1 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
8 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
10 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
11 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
12 for the dependancies to be generated.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
16 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
19 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
23 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
26 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
27 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
28 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
36 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
37 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
41 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
47 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
53 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
56 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
60 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
66 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
68 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
69 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
70 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
71 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
72 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
73 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
74 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
75 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
76 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
77 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
78 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
79 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
80 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
84 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
86 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
87 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
88 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
90 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
91 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
92 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
93 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
94 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
95 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
97 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
98 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
105 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
109 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
116 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
118 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
119 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
124 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
127 for building debhelper.
128 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
132 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Fixed makefile commit target.
142 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
146 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
149 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
150 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
151 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
152 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
153 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
154 it's always available.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
161 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
162 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
163 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
167 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
170 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
171 modules. (Closes: #42171)
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
175 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
181 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
184 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
188 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
194 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
197 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
198 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
199 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
203 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
206 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
211 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
214 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
215 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
217 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
218 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
222 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
234 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
236 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
237 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
244 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
245 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
247 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
254 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
255 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
256 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
263 things if CDPATH is set.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
267 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
276 seems to make sense for the transition.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
280 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
283 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
288 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
291 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
292 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
296 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
299 that version. (Closes: #40589)
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
303 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
305 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
306 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
307 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
308 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
309 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
313 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
319 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
322 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
323 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
324 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
325 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
326 * debhelper.1: documented this.
327 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
328 current compatability level is equal to that number.
329 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
330 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
331 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
336 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
338 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
339 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
340 * README: mention doc/v2
341 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
342 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
346 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
348 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
349 be using this script RSN.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
353 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
356 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
357 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
358 more than 1 init script.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
362 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
365 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
369 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Changed perl version detection.
372 * Changed call to find.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
376 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
379 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
381 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
386 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Really include dh_installpam.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
395 * Wrote man page for same.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
399 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
402 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
403 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
408 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
415 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
418 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
419 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
420 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
425 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
428 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
429 well. (Closes: 38900)
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
433 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
436 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
437 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
441 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
447 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
454 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
460 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
462 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
463 help from Julian Gilbey.
464 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
465 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
466 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
467 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
468 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
469 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
470 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
483 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
488 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
494 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
503 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
507 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
510 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
514 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
517 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
521 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
527 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
530 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
534 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
536 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
540 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
542 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
546 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
549 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
550 may be deleted. (#35845)
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
554 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Various man page enhancements.
557 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
562 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
565 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
566 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
570 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
573 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
574 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
575 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
577 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
578 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
583 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
589 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Another very minor typo fix.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
595 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Very minor typo fix.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
601 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
604 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
605 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
609 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
615 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
617 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
618 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
619 variables properly (#34850).
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
623 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
625 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
629 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
632 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
633 (automatically generated by build process).
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
637 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
639 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
643 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
646 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
647 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
649 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
656 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
660 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
662 * README: minor typo fix.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
666 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
669 leave it at that. :-)
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
673 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
679 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
685 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
688 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
689 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
690 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
694 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
697 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
701 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
704 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
708 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
711 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
712 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
713 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
714 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
718 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
721 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
722 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
723 Craig Small for spotting this.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
727 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
730 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
731 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
735 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
741 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
744 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
748 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
750 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
751 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
752 working on the last version of debhelper.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
756 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
763 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
765 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
769 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
772 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
778 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
779 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
780 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
781 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
782 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
786 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
789 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
790 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
791 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
792 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
794 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
795 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
797 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
802 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
804 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
808 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
814 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
817 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
818 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
819 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
820 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
821 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
822 suidregister actually supports it.
823 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
824 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
828 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
835 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
838 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
839 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
840 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
841 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
842 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
843 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
844 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
848 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
850 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
851 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
855 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
858 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
859 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
860 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
861 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
868 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
870 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
871 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
872 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
873 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
874 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
875 effect, either. (#30118)
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
879 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
885 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
888 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
889 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
893 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Spelling and typo fixes.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
899 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
901 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
902 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
903 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
904 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
905 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
909 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
912 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
913 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
919 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
923 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
926 packages, painlessly.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
936 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
948 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
950 * The perl conversion is complete.
952 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
954 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
955 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
956 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
961 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
964 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
965 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
966 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
973 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
975 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
977 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
978 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
982 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
985 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
986 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
990 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
996 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
998 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
999 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1000 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1001 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1002 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1003 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1007 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1010 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1011 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1012 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1013 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1017 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1020 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1024 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1027 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1028 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1029 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1030 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1031 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1032 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1033 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1034 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1038 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1044 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1047 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1048 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1049 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1054 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1057 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1061 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1064 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1068 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1071 sections of shared libraries.
1072 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1073 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1074 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1075 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1076 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1077 things you don't want them to.
1078 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1079 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1083 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1086 shared libraries. (#26414)
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1090 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1092 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1093 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1094 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1095 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1099 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1103 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1105 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1106 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1107 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1108 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1109 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1113 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1116 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1120 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1123 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1124 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1132 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1136 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1139 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1140 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1141 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1142 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1143 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1145 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1146 remove debian/files properly.
1147 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1148 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1149 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1150 * Removed bogus menu file.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1154 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1157 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1161 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1164 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1165 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1166 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1167 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1168 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1169 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1173 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1176 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1177 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1178 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1179 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1183 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1190 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1193 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1194 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1196 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1197 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1198 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1199 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1200 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1201 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1205 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1208 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1209 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1210 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1211 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1212 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1213 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1214 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1215 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1216 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1217 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1218 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1219 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1220 passed any switches.
1221 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1225 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1228 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1229 at all for a long while.
1230 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1231 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1232 large chunks in the process.
1233 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1234 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1235 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1240 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1243 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1245 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1250 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1253 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1254 that don't always have the same files in them.
1255 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1256 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1257 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1261 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1265 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1266 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1267 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1268 updating 27 man pages.
1269 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1270 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1271 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1272 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1273 programs act on. (#25247)
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1277 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1281 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1282 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1283 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1284 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1285 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1286 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1291 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1298 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1305 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1308 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1312 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1318 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1321 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1322 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1323 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1324 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1325 package by accident.
1326 * Is version 1.0 next?
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1330 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1333 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1334 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1338 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1341 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1342 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1343 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1344 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1345 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1347 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1352 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1355 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1356 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1360 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1363 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1367 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1370 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1371 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1376 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1382 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1385 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1386 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1391 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1397 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1400 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1401 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1402 past week. Thanks, guys!
1404 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1405 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1406 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1407 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1408 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1409 would do in the same situation.
1410 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1411 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1413 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1415 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1416 permissions changed.
1417 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1418 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1419 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1420 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1421 files are treated identically.
1422 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1423 * Minor man page fixes.
1424 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1425 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1426 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1430 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1433 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1434 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1435 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1436 use -X multiple times, too.
1437 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1438 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1442 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1445 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1446 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1450 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1453 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1457 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1460 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1461 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1462 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1463 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1464 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1465 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1466 shape if you're starting a new package.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1470 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1473 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1477 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1480 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1481 because of missing symlinks.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1485 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1491 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1494 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1495 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1496 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1497 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1498 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1500 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1501 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1505 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1507 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1508 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1509 to be changed after the fact :-)
1510 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1514 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1517 no version string after the -V.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1521 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1523 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1524 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1529 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1532 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1536 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1539 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1540 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1541 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1542 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1543 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1544 I always welcome corrections!
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1548 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1554 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1557 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1558 * Documented this new switch.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1562 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1565 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1566 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1567 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1568 no packages use the old behavior.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1572 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1575 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1576 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1580 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1583 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1587 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1593 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1596 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1600 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1603 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1604 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1605 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1609 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1615 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1618 into the source package by accident.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1622 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1625 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1626 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1627 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1628 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1629 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1630 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1635 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1639 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1640 inspired to implement some of it.
1641 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1645 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1648 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1652 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1655 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1656 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1660 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1663 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1664 have done.) (#17598)
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1668 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1674 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1680 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1683 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1687 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1690 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1691 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1695 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1698 argument processor in perl.
1699 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1700 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1701 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1702 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1706 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1709 type directories. (#16933)
1710 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1711 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1712 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1713 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1714 are supported. (#16935)
1715 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1720 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1723 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1731 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1732 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1733 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1734 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1735 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1736 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1740 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1743 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1744 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1746 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1747 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1748 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1749 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1750 a given package, or -i or -a.
1751 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1752 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1753 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1754 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1755 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1756 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1757 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1758 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1759 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1761 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1762 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1763 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1770 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1771 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1776 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1779 does not have a section.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1783 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1786 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1787 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1788 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fixed typo #16215.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1798 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1801 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1802 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1803 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1804 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1805 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1813 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1814 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1815 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1820 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1826 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1832 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1835 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1836 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1837 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1838 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1839 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1840 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1844 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1850 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1853 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1857 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1860 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1861 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1862 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1869 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1873 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1879 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1882 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1886 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1889 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1893 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1899 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1902 postinst, postrm, etc.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1906 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1912 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1915 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1916 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1917 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1918 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1919 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1923 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1926 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1927 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1931 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1934 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1938 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1941 installing package files into.
1942 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1947 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1951 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1955 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1961 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1964 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1968 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1971 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1972 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1973 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1974 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1978 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1980 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1981 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1982 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1983 multiple binary packages.
1984 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1985 should rebuild them with this version.
1986 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1990 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1993 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1997 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2000 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2004 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2007 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2008 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2009 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2010 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2011 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2012 debian/README.debian.
2013 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2014 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2015 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2016 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2017 in a few situations.)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2021 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2027 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2033 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2036 * Fixed several man pages.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2040 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2043 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2044 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2048 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2051 is ready for general use.
2052 * Added man pages for all commands.
2053 * Multiple binary package support.
2054 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2055 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2056 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2058 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2059 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2060 auto-installed as parameters.
2061 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2063 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2066 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2067 the package build directory it is to act on.
2068 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2069 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2070 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2074 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2076 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2077 ready to replace debstd.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400