1 debhelper (2.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:19:17 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
10 for building debhelper.
11 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Fixed makefile commit target.
25 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
32 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
33 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
34 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
35 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
36 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
37 it's always available.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
41 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
44 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
45 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
46 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
50 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
53 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
54 modules. (Closes: #42171)
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
64 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
67 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
71 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
80 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
81 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
82 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
86 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
89 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
94 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
97 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
98 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
100 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
101 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
105 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
117 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
119 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
120 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
127 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
128 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
130 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
134 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
137 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
138 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
139 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
146 things if CDPATH is set.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
150 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
156 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
159 seems to make sense for the transition.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
166 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
171 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
174 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
175 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
182 that version. (Closes: #40589)
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
188 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
189 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
190 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
191 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
192 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
205 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
206 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
207 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
208 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
209 * debhelper.1: documented this.
210 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
211 current compatability level is equal to that number.
212 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
213 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
214 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
219 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
221 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
222 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
223 * README: mention doc/v2
224 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
225 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
229 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
231 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
232 be using this script RSN.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
236 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
239 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
240 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
241 more than 1 init script.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
245 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
248 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
252 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Changed perl version detection.
255 * Changed call to find.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
259 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
262 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
264 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
269 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Really include dh_installpam.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
275 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
278 * Wrote man page for same.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
282 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
285 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
286 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
291 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
298 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
301 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
302 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
303 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
308 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
311 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
312 well. (Closes: 38900)
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
316 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
319 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
320 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
324 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
330 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
337 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
343 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
345 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
346 help from Julian Gilbey.
347 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
348 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
349 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
350 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
351 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
352 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
353 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
358 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
364 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
366 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
371 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
383 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
386 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
390 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
393 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
397 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
400 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
404 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
410 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
413 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
417 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
419 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
423 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
425 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
429 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
432 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
433 may be deleted. (#35845)
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
437 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Various man page enhancements.
440 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
445 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
448 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
449 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
453 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
456 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
457 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
458 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
460 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
461 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
466 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
472 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Another very minor typo fix.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
478 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Very minor typo fix.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
484 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
487 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
488 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
492 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
498 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
500 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
501 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
502 variables properly (#34850).
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
506 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
508 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
512 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
515 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
516 (automatically generated by build process).
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
520 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
522 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
526 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
529 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
530 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
532 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
536 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
539 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
543 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
545 * README: minor typo fix.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
549 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
552 leave it at that. :-)
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
556 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
562 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
568 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
571 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
572 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
573 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
577 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
580 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
584 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
587 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
591 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
594 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
595 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
596 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
597 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
601 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
604 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
605 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
606 Craig Small for spotting this.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
610 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
613 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
614 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
618 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
624 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
627 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
631 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
633 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
634 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
635 working on the last version of debhelper.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
639 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
646 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
648 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
652 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
655 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
661 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
662 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
663 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
664 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
665 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
669 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
672 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
673 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
674 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
675 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
677 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
678 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
680 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
685 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
687 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
691 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
697 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
700 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
701 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
702 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
703 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
704 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
705 suidregister actually supports it.
706 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
707 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
711 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
718 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
721 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
722 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
723 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
724 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
725 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
726 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
727 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
731 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
733 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
734 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
738 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
741 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
742 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
743 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
744 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
748 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
751 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
753 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
754 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
755 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
756 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
757 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
758 effect, either. (#30118)
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
768 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
771 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
772 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Spelling and typo fixes.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
782 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
784 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
785 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
786 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
787 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
788 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
795 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
796 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
802 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
806 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
809 packages, painlessly.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
819 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
831 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
833 * The perl conversion is complete.
835 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
837 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
838 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
839 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
844 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
847 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
848 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
849 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
856 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
858 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
860 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
861 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
868 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
869 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
873 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
879 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
881 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
882 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
883 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
884 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
885 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
886 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
890 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
893 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
894 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
895 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
896 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
900 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
903 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
907 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
910 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
911 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
912 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
913 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
914 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
915 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
916 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
917 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
921 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
927 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
930 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
931 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
932 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
937 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
940 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
944 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
947 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
951 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
954 sections of shared libraries.
955 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
956 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
957 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
958 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
959 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
960 things you don't want them to.
961 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
962 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
966 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
969 shared libraries. (#26414)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
973 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
976 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
977 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
978 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
982 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
986 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
988 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
989 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
990 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
991 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
992 the program to not fail. (#26214)
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
996 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
999 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1006 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1007 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1015 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1019 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1022 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1023 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1024 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1025 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1026 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1028 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1029 remove debian/files properly.
1030 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1031 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1032 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1033 * Removed bogus menu file.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1040 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1044 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1047 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1048 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1049 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1050 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1051 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1052 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1056 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1059 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1060 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1061 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1062 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1066 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1073 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1076 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1077 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1079 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1080 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1081 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1082 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1083 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1084 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1091 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1092 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1093 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1094 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1095 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1096 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1097 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1098 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1099 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1100 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1101 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1102 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1103 passed any switches.
1104 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1111 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1112 at all for a long while.
1113 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1114 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1115 large chunks in the process.
1116 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1117 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1118 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1123 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1126 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1128 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1133 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1136 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1137 that don't always have the same files in them.
1138 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1139 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1140 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1144 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1148 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1149 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1150 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1151 updating 27 man pages.
1152 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1153 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1154 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1155 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1156 programs act on. (#25247)
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1164 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1165 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1166 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1167 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1168 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1169 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1174 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1181 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1188 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1191 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1195 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1201 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1204 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1205 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1206 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1207 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1208 package by accident.
1209 * Is version 1.0 next?
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1213 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1216 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1217 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1221 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1224 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1225 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1226 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1227 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1228 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1230 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1235 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1238 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1239 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1243 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1246 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1250 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1253 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1254 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1265 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1268 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1269 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1274 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1280 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1283 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1284 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1285 past week. Thanks, guys!
1287 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1288 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1289 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1290 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1291 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1292 would do in the same situation.
1293 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1294 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1296 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1298 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1299 permissions changed.
1300 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1301 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1302 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1303 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1304 files are treated identically.
1305 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1306 * Minor man page fixes.
1307 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1308 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1309 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1313 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1316 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1317 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1318 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1319 use -X multiple times, too.
1320 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1321 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1325 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1328 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1329 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1333 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1336 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1340 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1343 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1344 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1345 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1346 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1347 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1348 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1349 shape if you're starting a new package.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1353 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1356 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1360 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1363 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1364 because of missing symlinks.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1368 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1374 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1377 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1378 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1379 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1380 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1381 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1383 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1384 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1388 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1390 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1391 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1392 to be changed after the fact :-)
1393 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1397 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1400 no version string after the -V.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1404 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1406 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1407 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1412 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1415 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1419 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1422 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1423 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1424 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1425 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1426 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1427 I always welcome corrections!
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1431 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1437 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1440 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1441 * Documented this new switch.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1445 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1448 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1449 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1450 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1451 no packages use the old behavior.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1455 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1458 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1459 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1463 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1466 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1470 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1476 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1479 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1483 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1486 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1487 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1488 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1498 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1501 into the source package by accident.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1505 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1508 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1509 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1510 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1511 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1512 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1513 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1518 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1522 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1523 inspired to implement some of it.
1524 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1528 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1531 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1535 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1538 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1539 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1543 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1546 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1547 have done.) (#17598)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1551 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1557 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1563 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1566 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1570 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1573 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1574 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1578 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1581 argument processor in perl.
1582 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1583 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1584 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1585 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1589 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1592 type directories. (#16933)
1593 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1594 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1595 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1596 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1597 are supported. (#16935)
1598 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1603 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1606 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1610 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1614 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1615 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1616 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1617 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1618 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1619 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1623 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1626 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1627 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1629 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1630 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1631 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1632 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1633 a given package, or -i or -a.
1634 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1635 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1636 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1637 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1638 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1639 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1640 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1641 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1642 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1644 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1645 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1646 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1650 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1653 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1654 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1659 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1662 does not have a section.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1666 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1669 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1670 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1671 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Fixed typo #16215.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1681 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1684 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1685 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1686 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1687 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1688 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1693 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1696 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1697 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1698 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1703 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1709 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1715 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1718 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1719 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1720 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1721 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1722 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1723 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1733 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1736 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1740 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1743 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1744 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1745 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1749 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1752 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1756 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1762 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1765 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1769 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1772 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1782 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1785 postinst, postrm, etc.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1789 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1795 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1798 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1799 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1800 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1801 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1802 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1806 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1809 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1810 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1814 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1817 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1824 installing package files into.
1825 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1830 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1834 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1838 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1844 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1847 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1851 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1854 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1855 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1856 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1857 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1861 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1863 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1864 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1865 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1866 multiple binary packages.
1867 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1868 should rebuild them with this version.
1869 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1873 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1876 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1880 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1883 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1887 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1890 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1891 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1892 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1893 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1894 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1895 debian/README.debian.
1896 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1897 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1898 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1899 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1900 in a few situations.)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1904 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1910 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1916 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1919 * Fixed several man pages.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1923 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1926 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1927 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1931 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1934 is ready for general use.
1935 * Added man pages for all commands.
1936 * Multiple binary package support.
1937 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1938 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1939 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1941 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1942 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1943 auto-installed as parameters.
1944 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1946 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1949 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1950 the package build directory it is to act on.
1951 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1952 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1953 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1957 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1959 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1960 ready to replace debstd.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400