1 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
6 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
7 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
11 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
14 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
15 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
16 Craig Small for spotting this.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
20 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
23 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
24 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
28 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
34 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
37 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
41 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
43 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
44 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
45 working on the last version of debhelper.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
49 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
56 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
58 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
62 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
65 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
69 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
71 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
72 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
73 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
74 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
75 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
79 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
82 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
83 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
84 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
85 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
87 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
88 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
90 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
95 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
97 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
101 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
107 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
110 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
111 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
112 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
113 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
114 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
115 suidregister actually supports it.
116 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
117 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
121 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
128 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
131 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
132 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
133 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
134 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
135 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
136 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
137 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
141 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
143 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
144 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
148 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
151 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
152 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
153 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
154 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
158 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
161 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
163 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
164 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
165 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
166 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
167 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
168 effect, either. (#30118)
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
172 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
178 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
181 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
182 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
186 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Spelling and typo fixes.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
192 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
194 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
195 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
196 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
197 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
198 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
202 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
205 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
206 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
210 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
212 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
216 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
219 packages, painlessly.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
223 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
229 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
235 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
241 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
243 * The perl conversion is complete.
245 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
247 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
248 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
249 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
254 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
257 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
258 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
259 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
263 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
266 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
268 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
270 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
271 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
275 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
278 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
279 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
283 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
289 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
291 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
292 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
293 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
294 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
295 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
296 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
300 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
303 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
304 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
305 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
306 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
310 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
313 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
317 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
320 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
321 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
322 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
323 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
324 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
325 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
326 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
327 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
331 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
337 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
340 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
341 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
342 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
347 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
350 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
354 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
357 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
361 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
364 sections of shared libraries.
365 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
366 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
367 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
368 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
369 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
370 things you don't want them to.
371 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
372 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
376 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
379 shared libraries. (#26414)
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
383 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
385 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
386 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
387 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
388 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
392 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
396 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
398 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
399 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
400 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
401 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
402 the program to not fail. (#26214)
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
406 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
409 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
413 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
416 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
417 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
422 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
425 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
429 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
431 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
432 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
433 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
434 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
435 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
436 I apologize for the inconvenience.
438 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
439 remove debian/files properly.
440 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
441 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
442 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
443 * Removed bogus menu file.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
447 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
450 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
454 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
457 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
458 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
459 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
460 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
461 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
462 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
466 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
468 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
469 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
470 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
471 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
472 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
476 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
483 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
486 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
487 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
489 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
490 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
491 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
492 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
493 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
494 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
498 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
501 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
502 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
503 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
504 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
505 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
506 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
507 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
508 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
509 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
510 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
511 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
512 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
514 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
518 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
521 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
522 at all for a long while.
523 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
524 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
525 large chunks in the process.
526 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
527 install many oddly named files it died on before.
528 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
533 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
536 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
538 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
543 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
546 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
547 that don't always have the same files in them.
548 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
549 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
550 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
554 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
556 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
558 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
559 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
560 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
561 updating 27 man pages.
562 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
563 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
564 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
565 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
566 programs act on. (#25247)
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
570 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
574 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
575 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
576 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
577 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
578 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
579 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
584 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
591 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
598 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
601 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
605 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
611 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
613 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
614 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
615 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
616 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
617 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
619 * Is version 1.0 next?
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
623 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
626 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
627 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
631 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
633 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
634 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
635 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
636 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
637 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
638 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
640 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
645 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
648 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
649 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
653 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
656 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
660 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
663 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
664 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
669 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
675 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
678 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
679 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
684 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
690 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
692 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
693 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
694 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
695 past week. Thanks, guys!
697 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
698 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
699 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
700 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
701 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
702 would do in the same situation.
703 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
704 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
706 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
708 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
710 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
711 some people enjoy changing root's name.
712 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
713 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
714 files are treated identically.
715 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
716 * Minor man page fixes.
717 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
718 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
719 --no-act is on. (#23054)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
723 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
725 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
726 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
727 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
728 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
729 use -X multiple times, too.
730 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
731 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
735 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
738 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
739 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
743 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
746 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
750 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
753 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
754 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
755 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
756 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
757 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
758 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
759 shape if you're starting a new package.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
763 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
766 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
770 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
773 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
774 because of missing symlinks.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
778 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
784 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
787 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
788 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
789 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
790 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
791 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
793 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
794 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
798 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
800 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
801 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
802 to be changed after the fact :-)
803 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
807 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
809 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
810 no version string after the -V.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
814 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
816 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
817 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
822 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
825 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
829 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
832 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
833 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
834 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
835 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
836 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
837 I always welcome corrections!
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
841 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
847 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
850 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
851 * Documented this new switch.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
855 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
858 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
859 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
860 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
861 no packages use the old behavior.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
865 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
868 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
869 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
873 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
876 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
880 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
886 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
889 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
893 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
895 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
896 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
897 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
898 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
902 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
908 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
911 into the source package by accident.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
915 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
918 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
919 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
920 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
921 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
922 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
923 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
928 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
932 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
933 inspired to implement some of it.
934 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
938 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
941 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
945 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
948 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
949 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
953 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
956 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
961 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
967 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
973 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
976 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
980 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
983 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
984 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
988 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
991 argument processor in perl.
992 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
993 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
994 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
995 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
999 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1002 type directories. (#16933)
1003 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1004 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1005 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1006 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1007 are supported. (#16935)
1008 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1013 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1016 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1020 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1024 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1025 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1026 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1027 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1028 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1029 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1033 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1036 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1037 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1039 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1040 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1041 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1042 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1043 a given package, or -i or -a.
1044 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1045 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1046 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1047 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1048 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1049 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1050 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1051 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1052 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1054 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1055 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1056 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1060 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1063 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1064 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1069 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1072 does not have a section.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1076 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1079 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1080 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1081 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1085 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Fixed typo #16215.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1091 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1094 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1095 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1096 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1097 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1098 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1103 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1106 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1107 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1108 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1113 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1119 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1125 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1128 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1129 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1130 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1131 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1132 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1133 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1137 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1143 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1146 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1150 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1153 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1154 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1155 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1159 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1162 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1166 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1172 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1175 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1179 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1182 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1186 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1192 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1195 postinst, postrm, etc.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1199 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1205 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1208 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1209 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1210 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1211 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1212 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1216 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1219 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1220 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1224 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1227 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1231 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1234 installing package files into.
1235 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1240 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1244 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1248 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1254 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1257 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1261 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1264 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1265 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1266 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1267 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1271 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1273 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1274 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1275 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1276 multiple binary packages.
1277 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1278 should rebuild them with this version.
1279 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1283 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1286 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1290 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1293 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1297 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1300 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1301 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1302 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1303 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1304 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1305 debian/README.debian.
1306 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1307 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1308 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1309 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1310 in a few situations.)
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1314 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1320 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1326 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1329 * Fixed several man pages.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1333 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1336 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1337 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1341 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1344 is ready for general use.
1345 * Added man pages for all commands.
1346 * Multiple binary package support.
1347 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1348 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1349 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1351 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1352 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1353 auto-installed as parameters.
1354 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1356 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1359 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1360 the package build directory it is to act on.
1361 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1362 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1363 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1367 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1369 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1370 ready to replace debstd.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400