generated by build process).
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
933 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
935 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
939 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
942 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
943 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
945 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
952 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
958 * README: minor typo fix.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
962 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
965 leave it at that. :-)
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
969 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
975 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
981 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
984 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
985 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
986 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
993 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
997 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1000 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1007 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1008 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1009 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1010 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1014 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1017 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1018 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1019 Craig Small for spotting this.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1023 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1026 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1027 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1031 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1037 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1040 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1044 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1046 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1047 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1048 working on the last version of debhelper.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1052 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1055 being made. (#23255)
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1059 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1065 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1068 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1072 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1075 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1076 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1077 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1078 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1085 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1086 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1087 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1088 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1090 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1091 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1093 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1098 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1104 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1110 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1113 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1114 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1115 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1116 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1117 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1118 suidregister actually supports it.
1119 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1120 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1124 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1131 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1134 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1135 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1136 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1137 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1138 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1139 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1140 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1144 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1146 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1147 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1151 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1154 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1155 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1156 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1157 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1164 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1166 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1167 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1168 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1169 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1170 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1171 effect, either. (#30118)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1175 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1181 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1184 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1185 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1189 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1198 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1199 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1200 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1201 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1208 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1209 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1213 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1219 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1222 packages, painlessly.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1226 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1232 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1238 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1244 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * The perl conversion is complete.
1248 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1250 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1251 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1252 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1257 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1260 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1261 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1262 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1269 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1271 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1273 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1274 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1281 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1282 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1286 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1292 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1295 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1296 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1297 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1298 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1299 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1303 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1306 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1307 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1308 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1309 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1313 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1316 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1323 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1324 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1325 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1326 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1327 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1328 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1329 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1330 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1340 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1343 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1344 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1345 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1350 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1353 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1357 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1360 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1367 sections of shared libraries.
1368 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1369 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1370 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1371 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1372 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1373 things you don't want them to.
1374 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1375 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1382 shared libraries. (#26414)
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1388 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1389 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1390 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1391 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1399 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1401 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1402 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1403 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1404 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1405 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1409 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1412 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1419 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1420 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1425 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1428 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1432 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1435 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1436 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1437 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1438 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1439 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1441 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1442 remove debian/files properly.
1443 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1444 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1445 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1446 * Removed bogus menu file.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1453 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1457 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1460 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1461 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1462 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1463 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1464 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1465 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1472 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1473 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1474 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1475 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1489 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1490 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1492 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1493 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1494 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1495 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1496 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1497 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1501 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1504 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1505 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1506 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1507 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1508 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1509 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1510 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1511 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1512 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1513 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1514 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1515 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1516 passed any switches.
1517 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1521 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1524 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1525 at all for a long while.
1526 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1527 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1528 large chunks in the process.
1529 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1530 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1531 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1536 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1539 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1541 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1546 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1549 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1550 that don't always have the same files in them.
1551 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1552 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1553 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1561 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1562 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1563 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1564 updating 27 man pages.
1565 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1566 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1567 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1568 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1569 programs act on. (#25247)
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1577 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1578 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1579 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1580 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1581 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1582 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1587 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1594 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1601 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1604 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1608 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1614 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1617 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1618 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1619 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1620 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1621 package by accident.
1622 * Is version 1.0 next?
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1626 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1629 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1630 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1634 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1637 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1638 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1639 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1640 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1641 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1643 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1648 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1651 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1652 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1656 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1659 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1663 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1666 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1667 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1672 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1678 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1681 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1682 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1687 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1693 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1696 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1697 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1698 past week. Thanks, guys!
1700 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1701 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1702 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1703 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1704 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1705 would do in the same situation.
1706 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1707 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1709 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1711 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1712 permissions changed.
1713 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1714 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1715 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1716 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1717 files are treated identically.
1718 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1719 * Minor man page fixes.
1720 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1721 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1722 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1726 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1729 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1730 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1731 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1732 use -X multiple times, too.
1733 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1734 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1738 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1741 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1742 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1746 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1749 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1753 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1756 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1757 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1758 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1759 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1760 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1761 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1762 shape if you're starting a new package.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1766 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1769 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1773 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1776 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1777 because of missing symlinks.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1781 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1787 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1790 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1791 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1792 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1793 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1794 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1796 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1797 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1801 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1803 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1804 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1805 to be changed after the fact :-)
1806 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1810 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1813 no version string after the -V.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1817 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1819 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1820 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1825 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1828 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1832 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1835 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1836 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1837 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1838 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1839 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1840 I always welcome corrections!
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1844 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1850 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1853 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1854 * Documented this new switch.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1858 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1861 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1862 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1863 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1864 no packages use the old behavior.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1868 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1871 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1872 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1876 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1879 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1883 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1889 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1892 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1896 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1899 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1900 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1901 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1905 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1911 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1914 into the source package by accident.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1918 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1921 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1922 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1923 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1924 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1925 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1926 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1931 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1935 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1936 inspired to implement some of it.
1937 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1941 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1944 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1948 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1951 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1952 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1956 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1959 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1960 have done.) (#17598)
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1964 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1970 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1976 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1979 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1983 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1986 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1987 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1994 argument processor in perl.
1995 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1996 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1997 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1998 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2002 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2005 type directories. (#16933)
2006 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2007 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2008 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2009 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2010 are supported. (#16935)
2011 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2016 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2019 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2023 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2027 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2028 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2029 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2030 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2031 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2032 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2036 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2039 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2040 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2042 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2043 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2044 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2045 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2046 a given package, or -i or -a.
2047 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2048 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2049 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2050 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2051 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2052 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2053 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2054 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2055 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2057 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2058 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2059 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2063 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2066 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2067 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2072 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2075 does not have a section.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2079 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2082 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2083 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2084 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Fixed typo #16215.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2094 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2097 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2098 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2099 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2100 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2101 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2106 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2109 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2110 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2111 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2116 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2122 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2128 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2131 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2132 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2133 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2134 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2135 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2136 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2140 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2146 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2149 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2153 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2156 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2157 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2158 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2165 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2169 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2178 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2182 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2185 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2189 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2195 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2198 postinst, postrm, etc.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2202 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2208 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2211 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2212 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2213 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2214 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2215 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2219 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2222 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2223 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2227 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2230 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2234 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2237 installing package files into.
2238 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2243 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2247 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2251 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2257 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2260 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2264 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2267 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2268 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2269 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2270 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2274 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2276 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2277 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2278 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2279 multiple binary packages.
2280 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2281 should rebuild them with this version.
2282 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2286 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2289 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2293 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2296 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2300 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2303 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2304 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2305 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2306 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2307 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2308 debian/README.debian.
2309 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2310 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2311 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2312 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2313 in a few situations.)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2317 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2323 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2329 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2332 * Fixed several man pages.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2336 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2339 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2340 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2344 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2347 is ready for general use.
2348 * Added man pages for all commands.
2349 * Multiple binary package support.
2350 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2351 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2352 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2354 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2355 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2356 auto-installed as parameters.
2357 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2359 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2362 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2363 the package build directory it is to act on.
2364 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2365 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2366 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2370 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2372 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2373 ready to replace debstd.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400