1 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
8 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
14 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
20 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
26 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
29 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
30 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
31 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
32 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
33 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
34 bits until all files have been registered.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
38 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
41 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
42 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
43 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
44 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
45 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
46 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
47 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
48 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
49 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
50 otherwise change the result at all.
52 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
53 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
54 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
55 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
56 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
61 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
67 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
70 act on files that don't exist.
71 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
72 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
73 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
75 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
76 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
77 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
78 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
82 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
88 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
94 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
97 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
101 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
104 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
106 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
107 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
108 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
112 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
115 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
116 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
117 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
118 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
119 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
120 does not compress. Closes: #41733
121 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
123 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
125 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
129 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
136 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
142 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
151 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
155 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
161 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
167 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
170 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
171 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
172 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
173 I made some changes, though:
174 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
175 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
176 that is a clear violation of policy.
177 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
178 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
179 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
180 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
181 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
182 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
183 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
184 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
185 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
187 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
191 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
197 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
200 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
204 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
207 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
208 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
213 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
229 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
230 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
231 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
232 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
233 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
234 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
235 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
239 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
245 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
249 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
250 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
263 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
270 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
271 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
275 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
277 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
282 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
286 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
290 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
292 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
293 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
294 for the dependancies to be generated.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
298 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
301 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
305 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
308 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
309 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
310 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
315 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
318 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
319 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
323 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
338 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
342 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
348 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
350 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
351 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
352 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
353 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
354 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
355 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
356 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
357 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
358 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
359 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
360 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
361 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
362 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
366 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
368 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
369 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
370 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
372 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
373 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
374 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
375 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
376 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
377 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
379 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
380 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
384 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
387 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
391 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
398 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
400 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
401 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
406 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
409 for building debhelper.
410 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
414 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
421 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Fixed makefile commit target.
424 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
428 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
431 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
432 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
433 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
434 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
435 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
436 it's always available.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
440 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
443 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
444 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
445 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
449 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
452 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
453 modules. (Closes: #42171)
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
466 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
470 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
476 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
479 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
480 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
481 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
485 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
488 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
493 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
496 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
497 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
499 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
500 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
510 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
516 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
518 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
519 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
526 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
527 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
529 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
533 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
536 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
537 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
538 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
545 things if CDPATH is set.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
555 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
558 seems to make sense for the transition.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
562 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
565 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
573 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
574 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
578 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
581 that version. (Closes: #40589)
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
585 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
587 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
588 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
589 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
590 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
591 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
595 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
601 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
604 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
605 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
606 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
607 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
608 * debhelper.1: documented this.
609 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
610 current compatability level is equal to that number.
611 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
612 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
613 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
618 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
620 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
621 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
622 * README: mention doc/v2
623 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
624 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
628 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
630 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
631 be using this script RSN.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
635 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
638 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
639 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
640 more than 1 init script.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
644 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
647 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
651 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Changed perl version detection.
654 * Changed call to find.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
658 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
661 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
663 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
668 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Really include dh_installpam.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
674 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
677 * Wrote man page for same.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
681 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
684 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
685 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
690 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
697 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
700 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
701 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
702 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
707 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
710 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
711 well. (Closes: 38900)
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
715 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
718 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
719 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
723 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
736 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
742 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
744 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
745 help from Julian Gilbey.
746 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
747 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
748 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
749 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
750 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
751 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
752 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
763 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
765 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
770 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
776 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
782 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
785 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
789 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
792 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
796 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
799 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
803 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
809 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
812 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
816 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
818 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
822 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
824 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
828 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
831 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
832 may be deleted. (#35845)
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Various man page enhancements.
839 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
844 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
847 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
848 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
852 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
855 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
856 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
857 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
859 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
860 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
865 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Another very minor typo fix.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Very minor typo fix.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
883 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
886 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
887 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
891 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
897 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
899 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
900 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
901 variables properly (#34850).
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
905 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
907 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
911 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
914 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
915 (automatically generated by build process).
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
919 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
921 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
928 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
929 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
931 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
935 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
938 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
944 * README: minor typo fix.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
948 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
951 leave it at that. :-)
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
955 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
961 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
967 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
970 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
971 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
972 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
976 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
979 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
983 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
986 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
993 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
994 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
995 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
996 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1000 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1003 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1004 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1005 Craig Small for spotting this.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1009 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1012 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1013 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1017 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1023 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1026 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1030 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1032 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1033 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1034 working on the last version of debhelper.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1038 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1041 being made. (#23255)
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1045 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1051 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1054 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1058 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1061 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1062 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1063 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1064 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1068 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1071 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1072 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1073 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1074 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1076 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1077 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1079 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1084 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1090 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1096 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1099 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1100 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1101 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1102 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1103 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1104 suidregister actually supports it.
1105 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1106 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1110 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1117 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1120 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1121 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1122 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1123 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1124 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1125 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1126 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1130 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1132 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1133 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1140 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1141 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1142 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1143 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1147 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1150 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1152 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1153 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1154 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1155 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1156 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1157 effect, either. (#30118)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1161 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1167 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1170 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1171 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1175 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1181 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1184 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1185 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1186 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1187 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1191 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1194 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1195 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1199 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1208 packages, painlessly.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1212 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1218 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1224 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * The perl conversion is complete.
1234 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1236 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1237 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1238 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1243 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1246 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1247 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1248 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1252 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1255 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1257 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1259 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1260 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1264 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1267 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1268 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1272 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1278 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1281 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1282 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1283 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1284 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1285 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1289 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1292 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1293 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1294 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1295 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1302 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1306 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1309 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1310 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1311 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1312 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1313 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1314 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1315 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1316 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1320 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1326 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1329 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1330 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1331 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1336 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1339 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1343 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1346 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1350 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1353 sections of shared libraries.
1354 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1355 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1356 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1357 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1358 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1359 things you don't want them to.
1360 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1361 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1365 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1368 shared libraries. (#26414)
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1372 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1374 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1375 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1376 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1377 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1381 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1385 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1387 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1388 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1389 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1390 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1391 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1395 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1398 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1402 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1405 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1406 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1411 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1414 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1418 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1421 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1422 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1423 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1424 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1425 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1427 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1428 remove debian/files properly.
1429 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1430 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1431 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1432 * Removed bogus menu file.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1439 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1443 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1446 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1447 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1448 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1449 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1450 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1451 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1455 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1458 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1459 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1460 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1461 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1472 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1475 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1476 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1479 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1480 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1481 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1482 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1483 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1487 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1490 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1491 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1492 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1493 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1494 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1495 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1496 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1497 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1498 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1499 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1500 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1501 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1502 passed any switches.
1503 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1507 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1510 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1511 at all for a long while.
1512 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1513 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1514 large chunks in the process.
1515 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1516 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1517 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1522 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1525 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1527 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1535 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1536 that don't always have the same files in them.
1537 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1538 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1539 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1547 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1548 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1549 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1550 updating 27 man pages.
1551 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1552 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1553 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1554 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1555 programs act on. (#25247)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1559 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1563 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1564 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1565 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1566 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1567 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1568 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1573 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1580 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1587 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1590 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1594 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1600 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1603 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1604 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1605 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1606 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1607 package by accident.
1608 * Is version 1.0 next?
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1612 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1615 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1616 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1620 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1623 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1624 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1625 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1626 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1627 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1629 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1634 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1637 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1638 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1642 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1645 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1649 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1652 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1653 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1658 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1664 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1667 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1668 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1673 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1679 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1682 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1683 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1684 past week. Thanks, guys!
1686 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1687 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1688 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1689 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1690 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1691 would do in the same situation.
1692 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1693 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1695 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1697 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1698 permissions changed.
1699 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1700 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1701 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1702 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1703 files are treated identically.
1704 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1705 * Minor man page fixes.
1706 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1707 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1708 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1712 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1715 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1716 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1717 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1718 use -X multiple times, too.
1719 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1720 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1724 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1727 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1728 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1732 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1735 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1739 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1742 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1743 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1744 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1745 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1746 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1747 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1748 shape if you're starting a new package.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1752 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1755 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1759 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1762 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1763 because of missing symlinks.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1767 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1773 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1776 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1777 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1778 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1779 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1780 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1782 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1783 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1787 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1789 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1790 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1791 to be changed after the fact :-)
1792 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1796 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1799 no version string after the -V.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1803 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1805 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1806 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1811 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1814 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1818 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1821 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1822 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1823 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1824 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1825 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1826 I always welcome corrections!
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1830 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1836 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1839 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1840 * Documented this new switch.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1844 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1847 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1848 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1849 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1850 no packages use the old behavior.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1854 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1857 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1858 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1862 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1865 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1869 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1875 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1878 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1882 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1885 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1886 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1887 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1891 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1897 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1900 into the source package by accident.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1904 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1907 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1908 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1909 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1910 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1911 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1912 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1917 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1921 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1922 inspired to implement some of it.
1923 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1927 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1930 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1934 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1937 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1938 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1942 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1945 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1946 have done.) (#17598)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1950 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1962 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1965 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1969 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1972 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1973 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1977 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1980 argument processor in perl.
1981 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1982 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1983 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1984 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1988 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1991 type directories. (#16933)
1992 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1993 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1994 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1995 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1996 are supported. (#16935)
1997 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2002 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2005 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2009 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2013 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2014 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2015 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2016 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2017 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2018 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2022 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2025 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2026 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2028 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2029 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2030 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2031 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2032 a given package, or -i or -a.
2033 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2034 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2035 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2036 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2037 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2038 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2039 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2040 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2041 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2043 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2044 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2045 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2049 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2052 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2053 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2058 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2061 does not have a section.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2065 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2068 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2069 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2070 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2074 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed typo #16215.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2080 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2083 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2084 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2085 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2086 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2087 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2092 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2095 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2096 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2097 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2102 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2108 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2114 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2117 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2118 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2119 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2120 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2121 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2122 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2126 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2132 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2135 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2139 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2142 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2143 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2144 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2148 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2151 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2155 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2161 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2164 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2168 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2171 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2181 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2184 postinst, postrm, etc.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2188 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2194 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2197 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2198 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2199 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2200 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2201 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2205 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2208 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2209 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2213 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2216 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2220 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2223 installing package files into.
2224 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2229 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2233 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2237 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2243 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2246 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2250 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2253 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2254 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2255 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2256 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2260 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2262 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2263 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2264 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2265 multiple binary packages.
2266 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2267 should rebuild them with this version.
2268 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2272 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2275 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2279 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2282 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2286 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2289 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2290 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2291 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2292 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2293 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2294 debian/README.debian.
2295 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2296 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2297 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2298 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2299 in a few situations.)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2303 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2309 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2315 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2318 * Fixed several man pages.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2322 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2325 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2326 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2330 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2333 is ready for general use.
2334 * Added man pages for all commands.
2335 * Multiple binary package support.
2336 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2337 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2338 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2340 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2341 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2342 auto-installed as parameters.
2343 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2345 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2348 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2349 the package build directory it is to act on.
2350 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2351 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2352 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2356 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2358 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2359 ready to replace debstd.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400