1 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4 for building debhelper.
5 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
9 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Fixed makefile commit target.
19 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
26 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
27 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
28 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
29 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
30 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
31 it's always available.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
35 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
38 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
39 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
40 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
47 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
48 modules. (Closes: #42171)
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
52 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
58 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
61 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
65 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
71 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
74 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
75 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
76 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
80 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
83 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
88 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
91 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
92 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
94 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
95 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
99 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
105 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
113 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
114 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
118 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
121 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
122 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
124 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
131 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
132 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
133 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
137 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
140 things if CDPATH is set.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
144 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
150 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
153 seems to make sense for the transition.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
157 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
160 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
165 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
168 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
169 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
173 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
176 that version. (Closes: #40589)
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
180 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
182 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
183 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
184 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
185 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
186 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
199 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
200 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
201 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
202 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
203 * debhelper.1: documented this.
204 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
205 current compatability level is equal to that number.
206 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
207 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
208 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
213 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
215 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
216 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
217 * README: mention doc/v2
218 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
219 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
223 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
225 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
226 be using this script RSN.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
230 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
233 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
234 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
235 more than 1 init script.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
239 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
242 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
246 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Changed perl version detection.
249 * Changed call to find.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
253 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
256 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
258 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
263 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Really include dh_installpam.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
269 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
272 * Wrote man page for same.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
276 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
279 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
280 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
285 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
292 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
295 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
296 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
297 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
302 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
305 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
306 well. (Closes: 38900)
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
310 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
313 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
314 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
318 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
324 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
331 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
337 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
339 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
340 help from Julian Gilbey.
341 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
342 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
343 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
344 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
345 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
346 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
347 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
352 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
358 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
360 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
365 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
371 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
380 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
384 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
387 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
391 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
394 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
398 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
404 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
407 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
411 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
413 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
417 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
419 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
423 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
426 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
427 may be deleted. (#35845)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
431 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Various man page enhancements.
434 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
439 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
442 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
443 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
447 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
450 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
451 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
452 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
454 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
455 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
460 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
466 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Another very minor typo fix.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
472 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Very minor typo fix.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
478 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
481 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
482 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
486 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
492 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
494 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
495 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
496 variables properly (#34850).
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
500 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
502 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
506 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
509 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
510 (automatically generated by build process).
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
514 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
516 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
520 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
523 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
524 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
526 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
530 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
533 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
537 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
539 * README: minor typo fix.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
543 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
546 leave it at that. :-)
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
550 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
556 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
562 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
565 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
566 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
567 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
571 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
574 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
578 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
581 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
585 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
588 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
589 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
590 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
591 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
595 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
598 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
599 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
600 Craig Small for spotting this.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
604 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
607 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
608 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
612 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
618 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
621 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
625 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
627 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
628 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
629 working on the last version of debhelper.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
640 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
642 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
646 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
649 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
655 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
656 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
657 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
658 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
659 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
663 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
666 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
667 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
668 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
669 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
671 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
672 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
674 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
679 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
681 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
685 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
691 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
694 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
695 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
696 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
697 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
698 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
699 suidregister actually supports it.
700 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
701 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
705 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
712 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
715 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
716 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
717 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
718 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
719 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
720 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
721 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
725 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
727 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
728 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
732 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
735 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
736 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
737 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
738 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
742 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
745 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
747 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
748 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
749 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
750 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
751 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
752 effect, either. (#30118)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
765 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
766 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Spelling and typo fixes.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
778 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
779 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
780 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
781 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
782 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
789 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
790 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
794 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
796 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
803 packages, painlessly.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
819 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
825 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
827 * The perl conversion is complete.
829 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
831 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
832 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
833 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
838 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
841 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
842 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
843 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
847 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
850 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
852 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
854 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
855 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
859 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
862 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
863 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
867 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
873 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
875 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
876 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
877 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
878 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
879 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
880 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
884 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
887 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
888 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
889 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
890 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
894 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
897 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
901 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
904 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
905 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
906 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
907 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
908 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
909 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
910 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
911 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
915 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
921 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
924 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
925 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
926 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
931 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
934 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
938 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
941 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
945 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
948 sections of shared libraries.
949 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
950 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
951 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
952 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
953 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
954 things you don't want them to.
955 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
956 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
960 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
963 shared libraries. (#26414)
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
967 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
969 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
970 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
971 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
972 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
976 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
980 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
982 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
983 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
984 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
985 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
986 the program to not fail. (#26214)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
990 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
993 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
997 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1000 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1001 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1009 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1013 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1016 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1017 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1018 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1019 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1020 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1022 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1023 remove debian/files properly.
1024 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1025 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1026 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1027 * Removed bogus menu file.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1031 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1034 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1038 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1041 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1042 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1043 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1044 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1045 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1046 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1050 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1053 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1054 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1055 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1056 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1060 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1067 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1070 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1071 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1073 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1074 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1075 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1076 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1077 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1078 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1085 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1086 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1087 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1088 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1089 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1090 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1091 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1092 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1093 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1094 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1095 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1096 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1097 passed any switches.
1098 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1102 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1105 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1106 at all for a long while.
1107 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1108 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1109 large chunks in the process.
1110 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1111 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1112 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1117 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1120 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1122 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1130 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1131 that don't always have the same files in them.
1132 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1133 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1134 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1138 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1142 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1143 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1144 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1145 updating 27 man pages.
1146 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1147 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1148 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1149 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1150 programs act on. (#25247)
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1158 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1159 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1160 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1161 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1162 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1163 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1168 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1175 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1182 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1185 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1189 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1195 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1198 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1199 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1200 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1201 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1202 package by accident.
1203 * Is version 1.0 next?
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1207 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1210 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1211 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1215 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1218 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1219 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1220 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1221 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1222 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1224 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1229 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1232 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1233 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1237 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1240 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1244 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1247 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1248 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1253 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1262 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1263 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1268 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1274 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1277 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1278 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1279 past week. Thanks, guys!
1281 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1282 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1283 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1284 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1285 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1286 would do in the same situation.
1287 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1288 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1290 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1292 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1293 permissions changed.
1294 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1295 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1296 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1297 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1298 files are treated identically.
1299 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1300 * Minor man page fixes.
1301 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1302 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1303 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1307 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1310 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1311 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1312 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1313 use -X multiple times, too.
1314 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1315 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1319 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1322 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1323 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1327 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1330 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1334 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1337 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1338 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1339 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1340 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1341 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1342 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1343 shape if you're starting a new package.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1347 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1350 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1354 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1357 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1358 because of missing symlinks.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1362 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1368 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1371 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1372 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1373 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1374 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1375 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1377 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1378 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1382 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1384 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1385 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1386 to be changed after the fact :-)
1387 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1391 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1394 no version string after the -V.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1398 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1400 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1401 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1406 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1409 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1413 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1416 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1417 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1418 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1419 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1420 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1421 I always welcome corrections!
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1425 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1431 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1434 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1435 * Documented this new switch.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1439 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1442 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1443 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1444 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1445 no packages use the old behavior.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1449 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1452 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1453 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1457 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1460 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1464 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1470 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1473 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1477 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1480 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1481 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1482 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1486 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1492 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1495 into the source package by accident.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1499 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1502 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1503 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1504 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1505 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1506 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1507 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1512 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1516 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1517 inspired to implement some of it.
1518 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1525 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1532 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1533 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1537 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1540 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1541 have done.) (#17598)
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1545 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1551 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1557 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1560 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1564 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1567 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1568 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1572 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1575 argument processor in perl.
1576 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1577 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1578 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1579 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1583 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1586 type directories. (#16933)
1587 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1588 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1589 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1590 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1591 are supported. (#16935)
1592 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1597 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1600 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1604 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1608 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1609 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1610 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1611 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1612 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1613 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1617 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1620 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1621 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1623 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1624 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1625 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1626 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1627 a given package, or -i or -a.
1628 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1629 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1630 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1631 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1632 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1633 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1634 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1635 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1636 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1638 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1639 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1640 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1644 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1647 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1648 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1653 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1656 does not have a section.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1660 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1663 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1664 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1665 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1669 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fixed typo #16215.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1678 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1679 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1680 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1681 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1682 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1687 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1690 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1691 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1692 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1697 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1703 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1709 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1712 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1713 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1714 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1715 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1716 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1717 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1721 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1730 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1734 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1737 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1738 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1739 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1743 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1746 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1750 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1756 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1759 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1763 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1766 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1770 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1779 postinst, postrm, etc.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1783 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1789 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1792 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1793 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1794 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1795 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1796 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1800 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1803 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1804 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1808 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1811 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1815 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1818 installing package files into.
1819 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1824 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1828 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1832 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1838 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1841 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1845 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1848 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1849 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1850 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1851 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1855 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1857 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1858 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1859 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1860 multiple binary packages.
1861 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1862 should rebuild them with this version.
1863 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1867 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1870 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1874 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1877 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1881 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1884 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1885 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1886 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1887 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1888 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1889 debian/README.debian.
1890 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1891 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1892 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1893 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1894 in a few situations.)
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1898 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1904 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1910 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1913 * Fixed several man pages.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1917 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1920 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1921 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1925 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1928 is ready for general use.
1929 * Added man pages for all commands.
1930 * Multiple binary package support.
1931 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1932 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1933 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1935 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1936 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1937 auto-installed as parameters.
1938 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1940 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1943 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1944 the package build directory it is to act on.
1945 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1946 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1947 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1951 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1953 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1954 ready to replace debstd.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400