1 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
7 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Typo, Closes: #132454
10 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
14 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
17 upset. Closes: #131322
19 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
21 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
24 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
25 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
26 line, as well as in debian/rules.
27 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
28 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
29 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
30 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
31 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
32 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
33 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
34 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
35 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
36 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
37 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
38 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
40 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
44 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
47 - Better indenting of generated code.
48 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
52 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
56 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
57 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
58 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
59 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
60 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
61 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
62 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
66 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
69 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
73 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
76 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
77 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
78 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
79 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
80 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
81 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
82 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
83 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
84 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
85 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
86 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
87 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
88 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
89 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
90 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
95 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
101 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
104 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
105 * fixed dh_testdir man page
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
109 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Typo, Closes: #122679
112 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
113 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
117 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
123 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
126 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
127 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
128 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
129 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
130 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
135 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
137 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
141 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
144 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
148 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
151 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
156 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Typo, Closes: #114135
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
162 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
165 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
169 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
175 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
179 Also some indentation fixes.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
183 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
186 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
187 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
188 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
189 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
190 Closes: #106514, #85520
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
194 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Typo, Closes: #104405
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
200 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
208 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
212 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
218 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
224 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
227 change it in debhelper v4..
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
240 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
244 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
247 is not essential. Closes: #100430
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
251 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
257 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
260 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
261 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
262 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
263 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
264 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
265 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
266 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
267 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
268 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
269 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
270 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
271 prefixed with ".debhelper")
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
275 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
278 look just like shared libs, but are not.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
282 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
289 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
292 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
293 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
294 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
295 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
296 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
297 program those options go to. So, for example,
298 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
299 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
300 something complex. Closes: #89311
301 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
305 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
308 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
309 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
310 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
314 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
317 through loop. Closes: #98598
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
321 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Missing semi-colon.
324 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
325 this (dh_* should be called, really).
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
329 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
332 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
333 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
334 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
338 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
341 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
342 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
346 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
349 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
353 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
356 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
357 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
361 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
364 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
365 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
366 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
370 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
373 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
374 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
375 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
379 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
382 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
386 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
392 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo, Closes: #92407
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
398 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
404 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
410 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
413 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
417 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
420 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
421 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
422 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
423 followed. Closes: #85483
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
427 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
429 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
430 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
431 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
435 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
438 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
439 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
440 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
441 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
442 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
443 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
444 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
445 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
446 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
447 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
448 Closes: #88464, #77743
449 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
450 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
451 us to deal with that gracefully.
452 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
454 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
455 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
456 a while, Closes: #51225
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
460 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
466 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
469 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
473 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
477 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
482 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
485 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
486 don't make packlist files.
487 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
488 debhelper coding standards.
489 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
490 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
494 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
497 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
501 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
504 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
505 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
506 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
507 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
508 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
509 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
510 but is mildly deprecated.
511 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
512 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
513 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
514 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
515 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
516 switching to statoverrides..
517 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
518 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
519 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
520 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
521 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
522 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
524 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
525 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
526 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
527 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
528 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
529 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
530 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
531 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
532 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
534 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
535 variable names, pod man pages).
536 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
537 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
538 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
539 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
540 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
541 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
542 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
546 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
552 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
559 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
562 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
566 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
568 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
569 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
570 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
574 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
576 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
577 they were previously ignored.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
581 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
583 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
584 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
588 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
590 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
591 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
592 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
596 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
598 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
602 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
604 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
605 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
609 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
611 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
612 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
613 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
614 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
615 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
616 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
617 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
618 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
619 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
620 it is an obsolete program.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
624 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
626 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
630 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
634 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
636 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
640 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
642 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
644 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
646 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
650 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
656 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
658 * typo: Closes, #78567
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
662 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
668 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
674 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
676 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
677 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
678 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
679 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
680 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
681 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
685 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
688 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
693 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
696 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
697 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
698 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
699 backwards-compatability.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
703 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
705 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
706 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
707 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
708 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
709 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
710 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
711 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
713 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
714 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
715 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
717 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
719 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
720 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
721 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
722 should now be raised to severity important..
723 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
724 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
728 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
731 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
736 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Typo, Closes: #77441
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
742 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Completed the fix from the last version.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
748 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
754 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
756 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
761 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
764 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
765 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
766 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
767 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
771 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
777 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
780 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
781 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
782 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
783 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
784 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
785 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
790 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
793 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
797 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
803 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
806 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
811 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
814 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
815 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
816 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
817 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
821 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
825 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
828 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
831 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
832 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
835 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
837 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
838 the TODO entry about it.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
842 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
849 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
852 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
853 prevent that. Closes: #73052
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
857 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Typo, Closes: #72932
860 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
861 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
862 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
863 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
867 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
873 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
880 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
883 (this appears to be logal).
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
887 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
890 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
891 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
892 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
893 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
897 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
903 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
905 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
906 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
907 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
908 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
909 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
913 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
919 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
922 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
926 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
933 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
936 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
937 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
938 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
943 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
950 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
956 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
959 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
960 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
961 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
962 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
963 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
964 notice until v2 is complete.
965 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
966 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
967 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
968 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
969 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
970 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
972 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
973 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
974 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
975 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
985 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
992 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
995 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
999 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1006 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1009 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1010 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1011 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1012 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1020 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1021 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1022 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1027 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1030 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1031 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1035 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1038 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1042 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1045 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1049 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1059 depend on the build and install targets.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1066 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1092 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1093 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1094 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1095 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1096 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1097 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1099 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1100 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1101 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1102 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1103 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1104 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1105 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1124 right place. Closes: #55065
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1138 * Copyright date updates.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1145 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1156 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1184 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1185 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1186 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1187 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1188 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1189 bits until all files have been registered.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1193 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installmanpages:
1196 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1197 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1198 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1199 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1200 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1201 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1202 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1203 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1204 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1205 otherwise change the result at all.
1207 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1208 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1209 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1210 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1211 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1216 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1222 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1225 act on files that don't exist.
1226 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1227 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1228 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1230 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1231 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1232 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1233 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1249 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1252 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1259 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1261 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1262 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1263 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1270 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1271 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1272 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1273 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1274 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1275 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1276 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1278 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1280 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1284 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1291 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1306 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1325 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1326 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1327 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1328 I made some changes, though:
1329 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1330 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1331 that is a clear violation of policy.
1332 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1333 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1334 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1335 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1336 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1337 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1338 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1339 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1340 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1342 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1355 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1362 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1363 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1384 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1385 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1386 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1387 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1388 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1389 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1390 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1400 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1404 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1405 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1418 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1425 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1426 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1432 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1441 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1448 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1449 for the dependancies to be generated.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1456 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1463 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1464 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1465 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1473 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1474 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1478 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1484 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1493 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1506 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1507 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1508 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1509 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1510 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1511 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1512 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1513 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1514 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1515 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1516 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1517 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1521 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1524 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1525 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1527 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1528 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1529 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1530 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1531 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1532 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1534 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1535 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1542 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1546 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1556 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1564 for building debhelper.
1565 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1569 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1579 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1586 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1587 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1588 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1589 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1590 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1591 it's always available.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1598 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1599 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1600 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1607 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1608 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1621 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1634 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1635 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1636 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1643 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1651 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1652 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1654 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1655 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1674 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1681 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1682 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1684 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1691 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1692 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1693 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1700 things if CDPATH is set.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1713 seems to make sense for the transition.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1720 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1725 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1728 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1729 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1736 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1740 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1743 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1744 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1745 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1746 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1759 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1760 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1761 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1762 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1763 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1764 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1765 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1766 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1767 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1768 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1773 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1776 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1777 * README: mention doc/v2
1778 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1779 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1785 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1786 be using this script RSN.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1793 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1794 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1795 more than 1 init script.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1799 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1802 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Changed perl version detection.
1809 * Changed call to find.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1813 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1816 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1818 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Really include dh_installpam.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1829 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1832 * Wrote man page for same.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1839 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1840 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1845 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1855 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1856 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1857 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1858 x bit was being set!
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1862 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1865 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1866 well. (Closes: 38900)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1870 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1873 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1874 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1878 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1884 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1897 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1900 help from Julian Gilbey.
1901 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1902 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1903 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1904 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1905 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1906 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1907 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1940 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1947 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1951 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1954 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1958 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1964 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1967 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1977 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1983 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1986 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1987 may be deleted. (#35845)
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1991 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Various man page enhancements.
1994 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1999 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2002 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2003 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2007 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2010 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2011 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2012 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2014 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2015 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Another very minor typo fix.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Very minor typo fix.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2041 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2042 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2052 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2055 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2056 variables properly (#34850).
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2060 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2069 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2070 (automatically generated by build process).
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2074 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2076 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2083 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2084 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2086 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2093 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * README: minor typo fix.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2103 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2106 leave it at that. :-)
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2122 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2125 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2126 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2127 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2134 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2138 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2141 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2145 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2148 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2149 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2150 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2151 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2158 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2159 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2160 Craig Small for spotting this.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2164 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2167 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2168 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2178 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2181 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2185 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2187 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2188 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2189 working on the last version of debhelper.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2196 being made. (#23255)
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2200 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2209 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2213 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2216 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2217 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2218 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2219 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2223 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2226 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2227 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2228 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2229 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2231 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2232 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2234 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2239 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2254 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2255 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2256 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2257 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2258 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2259 suidregister actually supports it.
2260 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2261 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2265 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2272 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2275 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2276 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2277 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2278 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2279 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2280 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2281 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2285 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2287 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2288 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2292 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2295 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2296 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2297 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2298 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2302 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2305 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2307 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2308 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2309 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2310 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2311 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2312 effect, either. (#30118)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2316 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2325 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2326 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2330 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2339 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2340 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2341 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2342 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2346 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2349 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2350 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2354 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2363 packages, painlessly.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2379 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2385 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * The perl conversion is complete.
2389 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2391 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2392 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2393 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2401 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2402 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2403 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2407 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2410 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2412 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2414 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2415 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2422 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2423 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2427 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2433 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2436 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2437 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2438 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2439 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2440 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2444 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2447 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2448 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2449 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2450 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2454 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2457 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2461 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2464 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2465 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2466 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2467 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2468 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2469 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2470 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2471 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2484 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2485 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2486 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2494 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2501 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2508 sections of shared libraries.
2509 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2510 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2511 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2512 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2513 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2514 things you don't want them to.
2515 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2516 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2520 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2523 shared libraries. (#26414)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2529 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2530 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2531 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2532 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2536 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2540 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2542 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2543 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2544 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2545 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2546 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2550 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2553 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2557 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2560 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2561 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2566 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2569 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2573 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2576 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2577 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2578 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2579 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2580 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2582 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2583 remove debian/files properly.
2584 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2585 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2586 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2587 * Removed bogus menu file.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2591 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2594 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2601 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2602 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2603 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2604 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2605 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2606 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2610 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2613 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2614 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2615 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2616 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2620 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2627 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2630 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2631 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2633 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2634 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2635 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2636 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2637 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2638 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2645 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2646 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2647 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2648 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2649 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2650 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2651 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2652 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2653 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2654 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2655 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2656 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2657 passed any switches.
2658 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2662 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2665 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2666 at all for a long while.
2667 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2668 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2669 large chunks in the process.
2670 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2671 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2672 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2677 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2680 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2682 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2690 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2691 that don't always have the same files in them.
2692 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2693 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2694 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2698 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2702 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2703 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2704 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2705 updating 27 man pages.
2706 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2707 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2708 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2709 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2710 programs act on. (#25247)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2714 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2718 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2719 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2720 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2721 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2722 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2723 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2728 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2735 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2742 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2745 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2749 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2755 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2758 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2759 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2760 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2761 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2762 package by accident.
2763 * Is version 1.0 next?
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2767 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2770 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2771 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2775 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2778 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2779 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2780 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2781 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2782 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2784 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2789 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2792 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2793 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2797 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2800 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2804 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2807 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2808 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2813 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2819 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2822 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2823 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2828 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2834 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2837 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2838 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2839 past week. Thanks, guys!
2841 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2842 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2843 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2844 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2845 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2846 would do in the same situation.
2847 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2848 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2850 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2852 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2853 permissions changed.
2854 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2855 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2856 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2857 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2858 files are treated identically.
2859 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2860 * Minor man page fixes.
2861 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2862 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2863 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2867 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2870 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2871 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2872 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2873 use -X multiple times, too.
2874 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2875 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2879 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2882 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2883 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2887 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2890 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2894 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2897 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2898 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2899 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2900 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2901 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2902 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2903 shape if you're starting a new package.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2907 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2910 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2914 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2917 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2918 because of missing symlinks.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2922 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2928 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2931 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2932 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2933 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2934 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2935 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2937 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2938 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2942 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2944 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2945 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2946 to be changed after the fact :-)
2947 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2951 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2954 no version string after the -V.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2958 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2960 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2961 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2966 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2969 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2973 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2976 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2977 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2978 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2979 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2980 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2981 I always welcome corrections!
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2985 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2991 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2994 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2995 * Documented this new switch.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2999 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3002 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3003 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3004 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3005 no packages use the old behavior.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3009 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3012 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3013 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3020 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3024 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3030 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3033 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3037 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3040 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3041 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3042 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3046 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3052 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3055 into the source package by accident.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3059 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3062 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3063 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3064 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3065 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3066 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3067 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3072 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3076 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3077 inspired to implement some of it.
3078 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3082 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3085 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3089 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3092 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3093 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3097 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3100 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3101 have done.) (#17598)
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3105 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3111 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3117 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3120 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3124 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3127 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3128 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3135 argument processor in perl.
3136 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3137 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3138 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3139 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3143 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3146 type directories. (#16933)
3147 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3148 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3149 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3150 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3151 are supported. (#16935)
3152 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3157 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3160 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3164 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3168 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3169 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3170 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3171 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3172 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3173 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3177 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3180 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3181 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3183 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3184 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3185 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3186 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3187 a given package, or -i or -a.
3188 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3189 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3190 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3191 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3192 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3193 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3194 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3195 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3196 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3198 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3199 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3200 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3204 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3207 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3208 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3213 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3216 does not have a section.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3220 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3223 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3224 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3225 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3229 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Fixed typo #16215.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3235 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3238 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3239 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3240 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3241 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3242 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3247 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3250 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3251 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3252 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3257 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3263 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3269 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3272 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3273 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3274 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3275 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3276 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3277 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3281 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3287 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3290 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3294 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3297 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3298 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3299 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3303 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3306 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3310 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3316 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3319 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3323 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3326 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3330 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3336 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3339 postinst, postrm, etc.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3343 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3349 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3352 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3353 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3354 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3355 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3356 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3360 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3363 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3364 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3368 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3371 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3375 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3378 installing package files into.
3379 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3384 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3388 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3392 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3398 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3401 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3405 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3408 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3409 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3410 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3411 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3415 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3417 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3418 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3419 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3420 multiple binary packages.
3421 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3422 should rebuild them with this version.
3423 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3427 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3430 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3434 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3437 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3441 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3444 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3445 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3446 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3447 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3448 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3449 debian/README.debian.
3450 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3451 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3452 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3453 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3454 in a few situations.)
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3458 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3464 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3470 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3473 * Fixed several man pages.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3477 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3480 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3481 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3485 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3488 is ready for general use.
3489 * Added man pages for all commands.
3490 * Multiple binary package support.
3491 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3492 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3493 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3495 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3496 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3497 auto-installed as parameters.
3498 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3500 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3503 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3504 the package build directory it is to act on.
3505 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3506 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3507 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3511 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3513 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3514 ready to replace debstd.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400