1 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
7 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
8 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
9 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
10 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
11 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
12 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
14 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
15 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
22 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
26 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
33 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
35 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
36 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
41 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
44 for building debhelper.
45 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
49 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
56 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fixed makefile commit target.
59 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
63 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
66 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
67 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
68 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
69 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
70 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
71 it's always available.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
75 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
78 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
79 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
80 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
84 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
87 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
88 modules. (Closes: #42171)
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
92 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
98 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
101 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
105 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
111 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
114 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
115 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
116 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
120 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
123 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
128 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
131 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
132 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
134 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
135 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
139 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
145 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
151 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
153 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
154 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
158 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
161 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
162 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
164 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
168 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
171 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
172 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
173 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
177 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
180 things if CDPATH is set.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
184 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
193 seems to make sense for the transition.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
197 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
200 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
205 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
208 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
209 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
213 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
216 that version. (Closes: #40589)
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
220 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
222 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
223 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
224 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
225 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
226 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
230 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
236 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
239 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
240 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
241 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
242 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
243 * debhelper.1: documented this.
244 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
245 current compatability level is equal to that number.
246 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
247 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
248 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
253 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
255 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
256 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
257 * README: mention doc/v2
258 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
259 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
263 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
265 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
266 be using this script RSN.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
270 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
273 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
274 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
275 more than 1 init script.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
279 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
282 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
286 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Changed perl version detection.
289 * Changed call to find.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
293 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
296 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
298 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
303 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Really include dh_installpam.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
309 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
312 * Wrote man page for same.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
316 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
319 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
320 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
325 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
332 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
335 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
336 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
337 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
342 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
345 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
346 well. (Closes: 38900)
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
350 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
353 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
354 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
358 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
364 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
371 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
377 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
379 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
380 help from Julian Gilbey.
381 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
382 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
383 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
384 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
385 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
386 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
387 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
392 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
398 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
400 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
405 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
411 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
417 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
420 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
424 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
427 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
431 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
434 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
438 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
444 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
447 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
451 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
453 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
457 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
459 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
463 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
466 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
467 may be deleted. (#35845)
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
471 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Various man page enhancements.
474 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
479 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
482 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
483 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
487 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
490 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
491 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
492 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
494 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
495 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
500 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
506 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Another very minor typo fix.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
512 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Very minor typo fix.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
518 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
521 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
522 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
526 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
532 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
534 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
535 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
536 variables properly (#34850).
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
540 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
542 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
546 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
549 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
550 (automatically generated by build process).
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
554 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
556 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
560 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
563 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
564 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
566 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
570 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
573 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
577 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
579 * README: minor typo fix.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
583 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
586 leave it at that. :-)
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
590 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
596 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
602 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
605 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
606 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
607 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
611 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
614 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
618 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
621 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
625 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
628 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
629 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
630 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
631 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
635 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
638 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
639 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
640 Craig Small for spotting this.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
644 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
647 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
648 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
652 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
658 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
661 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
665 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
667 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
668 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
669 working on the last version of debhelper.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
673 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
680 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
682 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
689 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
693 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
695 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
696 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
697 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
698 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
699 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
703 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
706 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
707 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
708 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
709 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
711 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
712 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
714 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
719 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
721 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
725 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
731 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
734 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
735 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
736 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
737 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
738 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
739 suidregister actually supports it.
740 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
741 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
745 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
752 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
755 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
756 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
757 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
758 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
759 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
760 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
761 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
765 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
767 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
768 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
772 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
775 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
776 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
777 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
778 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
782 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
785 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
787 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
788 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
789 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
790 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
791 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
792 effect, either. (#30118)
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
796 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
802 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
805 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
806 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
810 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Spelling and typo fixes.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
816 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
818 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
819 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
820 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
821 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
822 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
826 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
829 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
830 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
836 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
840 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
843 packages, painlessly.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
847 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
859 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
867 * The perl conversion is complete.
869 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
871 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
872 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
873 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
881 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
882 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
883 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
887 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
890 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
892 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
894 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
895 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
899 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
902 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
903 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
907 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
913 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
915 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
916 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
917 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
918 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
919 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
920 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
924 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
927 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
928 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
929 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
930 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
934 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
937 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
941 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
944 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
945 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
946 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
947 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
948 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
949 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
950 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
951 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
955 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
961 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
964 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
965 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
966 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
971 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
974 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
978 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
981 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
985 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
988 sections of shared libraries.
989 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
990 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
991 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
992 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
993 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
994 things you don't want them to.
995 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
996 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1000 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1003 shared libraries. (#26414)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1007 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1009 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1010 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1011 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1012 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1016 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1020 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1022 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1023 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1024 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1025 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1026 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1030 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1033 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1037 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1040 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1041 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1046 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1049 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1053 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1056 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1057 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1058 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1059 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1060 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1062 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1063 remove debian/files properly.
1064 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1065 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1066 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1067 * Removed bogus menu file.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1074 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1078 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1081 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1082 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1083 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1084 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1085 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1086 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1090 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1093 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1094 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1095 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1096 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1100 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1107 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1110 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1111 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1113 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1114 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1115 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1116 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1117 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1118 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1125 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1126 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1127 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1128 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1129 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1130 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1131 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1132 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1133 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1134 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1135 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1136 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1137 passed any switches.
1138 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1142 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1145 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1146 at all for a long while.
1147 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1148 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1149 large chunks in the process.
1150 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1151 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1152 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1157 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1160 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1162 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1167 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1170 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1171 that don't always have the same files in them.
1172 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1173 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1174 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1178 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1182 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1183 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1184 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1185 updating 27 man pages.
1186 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1187 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1188 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1189 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1190 programs act on. (#25247)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1194 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1198 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1199 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1200 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1201 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1202 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1203 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1208 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1215 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1222 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1225 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1229 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1235 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1238 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1239 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1240 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1241 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1242 package by accident.
1243 * Is version 1.0 next?
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1247 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1250 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1251 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1255 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1258 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1259 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1260 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1261 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1262 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1264 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1269 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1272 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1273 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1277 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1280 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1284 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1287 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1288 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1293 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1299 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1302 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1303 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1308 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1314 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1317 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1318 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1319 past week. Thanks, guys!
1321 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1322 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1323 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1324 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1325 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1326 would do in the same situation.
1327 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1328 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1330 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1332 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1333 permissions changed.
1334 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1335 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1336 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1337 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1338 files are treated identically.
1339 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1340 * Minor man page fixes.
1341 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1342 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1343 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1347 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1350 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1351 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1352 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1353 use -X multiple times, too.
1354 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1355 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1359 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1362 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1363 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1367 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1370 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1374 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1377 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1378 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1379 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1380 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1381 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1382 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1383 shape if you're starting a new package.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1387 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1390 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1394 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1397 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1398 because of missing symlinks.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1402 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1408 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1411 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1412 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1413 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1414 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1415 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1417 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1418 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1422 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1424 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1425 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1426 to be changed after the fact :-)
1427 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1431 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1434 no version string after the -V.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1438 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1440 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1441 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1446 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1449 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1453 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1456 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1457 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1458 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1459 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1460 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1461 I always welcome corrections!
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1465 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1471 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1474 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1475 * Documented this new switch.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1479 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1482 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1483 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1484 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1485 no packages use the old behavior.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1489 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1492 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1493 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1497 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1500 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1504 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1510 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1513 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1517 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1520 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1521 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1522 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1526 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1532 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1535 into the source package by accident.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1539 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1542 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1543 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1544 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1545 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1546 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1547 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1552 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1556 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1557 inspired to implement some of it.
1558 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1562 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1565 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1569 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1572 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1573 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1577 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1580 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1581 have done.) (#17598)
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1585 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1591 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1597 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1600 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1604 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1607 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1608 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1612 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1615 argument processor in perl.
1616 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1617 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1618 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1619 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1623 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1626 type directories. (#16933)
1627 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1628 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1629 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1630 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1631 are supported. (#16935)
1632 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1637 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1640 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1644 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1648 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1649 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1650 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1651 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1652 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1653 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1657 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1660 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1661 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1663 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1664 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1665 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1666 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1667 a given package, or -i or -a.
1668 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1669 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1670 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1671 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1672 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1673 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1674 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1675 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1676 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1678 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1679 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1680 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1684 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1687 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1688 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1693 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1696 does not have a section.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1700 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1703 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1704 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1705 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1709 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Fixed typo #16215.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1715 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1718 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1719 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1720 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1721 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1722 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1730 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1731 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1732 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1737 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1743 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1749 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1752 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1753 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1754 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1755 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1756 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1757 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1761 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1770 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1774 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1777 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1778 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1779 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1783 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1786 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1790 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1796 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1799 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1803 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1806 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1810 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1816 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1819 postinst, postrm, etc.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1823 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1829 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1832 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1833 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1834 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1835 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1836 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1840 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1843 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1844 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1848 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1851 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1855 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1858 installing package files into.
1859 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1864 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1868 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1872 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1878 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1881 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1885 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1888 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1889 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1890 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1891 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1895 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1897 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1898 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1899 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1900 multiple binary packages.
1901 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1902 should rebuild them with this version.
1903 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1907 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1910 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1914 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1917 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1921 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1924 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1925 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1926 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1927 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1928 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1929 debian/README.debian.
1930 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1931 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1932 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1933 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1934 in a few situations.)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1938 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1944 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1950 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1953 * Fixed several man pages.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1957 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1960 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1961 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1965 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1968 is ready for general use.
1969 * Added man pages for all commands.
1970 * Multiple binary package support.
1971 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1972 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1973 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1975 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1976 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1977 auto-installed as parameters.
1978 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1980 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
1983 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
1984 the package build directory it is to act on.
1985 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
1986 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
1987 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
1991 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
1993 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
1994 ready to replace debstd.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400