1 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
9 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
12 for building debhelper.
13 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
17 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
24 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Fixed makefile commit target.
27 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
34 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
35 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
36 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
37 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
38 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
39 it's always available.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
43 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
46 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
47 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
48 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
52 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
55 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
56 modules. (Closes: #42171)
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
60 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
66 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
69 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
73 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
79 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
82 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
83 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
84 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
88 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
91 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
96 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
99 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
100 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
102 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
103 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
113 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
119 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
121 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
122 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
129 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
130 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
132 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
139 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
140 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
141 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
148 things if CDPATH is set.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
152 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
161 seems to make sense for the transition.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
168 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
173 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
176 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
177 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
184 that version. (Closes: #40589)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
190 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
191 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
192 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
193 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
194 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
198 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
207 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
208 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
209 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
210 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
211 * debhelper.1: documented this.
212 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
213 current compatability level is equal to that number.
214 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
215 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
216 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
221 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
223 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
224 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
225 * README: mention doc/v2
226 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
227 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
231 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
233 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
234 be using this script RSN.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
238 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
241 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
242 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
243 more than 1 init script.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
247 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
250 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
254 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Changed perl version detection.
257 * Changed call to find.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
261 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
264 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
266 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
271 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Really include dh_installpam.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
277 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
280 * Wrote man page for same.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
284 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
287 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
288 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
293 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
300 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
303 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
304 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
305 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
310 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
313 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
314 well. (Closes: 38900)
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
318 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
321 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
322 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
326 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
332 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
339 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
345 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
347 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
348 help from Julian Gilbey.
349 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
350 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
351 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
352 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
353 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
354 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
355 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
360 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
366 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
368 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
373 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
379 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
385 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
388 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
395 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
399 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
402 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
406 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
412 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
415 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
419 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
421 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
425 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
427 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
431 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
434 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
435 may be deleted. (#35845)
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
439 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Various man page enhancements.
442 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
447 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
450 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
451 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
455 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
458 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
459 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
460 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
462 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
463 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
474 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Another very minor typo fix.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
480 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Very minor typo fix.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
486 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
489 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
490 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
494 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
500 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
502 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
503 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
504 variables properly (#34850).
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
508 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
510 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
514 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
517 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
518 (automatically generated by build process).
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
522 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
524 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
528 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
531 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
532 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
534 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
538 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
541 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
545 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
547 * README: minor typo fix.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
551 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
554 leave it at that. :-)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
558 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
564 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
570 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
573 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
574 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
575 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
579 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
582 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
586 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
589 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
593 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
596 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
597 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
598 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
599 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
603 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
606 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
607 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
608 Craig Small for spotting this.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
612 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
615 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
616 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
620 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
626 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
629 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
635 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
636 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
637 working on the last version of debhelper.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
641 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
648 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
650 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
654 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
657 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
661 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
663 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
664 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
665 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
666 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
667 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
671 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
674 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
675 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
676 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
677 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
679 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
680 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
682 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
689 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
693 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
699 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
702 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
703 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
704 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
705 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
706 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
707 suidregister actually supports it.
708 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
709 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
713 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
720 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
723 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
724 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
725 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
726 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
727 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
728 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
729 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
733 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
735 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
736 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
740 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
743 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
744 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
745 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
746 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
750 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
753 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
755 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
756 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
757 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
758 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
759 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
760 effect, either. (#30118)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
773 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
774 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
778 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Spelling and typo fixes.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
784 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
786 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
787 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
788 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
789 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
790 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
797 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
798 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
802 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
804 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
808 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
811 packages, painlessly.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
815 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
821 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
827 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
835 * The perl conversion is complete.
837 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
839 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
840 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
841 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
849 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
850 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
851 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
858 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
860 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
862 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
863 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
867 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
870 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
871 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
875 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
881 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
883 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
884 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
885 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
886 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
887 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
888 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
892 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
895 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
896 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
897 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
898 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
902 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
905 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
909 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
912 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
913 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
914 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
915 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
916 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
917 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
918 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
919 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
923 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
929 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
932 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
933 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
934 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
939 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
942 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
946 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
949 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
953 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
956 sections of shared libraries.
957 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
958 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
959 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
960 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
961 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
962 things you don't want them to.
963 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
964 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
968 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
971 shared libraries. (#26414)
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
975 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
977 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
978 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
979 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
980 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
984 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
988 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
990 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
991 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
992 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
993 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
994 the program to not fail. (#26214)
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
998 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1001 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1005 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1008 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1009 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1014 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1017 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1021 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1024 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1025 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1026 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1027 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1028 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1030 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1031 remove debian/files properly.
1032 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1033 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1034 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1035 * Removed bogus menu file.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1042 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1049 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1050 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1051 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1052 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1053 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1054 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1061 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1062 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1063 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1064 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1075 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1078 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1079 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1081 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1082 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1083 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1084 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1085 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1086 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1090 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1093 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1094 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1095 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1096 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1097 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1098 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1099 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1100 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1101 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1102 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1103 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1104 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1105 passed any switches.
1106 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1110 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1113 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1114 at all for a long while.
1115 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1116 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1117 large chunks in the process.
1118 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1119 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1120 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1128 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1130 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1135 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1138 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1139 that don't always have the same files in them.
1140 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1141 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1142 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1146 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1150 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1151 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1152 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1153 updating 27 man pages.
1154 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1155 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1156 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1157 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1158 programs act on. (#25247)
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1166 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1167 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1168 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1169 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1170 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1171 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1176 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1183 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1190 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1193 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1197 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1203 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1206 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1207 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1208 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1209 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1210 package by accident.
1211 * Is version 1.0 next?
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1215 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1218 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1219 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1223 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1226 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1227 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1228 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1229 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1230 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1232 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1237 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1240 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1241 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1245 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1248 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1252 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1255 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1256 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1261 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1267 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1270 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1271 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1276 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1282 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1285 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1286 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1287 past week. Thanks, guys!
1289 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1290 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1291 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1292 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1293 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1294 would do in the same situation.
1295 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1296 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1298 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1300 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1301 permissions changed.
1302 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1303 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1304 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1305 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1306 files are treated identically.
1307 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1308 * Minor man page fixes.
1309 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1310 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1311 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1315 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1318 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1319 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1320 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1321 use -X multiple times, too.
1322 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1323 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1327 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1330 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1331 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1335 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1338 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1342 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1345 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1346 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1347 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1348 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1349 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1350 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1351 shape if you're starting a new package.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1355 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1358 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1362 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1365 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1366 because of missing symlinks.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1370 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1376 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1379 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1380 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1381 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1382 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1383 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1385 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1386 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1390 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1392 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1393 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1394 to be changed after the fact :-)
1395 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1399 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1402 no version string after the -V.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1406 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1408 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1409 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1414 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1417 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1421 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1424 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1425 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1426 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1427 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1428 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1429 I always welcome corrections!
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1433 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1439 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1442 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1443 * Documented this new switch.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1447 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1450 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1451 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1452 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1453 no packages use the old behavior.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1457 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1460 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1461 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1465 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1468 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1472 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1478 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1481 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1485 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1488 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1489 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1490 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1494 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1500 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1503 into the source package by accident.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1510 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1511 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1512 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1513 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1514 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1515 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1520 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1524 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1525 inspired to implement some of it.
1526 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1530 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1533 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1537 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1540 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1541 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1545 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1548 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1549 have done.) (#17598)
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1553 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1559 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1565 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1568 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1572 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1575 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1576 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1580 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1583 argument processor in perl.
1584 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1585 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1586 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1587 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1591 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1594 type directories. (#16933)
1595 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1596 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1597 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1598 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1599 are supported. (#16935)
1600 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1605 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1608 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1612 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1616 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1617 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1618 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1619 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1620 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1621 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1625 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1628 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1629 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1631 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1632 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1633 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1634 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1635 a given package, or -i or -a.
1636 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1637 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1638 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1639 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1640 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1641 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1642 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1643 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1644 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1646 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1647 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1648 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1652 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1655 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1656 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1661 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1664 does not have a section.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1668 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1671 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1672 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1673 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1677 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Fixed typo #16215.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1683 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1686 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1687 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1688 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1689 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1690 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1695 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1698 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1699 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1700 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1705 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1711 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1717 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1720 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1721 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1722 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1723 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1724 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1725 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1729 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1735 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1738 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1742 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1745 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1746 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1747 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1751 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1754 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1758 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1764 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1767 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1771 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1774 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1787 postinst, postrm, etc.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1791 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1797 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1800 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1801 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1802 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1803 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1804 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1808 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1811 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1812 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1816 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1819 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1823 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1826 installing package files into.
1827 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1832 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1836 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1846 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1849 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1853 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1856 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1857 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1858 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1859 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1863 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1865 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1866 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1867 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1868 multiple binary packages.
1869 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1870 should rebuild them with this version.
1871 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1875 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1878 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1882 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1885 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1889 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1892 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1893 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1894 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1895 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1896 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1897 debian/README.debian.
1898 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1899 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1900 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1901 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1902 in a few situations.)
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1906 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1912 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1918 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1921 * Fixed several man pages.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1925 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1928 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1929 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1933 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1936 is ready for general use.
1937 * Added man pages for all commands.
1938 * Multiple binary package support.
1939 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1940 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1941 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1943 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1944 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1945 auto-installed as parameters.
1946 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1948 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1951 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1952 the package build directory it is to act on.
1953 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1954 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1955 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1959 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1961 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1962 ready to replace debstd.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400