1 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
7 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
11 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
12 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
22 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
25 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
29 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
32 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
33 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
39 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
48 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
52 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
54 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
55 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
56 for the dependancies to be generated.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
60 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
63 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
70 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
71 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
72 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
80 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
81 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
85 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
91 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
97 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
100 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
104 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
112 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
113 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
114 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
115 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
116 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
117 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
118 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
119 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
120 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
121 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
122 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
123 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
124 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
130 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
131 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
132 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
134 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
135 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
136 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
137 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
138 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
139 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
141 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
142 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
146 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
149 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
153 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
160 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
162 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
163 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
171 for building debhelper.
172 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
183 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Fixed makefile commit target.
186 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
193 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
194 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
195 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
196 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
197 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
198 it's always available.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
205 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
206 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
207 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
214 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
215 modules. (Closes: #42171)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
225 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
228 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
241 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
242 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
243 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
247 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
250 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
255 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
258 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
259 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
261 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
262 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
272 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
278 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
280 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
281 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
285 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
288 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
289 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
291 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
295 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
298 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
299 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
300 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
304 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
307 things if CDPATH is set.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
311 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
317 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
320 seems to make sense for the transition.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
324 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
327 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
332 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
335 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
336 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
340 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
343 that version. (Closes: #40589)
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
347 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
349 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
350 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
351 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
352 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
353 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
357 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
363 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
366 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
367 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
368 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
369 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
370 * debhelper.1: documented this.
371 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
372 current compatability level is equal to that number.
373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
374 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
375 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
380 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
382 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
383 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
384 * README: mention doc/v2
385 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
386 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
390 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
392 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
393 be using this script RSN.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
397 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
400 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
401 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
402 more than 1 init script.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
406 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
409 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
413 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Changed perl version detection.
416 * Changed call to find.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
420 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
423 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
425 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
430 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Really include dh_installpam.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
436 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
439 * Wrote man page for same.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
443 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
446 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
447 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
452 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
459 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
462 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
463 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
464 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
469 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
472 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
473 well. (Closes: 38900)
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
477 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
480 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
481 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
485 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
491 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
498 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
504 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
506 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
507 help from Julian Gilbey.
508 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
509 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
510 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
511 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
512 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
513 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
514 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
519 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
525 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
527 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
532 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
538 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
544 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
547 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
551 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
554 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
558 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
561 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
565 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
571 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
574 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
578 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
580 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
584 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
586 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
590 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
593 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
594 may be deleted. (#35845)
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
598 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Various man page enhancements.
601 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
606 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
609 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
610 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
614 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
617 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
618 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
619 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
621 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
622 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
627 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
633 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Another very minor typo fix.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
639 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Very minor typo fix.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
645 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
648 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
649 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
659 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
661 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
662 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
663 variables properly (#34850).
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
667 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
669 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
673 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
676 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
677 (automatically generated by build process).
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
681 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
683 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
687 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
690 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
691 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
693 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
697 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
700 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
704 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
706 * README: minor typo fix.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
710 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
713 leave it at that. :-)
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
717 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
723 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
729 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
732 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
733 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
734 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
738 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
741 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
745 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
748 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
752 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
755 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
756 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
757 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
758 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
762 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
765 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
766 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
767 Craig Small for spotting this.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
771 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
774 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
775 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
779 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
785 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
788 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
792 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
794 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
795 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
796 working on the last version of debhelper.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
807 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
809 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
813 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
816 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
822 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
823 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
824 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
825 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
826 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
830 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
833 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
834 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
835 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
836 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
838 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
839 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
841 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
846 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
848 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
852 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
861 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
862 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
863 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
864 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
865 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
866 suidregister actually supports it.
867 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
868 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
872 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
879 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
882 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
883 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
884 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
885 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
886 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
887 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
888 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
892 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
894 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
895 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
899 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
902 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
903 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
904 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
905 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
909 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
912 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
914 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
915 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
916 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
917 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
918 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
919 effect, either. (#30118)
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
932 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
933 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
937 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Spelling and typo fixes.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
943 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
945 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
946 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
947 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
948 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
949 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
953 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
956 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
957 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
961 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
963 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
967 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
970 packages, painlessly.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
974 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
980 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
986 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
992 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
994 * The perl conversion is complete.
996 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
998 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
999 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1000 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1005 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1008 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1009 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1010 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1014 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1017 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1019 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1021 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1022 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1026 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1029 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1030 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1034 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1040 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1043 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1044 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1045 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1046 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1047 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1051 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1054 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1055 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1056 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1057 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1061 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1064 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1071 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1072 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1073 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1074 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1075 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1076 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1077 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1078 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1082 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1091 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1092 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1093 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1098 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1101 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1105 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1108 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1112 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1115 sections of shared libraries.
1116 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1117 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1118 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1119 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1120 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1121 things you don't want them to.
1122 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1123 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1127 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1130 shared libraries. (#26414)
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1134 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1136 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1137 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1138 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1139 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1143 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1147 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1149 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1150 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1151 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1152 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1153 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1157 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1160 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1164 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1167 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1168 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1173 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1176 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1180 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1183 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1184 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1185 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1186 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1187 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1189 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1190 remove debian/files properly.
1191 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1192 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1193 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1194 * Removed bogus menu file.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1198 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1201 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1208 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1209 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1210 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1211 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1212 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1213 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1217 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1220 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1221 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1222 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1223 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1227 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1234 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1237 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1238 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1240 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1241 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1242 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1243 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1244 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1245 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1249 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1252 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1253 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1254 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1255 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1256 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1257 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1258 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1259 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1260 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1261 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1262 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1263 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1264 passed any switches.
1265 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1269 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1272 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1273 at all for a long while.
1274 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1275 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1276 large chunks in the process.
1277 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1278 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1279 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1284 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1287 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1289 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1294 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1297 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1298 that don't always have the same files in them.
1299 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1300 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1301 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1305 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1309 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1310 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1311 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1312 updating 27 man pages.
1313 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1314 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1315 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1316 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1317 programs act on. (#25247)
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1321 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1325 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1326 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1327 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1328 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1329 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1330 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1335 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1342 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1349 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1352 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1356 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1362 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1365 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1366 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1367 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1368 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1369 package by accident.
1370 * Is version 1.0 next?
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1374 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1377 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1382 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1385 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1386 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1387 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1388 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1389 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1391 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1396 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1399 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1400 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1404 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1407 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1411 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1414 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1415 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1420 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1426 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1429 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1430 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1435 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1441 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1444 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1445 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1446 past week. Thanks, guys!
1448 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1449 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1450 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1451 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1452 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1453 would do in the same situation.
1454 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1455 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1457 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1459 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1460 permissions changed.
1461 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1462 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1463 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1464 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1465 files are treated identically.
1466 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1467 * Minor man page fixes.
1468 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1469 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1470 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1474 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1477 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1478 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1479 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1480 use -X multiple times, too.
1481 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1482 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1486 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1489 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1490 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1494 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1497 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1501 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1504 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1505 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1506 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1507 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1508 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1509 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1510 shape if you're starting a new package.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1514 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1517 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1521 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1524 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1525 because of missing symlinks.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1535 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1538 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1539 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1540 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1541 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1542 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1544 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1545 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1549 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1551 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1552 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1553 to be changed after the fact :-)
1554 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1558 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1561 no version string after the -V.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1565 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1567 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1568 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1573 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1576 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1580 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1583 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1584 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1585 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1586 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1587 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1588 I always welcome corrections!
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1592 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1598 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1601 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1602 * Documented this new switch.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1606 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1609 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1610 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1611 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1612 no packages use the old behavior.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1616 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1619 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1620 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1624 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1627 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1631 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1637 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1640 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1644 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1647 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1648 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1649 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1653 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1659 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1662 into the source package by accident.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1666 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1669 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1670 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1671 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1672 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1673 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1674 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1679 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1683 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1684 inspired to implement some of it.
1685 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1689 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1692 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1696 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1699 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1700 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1704 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1707 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1708 have done.) (#17598)
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1712 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1724 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1727 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1731 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1734 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1735 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1739 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1742 argument processor in perl.
1743 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1744 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1745 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1746 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1750 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1753 type directories. (#16933)
1754 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1755 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1756 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1757 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1758 are supported. (#16935)
1759 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1764 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1767 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1771 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1775 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1776 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1777 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1778 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1779 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1780 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1784 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1787 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1788 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1790 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1791 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1792 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1793 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1794 a given package, or -i or -a.
1795 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1796 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1797 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1798 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1799 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1800 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1801 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1802 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1803 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1805 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1806 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1807 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1811 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1814 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1815 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1820 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1823 does not have a section.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1827 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1830 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1831 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1832 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1836 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fixed typo #16215.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1842 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1845 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1846 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1847 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1848 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1849 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1854 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1857 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1858 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1859 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1864 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1870 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1876 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1879 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1880 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1881 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1882 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1883 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1884 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1888 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1894 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1897 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1901 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1904 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1905 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1906 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1910 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1913 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1917 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1923 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1926 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1930 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1933 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1937 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1946 postinst, postrm, etc.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1950 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1959 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1960 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1961 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1962 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1963 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1967 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1970 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1971 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1975 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1978 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1982 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1985 installing package files into.
1986 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1991 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1995 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1999 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2005 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2008 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2012 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2015 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2016 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2017 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2018 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2022 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2024 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2025 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2026 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2027 multiple binary packages.
2028 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2029 should rebuild them with this version.
2030 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2034 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2037 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2041 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2044 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2048 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2051 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2052 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2053 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2054 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2055 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2056 debian/README.debian.
2057 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2058 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2059 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2060 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2061 in a few situations.)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2065 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2071 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2077 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2080 * Fixed several man pages.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2084 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2087 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2088 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2092 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2095 is ready for general use.
2096 * Added man pages for all commands.
2097 * Multiple binary package support.
2098 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2099 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2100 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2102 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2103 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2104 auto-installed as parameters.
2105 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2107 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2110 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2111 the package build directory it is to act on.
2112 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2113 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2114 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2118 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2120 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2121 ready to replace debstd.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400