1 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
11 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
12 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
18 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
27 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
33 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
34 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
35 for the dependancies to be generated.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
39 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
42 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
46 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
49 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
50 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
51 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
56 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
59 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
60 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
70 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
76 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
79 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
83 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
89 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
91 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
92 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
93 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
94 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
95 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
96 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
97 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
98 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
99 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
100 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
101 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
102 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
103 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
109 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
110 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
111 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
113 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
114 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
115 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
116 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
117 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
118 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
120 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
121 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
128 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
141 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
142 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
150 for building debhelper.
151 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
155 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
162 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Fixed makefile commit target.
165 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
172 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
173 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
174 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
175 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
176 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
177 it's always available.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
184 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
185 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
186 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
193 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
194 modules. (Closes: #42171)
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
198 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
207 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
217 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
220 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
221 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
222 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
229 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
237 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
238 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
240 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
241 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
259 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
260 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
267 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
268 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
270 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
277 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
278 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
279 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
283 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
286 things if CDPATH is set.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
290 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
299 seems to make sense for the transition.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
306 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
314 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
315 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
322 that version. (Closes: #40589)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
328 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
329 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
330 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
331 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
332 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
336 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
342 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
345 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
346 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
347 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
348 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
349 * debhelper.1: documented this.
350 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
351 current compatability level is equal to that number.
352 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
353 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
354 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
359 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
361 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
362 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
363 * README: mention doc/v2
364 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
365 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
371 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
372 be using this script RSN.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
376 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
379 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
380 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
381 more than 1 init script.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
385 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
388 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Changed perl version detection.
395 * Changed call to find.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
399 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
402 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
404 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
409 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Really include dh_installpam.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
415 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
418 * Wrote man page for same.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
422 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
425 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
426 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
431 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
441 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
442 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
443 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
451 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
452 well. (Closes: 38900)
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
459 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
460 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
464 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
470 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
477 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
483 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
485 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
486 help from Julian Gilbey.
487 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
488 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
489 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
490 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
491 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
492 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
493 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
498 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
504 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
506 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
511 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
517 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
523 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
526 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
530 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
533 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
537 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
540 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
544 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
550 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
553 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
557 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
559 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
563 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
565 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
569 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
572 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
573 may be deleted. (#35845)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
577 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Various man page enhancements.
580 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
585 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
588 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
589 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
593 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
596 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
597 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
598 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
600 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
601 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
606 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
612 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Another very minor typo fix.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
618 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Very minor typo fix.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
624 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
627 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
628 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
632 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
638 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
640 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
641 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
642 variables properly (#34850).
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
646 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
648 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
652 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
655 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
656 (automatically generated by build process).
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
660 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
662 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
666 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
669 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
670 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
672 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
676 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
679 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
683 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
685 * README: minor typo fix.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
689 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
692 leave it at that. :-)
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
696 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
702 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
708 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
711 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
712 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
713 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
720 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
724 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
727 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
731 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
734 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
735 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
736 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
737 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
741 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
744 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
745 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
746 Craig Small for spotting this.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
750 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
753 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
754 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
758 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
767 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
773 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
774 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
775 working on the last version of debhelper.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
779 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
788 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
795 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
799 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
801 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
802 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
803 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
804 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
805 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
809 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
812 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
813 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
814 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
815 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
817 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
818 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
820 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
827 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
831 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
837 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
840 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
841 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
842 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
843 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
844 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
845 suidregister actually supports it.
846 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
847 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
851 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
858 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
861 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
862 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
863 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
864 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
865 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
866 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
867 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
871 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
873 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
874 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
881 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
882 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
883 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
884 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
888 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
891 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
893 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
894 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
895 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
896 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
897 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
898 effect, either. (#30118)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
908 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
911 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
912 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Spelling and typo fixes.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
922 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
924 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
925 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
926 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
927 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
928 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
932 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
935 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
936 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
940 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
942 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
946 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
949 packages, painlessly.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
953 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
959 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
965 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
973 * The perl conversion is complete.
975 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
977 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
978 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
979 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
987 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
988 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
989 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
993 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
996 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
998 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1000 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1001 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1008 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1009 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1013 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1019 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1022 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1023 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1024 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1025 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1026 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1030 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1033 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1034 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1035 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1036 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1043 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1047 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1050 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1051 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1052 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1053 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1054 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1055 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1056 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1057 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1061 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1067 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1070 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1071 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1072 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1080 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1084 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1087 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1091 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1094 sections of shared libraries.
1095 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1096 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1097 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1098 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1099 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1100 things you don't want them to.
1101 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1102 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1106 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1109 shared libraries. (#26414)
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1113 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1115 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1116 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1117 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1118 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1126 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1128 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1129 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1130 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1131 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1132 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1136 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1139 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1146 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1147 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1152 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1155 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1159 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1162 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1163 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1164 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1165 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1166 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1168 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1169 remove debian/files properly.
1170 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1171 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1172 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1173 * Removed bogus menu file.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1177 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1180 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1187 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1188 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1189 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1190 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1191 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1192 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1196 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1199 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1200 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1201 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1202 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1213 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1216 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1217 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1219 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1220 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1221 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1222 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1223 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1224 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1228 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1231 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1232 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1233 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1234 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1235 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1236 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1237 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1238 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1239 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1240 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1241 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1242 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1243 passed any switches.
1244 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1248 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1251 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1252 at all for a long while.
1253 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1254 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1255 large chunks in the process.
1256 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1257 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1258 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1263 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1266 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1268 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1273 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1276 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1277 that don't always have the same files in them.
1278 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1279 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1280 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1284 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1288 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1289 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1290 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1291 updating 27 man pages.
1292 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1293 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1294 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1295 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1296 programs act on. (#25247)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1300 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1304 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1305 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1306 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1307 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1308 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1309 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1314 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1321 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1328 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1331 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1335 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1341 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1344 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1345 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1346 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1347 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1348 package by accident.
1349 * Is version 1.0 next?
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1353 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1356 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1357 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1361 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1364 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1365 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1366 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1367 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1368 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1370 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1375 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1378 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1379 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1383 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1386 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1390 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1393 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1394 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1399 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1405 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1408 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1409 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1414 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1420 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1423 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1424 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1425 past week. Thanks, guys!
1427 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1428 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1429 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1430 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1431 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1432 would do in the same situation.
1433 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1434 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1436 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1438 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1439 permissions changed.
1440 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1441 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1442 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1443 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1444 files are treated identically.
1445 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1446 * Minor man page fixes.
1447 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1448 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1449 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1453 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1456 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1457 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1458 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1459 use -X multiple times, too.
1460 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1461 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1465 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1468 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1469 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1473 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1476 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1480 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1483 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1484 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1485 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1486 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1487 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1488 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1489 shape if you're starting a new package.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1493 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1496 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1500 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1503 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1504 because of missing symlinks.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1508 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1517 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1518 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1519 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1520 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1521 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1523 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1524 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1528 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1530 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1531 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1532 to be changed after the fact :-)
1533 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1537 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1540 no version string after the -V.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1544 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1546 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1547 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1552 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1555 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1559 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1562 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1563 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1564 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1565 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1566 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1567 I always welcome corrections!
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1571 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1577 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1580 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1581 * Documented this new switch.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1585 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1588 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1589 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1590 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1591 no packages use the old behavior.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1595 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1598 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1599 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1603 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1606 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1610 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1616 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1619 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1623 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1626 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1627 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1628 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1632 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1638 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1641 into the source package by accident.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1645 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1648 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1649 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1650 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1651 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1652 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1653 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1658 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1662 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1663 inspired to implement some of it.
1664 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1668 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1671 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1675 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1678 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1679 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1683 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1686 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1687 have done.) (#17598)
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1691 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1697 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1703 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1706 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1710 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1713 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1714 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1721 argument processor in perl.
1722 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1723 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1724 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1725 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1729 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1732 type directories. (#16933)
1733 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1734 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1735 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1736 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1737 are supported. (#16935)
1738 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1743 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1746 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1750 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1754 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1755 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1756 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1757 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1758 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1759 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1763 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1766 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1767 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1769 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1770 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1771 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1772 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1773 a given package, or -i or -a.
1774 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1775 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1776 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1777 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1778 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1779 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1780 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1781 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1782 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1784 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1785 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1786 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1790 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1793 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1794 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1799 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1802 does not have a section.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1806 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1809 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1810 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1811 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1815 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fixed typo #16215.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1824 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1825 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1826 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1827 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1828 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1833 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1836 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1837 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1838 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1843 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1849 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1855 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1858 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1859 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1860 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1861 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1862 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1863 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1867 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1873 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1876 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1880 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1883 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1884 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1885 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1889 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1892 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1896 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1902 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1905 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1909 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1912 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1916 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1922 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1925 postinst, postrm, etc.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1929 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1935 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1938 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1939 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1940 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1941 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1942 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1946 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1949 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1950 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1954 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1957 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1961 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1964 installing package files into.
1965 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1970 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1974 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1978 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1984 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1987 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1991 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1994 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1995 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1996 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1997 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2001 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2003 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2004 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2005 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2006 multiple binary packages.
2007 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2008 should rebuild them with this version.
2009 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2013 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2016 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2020 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2023 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2027 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2030 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2031 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2032 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2033 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2034 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2035 debian/README.debian.
2036 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2037 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2038 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2039 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2040 in a few situations.)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2044 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2050 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2056 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2059 * Fixed several man pages.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2063 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2066 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2067 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2071 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2074 is ready for general use.
2075 * Added man pages for all commands.
2076 * Multiple binary package support.
2077 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2078 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2079 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2081 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2082 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2083 auto-installed as parameters.
2084 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2086 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2089 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2090 the package build directory it is to act on.
2091 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2092 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2093 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2097 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2099 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2100 ready to replace debstd.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400