1 debhelper (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Backported bug fixes from the 1.1 tree:
4 * dh_installdocs: used -m 655 for a TODO file. (minor, dh_fixperms cleans
6 * dh_fixperms: had a problem with removing x bits on examples files
7 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
8 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
9 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
10 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
11 the program to not fail. (#26214)
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:21:26 -0700
15 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
19 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
20 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
21 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
22 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
23 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
24 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
29 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
36 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
43 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
46 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
50 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
56 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
58 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
59 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
60 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
61 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
62 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
64 * Is version 1.0 next?
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
68 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
71 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
72 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
76 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
78 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
79 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
80 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
81 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
82 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
83 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
85 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
90 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
93 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
94 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
98 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
101 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
105 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
108 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
109 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
114 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
120 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
123 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
124 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
129 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
135 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
137 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
138 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
139 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
140 past week. Thanks, guys!
142 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
143 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
144 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
145 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
146 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
147 would do in the same situation.
148 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
149 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
151 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
153 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
155 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
156 some people enjoy changing root's name.
157 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
158 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
159 files are treated identically.
160 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
161 * Minor man page fixes.
162 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
163 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
164 --no-act is on. (#23054)
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
168 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
170 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
171 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
172 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
173 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
174 use -X multiple times, too.
175 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
176 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
180 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
183 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
184 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
188 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
191 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
195 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
198 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
199 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
200 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
201 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
202 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
203 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
204 shape if you're starting a new package.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
208 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
211 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
215 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
218 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
219 because of missing symlinks.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
223 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
229 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
232 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
233 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
234 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
235 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
236 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
238 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
239 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
243 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
245 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
246 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
247 to be changed after the fact :-)
248 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
252 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
254 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
255 no version string after the -V.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
259 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
261 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
262 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
267 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
270 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
274 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
277 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
278 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
279 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
280 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
281 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
282 I always welcome corrections!
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
286 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
292 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
295 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
296 * Documented this new switch.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
300 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
303 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
304 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
305 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
306 no packages use the old behavior.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
310 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
313 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
314 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
318 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
321 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
325 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
331 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
334 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
338 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
340 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
341 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
342 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
343 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
347 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
353 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
356 into the source package by accident.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
360 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
363 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
364 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
365 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
366 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
367 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
368 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
373 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
377 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
378 inspired to implement some of it.
379 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
383 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
386 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
390 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
393 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
394 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
398 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
401 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
406 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
412 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
418 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
421 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
425 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
428 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
429 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
433 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
436 argument processor in perl.
437 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
438 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
439 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
440 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
444 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
447 type directories. (#16933)
448 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
449 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
450 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
451 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
452 are supported. (#16935)
453 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
458 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
461 This has been broken since version 0.30.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
465 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
469 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
470 version requirements in the shlibs file.
471 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
472 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
473 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
474 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
478 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
481 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
482 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
484 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
485 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
486 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
487 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
488 a given package, or -i or -a.
489 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
490 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
491 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
492 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
493 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
494 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
495 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
496 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
497 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
499 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
500 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
501 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
505 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
508 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
509 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
514 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
517 does not have a section.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
521 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
524 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
525 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
526 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
530 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
536 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
538 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
539 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
540 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
541 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
542 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
543 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
548 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
551 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
552 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
553 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
558 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
564 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
570 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
573 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
574 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
575 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
576 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
577 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
578 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
582 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
588 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
590 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
591 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
595 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
598 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
599 the dh_* programs (#15497).
600 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
604 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
607 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
611 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
617 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
620 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
624 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
627 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
631 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
637 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
640 postinst, postrm, etc.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
644 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
650 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
652 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
653 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
654 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
655 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
656 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
657 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
661 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
664 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
665 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
669 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
672 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
676 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
678 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
679 installing package files into.
680 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
685 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
689 * Install examples/rules* executable.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
693 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
699 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
702 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
706 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
709 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
710 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
711 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
712 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
716 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
718 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
719 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
720 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
721 multiple binary packages.
722 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
723 should rebuild them with this version.
724 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
728 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
731 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
735 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
738 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
742 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
745 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
746 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
747 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
748 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
749 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
750 debian/README.debian.
751 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
752 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
753 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
754 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
755 in a few situations.)
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
759 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
765 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
771 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
774 * Fixed several man pages.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
778 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
781 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
782 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
786 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
789 is ready for general use.
790 * Added man pages for all commands.
791 * Multiple binary package support.
792 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
793 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
794 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
796 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
797 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
798 auto-installed as parameters.
799 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
801 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
804 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
805 the package build directory it is to act on.
806 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
807 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
808 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
812 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
814 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
815 ready to replace debstd.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400