1 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * The perl conversion is complete.
5 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
7 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
8 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
9 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
14 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
17 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
18 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
19 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
23 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
26 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
28 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
30 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
31 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
35 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
38 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
39 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
43 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
49 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
51 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
52 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
53 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
54 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
55 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
56 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
60 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
63 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
64 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
65 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
66 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
70 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
73 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
77 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
80 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
81 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
82 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
83 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
84 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
85 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
86 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
87 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
91 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
97 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
100 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
101 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
102 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
107 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
110 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
114 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
117 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
121 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
124 sections of shared libraries.
125 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
126 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
127 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
128 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
129 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
130 things you don't want them to.
131 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
132 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
136 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
139 shared libraries. (#26414)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
143 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
145 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
146 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
147 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
148 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
152 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
156 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
158 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
159 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
160 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
161 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
162 the program to not fail. (#26214)
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
166 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
169 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
173 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
176 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
177 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
182 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
185 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
189 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
191 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
192 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
193 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
194 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
195 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
196 I apologize for the inconvenience.
198 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
199 remove debian/files properly.
200 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
201 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
202 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
203 * Removed bogus menu file.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
207 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
210 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
214 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
217 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
218 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
219 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
220 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
221 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
222 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
226 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
228 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
229 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
230 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
231 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
232 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
236 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
243 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
246 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
247 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
249 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
250 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
251 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
252 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
253 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
254 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
258 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
261 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
262 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
263 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
264 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
265 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
266 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
267 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
268 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
269 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
270 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
271 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
272 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
274 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
278 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
281 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
282 at all for a long while.
283 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
284 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
285 large chunks in the process.
286 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
287 install many oddly named files it died on before.
288 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
293 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
296 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
298 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
303 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
306 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
307 that don't always have the same files in them.
308 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
309 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
310 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
314 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
316 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
318 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
319 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
320 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
321 updating 27 man pages.
322 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
323 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
324 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
325 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
326 programs act on. (#25247)
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
330 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
334 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
335 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
336 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
337 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
338 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
339 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
344 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
351 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
358 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
361 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
365 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
371 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
373 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
374 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
375 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
376 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
377 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
379 * Is version 1.0 next?
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
383 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
386 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
387 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
391 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
393 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
394 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
395 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
396 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
397 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
398 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
400 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
405 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
408 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
409 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
413 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
416 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
420 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
423 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
424 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
429 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
435 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
438 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
439 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
444 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
450 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
452 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
453 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
454 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
455 past week. Thanks, guys!
457 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
458 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
459 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
460 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
461 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
462 would do in the same situation.
463 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
464 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
466 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
468 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
470 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
471 some people enjoy changing root's name.
472 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
473 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
474 files are treated identically.
475 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
476 * Minor man page fixes.
477 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
478 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
479 --no-act is on. (#23054)
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
483 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
485 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
486 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
487 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
488 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
489 use -X multiple times, too.
490 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
491 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
495 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
498 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
499 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
503 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
506 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
510 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
513 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
514 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
515 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
516 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
517 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
518 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
519 shape if you're starting a new package.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
523 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
526 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
530 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
533 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
534 because of missing symlinks.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
538 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
544 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
547 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
548 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
549 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
550 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
551 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
553 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
554 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
558 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
560 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
561 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
562 to be changed after the fact :-)
563 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
567 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
569 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
570 no version string after the -V.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
574 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
576 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
577 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
582 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
585 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
589 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
592 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
593 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
594 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
595 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
596 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
597 I always welcome corrections!
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
601 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
607 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
610 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
611 * Documented this new switch.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
615 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
618 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
619 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
620 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
621 no packages use the old behavior.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
625 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
628 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
629 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
633 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
636 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
640 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
646 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
649 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
653 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
655 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
656 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
657 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
658 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
662 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
668 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
671 into the source package by accident.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
675 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
678 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
679 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
680 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
681 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
682 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
683 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
688 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
692 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
693 inspired to implement some of it.
694 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
698 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
701 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
705 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
708 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
709 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
713 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
716 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
721 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
727 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
733 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
736 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
740 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
743 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
744 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
748 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
751 argument processor in perl.
752 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
753 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
754 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
755 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
759 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
762 type directories. (#16933)
763 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
764 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
765 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
766 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
767 are supported. (#16935)
768 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
773 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
776 This has been broken since version 0.30.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
780 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
784 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
785 version requirements in the shlibs file.
786 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
787 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
788 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
789 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
793 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
796 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
797 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
799 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
800 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
801 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
802 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
803 a given package, or -i or -a.
804 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
805 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
806 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
807 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
808 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
809 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
810 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
811 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
812 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
814 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
815 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
816 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
820 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
823 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
824 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
829 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
832 does not have a section.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
836 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
839 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
840 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
841 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
845 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
851 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
853 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
854 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
855 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
856 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
857 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
858 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
863 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
866 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
867 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
868 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
873 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
879 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
885 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
888 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
889 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
890 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
891 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
892 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
893 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
897 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
903 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
905 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
906 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
910 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
913 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
914 the dh_* programs (#15497).
915 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
919 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
922 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
926 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
932 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
935 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
939 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
942 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
946 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
952 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
955 postinst, postrm, etc.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
959 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
965 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
967 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
968 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
969 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
970 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
971 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
972 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
976 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
979 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
980 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
984 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
987 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
991 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
993 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
994 installing package files into.
995 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1000 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1004 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1008 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1014 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1017 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1021 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1024 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1025 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1026 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1027 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1031 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1033 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1034 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1035 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1036 multiple binary packages.
1037 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1038 should rebuild them with this version.
1039 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1043 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1046 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1050 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1053 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1057 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1060 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1061 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1062 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1063 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1064 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1065 debian/README.debian.
1066 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1067 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1068 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1069 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1070 in a few situations.)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1074 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1080 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1086 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1089 * Fixed several man pages.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1093 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1096 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1097 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1101 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1104 is ready for general use.
1105 * Added man pages for all commands.
1106 * Multiple binary package support.
1107 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1108 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1109 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1111 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1112 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1113 auto-installed as parameters.
1114 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1116 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1119 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1120 the package build directory it is to act on.
1121 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1122 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1123 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1127 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1129 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1130 ready to replace debstd.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400