1 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
10 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
14 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
20 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
22 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
23 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
24 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
25 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
26 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
27 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
28 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
29 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
30 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
31 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
32 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
33 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
34 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
40 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
41 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
42 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
44 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
45 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
46 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
47 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
48 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
49 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
51 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
52 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
56 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
59 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
63 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
70 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
72 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
73 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
78 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
81 for building debhelper.
82 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Fixed makefile commit target.
96 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
103 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
104 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
105 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
106 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
107 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
108 it's always available.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
112 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
115 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
116 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
117 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
124 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
125 modules. (Closes: #42171)
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
138 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
142 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
151 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
152 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
153 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
157 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
160 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
168 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
169 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
171 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
172 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
190 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
191 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
198 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
199 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
201 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
208 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
209 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
210 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
217 things if CDPATH is set.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
227 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
230 seems to make sense for the transition.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
237 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
245 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
246 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
250 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
253 that version. (Closes: #40589)
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
257 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
259 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
260 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
261 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
262 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
263 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
276 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
277 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
278 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
279 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
280 * debhelper.1: documented this.
281 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
282 current compatability level is equal to that number.
283 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
284 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
285 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
290 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
292 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
293 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
294 * README: mention doc/v2
295 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
296 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
300 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
302 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
303 be using this script RSN.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
307 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
310 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
311 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
312 more than 1 init script.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
316 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
319 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
323 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Changed perl version detection.
326 * Changed call to find.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
330 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
333 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
335 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
340 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Really include dh_installpam.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
349 * Wrote man page for same.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
353 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
356 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
357 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
362 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
372 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
373 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
374 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
379 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
382 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
383 well. (Closes: 38900)
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
387 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
390 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
391 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
395 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
408 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
414 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
416 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
417 help from Julian Gilbey.
418 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
419 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
420 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
421 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
422 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
423 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
424 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
429 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
435 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
437 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
442 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
454 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
457 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
461 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
464 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
471 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
484 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
488 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
490 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
494 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
496 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
503 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
504 may be deleted. (#35845)
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
508 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Various man page enhancements.
511 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
516 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
519 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
520 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
527 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
528 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
529 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
531 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
532 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
537 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
543 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Another very minor typo fix.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
549 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Very minor typo fix.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
555 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
558 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
559 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
563 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
569 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
571 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
572 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
573 variables properly (#34850).
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
577 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
579 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
583 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
586 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
587 (automatically generated by build process).
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
591 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
593 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
597 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
600 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
601 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
603 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
607 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
610 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
614 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
616 * README: minor typo fix.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
620 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
623 leave it at that. :-)
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
627 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
639 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
642 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
643 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
644 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
648 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
651 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
655 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
658 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
662 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
665 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
666 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
667 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
668 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
672 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
675 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
676 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
677 Craig Small for spotting this.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
681 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
684 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
685 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
689 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
695 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
698 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
702 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
704 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
705 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
706 working on the last version of debhelper.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
710 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
719 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
726 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
730 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
732 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
733 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
734 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
735 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
736 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
740 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
743 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
744 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
745 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
746 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
748 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
749 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
751 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
758 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
768 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
771 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
772 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
773 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
774 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
775 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
776 suidregister actually supports it.
777 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
778 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
782 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
789 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
792 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
793 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
794 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
795 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
796 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
797 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
798 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
802 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
804 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
805 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
809 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
812 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
813 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
814 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
815 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
819 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
822 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
824 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
825 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
826 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
827 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
828 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
829 effect, either. (#30118)
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
839 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
842 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
843 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
847 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Spelling and typo fixes.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
855 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
856 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
857 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
858 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
859 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
863 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
866 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
867 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
873 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
880 packages, painlessly.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
884 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
890 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
896 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
902 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
904 * The perl conversion is complete.
906 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
908 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
909 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
910 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
915 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
918 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
919 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
920 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
924 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
927 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
929 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
931 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
932 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
939 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
940 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
944 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
953 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
954 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
955 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
956 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
957 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
961 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
964 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
965 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
966 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
967 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
971 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
974 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
978 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
981 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
982 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
983 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
984 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
985 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
986 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
987 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
988 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
992 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
998 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1001 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1002 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1003 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1008 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1011 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1015 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1018 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1025 sections of shared libraries.
1026 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1027 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1028 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1029 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1030 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1031 things you don't want them to.
1032 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1033 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1040 shared libraries. (#26414)
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1044 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1046 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1047 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1048 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1049 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1057 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1059 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1060 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1061 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1062 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1063 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1067 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1070 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1074 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1077 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1078 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1083 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1086 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1090 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1093 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1094 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1095 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1096 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1097 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1099 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1100 remove debian/files properly.
1101 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1102 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1103 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1104 * Removed bogus menu file.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1111 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1115 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1118 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1119 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1120 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1121 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1122 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1123 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1130 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1131 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1132 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1133 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1137 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1147 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1148 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1150 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1151 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1152 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1153 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1154 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1155 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1159 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1162 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1163 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1164 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1165 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1166 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1167 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1168 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1169 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1170 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1171 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1172 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1173 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1174 passed any switches.
1175 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1179 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1182 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1183 at all for a long while.
1184 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1185 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1186 large chunks in the process.
1187 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1188 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1189 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1197 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1199 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1204 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1207 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1208 that don't always have the same files in them.
1209 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1210 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1211 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1215 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1219 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1220 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1221 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1222 updating 27 man pages.
1223 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1224 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1225 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1226 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1227 programs act on. (#25247)
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1231 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1235 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1236 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1237 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1238 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1239 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1240 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1245 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1252 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1262 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1266 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1272 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1275 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1276 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1277 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1278 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1279 package by accident.
1280 * Is version 1.0 next?
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1284 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1287 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1288 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1292 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1295 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1296 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1297 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1298 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1299 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1301 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1306 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1309 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1310 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1314 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1317 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1321 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1324 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1325 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1330 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1336 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1339 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1340 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1345 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1351 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1354 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1355 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1356 past week. Thanks, guys!
1358 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1359 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1360 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1361 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1362 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1363 would do in the same situation.
1364 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1365 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1367 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1369 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1370 permissions changed.
1371 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1372 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1373 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1374 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1375 files are treated identically.
1376 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1377 * Minor man page fixes.
1378 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1379 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1380 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1384 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1387 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1388 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1389 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1390 use -X multiple times, too.
1391 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1392 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1396 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1399 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1400 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1404 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1407 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1411 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1414 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1415 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1416 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1417 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1418 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1419 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1420 shape if you're starting a new package.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1424 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1427 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1431 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1434 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1435 because of missing symlinks.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1439 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1445 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1448 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1449 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1450 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1451 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1452 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1454 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1455 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1459 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1461 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1462 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1463 to be changed after the fact :-)
1464 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1468 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1471 no version string after the -V.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1475 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1477 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1478 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1483 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1486 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1490 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1493 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1494 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1495 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1496 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1497 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1498 I always welcome corrections!
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1502 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1508 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1511 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1512 * Documented this new switch.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1516 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1519 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1520 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1521 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1522 no packages use the old behavior.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1526 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1529 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1530 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1534 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1537 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1541 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1547 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1550 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1554 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1557 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1558 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1559 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1563 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1569 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1572 into the source package by accident.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1576 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1579 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1580 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1581 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1582 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1583 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1584 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1589 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1593 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1594 inspired to implement some of it.
1595 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1599 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1602 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1606 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1609 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1610 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1614 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1617 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1618 have done.) (#17598)
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1622 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1628 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1634 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1637 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1641 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1644 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1645 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1649 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1652 argument processor in perl.
1653 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1654 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1655 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1656 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1660 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1663 type directories. (#16933)
1664 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1665 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1666 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1667 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1668 are supported. (#16935)
1669 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1674 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1677 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1685 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1686 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1687 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1688 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1689 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1690 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1694 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1697 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1698 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1700 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1701 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1702 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1703 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1704 a given package, or -i or -a.
1705 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1706 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1707 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1708 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1709 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1710 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1711 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1712 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1713 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1715 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1716 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1717 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1721 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1724 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1725 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1730 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1733 does not have a section.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1737 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1740 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1741 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1742 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1746 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Fixed typo #16215.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1752 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1755 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1756 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1757 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1758 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1759 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1764 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1767 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1768 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1769 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1774 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1780 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1786 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1789 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1790 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1791 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1792 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1793 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1794 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1804 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1807 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1811 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1814 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1815 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1816 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1820 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1823 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1827 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1833 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1836 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1843 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1853 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1856 postinst, postrm, etc.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1860 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1869 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1870 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1871 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1872 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1873 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1877 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1880 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1881 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1885 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1888 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1892 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1895 installing package files into.
1896 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1901 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1905 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1909 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1915 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1918 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1922 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1925 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1926 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1927 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1928 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1932 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1934 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1935 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1936 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1937 multiple binary packages.
1938 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1939 should rebuild them with this version.
1940 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1944 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1947 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1951 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1954 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1958 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1961 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1962 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1963 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1964 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1965 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1966 debian/README.debian.
1967 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1968 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1969 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1970 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1971 in a few situations.)
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1975 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1981 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1987 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1990 * Fixed several man pages.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1994 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1997 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1998 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2002 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2005 is ready for general use.
2006 * Added man pages for all commands.
2007 * Multiple binary package support.
2008 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2009 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2010 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2012 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2013 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2014 auto-installed as parameters.
2015 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2017 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2020 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2021 the package build directory it is to act on.
2022 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2023 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2024 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2028 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2030 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2031 ready to replace debstd.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400