1 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
8 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Make all examples rules files executable.
11 * Copyright date updates.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
15 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
18 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
23 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
29 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
36 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
48 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
54 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
57 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
58 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
59 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
60 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
61 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
62 bits until all files have been registered.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
66 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
69 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
70 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
71 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
72 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
73 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
74 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
75 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
76 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
77 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
78 otherwise change the result at all.
80 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
81 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
82 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
83 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
84 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
89 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
95 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
98 act on files that don't exist.
99 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
100 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
101 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
103 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
104 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
105 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
106 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
110 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
116 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
122 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
125 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
129 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
132 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
134 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
135 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
136 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
143 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
144 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
145 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
146 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
147 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
148 does not compress. Closes: #41733
149 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
151 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
153 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
157 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
164 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
170 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
179 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
198 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
199 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
200 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
201 I made some changes, though:
202 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
203 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
204 that is a clear violation of policy.
205 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
206 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
207 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
208 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
209 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
210 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
211 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
212 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
213 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
215 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
228 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
235 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
236 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
247 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
257 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
258 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
259 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
260 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
261 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
262 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
263 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
277 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
278 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
288 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
291 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
298 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
299 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
305 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
314 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
320 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
321 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
322 for the dependancies to be generated.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
329 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
336 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
337 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
338 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
343 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
346 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
347 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
351 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
366 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
378 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
379 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
380 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
381 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
382 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
383 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
384 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
385 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
386 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
387 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
388 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
389 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
390 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
394 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
396 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
397 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
398 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
400 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
401 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
402 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
403 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
404 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
405 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
407 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
408 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
412 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
415 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
419 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
426 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
428 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
429 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
434 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
437 for building debhelper.
438 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Fixed makefile commit target.
452 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
456 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
459 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
460 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
461 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
462 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
463 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
464 it's always available.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
471 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
472 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
473 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
477 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
480 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
481 modules. (Closes: #42171)
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
494 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
507 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
508 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
509 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
516 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
524 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
525 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
527 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
528 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
532 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
538 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
544 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
546 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
547 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
554 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
555 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
557 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
561 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
564 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
565 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
566 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
573 things if CDPATH is set.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
586 seems to make sense for the transition.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
590 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
593 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
598 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
601 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
602 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
609 that version. (Closes: #40589)
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
613 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
615 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
616 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
617 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
618 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
619 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
623 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
629 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
632 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
633 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
634 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
635 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
636 * debhelper.1: documented this.
637 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
638 current compatability level is equal to that number.
639 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
640 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
641 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
646 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
648 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
649 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
650 * README: mention doc/v2
651 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
652 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
656 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
658 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
659 be using this script RSN.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
663 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
666 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
667 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
668 more than 1 init script.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
672 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
675 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
679 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Changed perl version detection.
682 * Changed call to find.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
686 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
689 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
691 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
696 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Really include dh_installpam.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
702 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
705 * Wrote man page for same.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
709 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
712 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
713 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
718 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
725 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
728 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
729 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
730 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
735 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
738 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
739 well. (Closes: 38900)
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
743 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
746 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
747 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
751 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
764 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
770 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
772 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
773 help from Julian Gilbey.
774 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
775 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
776 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
777 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
778 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
779 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
780 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
785 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
791 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
793 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
798 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
804 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
810 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
813 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
817 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
820 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
824 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
827 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
831 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
837 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
840 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
844 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
846 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
850 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
852 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
856 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
859 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
860 may be deleted. (#35845)
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
864 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Various man page enhancements.
867 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
872 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
875 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
876 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
880 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
883 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
884 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
885 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
887 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
888 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
893 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
899 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Another very minor typo fix.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
905 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Very minor typo fix.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
911 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
914 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
915 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
927 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
928 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
929 variables properly (#34850).
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
933 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
935 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
939 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
942 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
943 (automatically generated by build process).
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
947 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
953 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
956 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
957 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
959 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
966 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
972 * README: minor typo fix.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
976 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
979 leave it at that. :-)
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
989 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
995 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
998 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
999 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1000 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1007 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1011 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1014 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1021 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1022 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1023 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1024 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1031 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1032 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1033 Craig Small for spotting this.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1037 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1040 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1041 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1045 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1051 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1054 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1060 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1061 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1062 working on the last version of debhelper.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1066 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1069 being made. (#23255)
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1073 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1079 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1082 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1086 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1089 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1090 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1091 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1092 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1099 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1100 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1101 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1102 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1104 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1105 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1107 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1112 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1127 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1128 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1129 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1130 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1131 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1132 suidregister actually supports it.
1133 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1134 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1138 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1145 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1148 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1149 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1150 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1151 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1152 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1153 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1154 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1158 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1160 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1161 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1165 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1168 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1169 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1170 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1171 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1175 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1178 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1180 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1181 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1182 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1183 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1184 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1185 effect, either. (#30118)
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1189 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1195 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1198 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1199 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1203 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1209 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1212 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1213 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1214 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1215 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1219 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1222 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1223 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1227 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1233 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1236 packages, painlessly.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1240 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1246 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1252 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1258 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * The perl conversion is complete.
1262 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1264 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1265 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1266 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1271 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1274 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1275 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1276 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1280 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1283 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1285 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1287 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1288 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1292 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1295 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1296 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1300 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1306 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1309 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1310 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1311 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1312 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1313 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1317 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1320 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1321 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1322 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1323 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1327 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1330 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1334 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1337 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1338 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1339 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1340 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1341 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1342 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1343 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1344 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1348 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1354 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1357 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1358 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1359 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1364 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1367 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1371 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1374 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1378 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1381 sections of shared libraries.
1382 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1383 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1384 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1385 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1386 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1387 things you don't want them to.
1388 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1389 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1396 shared libraries. (#26414)
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1400 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1402 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1403 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1404 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1405 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1409 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1413 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1415 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1416 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1417 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1418 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1419 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1423 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1426 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1433 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1434 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1439 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1442 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1449 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1450 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1451 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1452 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1453 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1455 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1456 remove debian/files properly.
1457 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1458 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1459 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1460 * Removed bogus menu file.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1464 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1467 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1471 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1474 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1475 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1476 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1477 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1478 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1479 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1486 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1487 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1488 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1489 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1500 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1503 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1504 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1506 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1507 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1508 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1509 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1510 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1511 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1518 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1519 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1520 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1521 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1522 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1523 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1524 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1525 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1526 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1527 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1528 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1529 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1530 passed any switches.
1531 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1538 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1539 at all for a long while.
1540 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1541 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1542 large chunks in the process.
1543 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1544 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1545 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1553 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1555 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1563 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1564 that don't always have the same files in them.
1565 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1566 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1567 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1575 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1576 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1577 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1578 updating 27 man pages.
1579 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1580 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1581 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1582 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1583 programs act on. (#25247)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1591 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1592 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1593 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1594 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1595 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1596 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1601 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1608 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1615 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1618 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1622 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1628 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1631 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1632 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1633 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1634 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1635 package by accident.
1636 * Is version 1.0 next?
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1640 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1643 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1644 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1648 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1651 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1652 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1653 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1654 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1655 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1657 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1662 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1665 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1666 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1670 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1673 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1677 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1680 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1681 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1686 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1692 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1695 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1696 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1701 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1707 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1710 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1711 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1712 past week. Thanks, guys!
1714 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1715 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1716 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1717 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1718 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1719 would do in the same situation.
1720 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1721 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1723 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1725 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1726 permissions changed.
1727 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1728 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1729 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1730 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1731 files are treated identically.
1732 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1733 * Minor man page fixes.
1734 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1735 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1736 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1740 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1743 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1744 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1745 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1746 use -X multiple times, too.
1747 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1748 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1752 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1755 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1756 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1760 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1763 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1767 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1770 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1771 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1772 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1773 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1774 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1775 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1776 shape if you're starting a new package.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1780 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1783 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1787 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1790 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1791 because of missing symlinks.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1795 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1801 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1804 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1805 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1806 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1807 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1808 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1810 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1811 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1815 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1817 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1818 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1819 to be changed after the fact :-)
1820 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1824 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1827 no version string after the -V.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1831 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1833 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1834 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1839 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1842 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1846 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1849 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1850 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1851 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1852 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1853 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1854 I always welcome corrections!
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1858 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1864 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1867 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1868 * Documented this new switch.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1872 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1875 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1876 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1877 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1878 no packages use the old behavior.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1882 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1885 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1886 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1890 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1893 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1897 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1903 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1906 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1910 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1913 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1914 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1915 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1919 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1925 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1928 into the source package by accident.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1932 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1935 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1936 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1937 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1938 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1939 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1940 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1945 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1949 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1950 inspired to implement some of it.
1951 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1955 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1958 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1962 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1965 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1966 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1970 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1973 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1974 have done.) (#17598)
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1978 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1984 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1990 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1993 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1997 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2000 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2001 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2005 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2008 argument processor in perl.
2009 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2010 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2011 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2012 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2016 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2019 type directories. (#16933)
2020 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2021 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2022 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2023 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2024 are supported. (#16935)
2025 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2030 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2033 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2037 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2041 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2042 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2043 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2044 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2045 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2046 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2050 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2053 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2054 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2056 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2057 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2058 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2059 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2060 a given package, or -i or -a.
2061 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2062 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2063 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2064 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2065 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2066 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2067 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2068 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2069 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2071 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2072 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2073 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2077 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2080 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2081 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2086 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2089 does not have a section.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2093 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2096 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2097 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2098 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Fixed typo #16215.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2108 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2111 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2112 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2113 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2114 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2115 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2120 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2123 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2124 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2125 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2130 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2136 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2142 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2145 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2146 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2147 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2148 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2149 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2150 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2154 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2160 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2163 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2167 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2170 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2171 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2172 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2176 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2179 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2183 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2189 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2192 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2196 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2199 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2203 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2209 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2212 postinst, postrm, etc.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2216 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2225 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2226 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2227 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2228 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2229 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2233 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2236 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2237 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2241 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2244 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2248 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2251 installing package files into.
2252 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2257 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2261 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2265 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2271 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2274 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2278 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2281 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2282 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2283 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2284 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2288 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2290 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2291 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2292 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2293 multiple binary packages.
2294 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2295 should rebuild them with this version.
2296 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2300 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2303 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2307 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2310 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2314 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2317 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2318 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2319 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2320 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2321 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2322 debian/README.debian.
2323 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2324 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2325 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2326 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2327 in a few situations.)
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2331 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2337 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2343 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2346 * Fixed several man pages.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2350 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2353 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2354 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2358 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2361 is ready for general use.
2362 * Added man pages for all commands.
2363 * Multiple binary package support.
2364 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2365 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2366 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2368 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2369 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2370 auto-installed as parameters.
2371 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2373 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2376 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2377 the package build directory it is to act on.
2378 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2379 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2380 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2384 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2386 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2387 ready to replace debstd.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400