1 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
6 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
11 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
14 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
15 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
25 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
31 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
34 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
38 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
46 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
47 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
48 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
49 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
50 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
51 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
52 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
53 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
54 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
55 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
56 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
57 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
58 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
62 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
64 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
65 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
66 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
68 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
69 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
70 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
71 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
72 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
73 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
75 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
76 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
83 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
87 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
96 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
97 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
105 for building debhelper.
106 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Fixed makefile commit target.
120 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
127 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
128 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
129 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
130 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
131 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
132 it's always available.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
136 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
139 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
140 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
141 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
148 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
149 modules. (Closes: #42171)
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
153 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
159 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
162 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
166 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
172 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
175 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
176 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
177 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
184 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
192 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
193 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
195 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
196 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
206 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
212 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
214 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
215 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
222 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
223 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
225 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
229 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
232 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
233 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
234 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
241 things if CDPATH is set.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
254 seems to make sense for the transition.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
258 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
261 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
269 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
270 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
274 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
277 that version. (Closes: #40589)
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
283 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
284 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
285 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
286 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
287 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
291 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
297 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
300 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
301 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
302 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
303 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
304 * debhelper.1: documented this.
305 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
306 current compatability level is equal to that number.
307 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
308 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
309 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
314 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
316 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
317 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
318 * README: mention doc/v2
319 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
320 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
324 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
326 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
327 be using this script RSN.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
331 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
334 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
335 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
336 more than 1 init script.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
340 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
343 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
347 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Changed perl version detection.
350 * Changed call to find.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
354 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
357 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
359 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
364 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Really include dh_installpam.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
370 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
373 * Wrote man page for same.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
380 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
381 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
386 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
393 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
396 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
397 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
398 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
403 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
406 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
407 well. (Closes: 38900)
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
411 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
414 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
415 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
419 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
425 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
432 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
440 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
441 help from Julian Gilbey.
442 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
443 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
444 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
445 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
446 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
447 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
448 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
453 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
459 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
461 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
466 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
472 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
478 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
481 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
488 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
492 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
495 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
499 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
505 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
508 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
512 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
514 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
518 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
520 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
524 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
527 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
528 may be deleted. (#35845)
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
532 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Various man page enhancements.
535 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
540 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
543 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
544 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
548 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
551 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
552 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
553 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
555 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
556 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
561 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
567 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Another very minor typo fix.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
573 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Very minor typo fix.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
579 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
582 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
583 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
587 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
593 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
595 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
596 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
597 variables properly (#34850).
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
601 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
603 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
607 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
610 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
611 (automatically generated by build process).
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
615 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
617 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
621 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
624 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
625 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
627 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
631 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
634 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
638 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
640 * README: minor typo fix.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
644 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
647 leave it at that. :-)
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
651 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
657 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
663 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
666 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
667 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
668 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
672 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
675 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
679 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
682 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
689 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
690 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
691 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
692 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
696 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
699 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
700 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
701 Craig Small for spotting this.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
705 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
708 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
709 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
713 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
719 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
722 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
726 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
728 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
729 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
730 working on the last version of debhelper.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
734 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
741 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
743 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
747 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
750 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
754 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
756 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
757 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
758 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
759 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
760 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
764 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
767 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
768 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
769 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
770 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
772 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
773 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
775 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
780 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
782 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
795 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
796 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
797 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
798 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
799 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
800 suidregister actually supports it.
801 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
802 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
806 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
813 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
816 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
817 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
818 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
819 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
820 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
821 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
822 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
826 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
828 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
829 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
836 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
837 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
838 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
839 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
843 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
846 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
848 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
849 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
850 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
851 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
852 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
853 effect, either. (#30118)
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
857 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
863 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
866 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
867 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Spelling and typo fixes.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
879 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
880 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
881 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
882 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
883 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
887 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
890 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
891 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
895 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
897 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
901 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
904 packages, painlessly.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
908 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
914 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
920 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
926 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
928 * The perl conversion is complete.
930 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
932 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
933 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
934 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
939 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
942 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
943 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
944 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
948 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
951 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
953 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
955 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
956 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
960 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
963 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
964 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
968 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
974 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
976 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
977 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
978 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
979 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
980 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
981 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
985 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
988 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
989 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
990 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
991 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
995 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
998 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1002 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1005 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1006 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1007 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1008 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1009 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1010 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1011 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1012 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1025 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1026 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1027 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1032 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1035 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1039 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1042 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1049 sections of shared libraries.
1050 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1051 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1052 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1053 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1054 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1055 things you don't want them to.
1056 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1057 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1061 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1064 shared libraries. (#26414)
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1070 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1071 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1072 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1073 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1077 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1081 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1083 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1084 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1085 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1086 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1087 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1091 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1094 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1101 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1102 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1107 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1110 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1114 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1117 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1118 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1119 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1120 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1121 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1123 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1124 remove debian/files properly.
1125 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1126 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1127 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1128 * Removed bogus menu file.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1132 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1135 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1139 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1142 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1143 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1144 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1145 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1146 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1147 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1154 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1155 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1156 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1157 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1168 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1171 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1172 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1174 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1175 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1176 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1177 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1178 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1179 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1183 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1186 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1187 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1188 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1189 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1190 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1191 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1192 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1193 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1194 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1195 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1196 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1197 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1198 passed any switches.
1199 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1203 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1206 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1207 at all for a long while.
1208 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1209 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1210 large chunks in the process.
1211 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1212 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1213 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1221 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1223 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1228 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1231 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1232 that don't always have the same files in them.
1233 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1234 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1235 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1239 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1243 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1244 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1245 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1246 updating 27 man pages.
1247 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1248 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1249 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1250 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1251 programs act on. (#25247)
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1255 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1259 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1260 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1261 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1262 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1263 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1264 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1269 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1276 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1283 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1286 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1290 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1296 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1299 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1300 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1301 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1302 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1303 package by accident.
1304 * Is version 1.0 next?
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1308 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1311 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1312 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1316 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1319 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1320 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1321 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1322 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1323 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1325 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1330 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1333 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1334 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1338 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1341 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1345 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1348 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1349 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1354 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1360 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1363 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1364 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1369 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1375 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1378 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1379 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1380 past week. Thanks, guys!
1382 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1383 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1384 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1385 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1386 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1387 would do in the same situation.
1388 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1389 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1391 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1393 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1394 permissions changed.
1395 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1396 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1397 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1398 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1399 files are treated identically.
1400 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1401 * Minor man page fixes.
1402 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1403 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1404 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1408 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1411 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1412 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1413 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1414 use -X multiple times, too.
1415 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1416 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1420 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1423 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1424 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1428 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1431 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1435 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1438 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1439 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1440 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1441 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1442 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1443 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1444 shape if you're starting a new package.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1448 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1451 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1455 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1458 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1459 because of missing symlinks.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1463 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1469 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1472 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1473 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1474 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1475 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1476 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1478 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1479 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1483 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1485 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1486 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1487 to be changed after the fact :-)
1488 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1495 no version string after the -V.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1499 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1501 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1502 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1510 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1517 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1518 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1519 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1520 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1521 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1522 I always welcome corrections!
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1526 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1532 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1535 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1536 * Documented this new switch.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1540 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1543 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1544 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1545 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1546 no packages use the old behavior.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1550 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1553 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1554 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1558 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1561 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1565 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1571 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1574 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1578 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1581 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1582 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1583 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1587 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1596 into the source package by accident.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1600 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1603 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1604 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1605 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1606 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1607 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1608 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1613 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1617 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1618 inspired to implement some of it.
1619 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1623 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1626 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1630 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1633 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1634 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1638 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1641 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1642 have done.) (#17598)
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1646 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1652 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1658 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1661 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1665 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1668 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1669 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1673 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1676 argument processor in perl.
1677 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1678 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1679 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1680 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1684 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1687 type directories. (#16933)
1688 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1689 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1690 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1691 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1692 are supported. (#16935)
1693 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1698 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1701 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1705 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1709 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1710 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1711 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1712 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1713 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1714 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1721 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1722 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1724 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1725 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1726 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1727 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1728 a given package, or -i or -a.
1729 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1730 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1731 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1732 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1733 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1734 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1735 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1736 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1737 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1739 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1740 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1741 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1745 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1748 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1749 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1754 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1757 does not have a section.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1761 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1764 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1765 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1766 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1770 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fixed typo #16215.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1779 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1780 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1781 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1782 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1783 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1788 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1791 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1792 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1793 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1804 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1813 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1814 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1815 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1816 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1817 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1818 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1822 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1828 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1831 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1835 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1838 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1839 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1840 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1844 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1847 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1851 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1857 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1860 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1864 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1867 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1871 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1877 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1880 postinst, postrm, etc.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1884 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1893 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1894 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1895 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1896 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1897 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1901 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1904 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1905 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1909 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1912 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1916 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1919 installing package files into.
1920 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1925 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1929 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1933 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1939 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1942 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1946 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1949 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1950 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1951 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1952 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1956 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1958 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1959 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1960 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1961 multiple binary packages.
1962 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1963 should rebuild them with this version.
1964 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1968 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1971 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1975 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1978 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1982 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1985 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1986 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1987 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1988 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1989 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1990 debian/README.debian.
1991 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1992 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1993 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1994 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1995 in a few situations.)
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1999 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2005 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2011 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2014 * Fixed several man pages.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2018 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2021 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2022 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2026 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2029 is ready for general use.
2030 * Added man pages for all commands.
2031 * Multiple binary package support.
2032 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2033 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2034 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2036 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2037 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2038 auto-installed as parameters.
2039 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2041 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2044 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2045 the package build directory it is to act on.
2046 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2047 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2048 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2052 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2054 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2055 ready to replace debstd.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400