1 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4 help from Julian Gilbey.
5 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
6 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
7 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
8 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
9 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
10 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
11 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
16 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
22 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
24 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
29 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
35 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
41 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
44 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
48 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
51 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
55 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
58 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
62 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
68 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
71 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
75 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
77 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
81 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
83 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
87 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
90 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
91 may be deleted. (#35845)
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
95 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Various man page enhancements.
98 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
103 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
106 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
107 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
111 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
114 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
115 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
116 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
118 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
119 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
124 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
130 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Another very minor typo fix.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
136 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Very minor typo fix.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
142 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
145 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
146 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
150 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
156 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
158 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
159 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
160 variables properly (#34850).
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
164 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
166 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
170 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
173 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
174 (automatically generated by build process).
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
178 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
180 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
184 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
187 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
188 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
190 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
194 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
197 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
201 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
203 * README: minor typo fix.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
207 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
210 leave it at that. :-)
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
214 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
220 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
226 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
229 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
230 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
231 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
235 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
238 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
242 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
245 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
249 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
252 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
253 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
254 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
255 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
259 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
262 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
263 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
264 Craig Small for spotting this.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
268 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
271 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
272 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
276 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
282 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
285 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
289 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
291 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
292 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
293 working on the last version of debhelper.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
297 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
304 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
306 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
310 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
313 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
317 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
319 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
320 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
321 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
322 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
323 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
327 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
330 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
331 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
332 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
333 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
335 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
336 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
338 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
343 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
345 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
349 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
355 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
358 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
359 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
360 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
361 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
362 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
363 suidregister actually supports it.
364 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
365 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
369 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
376 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
379 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
380 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
381 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
382 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
383 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
384 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
385 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
389 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
391 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
392 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
396 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
399 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
400 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
401 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
402 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
406 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
409 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
411 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
412 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
413 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
414 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
415 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
416 effect, either. (#30118)
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
420 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
426 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
429 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
430 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
434 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Spelling and typo fixes.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
440 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
442 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
443 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
444 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
445 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
446 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
450 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
453 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
454 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
458 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
460 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
464 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
467 packages, painlessly.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
471 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
477 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
483 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
489 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
491 * The perl conversion is complete.
493 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
495 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
496 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
497 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
502 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
505 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
506 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
507 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
511 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
514 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
516 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
518 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
519 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
523 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
526 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
527 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
531 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
537 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
539 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
540 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
541 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
542 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
543 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
544 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
548 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
551 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
552 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
553 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
554 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
558 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
561 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
565 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
568 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
569 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
570 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
571 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
572 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
573 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
574 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
575 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
579 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
585 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
588 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
589 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
590 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
595 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
598 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
602 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
605 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
609 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
612 sections of shared libraries.
613 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
614 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
615 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
616 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
617 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
618 things you don't want them to.
619 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
620 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
624 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
627 shared libraries. (#26414)
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
631 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
633 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
634 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
635 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
636 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
640 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
644 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
646 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
647 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
648 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
649 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
650 the program to not fail. (#26214)
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
654 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
657 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
661 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
664 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
665 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
670 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
673 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
677 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
679 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
680 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
681 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
682 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
683 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
684 I apologize for the inconvenience.
686 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
687 remove debian/files properly.
688 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
689 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
690 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
691 * Removed bogus menu file.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
695 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
698 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
702 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
705 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
706 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
707 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
708 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
709 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
710 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
714 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
716 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
717 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
718 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
719 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
720 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
724 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
731 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
734 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
735 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
737 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
738 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
739 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
740 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
741 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
742 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
746 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
749 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
750 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
751 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
752 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
753 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
754 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
755 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
756 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
757 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
758 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
759 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
760 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
762 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
766 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
769 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
770 at all for a long while.
771 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
772 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
773 large chunks in the process.
774 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
775 install many oddly named files it died on before.
776 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
781 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
784 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
786 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
791 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
794 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
795 that don't always have the same files in them.
796 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
797 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
798 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
802 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
804 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
806 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
807 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
808 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
809 updating 27 man pages.
810 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
811 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
812 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
813 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
814 programs act on. (#25247)
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
818 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
822 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
823 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
824 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
825 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
826 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
827 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
832 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
839 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
846 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
849 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
853 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
859 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
861 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
862 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
863 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
864 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
865 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
867 * Is version 1.0 next?
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
871 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
874 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
875 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
879 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
881 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
882 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
883 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
884 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
885 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
886 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
888 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
893 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
896 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
897 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
901 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
904 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
908 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
911 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
912 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
917 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
923 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
926 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
927 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
932 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
938 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
940 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
941 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
942 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
943 past week. Thanks, guys!
945 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
946 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
947 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
948 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
949 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
950 would do in the same situation.
951 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
952 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
954 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
956 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
958 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
959 some people enjoy changing root's name.
960 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
961 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
962 files are treated identically.
963 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
964 * Minor man page fixes.
965 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
966 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
967 --no-act is on. (#23054)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
971 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
973 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
974 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
975 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
976 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
977 use -X multiple times, too.
978 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
979 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
983 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
986 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
987 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
991 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
994 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
998 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1001 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1002 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1003 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1004 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1005 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1006 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1007 shape if you're starting a new package.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1011 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1014 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1018 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1021 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1022 because of missing symlinks.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1026 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1032 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1035 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1036 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1037 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1038 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1039 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1041 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1042 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1046 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1048 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1049 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1050 to be changed after the fact :-)
1051 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1055 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1058 no version string after the -V.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1062 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1064 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1065 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1070 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1073 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1077 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1080 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1081 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1082 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1083 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1084 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1085 I always welcome corrections!
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1089 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1095 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1098 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1099 * Documented this new switch.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1103 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1106 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1107 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1108 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1109 no packages use the old behavior.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1113 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1116 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1117 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1121 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1124 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1128 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1134 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1137 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1141 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1144 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1145 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1146 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1150 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1156 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1159 into the source package by accident.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1163 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1166 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1167 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1168 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1169 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1170 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1171 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1176 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1180 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1181 inspired to implement some of it.
1182 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1186 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1189 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1193 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1196 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1197 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1201 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1204 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1205 have done.) (#17598)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1209 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1215 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1221 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1224 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1228 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1231 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1232 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1236 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1239 argument processor in perl.
1240 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1241 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1242 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1243 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1247 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1250 type directories. (#16933)
1251 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1252 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1253 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1254 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1255 are supported. (#16935)
1256 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1261 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1264 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1268 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1272 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1273 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1274 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1275 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1276 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1277 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1281 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1284 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1285 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1287 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1288 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1289 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1290 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1291 a given package, or -i or -a.
1292 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1293 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1294 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1295 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1296 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1297 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1298 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1299 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1300 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1302 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1303 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1304 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1308 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1311 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1312 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1317 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1320 does not have a section.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1324 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1327 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1328 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1329 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1333 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Fixed typo #16215.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1339 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1342 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1343 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1344 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1345 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1346 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1351 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1354 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1355 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1356 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1361 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1367 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1373 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1376 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1377 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1378 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1379 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1380 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1381 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1385 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1391 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1394 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1398 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1401 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1402 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1403 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1407 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1410 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1414 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1420 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1423 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1427 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1430 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1434 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1440 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1443 postinst, postrm, etc.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1447 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1453 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1456 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1457 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1458 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1459 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1460 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1464 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1467 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1468 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1472 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1475 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1479 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1482 installing package files into.
1483 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1488 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1492 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1496 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1502 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1505 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1509 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1512 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1513 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1514 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1515 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1519 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1521 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1522 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1523 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1524 multiple binary packages.
1525 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1526 should rebuild them with this version.
1527 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1531 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1534 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1538 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1541 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1545 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1548 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1549 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1550 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1551 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1552 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1553 debian/README.debian.
1554 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1555 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1556 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1557 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1558 in a few situations.)
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1562 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1568 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1574 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1577 * Fixed several man pages.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1581 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1584 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1585 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1589 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1592 is ready for general use.
1593 * Added man pages for all commands.
1594 * Multiple binary package support.
1595 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1596 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1597 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1599 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1600 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1601 auto-installed as parameters.
1602 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1604 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1607 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1608 the package build directory it is to act on.
1609 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1610 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1611 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1615 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1617 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1618 ready to replace debstd.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400