1 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
6 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
10 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
19 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
26 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
27 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
33 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
42 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
46 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
48 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
49 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
50 for the dependancies to be generated.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
54 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
57 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
64 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
65 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
66 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
71 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
74 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
75 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
94 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
98 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
106 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
107 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
108 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
109 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
110 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
111 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
112 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
113 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
114 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
115 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
116 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
117 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
118 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
122 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
124 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
125 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
126 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
128 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
129 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
130 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
131 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
132 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
133 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
135 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
136 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
143 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
156 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
157 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
162 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
165 for building debhelper.
166 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fixed makefile commit target.
180 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
184 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
187 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
188 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
189 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
190 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
191 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
192 it's always available.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
199 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
200 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
201 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
208 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
209 modules. (Closes: #42171)
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
213 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
222 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
235 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
236 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
237 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
244 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
249 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
252 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
253 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
255 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
256 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
272 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
274 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
275 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
279 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
282 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
283 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
285 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
292 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
293 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
294 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
301 things if CDPATH is set.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
314 seems to make sense for the transition.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
321 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
329 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
330 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
334 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
337 that version. (Closes: #40589)
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
341 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
343 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
344 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
345 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
346 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
347 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
351 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
360 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
361 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
362 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
363 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
364 * debhelper.1: documented this.
365 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
366 current compatability level is equal to that number.
367 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
368 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
369 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
374 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
376 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
377 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
378 * README: mention doc/v2
379 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
380 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
384 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
386 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
387 be using this script RSN.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
391 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
394 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
395 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
396 more than 1 init script.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
400 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
403 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
407 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Changed perl version detection.
410 * Changed call to find.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
414 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
417 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
419 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
424 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Really include dh_installpam.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
430 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
433 * Wrote man page for same.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
437 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
440 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
441 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
446 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
453 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
456 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
457 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
458 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
463 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
466 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
467 well. (Closes: 38900)
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
471 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
474 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
475 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
479 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
492 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
498 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
500 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
501 help from Julian Gilbey.
502 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
503 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
504 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
505 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
506 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
507 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
508 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
513 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
519 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
521 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
526 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
532 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
538 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
541 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
545 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
548 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
552 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
555 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
559 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
565 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
568 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
572 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
574 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
578 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
580 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
587 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
588 may be deleted. (#35845)
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
592 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Various man page enhancements.
595 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
600 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
603 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
604 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
608 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
611 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
612 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
613 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
615 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
616 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
621 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
627 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Another very minor typo fix.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Very minor typo fix.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
639 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
642 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
643 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
647 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
655 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
656 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
657 variables properly (#34850).
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
661 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
663 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
667 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
670 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
671 (automatically generated by build process).
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
675 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
677 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
681 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
684 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
685 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
687 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
691 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
694 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
698 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
700 * README: minor typo fix.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
704 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
707 leave it at that. :-)
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
711 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
726 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
727 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
728 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
732 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
735 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
739 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
742 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
746 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
749 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
750 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
751 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
752 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
759 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
760 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
761 Craig Small for spotting this.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
765 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
768 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
769 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
773 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
779 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
782 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
788 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
789 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
790 working on the last version of debhelper.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
801 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
803 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
810 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
814 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
816 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
817 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
818 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
819 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
820 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
824 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
827 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
828 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
829 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
830 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
832 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
833 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
835 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
842 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
852 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
855 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
856 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
857 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
858 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
859 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
860 suidregister actually supports it.
861 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
862 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
866 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
873 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
876 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
877 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
878 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
879 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
880 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
881 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
882 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
886 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
888 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
889 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
893 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
896 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
897 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
898 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
899 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
903 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
906 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
908 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
909 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
910 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
911 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
912 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
913 effect, either. (#30118)
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
926 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
927 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
931 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Spelling and typo fixes.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
937 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
939 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
940 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
941 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
942 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
943 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
947 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
950 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
951 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
955 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
957 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
961 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
964 packages, painlessly.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
968 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
974 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
980 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
986 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
988 * The perl conversion is complete.
990 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
992 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
993 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
994 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
999 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1002 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1003 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1004 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1008 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1011 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1013 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1015 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1016 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1020 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1023 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1024 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1037 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1038 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1039 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1040 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1041 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1045 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1048 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1049 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1050 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1051 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1055 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1058 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1062 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1065 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1066 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1067 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1068 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1069 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1070 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1071 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1072 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1076 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1085 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1086 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1087 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1092 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1095 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1099 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1102 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1106 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1109 sections of shared libraries.
1110 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1111 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1112 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1113 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1114 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1115 things you don't want them to.
1116 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1117 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1124 shared libraries. (#26414)
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1128 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1130 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1131 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1132 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1133 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1137 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1141 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1143 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1144 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1145 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1146 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1147 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1154 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1161 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1162 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1167 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1170 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1174 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1177 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1178 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1179 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1180 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1181 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1183 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1184 remove debian/files properly.
1185 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1186 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1187 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1188 * Removed bogus menu file.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1192 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1195 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1199 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1202 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1203 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1204 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1205 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1206 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1207 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1211 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1214 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1215 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1216 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1217 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1221 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1228 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1231 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1232 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1234 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1235 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1236 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1237 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1238 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1239 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1243 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1246 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1247 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1248 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1249 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1250 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1251 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1252 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1253 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1254 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1255 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1256 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1257 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1258 passed any switches.
1259 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1263 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1266 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1267 at all for a long while.
1268 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1269 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1270 large chunks in the process.
1271 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1272 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1273 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1281 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1283 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1288 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1291 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1292 that don't always have the same files in them.
1293 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1294 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1295 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1299 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1303 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1304 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1305 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1306 updating 27 man pages.
1307 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1308 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1309 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1310 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1311 programs act on. (#25247)
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1315 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1319 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1320 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1321 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1322 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1323 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1324 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1329 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1336 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1343 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1346 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1350 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1356 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1359 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1360 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1361 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1362 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1363 package by accident.
1364 * Is version 1.0 next?
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1368 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1371 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1372 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1376 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1379 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1380 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1381 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1382 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1383 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1385 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1390 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1393 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1394 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1398 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1401 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1405 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1408 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1409 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1414 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1420 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1423 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1424 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1429 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1435 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1438 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1439 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1440 past week. Thanks, guys!
1442 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1443 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1444 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1445 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1446 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1447 would do in the same situation.
1448 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1449 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1451 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1453 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1454 permissions changed.
1455 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1456 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1457 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1458 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1459 files are treated identically.
1460 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1461 * Minor man page fixes.
1462 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1463 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1464 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1468 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1471 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1472 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1473 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1474 use -X multiple times, too.
1475 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1476 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1480 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1483 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1484 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1488 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1491 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1495 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1498 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1499 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1500 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1501 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1502 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1503 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1504 shape if you're starting a new package.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1508 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1511 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1515 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1518 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1519 because of missing symlinks.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1523 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1532 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1533 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1534 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1535 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1536 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1538 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1539 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1543 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1545 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1546 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1547 to be changed after the fact :-)
1548 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1552 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1555 no version string after the -V.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1559 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1561 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1562 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1567 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1570 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1574 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1577 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1578 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1579 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1580 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1581 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1582 I always welcome corrections!
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1586 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1592 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1595 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1596 * Documented this new switch.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1600 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1603 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1604 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1605 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1606 no packages use the old behavior.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1610 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1613 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1614 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1618 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1621 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1625 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1631 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1634 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1638 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1641 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1642 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1643 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1647 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1653 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1656 into the source package by accident.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1660 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1663 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1664 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1665 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1666 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1667 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1668 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1673 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1677 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1678 inspired to implement some of it.
1679 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1683 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1686 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1690 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1693 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1694 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1698 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1701 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1702 have done.) (#17598)
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1706 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1712 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1721 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1725 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1728 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1729 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1733 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1736 argument processor in perl.
1737 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1738 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1739 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1740 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1744 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1747 type directories. (#16933)
1748 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1749 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1750 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1751 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1752 are supported. (#16935)
1753 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1758 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1761 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1765 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1769 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1770 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1771 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1772 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1773 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1774 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1781 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1782 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1784 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1785 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1786 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1787 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1788 a given package, or -i or -a.
1789 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1790 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1791 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1792 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1793 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1794 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1795 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1796 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1797 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1799 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1800 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1801 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1805 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1808 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1809 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1814 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1817 does not have a section.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1824 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1825 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1826 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1830 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fixed typo #16215.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1836 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1839 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1840 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1841 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1842 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1843 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1848 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1851 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1852 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1853 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1858 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1864 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1870 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1873 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1874 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1875 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1876 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1877 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1878 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1882 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1888 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1891 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1895 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1898 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1899 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1900 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1904 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1907 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1911 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1917 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1920 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1924 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1927 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1931 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1940 postinst, postrm, etc.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1944 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1950 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1953 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1954 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1955 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1956 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1957 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1961 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1964 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1965 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1972 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1976 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1979 installing package files into.
1980 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1985 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1989 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1993 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1999 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2002 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2006 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2009 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2010 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2011 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2012 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2016 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2018 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2019 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2020 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2021 multiple binary packages.
2022 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2023 should rebuild them with this version.
2024 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2028 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2031 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2035 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2038 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2042 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2045 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2046 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2047 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2048 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2049 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2050 debian/README.debian.
2051 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2052 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2053 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2054 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2055 in a few situations.)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2059 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2065 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2071 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2074 * Fixed several man pages.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2078 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2081 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2082 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2086 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2089 is ready for general use.
2090 * Added man pages for all commands.
2091 * Multiple binary package support.
2092 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2093 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2094 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2096 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2097 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2098 auto-installed as parameters.
2099 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2101 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2104 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2105 the package build directory it is to act on.
2106 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2107 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2108 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2112 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2114 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2115 ready to replace debstd.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400