1 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3 * README: Documented what you should do if you want to make a package that
4 depends on another package, use the other package's doc dir as its own,
5 with a symlink. Closes: #53381
7 ** TODO ** this fix is not good enough, the /usr/doc symlink needs to
8 be handled in the postinst, not appear in the .deb, to comply with
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jan 2000 01:31:40 -0800
14 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
17 right place. Closes: #55065
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
21 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
28 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Make all examples rules files executable.
31 * Copyright date updates.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
35 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
38 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
43 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
49 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
56 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
62 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
68 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
74 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
77 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
78 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
79 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
80 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
81 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
82 bits until all files have been registered.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
86 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
89 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
90 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
91 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
92 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
93 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
94 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
95 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
96 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
97 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
98 otherwise change the result at all.
100 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
101 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
102 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
103 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
104 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
109 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
115 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
118 act on files that don't exist.
119 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
120 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
121 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
123 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
124 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
125 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
126 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
130 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
136 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
142 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
145 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
149 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
152 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
154 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
155 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
156 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
160 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
163 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
164 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
165 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
166 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
167 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
168 does not compress. Closes: #41733
169 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
171 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
173 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
177 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
184 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
199 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
209 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
218 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
219 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
220 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
221 I made some changes, though:
222 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
223 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
224 that is a clear violation of policy.
225 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
226 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
227 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
228 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
229 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
230 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
231 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
232 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
233 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
235 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
248 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
252 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
255 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
256 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
277 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
278 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
279 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
280 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
281 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
282 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
283 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
287 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
293 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
297 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
298 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
302 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
308 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
311 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
318 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
319 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
323 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
325 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
330 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
334 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
338 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
340 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
341 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
342 for the dependancies to be generated.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
346 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
349 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
356 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
357 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
358 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
366 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
367 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
371 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
377 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
383 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
386 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
390 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
398 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
399 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
400 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
401 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
402 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
403 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
404 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
405 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
406 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
407 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
408 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
409 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
410 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
416 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
417 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
418 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
420 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
421 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
422 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
423 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
424 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
425 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
427 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
428 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
432 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
435 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
439 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
446 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
448 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
449 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
454 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
457 for building debhelper.
458 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
462 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
469 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Fixed makefile commit target.
472 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
479 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
480 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
481 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
482 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
483 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
484 it's always available.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
488 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
491 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
492 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
493 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
500 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
501 modules. (Closes: #42171)
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
505 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
511 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
514 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
518 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
524 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
527 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
528 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
529 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
536 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
541 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
544 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
545 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
547 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
548 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
552 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
564 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
566 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
567 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
571 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
574 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
575 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
577 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
581 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
584 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
585 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
586 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
593 things if CDPATH is set.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
597 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
603 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
606 seems to make sense for the transition.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
610 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
613 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
618 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
621 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
622 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
626 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
629 that version. (Closes: #40589)
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
635 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
636 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
637 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
638 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
639 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
652 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
653 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
654 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
655 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
656 * debhelper.1: documented this.
657 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
658 current compatability level is equal to that number.
659 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
660 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
661 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
666 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
668 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
669 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
670 * README: mention doc/v2
671 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
672 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
676 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
678 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
679 be using this script RSN.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
683 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
686 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
687 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
688 more than 1 init script.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
692 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
695 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
699 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Changed perl version detection.
702 * Changed call to find.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
706 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
709 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
711 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Really include dh_installpam.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
722 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
725 * Wrote man page for same.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
732 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
733 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
738 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
745 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
748 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
749 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
750 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
755 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
758 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
759 well. (Closes: 38900)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
763 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
766 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
767 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
771 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
777 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
784 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
792 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
793 help from Julian Gilbey.
794 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
795 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
796 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
797 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
798 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
799 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
800 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
805 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
811 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
813 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
818 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
824 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
830 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
833 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
837 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
840 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
844 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
847 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
851 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
857 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
860 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
866 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
870 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
872 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
876 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
879 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
880 may be deleted. (#35845)
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
884 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Various man page enhancements.
887 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
892 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
895 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
896 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
900 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
903 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
904 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
905 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
907 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
908 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
913 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Another very minor typo fix.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Very minor typo fix.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
931 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
934 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
935 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
939 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
945 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
947 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
948 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
949 variables properly (#34850).
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
953 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
955 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
959 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
962 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
963 (automatically generated by build process).
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
967 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
969 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
973 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
976 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
977 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
979 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
986 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
992 * README: minor typo fix.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
996 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
999 leave it at that. :-)
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1003 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1015 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1018 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1019 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1020 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1024 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1027 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1031 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1034 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1038 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1041 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1042 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1043 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1044 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1048 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1051 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1052 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1053 Craig Small for spotting this.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1057 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1060 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1061 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1065 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1074 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1078 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1080 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1081 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1082 working on the last version of debhelper.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1086 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1089 being made. (#23255)
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1093 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1099 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1102 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1106 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1109 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1110 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1111 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1112 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1116 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1119 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1120 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1121 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1122 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1124 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1125 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1127 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1132 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1138 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1144 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1147 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1148 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1149 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1150 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1151 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1152 suidregister actually supports it.
1153 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1154 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1158 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1165 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1168 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1169 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1170 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1171 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1172 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1173 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1174 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1178 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1180 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1181 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1185 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1188 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1189 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1190 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1191 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1198 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1200 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1201 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1202 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1203 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1204 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1205 effect, either. (#30118)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1209 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1215 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1218 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1219 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1223 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1229 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1232 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1233 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1234 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1235 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1242 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1243 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1253 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1256 packages, painlessly.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1260 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1266 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * The perl conversion is complete.
1282 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1284 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1285 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1286 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1294 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1295 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1296 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1303 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1305 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1307 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1308 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1312 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1315 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1316 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1320 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1326 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1329 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1330 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1331 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1332 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1333 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1340 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1341 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1342 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1343 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1347 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1350 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1354 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1357 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1358 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1359 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1360 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1361 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1362 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1363 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1364 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1368 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1374 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1377 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1378 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1379 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1384 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1387 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1391 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1394 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1401 sections of shared libraries.
1402 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1403 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1404 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1405 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1406 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1407 things you don't want them to.
1408 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1409 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1413 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1416 shared libraries. (#26414)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1422 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1423 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1424 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1425 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1429 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1433 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1435 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1436 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1437 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1438 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1439 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1446 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1453 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1454 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1459 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1462 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1466 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1469 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1470 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1471 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1472 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1473 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1475 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1476 remove debian/files properly.
1477 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1478 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1479 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1480 * Removed bogus menu file.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1484 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1487 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1491 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1494 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1495 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1496 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1497 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1498 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1499 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1503 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1506 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1507 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1508 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1509 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1513 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1520 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1523 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1524 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1526 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1527 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1528 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1529 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1530 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1531 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1538 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1539 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1540 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1541 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1542 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1543 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1544 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1545 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1546 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1547 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1548 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1549 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1550 passed any switches.
1551 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1558 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1559 at all for a long while.
1560 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1561 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1562 large chunks in the process.
1563 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1564 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1565 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1570 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1573 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1575 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1583 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1584 that don't always have the same files in them.
1585 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1586 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1587 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1591 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1595 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1596 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1597 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1598 updating 27 man pages.
1599 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1600 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1601 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1602 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1603 programs act on. (#25247)
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1607 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1611 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1612 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1613 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1614 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1615 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1616 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1621 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1628 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1635 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1638 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1642 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1648 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1651 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1652 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1653 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1654 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1655 package by accident.
1656 * Is version 1.0 next?
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1660 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1663 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1664 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1668 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1671 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1672 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1673 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1674 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1675 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1677 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1682 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1685 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1686 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1690 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1693 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1697 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1700 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1701 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1706 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1712 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1715 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1716 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1721 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1727 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1730 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1731 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1732 past week. Thanks, guys!
1734 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1735 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1736 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1737 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1738 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1739 would do in the same situation.
1740 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1741 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1743 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1745 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1746 permissions changed.
1747 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1748 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1749 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1750 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1751 files are treated identically.
1752 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1753 * Minor man page fixes.
1754 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1755 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1756 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1760 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1763 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1764 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1765 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1766 use -X multiple times, too.
1767 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1768 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1772 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1775 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1776 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1780 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1783 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1787 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1790 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1791 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1792 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1793 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1794 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1795 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1796 shape if you're starting a new package.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1800 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1803 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1807 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1810 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1811 because of missing symlinks.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1815 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1821 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1824 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1825 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1826 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1827 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1828 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1830 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1831 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1835 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1837 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1838 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1839 to be changed after the fact :-)
1840 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1844 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1847 no version string after the -V.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1851 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1853 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1854 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1859 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1862 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1866 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1869 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1870 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1871 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1872 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1873 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1874 I always welcome corrections!
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1878 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1884 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1887 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1888 * Documented this new switch.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1892 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1895 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1896 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1897 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1898 no packages use the old behavior.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1902 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1905 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1906 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1910 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1913 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1923 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1926 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1930 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1933 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1934 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1935 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1939 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1945 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1948 into the source package by accident.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1952 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1955 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1956 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1957 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1958 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1959 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1960 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1965 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1969 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1970 inspired to implement some of it.
1971 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1975 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1978 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1982 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1985 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1986 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1990 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1993 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1994 have done.) (#17598)
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1998 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2004 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2010 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2013 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2017 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2020 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2021 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2025 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2028 argument processor in perl.
2029 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2030 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2031 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2032 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2036 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2039 type directories. (#16933)
2040 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2041 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2042 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2043 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2044 are supported. (#16935)
2045 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2050 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2053 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2057 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2061 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2062 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2063 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2064 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2065 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2066 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2070 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2073 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2074 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2076 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2077 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2078 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2079 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2080 a given package, or -i or -a.
2081 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2082 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2083 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2084 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2085 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2086 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2087 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2088 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2089 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2091 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2092 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2093 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2097 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2100 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2101 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2106 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2109 does not have a section.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2113 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2116 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2117 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2118 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2122 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Fixed typo #16215.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2128 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2131 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2132 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2133 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2134 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2135 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2140 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2143 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2144 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2145 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2150 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2156 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2165 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2166 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2167 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2168 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2169 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2170 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2174 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2180 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2183 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2187 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2190 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2191 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2192 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2196 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2199 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2203 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2209 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2212 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2216 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2219 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2223 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2229 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2232 postinst, postrm, etc.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2236 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2242 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2245 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2246 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2247 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2248 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2249 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2253 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2256 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2257 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2261 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2264 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2268 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2271 installing package files into.
2272 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2277 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2281 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2285 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2291 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2294 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2298 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2301 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2302 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2303 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2304 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2308 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2310 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2311 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2312 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2313 multiple binary packages.
2314 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2315 should rebuild them with this version.
2316 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2320 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2323 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2327 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2330 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2334 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2337 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2338 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2339 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2340 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2341 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2342 debian/README.debian.
2343 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2344 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2345 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2346 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2347 in a few situations.)
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2351 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2357 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2363 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2366 * Fixed several man pages.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2370 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2373 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2374 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2378 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2381 is ready for general use.
2382 * Added man pages for all commands.
2383 * Multiple binary package support.
2384 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2385 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2386 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2388 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2389 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2390 auto-installed as parameters.
2391 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2393 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2396 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2397 the package build directory it is to act on.
2398 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2399 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2400 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2404 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2406 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2407 ready to replace debstd.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400