1 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4 depend on the build and install targets.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
11 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
28 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
34 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
37 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
38 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
39 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
40 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
41 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
42 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
44 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
45 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
46 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
47 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
48 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
49 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
50 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
54 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
60 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
66 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
69 right place. Closes: #55065
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
73 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
80 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Make all examples rules files executable.
83 * Copyright date updates.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
87 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
90 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
95 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
101 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
108 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
114 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
120 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
126 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
129 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
130 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
131 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
132 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
133 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
134 bits until all files have been registered.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
138 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installmanpages:
141 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
142 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
143 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
144 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
145 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
146 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
147 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
148 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
149 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
150 otherwise change the result at all.
152 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
153 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
154 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
155 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
156 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
161 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
167 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
170 act on files that don't exist.
171 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
172 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
173 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
175 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
176 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
177 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
178 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
182 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
188 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
194 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
197 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
201 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
204 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
206 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
207 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
208 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
212 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
215 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
216 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
217 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
218 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
219 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
220 does not compress. Closes: #41733
221 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
223 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
225 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
229 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
236 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
242 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
251 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
261 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
270 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
271 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
272 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
273 I made some changes, though:
274 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
275 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
276 that is a clear violation of policy.
277 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
278 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
279 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
280 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
281 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
282 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
283 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
284 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
285 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
287 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
291 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
300 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
307 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
308 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
313 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
326 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
329 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
330 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
331 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
332 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
333 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
334 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
335 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
339 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
345 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
349 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
350 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
354 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
360 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
363 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
367 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
370 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
371 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
375 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
377 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
386 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
390 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
392 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
393 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
394 for the dependancies to be generated.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
401 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
405 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
408 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
409 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
410 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
418 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
419 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
423 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
429 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
435 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
438 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
442 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
448 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
450 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
451 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
452 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
453 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
454 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
455 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
456 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
457 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
458 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
459 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
460 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
461 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
462 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
466 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
468 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
469 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
470 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
472 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
473 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
474 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
475 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
476 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
477 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
479 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
480 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
484 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
487 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
498 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
500 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
501 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
506 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
509 for building debhelper.
510 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
514 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
521 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fixed makefile commit target.
524 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
528 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
531 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
532 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
533 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
534 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
535 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
536 it's always available.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
540 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
543 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
544 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
545 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
552 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
553 modules. (Closes: #42171)
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
566 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
576 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
579 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
580 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
581 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
588 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
593 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
596 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
597 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
599 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
600 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
604 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
610 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
616 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
618 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
619 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
623 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
626 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
627 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
629 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
633 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
636 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
637 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
638 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
645 things if CDPATH is set.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
649 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
658 seems to make sense for the transition.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
665 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
670 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
673 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
674 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
678 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
681 that version. (Closes: #40589)
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
685 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
687 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
688 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
689 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
690 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
691 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
695 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
701 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
704 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
705 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
706 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
707 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
708 * debhelper.1: documented this.
709 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
710 current compatability level is equal to that number.
711 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
712 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
713 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
718 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
720 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
721 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
722 * README: mention doc/v2
723 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
724 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
728 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
730 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
731 be using this script RSN.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
735 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
738 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
739 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
740 more than 1 init script.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
744 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
747 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
751 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Changed perl version detection.
754 * Changed call to find.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
758 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
761 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
763 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
768 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Really include dh_installpam.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
774 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
777 * Wrote man page for same.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
781 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
784 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
785 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
797 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
800 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
801 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
802 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
807 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
810 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
811 well. (Closes: 38900)
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
818 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
819 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
823 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
829 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
842 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
844 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
845 help from Julian Gilbey.
846 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
847 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
848 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
849 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
850 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
851 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
852 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
857 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
863 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
865 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
870 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
876 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
882 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
885 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
889 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
892 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
896 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
899 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
903 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
909 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
912 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
916 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
918 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
922 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
924 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
928 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
931 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
932 may be deleted. (#35845)
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
936 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Various man page enhancements.
939 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
944 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
947 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
948 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
952 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
955 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
956 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
957 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
959 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
960 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
965 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
971 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Another very minor typo fix.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
977 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Very minor typo fix.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
986 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
987 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
991 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
997 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
999 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1000 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1001 variables properly (#34850).
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1011 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1014 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1015 (automatically generated by build process).
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1019 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1021 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1028 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1029 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1031 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1035 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1038 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1042 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * README: minor typo fix.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1048 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1051 leave it at that. :-)
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1055 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1061 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1067 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1070 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1071 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1072 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1076 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1079 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1086 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1093 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1094 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1095 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1096 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1100 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1103 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1104 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1105 Craig Small for spotting this.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1109 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1112 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1113 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1117 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1123 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1126 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1130 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1132 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1133 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1134 working on the last version of debhelper.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1138 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1141 being made. (#23255)
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1145 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1151 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1154 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1158 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1161 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1162 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1163 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1164 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1168 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1171 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1172 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1173 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1174 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1176 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1177 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1179 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1184 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1190 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1196 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1199 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1200 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1201 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1202 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1203 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1204 suidregister actually supports it.
1205 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1206 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1210 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1217 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1220 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1221 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1222 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1223 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1224 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1225 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1226 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1230 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1232 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1233 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1237 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1240 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1241 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1242 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1243 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1247 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1250 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1252 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1253 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1254 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1255 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1256 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1257 effect, either. (#30118)
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1261 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1267 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1270 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1271 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1275 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1281 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1284 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1285 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1286 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1287 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1291 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1294 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1295 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1305 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1308 packages, painlessly.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1312 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1318 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1324 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1330 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * The perl conversion is complete.
1334 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1336 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1337 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1338 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1343 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1346 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1347 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1348 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1352 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1355 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1357 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1359 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1360 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1364 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1367 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1368 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1372 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1378 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1381 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1382 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1383 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1384 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1385 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1389 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1392 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1393 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1394 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1395 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1399 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1402 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1406 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1409 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1410 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1411 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1412 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1413 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1414 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1415 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1416 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1420 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1426 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1429 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1430 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1431 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1439 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1446 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1450 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1453 sections of shared libraries.
1454 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1455 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1456 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1457 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1458 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1459 things you don't want them to.
1460 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1461 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1468 shared libraries. (#26414)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1474 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1475 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1476 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1477 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1481 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1485 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1487 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1488 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1489 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1490 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1491 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1495 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1498 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1505 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1506 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1514 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1521 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1522 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1523 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1524 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1525 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1527 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1528 remove debian/files properly.
1529 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1530 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1531 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1532 * Removed bogus menu file.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1536 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1539 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1546 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1547 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1548 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1549 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1550 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1551 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1558 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1559 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1560 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1561 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1565 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1572 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1575 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1576 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1578 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1579 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1580 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1581 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1582 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1583 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1590 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1591 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1592 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1593 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1594 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1595 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1596 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1597 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1598 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1599 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1600 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1601 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1602 passed any switches.
1603 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1607 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1610 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1611 at all for a long while.
1612 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1613 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1614 large chunks in the process.
1615 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1616 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1617 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1625 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1627 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1635 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1636 that don't always have the same files in them.
1637 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1638 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1639 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1647 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1648 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1649 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1650 updating 27 man pages.
1651 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1652 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1653 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1654 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1655 programs act on. (#25247)
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1659 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1663 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1664 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1665 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1666 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1667 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1668 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1673 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1680 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1687 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1690 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1694 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1700 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1703 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1704 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1705 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1706 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1707 package by accident.
1708 * Is version 1.0 next?
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1712 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1715 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1716 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1720 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1723 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1724 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1725 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1726 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1727 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1729 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1734 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1737 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1738 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1742 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1745 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1749 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1752 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1753 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1758 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1764 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1767 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1768 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1773 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1779 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1782 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1783 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1784 past week. Thanks, guys!
1786 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1787 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1788 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1789 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1790 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1791 would do in the same situation.
1792 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1793 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1795 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1797 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1798 permissions changed.
1799 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1800 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1801 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1802 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1803 files are treated identically.
1804 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1805 * Minor man page fixes.
1806 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1807 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1808 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1812 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1815 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1816 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1817 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1818 use -X multiple times, too.
1819 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1820 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1824 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1827 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1828 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1832 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1835 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1839 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1842 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1843 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1844 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1845 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1846 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1847 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1848 shape if you're starting a new package.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1852 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1855 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1859 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1862 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1863 because of missing symlinks.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1867 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1873 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1876 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1877 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1878 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1879 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1880 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1882 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1883 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1887 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1889 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1890 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1891 to be changed after the fact :-)
1892 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1896 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1899 no version string after the -V.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1903 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1905 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1906 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1911 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1914 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1918 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1921 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1922 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1923 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1924 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1925 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1926 I always welcome corrections!
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1930 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1936 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1939 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1940 * Documented this new switch.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1944 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1947 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1948 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1949 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1950 no packages use the old behavior.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1954 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1957 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1958 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1962 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1965 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1969 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1975 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1978 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1982 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1985 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1986 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1987 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1991 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1997 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2000 into the source package by accident.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2004 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2007 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2008 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2009 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2010 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2011 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2012 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2017 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2021 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2022 inspired to implement some of it.
2023 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2027 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2030 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2034 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2037 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2038 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2042 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2045 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2046 have done.) (#17598)
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2050 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2056 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2062 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2065 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2069 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2072 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2073 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2077 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2080 argument processor in perl.
2081 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2082 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2083 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2084 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2088 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2091 type directories. (#16933)
2092 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2093 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2094 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2095 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2096 are supported. (#16935)
2097 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2105 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2109 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2113 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2114 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2115 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2116 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2117 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2118 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2122 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2125 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2126 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2128 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2129 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2130 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2131 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2132 a given package, or -i or -a.
2133 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2134 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2135 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2136 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2137 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2138 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2139 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2140 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2141 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2143 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2144 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2145 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2149 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2152 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2153 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2158 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2161 does not have a section.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2165 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2168 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2169 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2170 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2174 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fixed typo #16215.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2180 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2183 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2184 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2185 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2186 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2187 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2192 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2195 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2196 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2197 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2202 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2208 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2214 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2217 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2218 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2219 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2220 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2221 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2222 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2226 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2232 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2235 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2239 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2242 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2243 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2244 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2248 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2251 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2255 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2261 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2264 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2268 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2271 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2275 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2281 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2284 postinst, postrm, etc.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2288 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2294 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2297 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2298 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2299 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2300 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2301 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2305 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2308 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2309 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2313 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2316 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2320 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2323 installing package files into.
2324 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2329 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2333 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2337 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2343 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2346 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2350 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2353 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2354 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2355 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2356 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2360 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2362 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2363 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2364 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2365 multiple binary packages.
2366 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2367 should rebuild them with this version.
2368 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2372 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2375 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2379 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2382 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2386 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2389 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2390 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2391 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2392 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2393 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2394 debian/README.debian.
2395 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2396 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2397 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2398 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2399 in a few situations.)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2403 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2409 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2415 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2418 * Fixed several man pages.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2422 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2425 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2426 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2430 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2433 is ready for general use.
2434 * Added man pages for all commands.
2435 * Multiple binary package support.
2436 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2437 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2438 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2440 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2441 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2442 auto-installed as parameters.
2443 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2445 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2448 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2449 the package build directory it is to act on.
2450 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2451 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2452 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2456 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2458 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2459 ready to replace debstd.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400