1 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
5 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
9 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
11 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
12 they were previously ignored.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
16 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
18 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
19 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
23 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
26 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
27 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
31 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
33 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
37 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
39 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
40 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
44 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
46 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
47 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
48 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
49 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
50 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
51 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
52 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
53 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
54 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
55 it is an obsolete program.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
59 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
61 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
65 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
69 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
71 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
75 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
77 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
79 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
81 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
85 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
91 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
93 * typo: Closes, #78567
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
97 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
103 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
109 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
111 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
112 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
113 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
114 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
115 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
116 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
120 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
123 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
128 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
131 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
132 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
133 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
134 backwards-compatability.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
138 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
140 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
141 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
142 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
143 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
144 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
145 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
146 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
148 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
149 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
150 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
152 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
154 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
155 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
156 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
157 should now be raised to severity important..
158 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
159 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
163 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
166 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
171 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Typo, Closes: #77441
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
177 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Completed the fix from the last version.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
183 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
189 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
191 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
196 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
199 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
200 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
201 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
202 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
206 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
212 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
215 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
216 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
217 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
218 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
219 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
220 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
225 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
228 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
232 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
238 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
241 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
246 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
249 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
250 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
251 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
252 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
256 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
260 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
263 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
266 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
267 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
270 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
272 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
273 the TODO entry about it.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
277 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
284 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
287 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
288 prevent that. Closes: #73052
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
292 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Typo, Closes: #72932
295 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
296 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
297 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
298 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
302 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
308 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
315 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
318 (this appears to be logal).
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
322 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
325 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
326 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
327 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
328 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
332 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
338 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
340 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
341 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
342 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
343 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
344 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
348 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
354 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
357 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
361 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
368 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
371 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
372 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
373 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
378 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
385 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
391 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
393 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
394 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
395 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
396 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
397 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
398 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
399 notice until v2 is complete.
400 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
401 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
402 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
403 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
404 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
405 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
407 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
408 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
409 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
410 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
420 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
430 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
441 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
444 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
445 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
446 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
447 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
452 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
455 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
456 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
457 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
465 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
466 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
470 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
473 just skip files that end in -\d+.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
480 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
493 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
494 depend on the build and install targets.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
501 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
512 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
518 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
524 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
527 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
528 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
529 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
530 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
531 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
532 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
534 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
535 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
536 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
537 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
538 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
539 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
540 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
544 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
550 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
556 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
559 right place. Closes: #55065
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
563 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
570 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Make all examples rules files executable.
573 * Copyright date updates.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
577 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
580 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
585 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
591 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
598 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
604 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
610 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
616 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
619 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
620 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
621 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
622 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
623 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
624 bits until all files have been registered.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
628 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installmanpages:
631 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
632 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
633 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
634 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
635 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
636 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
637 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
638 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
639 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
640 otherwise change the result at all.
642 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
643 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
644 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
645 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
646 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
651 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
657 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
660 act on files that don't exist.
661 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
662 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
663 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
665 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
666 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
667 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
668 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
672 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
678 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
684 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
687 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
691 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
694 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
696 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
697 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
698 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
702 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
705 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
706 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
707 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
708 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
709 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
710 does not compress. Closes: #41733
711 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
713 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
715 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
719 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
726 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
732 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
738 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
741 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
745 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
751 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
760 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
761 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
762 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
763 I made some changes, though:
764 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
765 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
766 that is a clear violation of policy.
767 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
768 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
769 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
770 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
771 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
772 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
773 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
774 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
775 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
777 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
781 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
790 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
797 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
798 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
809 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
816 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
819 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
820 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
821 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
822 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
823 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
824 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
825 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
829 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
839 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
840 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
850 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
853 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
857 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
860 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
861 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
867 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
876 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
882 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
883 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
884 for the dependancies to be generated.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
891 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
898 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
899 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
900 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
908 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
909 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
919 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
925 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
928 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
932 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
938 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
940 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
941 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
942 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
943 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
944 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
945 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
946 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
947 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
948 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
949 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
950 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
951 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
952 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
958 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
959 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
960 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
962 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
963 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
964 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
965 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
966 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
967 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
969 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
970 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
974 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
977 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
981 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
988 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
990 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
991 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
999 for building debhelper.
1000 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1014 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1021 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1022 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1023 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1024 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1025 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1026 it's always available.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1033 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1034 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1035 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1042 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1043 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1056 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1069 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1070 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1071 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1078 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1086 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1087 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1089 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1090 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1109 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1116 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1117 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1119 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1126 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1127 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1128 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1135 things if CDPATH is set.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1148 seems to make sense for the transition.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1155 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1163 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1164 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1171 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1178 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1179 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1180 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1181 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1194 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1195 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1196 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1197 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1198 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1199 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1200 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1201 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1202 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1203 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1208 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1211 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1212 * README: mention doc/v2
1213 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1214 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1221 be using this script RSN.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1225 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1228 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1229 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1230 more than 1 init script.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1234 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1237 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Changed perl version detection.
1244 * Changed call to find.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1251 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1253 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1258 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Really include dh_installpam.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1264 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1267 * Wrote man page for same.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1271 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1274 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1275 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1280 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1287 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1290 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1291 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1292 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1293 x bit was being set!
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1297 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1300 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1301 well. (Closes: 38900)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1308 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1309 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1313 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1319 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1326 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1332 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1335 help from Julian Gilbey.
1336 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1337 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1338 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1339 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1340 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1341 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1342 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1347 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1360 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1366 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1375 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1382 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1386 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1389 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1399 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1402 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1406 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1421 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1422 may be deleted. (#35845)
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Various man page enhancements.
1429 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1434 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1437 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1438 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1442 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1445 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1446 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1447 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1449 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1450 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1455 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1461 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Another very minor typo fix.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1467 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Very minor typo fix.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1473 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1476 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1477 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1481 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1487 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1490 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1491 variables properly (#34850).
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1495 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1501 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1504 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1505 (automatically generated by build process).
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1509 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1511 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1515 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1518 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1519 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1521 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1525 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1528 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1532 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * README: minor typo fix.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1538 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1541 leave it at that. :-)
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1545 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1551 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1557 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1560 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1561 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1562 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1566 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1569 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1573 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1576 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1580 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1583 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1584 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1585 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1586 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1590 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1593 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1594 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1595 Craig Small for spotting this.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1599 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1602 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1603 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1607 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1613 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1616 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1620 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1622 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1623 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1624 working on the last version of debhelper.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1628 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1631 being made. (#23255)
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1635 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1641 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1644 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1648 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1651 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1652 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1653 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1654 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1658 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1661 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1662 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1663 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1664 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1666 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1667 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1669 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1674 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1680 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1686 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1689 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1690 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1691 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1692 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1693 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1694 suidregister actually supports it.
1695 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1696 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1700 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1707 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1710 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1711 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1712 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1713 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1714 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1715 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1716 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1720 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1722 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1723 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1727 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1730 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1731 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1732 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1733 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1740 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1742 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1743 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1744 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1745 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1746 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1747 effect, either. (#30118)
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1757 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1760 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1761 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1765 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1771 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1774 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1775 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1776 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1777 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1781 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1784 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1785 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1789 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1795 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1798 packages, painlessly.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1808 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1814 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1820 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * The perl conversion is complete.
1824 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1826 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1827 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1828 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1833 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1836 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1837 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1838 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1842 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1845 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1847 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1849 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1850 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1857 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1858 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1862 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1868 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1871 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1872 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1873 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1874 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1875 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1879 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1882 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1883 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1884 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1885 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1889 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1892 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1896 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1899 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1900 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1901 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1902 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1903 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1904 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1905 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1906 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1910 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1916 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1919 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1920 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1921 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1926 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1929 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1933 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1936 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1943 sections of shared libraries.
1944 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1945 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1946 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1947 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1948 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1949 things you don't want them to.
1950 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1951 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1955 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1958 shared libraries. (#26414)
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1962 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1964 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1965 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1966 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1967 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1975 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1977 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1978 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1979 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1980 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1981 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1988 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1992 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1995 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1996 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2004 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2008 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2011 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2012 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2013 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2014 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2015 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2017 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2018 remove debian/files properly.
2019 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2020 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2021 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2022 * Removed bogus menu file.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2029 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2036 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2037 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2038 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2039 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2040 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2041 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2045 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2048 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2049 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2050 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2051 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2065 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2066 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2068 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2069 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2070 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2071 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2072 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2073 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2077 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2080 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2081 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2082 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2083 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2084 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2085 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2086 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2087 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2088 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2089 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2090 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2091 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2092 passed any switches.
2093 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2097 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2100 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2101 at all for a long while.
2102 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2103 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2104 large chunks in the process.
2105 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2106 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2107 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2112 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2115 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2117 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2125 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2126 that don't always have the same files in them.
2127 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2128 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2129 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2137 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2138 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2139 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2140 updating 27 man pages.
2141 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2142 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2143 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2144 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2145 programs act on. (#25247)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2153 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2154 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2155 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2156 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2157 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2158 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2163 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2170 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2177 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2180 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2184 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2190 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2193 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2194 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2195 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2196 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2197 package by accident.
2198 * Is version 1.0 next?
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2202 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2205 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2206 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2210 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2213 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2214 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2215 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2216 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2217 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2219 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2224 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2227 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2228 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2232 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2235 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2239 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2242 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2243 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2248 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2254 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2257 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2258 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2263 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2269 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2272 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2273 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2274 past week. Thanks, guys!
2276 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2277 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2278 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2279 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2280 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2281 would do in the same situation.
2282 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2283 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2285 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2287 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2288 permissions changed.
2289 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2290 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2291 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2292 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2293 files are treated identically.
2294 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2295 * Minor man page fixes.
2296 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2297 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2298 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2302 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2305 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2306 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2307 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2308 use -X multiple times, too.
2309 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2310 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2314 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2317 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2318 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2322 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2325 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2329 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2332 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2333 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2334 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2335 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2336 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2337 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2338 shape if you're starting a new package.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2342 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2345 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2349 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2352 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2353 because of missing symlinks.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2357 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2363 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2366 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2367 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2368 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2369 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2370 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2372 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2373 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2377 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2379 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2380 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2381 to be changed after the fact :-)
2382 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2386 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2389 no version string after the -V.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2393 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2395 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2396 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2401 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2404 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2408 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2411 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2412 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2413 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2414 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2415 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2416 I always welcome corrections!
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2420 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2426 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2429 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2430 * Documented this new switch.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2434 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2437 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2438 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2439 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2440 no packages use the old behavior.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2444 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2447 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2448 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2452 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2455 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2459 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2465 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2468 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2472 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2475 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2476 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2477 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2481 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2487 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2490 into the source package by accident.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2494 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2497 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2498 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2499 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2500 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2501 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2502 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2507 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2511 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2512 inspired to implement some of it.
2513 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2517 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2520 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2524 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2527 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2528 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2532 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2535 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2536 have done.) (#17598)
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2540 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2546 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2552 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2555 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2559 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2562 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2563 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2567 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2570 argument processor in perl.
2571 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2572 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2573 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2574 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2578 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2581 type directories. (#16933)
2582 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2583 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2584 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2585 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2586 are supported. (#16935)
2587 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2592 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2595 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2599 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2603 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2604 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2605 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2606 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2607 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2608 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2612 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2615 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2616 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2618 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2619 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2620 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2621 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2622 a given package, or -i or -a.
2623 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2624 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2625 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2626 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2627 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2628 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2629 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2630 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2631 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2633 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2634 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2635 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2639 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2642 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2643 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2648 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2651 does not have a section.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2655 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2658 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2659 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2660 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2664 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Fixed typo #16215.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2670 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2673 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2674 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2675 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2676 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2677 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2682 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2685 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2686 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2687 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2692 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2698 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2704 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2707 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2708 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2709 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2710 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2711 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2712 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2716 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2722 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2725 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2729 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2732 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2733 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2734 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2738 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2741 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2745 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2751 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2754 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2758 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2761 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2765 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2771 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2774 postinst, postrm, etc.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2778 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2784 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2787 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2788 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2789 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2790 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2791 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2798 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2799 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2803 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2806 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2810 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2813 installing package files into.
2814 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2819 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2823 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2827 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2833 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2836 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2840 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2843 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2844 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2845 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2846 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2850 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2852 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2853 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2854 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2855 multiple binary packages.
2856 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2857 should rebuild them with this version.
2858 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2862 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2865 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2869 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2872 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2876 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2879 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2880 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2881 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2882 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2883 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2884 debian/README.debian.
2885 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2886 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2887 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2888 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2889 in a few situations.)
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2893 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2899 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2905 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2908 * Fixed several man pages.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2912 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2915 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2916 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2920 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2923 is ready for general use.
2924 * Added man pages for all commands.
2925 * Multiple binary package support.
2926 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2927 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2928 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2930 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2931 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2932 auto-installed as parameters.
2933 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2935 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2938 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2939 the package build directory it is to act on.
2940 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2941 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2942 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2946 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2948 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2949 ready to replace debstd.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400