1 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
9 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
11 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
12 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
13 for the dependancies to be generated.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
17 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
20 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
24 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
27 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
28 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
29 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
34 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
37 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
38 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
42 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
48 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
54 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
57 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
61 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
69 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
70 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
71 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
72 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
73 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
74 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
75 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
76 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
77 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
78 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
79 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
80 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
81 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
87 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
88 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
89 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
91 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
92 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
93 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
94 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
95 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
96 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
98 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
99 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
103 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
106 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
119 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
120 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
125 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
128 for building debhelper.
129 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
133 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
140 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Fixed makefile commit target.
143 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
147 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
150 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
151 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
152 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
153 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
154 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
155 it's always available.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
162 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
163 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
164 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
171 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
172 modules. (Closes: #42171)
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
182 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
185 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
198 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
199 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
200 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
207 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
212 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
215 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
216 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
218 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
219 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
223 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
235 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
237 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
238 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
245 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
246 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
248 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
252 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
255 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
256 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
257 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
264 things if CDPATH is set.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
268 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
277 seems to make sense for the transition.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
284 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
289 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
292 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
293 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
300 that version. (Closes: #40589)
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
306 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
307 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
308 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
309 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
310 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
320 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
323 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
324 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
325 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
326 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
327 * debhelper.1: documented this.
328 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
329 current compatability level is equal to that number.
330 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
331 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
332 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
337 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
339 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
340 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
341 * README: mention doc/v2
342 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
343 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
347 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
349 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
350 be using this script RSN.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
354 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
357 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
358 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
359 more than 1 init script.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
363 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
366 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
370 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Changed perl version detection.
373 * Changed call to find.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
380 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
382 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
387 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Really include dh_installpam.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
393 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
396 * Wrote man page for same.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
400 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
403 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
404 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
409 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
416 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
419 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
420 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
421 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
426 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
429 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
430 well. (Closes: 38900)
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
434 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
437 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
438 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
442 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
448 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
455 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
461 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
463 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
464 help from Julian Gilbey.
465 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
466 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
467 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
468 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
469 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
470 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
471 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
476 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
482 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
484 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
489 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
495 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
501 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
504 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
508 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
511 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
515 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
518 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
522 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
528 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
531 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
535 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
537 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
541 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
543 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
547 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
550 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
551 may be deleted. (#35845)
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
555 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Various man page enhancements.
558 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
563 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
566 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
567 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
571 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
574 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
575 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
576 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
578 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
579 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
590 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Another very minor typo fix.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
596 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Very minor typo fix.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
602 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
605 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
606 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
610 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
616 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
618 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
619 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
620 variables properly (#34850).
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
624 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
626 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
630 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
633 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
634 (automatically generated by build process).
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
638 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
640 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
644 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
647 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
648 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
650 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
654 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
657 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
661 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
663 * README: minor typo fix.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
667 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
670 leave it at that. :-)
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
674 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
680 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
689 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
690 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
691 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
695 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
698 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
702 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
705 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
709 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
712 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
713 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
714 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
715 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
719 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
722 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
723 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
724 Craig Small for spotting this.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
728 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
731 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
732 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
736 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
742 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
745 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
751 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
752 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
753 working on the last version of debhelper.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
757 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
766 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
773 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
777 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
779 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
780 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
781 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
782 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
783 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
787 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
790 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
791 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
792 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
793 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
795 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
796 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
798 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
803 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
805 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
809 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
815 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
818 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
819 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
820 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
821 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
822 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
823 suidregister actually supports it.
824 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
825 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
829 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
836 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
839 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
840 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
841 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
842 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
843 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
844 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
845 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
849 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
851 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
852 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
856 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
859 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
860 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
861 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
862 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
866 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
869 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
871 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
872 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
873 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
874 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
875 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
876 effect, either. (#30118)
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
880 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
886 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
889 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
890 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
894 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Spelling and typo fixes.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
900 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
902 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
903 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
904 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
905 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
906 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
913 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
914 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
918 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
920 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
924 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
927 packages, painlessly.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
931 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
937 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
943 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
949 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
951 * The perl conversion is complete.
953 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
955 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
956 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
957 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
962 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
965 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
966 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
967 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
974 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
976 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
978 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
979 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
986 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
987 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
991 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
997 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1000 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1001 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1002 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1003 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1004 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1008 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1011 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1012 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1013 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1014 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1018 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1021 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1028 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1029 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1030 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1031 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1032 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1033 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1034 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1035 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1045 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1048 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1049 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1050 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1055 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1058 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1062 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1065 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1069 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1072 sections of shared libraries.
1073 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1074 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1075 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1076 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1077 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1078 things you don't want them to.
1079 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1080 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1084 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1087 shared libraries. (#26414)
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1091 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1093 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1094 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1095 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1096 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1100 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1104 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1106 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1107 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1108 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1109 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1110 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1117 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1121 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1124 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1125 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1130 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1133 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1137 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1140 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1141 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1142 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1143 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1144 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1146 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1147 remove debian/files properly.
1148 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1149 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1150 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1151 * Removed bogus menu file.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1155 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1158 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1162 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1165 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1166 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1167 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1168 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1169 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1170 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1174 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1177 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1178 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1179 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1180 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1184 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1191 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1194 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1195 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1197 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1198 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1199 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1200 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1201 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1202 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1206 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1209 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1210 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1211 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1212 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1213 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1214 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1215 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1216 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1217 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1218 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1219 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1220 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1221 passed any switches.
1222 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1226 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1229 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1230 at all for a long while.
1231 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1232 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1233 large chunks in the process.
1234 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1235 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1236 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1241 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1244 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1246 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1251 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1254 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1255 that don't always have the same files in them.
1256 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1257 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1258 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1262 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1266 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1267 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1268 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1269 updating 27 man pages.
1270 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1271 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1272 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1273 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1274 programs act on. (#25247)
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1278 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1282 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1283 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1284 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1285 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1286 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1287 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1292 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1299 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1306 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1309 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1313 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1319 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1322 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1323 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1324 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1325 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1326 package by accident.
1327 * Is version 1.0 next?
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1331 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1334 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1335 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1339 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1342 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1343 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1344 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1345 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1346 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1348 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1353 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1356 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1357 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1361 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1364 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1368 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1371 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1372 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1377 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1383 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1386 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1387 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1392 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1398 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1401 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1402 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1403 past week. Thanks, guys!
1405 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1406 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1407 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1408 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1409 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1410 would do in the same situation.
1411 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1412 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1414 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1416 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1417 permissions changed.
1418 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1419 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1420 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1421 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1422 files are treated identically.
1423 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1424 * Minor man page fixes.
1425 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1426 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1427 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1431 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1434 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1435 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1436 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1437 use -X multiple times, too.
1438 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1439 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1443 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1446 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1447 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1451 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1454 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1458 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1461 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1462 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1463 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1464 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1465 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1466 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1467 shape if you're starting a new package.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1471 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1474 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1478 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1481 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1482 because of missing symlinks.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1486 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1495 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1496 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1497 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1498 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1499 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1501 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1502 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1506 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1508 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1509 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1510 to be changed after the fact :-)
1511 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1515 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1518 no version string after the -V.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1524 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1525 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1530 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1533 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1537 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1540 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1541 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1542 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1543 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1544 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1545 I always welcome corrections!
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1549 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1555 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1558 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1559 * Documented this new switch.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1563 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1566 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1567 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1568 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1569 no packages use the old behavior.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1573 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1576 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1577 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1581 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1584 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1588 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1594 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1597 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1601 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1604 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1605 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1606 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1610 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1616 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1619 into the source package by accident.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1623 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1626 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1627 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1628 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1629 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1630 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1631 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1636 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1640 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1641 inspired to implement some of it.
1642 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1646 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1649 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1653 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1656 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1657 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1661 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1664 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1665 have done.) (#17598)
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1669 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1684 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1688 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1691 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1692 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1696 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1699 argument processor in perl.
1700 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1701 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1702 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1703 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1707 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1710 type directories. (#16933)
1711 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1712 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1713 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1714 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1715 are supported. (#16935)
1716 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1721 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1724 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1728 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1732 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1733 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1734 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1735 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1736 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1737 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1741 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1744 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1745 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1747 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1748 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1749 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1750 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1751 a given package, or -i or -a.
1752 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1753 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1754 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1755 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1756 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1757 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1758 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1759 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1760 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1762 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1763 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1764 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1768 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1771 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1772 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1777 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1780 does not have a section.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1787 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1788 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1789 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1793 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Fixed typo #16215.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1799 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1802 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1803 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1804 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1805 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1806 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1811 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1814 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1815 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1816 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1827 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1833 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1836 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1837 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1838 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1839 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1840 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1841 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1845 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1851 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1854 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1858 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1861 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1862 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1863 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1867 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1870 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1874 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1880 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1883 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1887 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1890 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1894 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1900 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1903 postinst, postrm, etc.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1907 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1913 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1916 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1917 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1918 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1919 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1920 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1924 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1927 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1928 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1932 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1935 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1939 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1942 installing package files into.
1943 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1948 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1952 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1962 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1965 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1969 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1972 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1973 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1974 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1975 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1979 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1981 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1982 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1983 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1984 multiple binary packages.
1985 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1986 should rebuild them with this version.
1987 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1991 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1994 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1998 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2001 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2005 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2008 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2009 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2010 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2011 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2012 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2013 debian/README.debian.
2014 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2015 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2016 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2017 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2018 in a few situations.)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2022 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2028 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2034 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2037 * Fixed several man pages.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2041 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2044 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2045 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2049 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2052 is ready for general use.
2053 * Added man pages for all commands.
2054 * Multiple binary package support.
2055 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2056 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2057 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2059 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2060 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2061 auto-installed as parameters.
2062 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2064 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2067 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2068 the package build directory it is to act on.
2069 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2070 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2071 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2075 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2077 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2078 ready to replace debstd.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400