1 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
10 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
11 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
12 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
13 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
14 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
15 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
17 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
18 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
19 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
20 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
21 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
22 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
23 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
27 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
33 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
39 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
42 right place. Closes: #55065
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
46 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
53 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Make all examples rules files executable.
56 * Copyright date updates.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
60 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
63 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
68 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
74 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
81 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
93 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
99 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
102 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
103 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
104 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
105 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
106 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
107 bits until all files have been registered.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
111 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installmanpages:
114 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
115 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
116 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
117 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
118 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
119 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
120 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
121 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
122 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
123 otherwise change the result at all.
125 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
126 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
127 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
128 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
129 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
134 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
140 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
143 act on files that don't exist.
144 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
145 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
146 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
148 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
149 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
150 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
151 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
155 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
161 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
167 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
170 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
174 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
177 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
179 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
180 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
181 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
185 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
188 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
189 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
190 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
191 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
192 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
193 does not compress. Closes: #41733
194 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
196 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
198 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
202 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
209 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
221 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
224 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
240 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
243 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
244 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
245 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
246 I made some changes, though:
247 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
248 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
249 that is a clear violation of policy.
250 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
251 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
252 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
253 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
254 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
255 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
256 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
257 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
258 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
260 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
270 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
273 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
277 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
280 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
281 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
299 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
302 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
303 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
304 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
305 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
306 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
307 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
308 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
312 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
318 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
322 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
323 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
327 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
333 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
336 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
343 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
344 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
350 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
355 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
359 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
365 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
366 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
367 for the dependancies to be generated.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
371 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
374 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
378 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
381 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
382 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
383 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
388 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
391 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
392 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
396 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
402 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
411 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
423 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
424 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
425 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
426 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
427 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
428 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
429 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
430 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
431 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
432 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
433 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
434 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
435 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
439 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
441 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
442 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
443 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
445 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
446 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
447 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
448 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
449 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
450 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
452 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
453 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
460 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
464 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
471 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
473 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
474 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
479 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
482 for building debhelper.
483 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
487 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
494 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Fixed makefile commit target.
497 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
501 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
504 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
505 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
506 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
507 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
508 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
509 it's always available.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
513 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
516 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
517 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
518 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
522 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
525 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
526 modules. (Closes: #42171)
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
530 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
539 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
543 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
552 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
553 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
554 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
558 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
561 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
566 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
569 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
570 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
572 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
573 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
577 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
583 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
591 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
592 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
599 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
600 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
602 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
606 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
609 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
610 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
611 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
615 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
618 things if CDPATH is set.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
622 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
628 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
631 seems to make sense for the transition.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
635 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
638 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
643 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
646 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
647 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
651 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
654 that version. (Closes: #40589)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
658 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
660 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
661 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
662 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
663 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
664 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
668 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
674 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
677 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
678 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
679 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
680 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
681 * debhelper.1: documented this.
682 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
683 current compatability level is equal to that number.
684 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
685 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
686 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
691 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
693 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
694 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
695 * README: mention doc/v2
696 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
697 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
701 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
703 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
704 be using this script RSN.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
708 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
711 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
712 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
713 more than 1 init script.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
717 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
720 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
724 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Changed perl version detection.
727 * Changed call to find.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
731 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
734 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
736 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
741 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Really include dh_installpam.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
747 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
750 * Wrote man page for same.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
754 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
757 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
758 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
763 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
770 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
773 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
774 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
775 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
780 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
783 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
784 well. (Closes: 38900)
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
788 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
791 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
792 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
796 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
802 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
809 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
817 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
818 help from Julian Gilbey.
819 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
820 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
821 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
822 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
823 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
824 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
825 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
830 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
838 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
843 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
849 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
855 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
858 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
862 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
865 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
869 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
872 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
876 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
882 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
885 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
889 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
891 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
895 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
897 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
901 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
904 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
905 may be deleted. (#35845)
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
909 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Various man page enhancements.
912 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
917 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
920 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
921 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
925 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
928 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
929 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
930 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
932 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
933 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
938 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
944 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Another very minor typo fix.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Very minor typo fix.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
956 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
959 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
960 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
964 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
972 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
973 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
974 variables properly (#34850).
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
978 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
980 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
984 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
987 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
988 (automatically generated by build process).
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
992 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
994 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
998 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1001 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1002 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1004 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1008 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1011 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1015 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * README: minor typo fix.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1021 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1024 leave it at that. :-)
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1028 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1043 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1044 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1045 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1049 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1052 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1059 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1063 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1066 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1067 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1068 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1069 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1073 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1076 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1077 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1078 Craig Small for spotting this.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1082 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1085 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1086 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1099 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1103 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1105 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1106 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1107 working on the last version of debhelper.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1111 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1114 being made. (#23255)
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1118 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1127 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1134 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1135 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1136 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1137 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1141 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1144 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1145 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1146 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1147 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1149 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1150 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1152 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1157 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1163 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1169 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1172 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1173 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1174 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1175 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1176 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1177 suidregister actually supports it.
1178 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1179 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1183 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1190 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1193 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1194 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1195 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1196 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1197 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1198 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1199 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1203 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1205 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1206 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1210 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1213 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1214 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1215 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1216 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1220 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1223 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1225 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1226 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1227 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1228 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1229 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1230 effect, either. (#30118)
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1234 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1240 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1243 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1244 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1248 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1254 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1257 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1258 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1259 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1260 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1267 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1268 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1281 packages, painlessly.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1285 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1297 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1303 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * The perl conversion is complete.
1307 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1309 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1310 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1311 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1316 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1319 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1320 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1321 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1328 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1330 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1332 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1333 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1337 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1340 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1341 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1345 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1351 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1354 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1355 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1356 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1357 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1358 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1362 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1365 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1366 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1367 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1368 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1372 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1375 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1379 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1382 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1383 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1384 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1385 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1386 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1387 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1388 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1389 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1393 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1399 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1402 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1403 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1404 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1409 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1412 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1416 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1419 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1423 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1426 sections of shared libraries.
1427 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1428 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1429 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1430 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1431 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1432 things you don't want them to.
1433 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1434 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1438 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1441 shared libraries. (#26414)
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1445 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1447 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1448 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1449 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1450 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1454 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1458 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1460 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1461 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1462 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1463 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1464 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1468 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1471 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1475 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1478 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1479 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1484 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1487 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1491 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1494 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1495 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1496 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1497 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1498 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1500 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1501 remove debian/files properly.
1502 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1503 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1504 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1505 * Removed bogus menu file.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1512 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1516 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1519 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1520 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1521 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1522 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1523 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1524 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1528 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1531 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1532 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1533 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1534 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1538 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1545 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1548 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1549 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1551 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1552 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1553 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1554 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1555 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1556 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1563 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1564 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1565 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1566 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1567 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1568 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1569 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1570 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1571 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1572 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1573 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1574 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1575 passed any switches.
1576 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1583 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1584 at all for a long while.
1585 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1586 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1587 large chunks in the process.
1588 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1589 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1590 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1598 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1600 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1605 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1608 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1609 that don't always have the same files in them.
1610 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1611 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1612 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1620 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1621 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1622 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1623 updating 27 man pages.
1624 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1625 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1626 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1627 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1628 programs act on. (#25247)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1636 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1637 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1638 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1639 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1640 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1641 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1646 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1653 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1660 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1663 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1667 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1673 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1676 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1677 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1678 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1679 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1680 package by accident.
1681 * Is version 1.0 next?
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1685 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1688 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1689 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1693 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1696 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1697 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1698 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1699 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1700 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1702 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1707 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1710 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1711 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1715 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1718 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1722 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1725 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1726 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1731 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1737 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1740 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1741 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1746 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1752 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1755 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1756 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1757 past week. Thanks, guys!
1759 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1760 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1761 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1762 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1763 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1764 would do in the same situation.
1765 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1766 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1768 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1770 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1771 permissions changed.
1772 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1773 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1774 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1775 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1776 files are treated identically.
1777 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1778 * Minor man page fixes.
1779 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1780 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1781 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1785 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1788 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1789 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1790 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1791 use -X multiple times, too.
1792 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1793 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1797 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1800 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1801 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1805 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1808 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1812 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1815 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1816 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1817 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1818 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1819 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1820 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1821 shape if you're starting a new package.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1825 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1828 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1832 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1835 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1836 because of missing symlinks.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1840 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1846 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1849 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1850 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1851 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1852 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1853 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1855 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1856 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1860 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1862 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1863 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1864 to be changed after the fact :-)
1865 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1869 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1872 no version string after the -V.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1876 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1878 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1879 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1884 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1887 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1891 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1894 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1895 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1896 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1897 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1898 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1899 I always welcome corrections!
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1903 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1909 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1912 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1913 * Documented this new switch.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1920 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1921 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1922 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1923 no packages use the old behavior.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1927 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1930 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1931 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1935 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1938 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1942 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1948 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1951 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1955 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1958 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1959 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1960 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1964 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1970 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1973 into the source package by accident.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1977 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1980 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1981 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1982 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1983 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1984 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1985 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1990 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1994 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1995 inspired to implement some of it.
1996 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2000 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2003 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2007 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2010 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2011 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2015 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2018 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2019 have done.) (#17598)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2023 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2029 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2035 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2038 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2042 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2045 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2046 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2050 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2053 argument processor in perl.
2054 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2055 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2056 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2057 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2061 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2064 type directories. (#16933)
2065 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2066 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2067 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2068 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2069 are supported. (#16935)
2070 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2075 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2078 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2082 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2086 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2087 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2088 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2089 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2090 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2091 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2098 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2099 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2101 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2102 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2103 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2104 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2105 a given package, or -i or -a.
2106 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2107 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2108 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2109 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2110 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2111 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2112 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2113 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2114 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2116 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2117 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2118 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2122 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2125 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2126 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2131 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2134 does not have a section.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2138 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2141 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2142 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2143 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2147 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fixed typo #16215.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2153 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2156 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2157 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2158 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2159 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2160 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2165 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2168 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2169 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2170 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2181 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2187 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2190 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2191 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2192 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2193 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2194 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2195 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2199 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2205 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2208 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2212 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2215 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2216 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2217 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2221 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2224 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2228 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2234 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2237 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2241 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2244 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2248 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2254 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2257 postinst, postrm, etc.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2261 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2267 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2270 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2271 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2272 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2273 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2274 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2278 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2281 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2282 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2286 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2289 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2293 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2296 installing package files into.
2297 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2302 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2306 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2310 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2316 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2319 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2323 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2326 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2327 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2328 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2329 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2333 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2335 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2336 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2337 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2338 multiple binary packages.
2339 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2340 should rebuild them with this version.
2341 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2345 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2348 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2352 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2355 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2359 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2362 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2363 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2364 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2365 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2366 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2367 debian/README.debian.
2368 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2369 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2370 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2371 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2372 in a few situations.)
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2376 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2382 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2388 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2391 * Fixed several man pages.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2395 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2398 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2399 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2403 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2406 is ready for general use.
2407 * Added man pages for all commands.
2408 * Multiple binary package support.
2409 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2410 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2411 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2413 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2414 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2415 auto-installed as parameters.
2416 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2418 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2421 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2422 the package build directory it is to act on.
2423 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2424 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2425 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2429 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2431 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2432 ready to replace debstd.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400