1 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
9 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
12 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
16 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
19 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
20 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
21 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
22 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
23 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
24 I always welcome corrections!
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
28 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
34 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
37 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
38 * Documented this new switch.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
42 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
45 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
46 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
47 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
48 no packages use the old behavior.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
52 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
55 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
56 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
60 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
63 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
67 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
73 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
76 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
80 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
82 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
83 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
84 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
85 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
89 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
95 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
98 into the source package by accident.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
102 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
105 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
106 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
107 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
108 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
109 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
110 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
115 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
119 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
120 inspired to implement some of it.
121 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
125 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
128 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
132 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
135 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
136 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
140 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
143 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
148 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
154 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
160 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
163 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
167 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
170 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
171 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
175 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
178 argument processor in perl.
179 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
180 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
181 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
182 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
186 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
189 type directories. (#16933)
190 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
191 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
192 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
193 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
194 are supported. (#16935)
195 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
200 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
203 This has been broken since version 0.30.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
207 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
211 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
212 version requirements in the shlibs file.
213 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
214 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
215 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
216 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
220 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
223 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
224 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
226 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
227 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
228 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
229 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
230 a given package, or -i or -a.
231 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
232 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
233 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
234 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
235 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
236 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
237 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
238 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
239 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
241 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
242 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
243 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
247 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
250 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
251 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
256 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
259 does not have a section.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
263 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
266 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
267 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
268 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
272 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
278 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
280 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
281 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
282 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
283 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
284 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
285 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
290 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
293 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
294 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
295 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
300 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
306 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
312 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
315 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
316 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
317 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
318 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
319 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
320 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
324 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
330 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
332 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
333 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
337 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
340 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
341 the dh_* programs (#15497).
342 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
346 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
349 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
353 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
359 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
362 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
366 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
369 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
373 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
379 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
382 postinst, postrm, etc.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
386 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
392 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
394 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
395 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
396 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
397 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
398 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
399 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
403 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
406 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
407 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
411 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
414 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
418 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
420 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
421 installing package files into.
422 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
427 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
431 * Install examples/rules* executable.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
435 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
441 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
444 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
448 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
451 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
452 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
453 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
454 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
458 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
460 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
461 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
462 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
463 multiple binary packages.
464 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
465 should rebuild them with this version.
466 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
470 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
473 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
477 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
480 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
484 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
487 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
488 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
489 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
490 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
491 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
492 debian/README.debian.
493 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
494 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
495 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
496 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
497 in a few situations.)
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
501 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
507 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
513 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
516 * Fixed several man pages.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
520 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
523 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
524 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
528 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
531 is ready for general use.
532 * Added man pages for all commands.
533 * Multiple binary package support.
534 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
535 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
536 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
538 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
539 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
540 auto-installed as parameters.
541 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
543 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
546 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
547 the package build directory it is to act on.
548 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
549 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
550 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
554 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
556 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
557 ready to replace debstd.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400