1 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
10 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
11 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
12 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
13 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
14 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
15 it's always available.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
22 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
23 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
24 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
28 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
31 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
32 modules. (Closes: #42171)
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
36 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
45 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
55 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
58 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
59 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
60 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
67 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
72 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
75 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
76 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
78 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
79 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
83 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
89 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
95 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
97 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
98 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
105 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
106 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
108 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
112 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
115 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
116 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
117 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
121 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
124 things if CDPATH is set.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
134 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
137 seems to make sense for the transition.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
141 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
144 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
149 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
152 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
153 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
157 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
160 that version. (Closes: #40589)
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
164 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
166 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
167 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
168 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
169 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
170 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
174 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
183 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
184 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
185 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
186 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
187 * debhelper.1: documented this.
188 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
189 current compatability level is equal to that number.
190 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
191 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
192 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
197 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
199 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
200 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
201 * README: mention doc/v2
202 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
203 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
207 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
209 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
210 be using this script RSN.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
214 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
217 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
218 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
219 more than 1 init script.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
223 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
226 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
230 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Changed perl version detection.
233 * Changed call to find.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
237 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
240 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
242 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
247 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Really include dh_installpam.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
253 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
256 * Wrote man page for same.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
260 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
263 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
264 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
269 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
276 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
279 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
280 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
281 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
286 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
289 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
290 well. (Closes: 38900)
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
294 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
297 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
298 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
302 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
308 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
315 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
321 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
323 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
324 help from Julian Gilbey.
325 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
326 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
327 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
328 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
329 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
330 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
331 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
336 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
342 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
344 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
349 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
355 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
361 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
364 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
368 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
371 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
375 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
378 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
382 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
388 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
391 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
395 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
397 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
403 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
407 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
410 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
411 may be deleted. (#35845)
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
415 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Various man page enhancements.
418 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
423 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
426 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
427 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
431 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
434 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
435 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
436 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
438 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
439 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
444 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
450 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Another very minor typo fix.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
456 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Very minor typo fix.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
462 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
465 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
466 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
470 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
476 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
478 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
479 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
480 variables properly (#34850).
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
484 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
486 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
490 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
493 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
494 (automatically generated by build process).
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
498 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
500 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
504 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
507 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
508 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
510 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
514 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
517 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
521 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
523 * README: minor typo fix.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
527 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
530 leave it at that. :-)
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
534 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
540 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
546 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
549 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
550 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
551 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
555 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
558 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
562 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
565 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
569 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
572 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
573 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
574 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
575 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
579 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
582 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
583 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
584 Craig Small for spotting this.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
588 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
591 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
592 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
596 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
602 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
605 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
609 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
611 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
612 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
613 working on the last version of debhelper.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
617 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
624 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
626 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
630 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
633 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
637 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
639 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
640 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
641 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
642 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
643 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
647 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
650 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
651 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
652 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
653 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
655 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
656 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
658 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
663 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
665 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
669 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
675 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
678 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
679 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
680 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
681 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
682 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
683 suidregister actually supports it.
684 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
685 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
689 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
696 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
699 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
700 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
701 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
702 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
703 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
704 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
705 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
709 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
711 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
712 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
716 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
719 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
720 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
721 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
722 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
726 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
729 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
731 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
732 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
733 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
734 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
735 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
736 effect, either. (#30118)
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
740 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
746 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
749 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
750 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
754 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Spelling and typo fixes.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
760 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
762 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
763 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
764 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
765 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
766 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
773 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
774 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
778 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
780 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
787 packages, painlessly.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
791 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
797 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
803 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
809 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
811 * The perl conversion is complete.
813 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
815 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
816 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
817 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
822 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
825 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
826 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
827 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
831 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
834 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
836 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
838 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
839 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
843 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
846 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
847 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
851 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
857 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
859 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
860 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
861 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
862 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
863 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
864 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
868 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
871 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
872 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
873 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
874 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
878 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
881 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
885 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
888 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
889 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
890 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
891 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
892 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
893 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
894 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
895 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
899 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
905 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
908 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
909 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
910 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
915 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
918 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
922 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
925 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
929 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
932 sections of shared libraries.
933 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
934 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
935 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
936 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
937 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
938 things you don't want them to.
939 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
940 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
944 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
947 shared libraries. (#26414)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
951 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
953 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
954 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
955 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
956 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
960 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
964 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
966 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
967 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
968 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
969 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
970 the program to not fail. (#26214)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
974 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
977 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
981 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
984 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
985 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
990 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
993 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
997 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
999 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1000 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1001 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1002 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1003 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1004 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1006 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1007 remove debian/files properly.
1008 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1009 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1010 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1011 * Removed bogus menu file.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1015 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1018 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1025 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1026 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1027 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1028 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1029 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1030 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1034 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1037 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1038 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1039 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1040 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1044 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1051 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1054 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1055 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1057 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1058 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1059 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1060 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1061 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1062 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1066 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1069 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1070 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1071 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1072 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1073 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1074 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1075 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1076 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1077 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1078 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1079 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1080 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1081 passed any switches.
1082 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1086 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1089 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1090 at all for a long while.
1091 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1092 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1093 large chunks in the process.
1094 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1095 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1096 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1101 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1104 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1106 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1111 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1114 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1115 that don't always have the same files in them.
1116 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1117 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1118 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1126 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1127 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1128 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1129 updating 27 man pages.
1130 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1131 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1132 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1133 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1134 programs act on. (#25247)
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1142 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1143 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1144 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1145 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1146 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1147 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1152 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1159 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1166 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1169 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1173 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1179 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1182 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1183 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1184 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1185 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1186 package by accident.
1187 * Is version 1.0 next?
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1191 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1194 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1195 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1199 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1202 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1203 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1204 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1205 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1206 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1208 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1213 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1216 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1217 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1221 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1224 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1228 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1231 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1232 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1237 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1243 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1246 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1247 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1252 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1258 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1261 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1262 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1263 past week. Thanks, guys!
1265 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1266 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1267 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1268 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1269 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1270 would do in the same situation.
1271 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1272 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1274 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1276 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1277 permissions changed.
1278 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1279 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1280 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1281 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1282 files are treated identically.
1283 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1284 * Minor man page fixes.
1285 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1286 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1287 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1291 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1294 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1295 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1296 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1297 use -X multiple times, too.
1298 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1299 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1303 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1306 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1307 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1311 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1314 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1318 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1321 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1322 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1323 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1324 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1325 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1326 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1327 shape if you're starting a new package.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1331 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1334 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1338 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1341 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1342 because of missing symlinks.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1346 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1352 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1355 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1356 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1357 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1358 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1359 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1361 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1362 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1366 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1368 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1369 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1370 to be changed after the fact :-)
1371 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1375 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1378 no version string after the -V.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1382 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1384 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1385 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1390 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1393 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1397 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1400 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1401 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1402 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1403 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1404 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1405 I always welcome corrections!
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1409 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1415 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1418 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1419 * Documented this new switch.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1423 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1426 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1427 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1428 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1429 no packages use the old behavior.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1433 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1436 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1437 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1441 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1444 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1448 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1454 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1457 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1461 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1464 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1465 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1466 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1470 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1476 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1479 into the source package by accident.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1483 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1486 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1487 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1488 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1489 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1490 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1491 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1496 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1500 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1501 inspired to implement some of it.
1502 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1506 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1509 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1513 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1516 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1517 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1521 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1524 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1525 have done.) (#17598)
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1535 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1541 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1544 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1548 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1551 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1552 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1556 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1559 argument processor in perl.
1560 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1561 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1562 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1563 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1567 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1570 type directories. (#16933)
1571 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1572 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1573 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1574 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1575 are supported. (#16935)
1576 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1581 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1584 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1588 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1592 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1593 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1594 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1595 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1596 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1597 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1601 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1604 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1605 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1607 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1608 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1609 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1610 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1611 a given package, or -i or -a.
1612 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1613 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1614 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1615 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1616 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1617 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1618 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1619 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1620 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1622 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1623 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1624 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1628 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1631 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1632 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1637 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1640 does not have a section.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1644 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1647 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1648 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1649 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1653 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Fixed typo #16215.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1659 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1662 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1663 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1664 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1665 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1666 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1671 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1674 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1675 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1676 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1687 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1693 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1696 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1697 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1698 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1699 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1700 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1701 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1705 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1711 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1714 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1721 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1722 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1723 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1730 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1734 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1740 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1743 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1747 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1750 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1754 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1760 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1763 postinst, postrm, etc.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1773 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1776 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1777 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1778 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1779 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1780 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1787 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1788 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1795 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1799 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1802 installing package files into.
1803 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1808 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1812 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1816 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1822 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1825 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1829 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1832 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1833 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1834 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1835 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1839 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1841 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1842 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1843 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1844 multiple binary packages.
1845 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1846 should rebuild them with this version.
1847 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1851 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1854 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1858 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1861 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1865 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1868 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1869 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1870 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1871 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1872 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1873 debian/README.debian.
1874 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1875 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1876 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1877 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1878 in a few situations.)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1882 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1888 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1894 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1897 * Fixed several man pages.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1901 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1904 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1905 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1909 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1912 is ready for general use.
1913 * Added man pages for all commands.
1914 * Multiple binary package support.
1915 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1916 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1917 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1919 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1920 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1921 auto-installed as parameters.
1922 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1924 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1927 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1928 the package build directory it is to act on.
1929 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1930 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1931 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1935 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1937 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1938 ready to replace debstd.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400