1 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
9 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
15 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
21 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
24 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
28 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
34 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
36 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
37 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
38 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
39 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
40 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
41 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
42 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
43 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
44 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
45 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
46 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
47 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
48 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
52 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
54 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
55 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
56 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
58 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
59 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
60 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
61 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
62 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
63 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
65 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
66 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
70 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
73 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
77 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
84 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
86 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
87 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
92 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
95 for building debhelper.
96 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
100 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
107 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixed makefile commit target.
110 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
114 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
117 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
118 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
119 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
120 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
121 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
122 it's always available.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
126 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
129 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
130 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
131 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
138 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
139 modules. (Closes: #42171)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
143 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
149 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
152 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
156 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
162 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
165 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
166 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
167 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
171 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
174 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
179 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
182 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
183 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
185 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
186 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
190 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
196 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
204 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
205 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
209 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
212 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
213 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
215 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
219 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
222 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
223 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
224 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
228 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
231 things if CDPATH is set.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
235 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
244 seems to make sense for the transition.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
251 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
256 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
259 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
260 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
264 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
267 that version. (Closes: #40589)
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
271 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
273 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
274 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
275 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
276 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
277 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
281 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
287 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
290 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
291 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
292 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
293 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
294 * debhelper.1: documented this.
295 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
296 current compatability level is equal to that number.
297 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
298 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
299 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
304 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
306 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
307 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
308 * README: mention doc/v2
309 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
310 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
314 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
316 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
317 be using this script RSN.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
321 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
324 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
325 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
326 more than 1 init script.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
330 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
333 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
337 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Changed perl version detection.
340 * Changed call to find.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
344 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
347 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
349 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
354 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Really include dh_installpam.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
360 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
363 * Wrote man page for same.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
367 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
370 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
371 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
376 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
383 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
386 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
387 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
388 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
393 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
396 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
397 well. (Closes: 38900)
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
401 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
404 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
405 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
409 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
415 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
422 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
428 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
430 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
431 help from Julian Gilbey.
432 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
433 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
434 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
435 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
436 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
437 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
438 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
443 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
449 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
451 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
468 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
471 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
478 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
482 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
485 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
489 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
495 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
498 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
502 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
504 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
508 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
510 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
514 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
517 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
518 may be deleted. (#35845)
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
522 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Various man page enhancements.
525 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
530 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
533 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
534 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
538 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
541 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
542 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
543 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
545 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
546 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
551 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
557 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Another very minor typo fix.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
563 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Very minor typo fix.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
569 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
572 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
573 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
577 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
583 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
585 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
586 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
587 variables properly (#34850).
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
591 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
593 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
597 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
600 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
601 (automatically generated by build process).
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
605 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
607 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
611 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
614 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
615 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
617 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
621 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
624 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
628 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
630 * README: minor typo fix.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
634 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
637 leave it at that. :-)
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
641 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
647 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
656 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
657 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
658 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
662 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
665 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
669 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
672 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
676 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
679 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
680 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
681 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
682 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
686 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
689 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
690 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
691 Craig Small for spotting this.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
695 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
698 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
699 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
703 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
709 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
712 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
716 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
718 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
719 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
720 working on the last version of debhelper.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
724 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
731 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
733 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
737 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
740 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
744 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
746 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
747 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
748 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
749 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
750 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
754 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
757 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
758 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
759 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
760 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
762 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
763 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
765 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
770 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
772 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
776 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
782 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
785 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
786 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
787 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
788 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
789 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
790 suidregister actually supports it.
791 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
792 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
796 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
803 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
806 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
807 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
808 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
809 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
810 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
811 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
812 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
816 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
818 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
819 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
823 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
826 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
827 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
828 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
829 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
833 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
836 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
838 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
839 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
840 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
841 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
842 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
843 effect, either. (#30118)
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
847 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
853 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
856 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
857 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
861 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Spelling and typo fixes.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
867 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
869 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
870 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
871 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
872 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
873 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
880 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
881 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
885 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
887 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
891 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
894 packages, painlessly.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
898 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
904 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
910 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
916 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
918 * The perl conversion is complete.
920 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
922 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
923 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
924 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
932 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
933 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
934 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
938 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
941 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
943 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
945 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
946 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
950 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
953 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
954 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
958 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
964 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
967 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
968 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
969 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
970 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
971 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
975 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
978 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
979 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
980 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
981 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
985 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
988 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
992 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
995 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
996 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
997 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
998 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
999 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1000 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1001 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1002 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1006 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1012 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1015 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1016 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1017 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1022 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1025 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1029 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1032 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1036 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1039 sections of shared libraries.
1040 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1041 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1042 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1043 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1044 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1045 things you don't want them to.
1046 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1047 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1051 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1054 shared libraries. (#26414)
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1058 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1060 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1061 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1062 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1063 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1067 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1071 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1073 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1074 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1075 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1076 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1077 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1081 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1084 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1088 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1091 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1092 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1097 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1100 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1104 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1107 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1108 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1109 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1110 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1111 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1113 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1114 remove debian/files properly.
1115 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1116 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1117 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1118 * Removed bogus menu file.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1122 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1125 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1129 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1132 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1133 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1134 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1135 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1136 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1137 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1141 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1144 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1145 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1146 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1147 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1151 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1158 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1161 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1162 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1164 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1165 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1166 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1167 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1168 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1169 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1173 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1176 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1177 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1178 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1179 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1180 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1181 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1182 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1183 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1184 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1185 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1186 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1187 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1188 passed any switches.
1189 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1193 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1196 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1197 at all for a long while.
1198 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1199 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1200 large chunks in the process.
1201 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1202 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1203 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1208 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1211 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1213 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1218 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1221 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1222 that don't always have the same files in them.
1223 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1224 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1225 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1229 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1233 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1234 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1235 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1236 updating 27 man pages.
1237 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1238 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1239 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1240 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1241 programs act on. (#25247)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1245 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1249 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1250 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1251 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1252 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1253 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1254 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1259 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1266 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1273 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1276 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1280 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1286 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1289 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1290 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1291 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1292 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1293 package by accident.
1294 * Is version 1.0 next?
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1298 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1301 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1302 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1306 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1309 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1310 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1311 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1312 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1313 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1315 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1320 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1323 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1324 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1328 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1331 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1335 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1338 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1339 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1344 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1350 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1353 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1354 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1359 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1365 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1368 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1369 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1370 past week. Thanks, guys!
1372 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1373 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1374 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1375 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1376 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1377 would do in the same situation.
1378 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1379 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1381 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1383 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1384 permissions changed.
1385 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1386 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1387 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1388 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1389 files are treated identically.
1390 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1391 * Minor man page fixes.
1392 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1393 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1394 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1398 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1401 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1402 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1403 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1404 use -X multiple times, too.
1405 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1406 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1410 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1413 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1414 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1418 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1421 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1425 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1428 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1429 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1430 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1431 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1432 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1433 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1434 shape if you're starting a new package.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1438 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1441 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1445 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1448 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1449 because of missing symlinks.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1453 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1459 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1462 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1463 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1464 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1465 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1466 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1468 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1469 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1473 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1475 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1476 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1477 to be changed after the fact :-)
1478 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1482 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1485 no version string after the -V.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1489 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1491 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1492 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1497 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1500 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1504 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1507 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1508 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1509 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1510 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1511 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1512 I always welcome corrections!
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1516 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1525 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1526 * Documented this new switch.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1530 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1533 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1534 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1535 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1536 no packages use the old behavior.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1540 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1543 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1544 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1548 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1551 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1555 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1561 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1564 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1568 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1571 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1572 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1573 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1577 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1583 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1586 into the source package by accident.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1590 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1593 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1594 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1595 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1596 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1597 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1598 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1603 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1607 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1608 inspired to implement some of it.
1609 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1613 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1616 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1620 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1623 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1624 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1628 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1631 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1632 have done.) (#17598)
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1636 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1642 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1648 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1651 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1655 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1658 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1659 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1663 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1666 argument processor in perl.
1667 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1668 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1669 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1670 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1674 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1677 type directories. (#16933)
1678 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1679 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1680 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1681 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1682 are supported. (#16935)
1683 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1688 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1691 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1695 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1699 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1700 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1701 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1702 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1703 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1704 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1708 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1711 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1712 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1714 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1715 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1716 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1717 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1718 a given package, or -i or -a.
1719 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1720 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1721 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1722 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1723 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1724 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1725 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1726 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1727 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1729 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1730 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1731 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1735 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1738 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1739 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1744 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1747 does not have a section.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1751 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1754 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1755 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1756 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1760 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fixed typo #16215.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1766 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1769 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1770 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1771 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1772 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1773 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1778 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1781 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1782 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1783 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1788 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1794 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1800 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1803 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1804 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1805 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1806 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1807 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1808 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1812 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1818 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1821 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1825 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1828 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1829 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1830 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1837 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1841 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1850 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1854 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1857 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1861 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1867 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1870 postinst, postrm, etc.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1874 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1880 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1883 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1884 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1885 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1886 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1887 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1891 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1894 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1895 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1899 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1902 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1906 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1909 installing package files into.
1910 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1915 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1919 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1923 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1929 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1932 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1936 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1939 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1940 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1941 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1942 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1946 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1948 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1949 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1950 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1951 multiple binary packages.
1952 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1953 should rebuild them with this version.
1954 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1958 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1961 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1965 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1968 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1972 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1975 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1976 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1977 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1978 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1979 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1980 debian/README.debian.
1981 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1982 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1983 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1984 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1985 in a few situations.)
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1989 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1995 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2001 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2004 * Fixed several man pages.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2008 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2011 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2012 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2016 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2019 is ready for general use.
2020 * Added man pages for all commands.
2021 * Multiple binary package support.
2022 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2023 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2024 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2026 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2027 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2028 auto-installed as parameters.
2029 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2031 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2034 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2035 the package build directory it is to act on.
2036 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2037 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2038 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2042 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2044 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2045 ready to replace debstd.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400