1 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
13 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
16 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
17 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
18 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
19 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
20 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
21 bits until all files have been registered.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
25 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
28 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
29 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
30 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
31 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
32 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
33 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
34 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
35 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
36 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
37 otherwise change the result at all.
39 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
40 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
41 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
42 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
43 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
48 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
54 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
57 act on files that don't exist.
58 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
59 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
60 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
62 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
63 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
64 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
65 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
69 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
75 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
81 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
84 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
88 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
91 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
93 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
94 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
95 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
99 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
102 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
103 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
104 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
105 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
106 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
107 does not compress. Closes: #41733
108 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
110 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
112 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
116 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
123 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
135 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
138 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
142 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
148 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
154 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
157 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
158 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
159 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
160 I made some changes, though:
161 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
162 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
163 that is a clear violation of policy.
164 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
165 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
166 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
167 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
168 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
169 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
170 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
171 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
172 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
174 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
178 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
184 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
187 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
191 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
194 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
195 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
200 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
206 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
213 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
216 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
217 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
218 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
219 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
220 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
221 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
222 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
226 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
232 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
236 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
237 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
241 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
247 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
250 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
257 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
258 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
262 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
264 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
269 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
273 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
277 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
279 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
280 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
281 for the dependancies to be generated.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
285 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
288 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
295 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
296 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
297 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
302 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
305 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
306 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
310 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
316 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
325 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
335 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
337 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
338 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
339 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
340 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
341 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
342 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
343 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
344 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
345 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
346 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
347 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
348 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
349 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
353 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
355 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
356 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
357 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
359 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
360 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
361 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
362 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
363 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
364 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
366 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
367 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
371 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
374 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
378 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
385 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
387 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
388 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
393 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
396 for building debhelper.
397 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
401 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
408 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Fixed makefile commit target.
411 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
415 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
418 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
419 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
420 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
421 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
422 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
423 it's always available.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
427 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
430 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
431 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
432 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
436 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
439 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
440 modules. (Closes: #42171)
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
444 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
450 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
453 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
457 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
463 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
466 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
467 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
468 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
472 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
475 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
480 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
483 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
484 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
486 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
487 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
491 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
497 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
503 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
505 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
506 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
510 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
513 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
514 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
516 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
520 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
523 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
524 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
525 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
529 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
532 things if CDPATH is set.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
536 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
542 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
545 seems to make sense for the transition.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
549 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
552 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
560 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
561 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
565 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
568 that version. (Closes: #40589)
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
572 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
574 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
575 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
576 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
577 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
578 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
582 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
588 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
591 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
592 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
593 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
594 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
595 * debhelper.1: documented this.
596 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
597 current compatability level is equal to that number.
598 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
599 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
600 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
605 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
607 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
608 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
609 * README: mention doc/v2
610 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
611 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
615 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
617 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
618 be using this script RSN.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
622 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
625 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
626 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
627 more than 1 init script.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
631 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
634 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
638 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Changed perl version detection.
641 * Changed call to find.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
645 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
648 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
650 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
655 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Really include dh_installpam.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
661 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
664 * Wrote man page for same.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
668 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
671 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
672 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
677 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
684 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
687 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
688 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
689 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
694 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
697 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
698 well. (Closes: 38900)
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
702 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
705 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
706 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
710 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
716 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
723 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
729 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
731 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
732 help from Julian Gilbey.
733 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
734 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
735 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
736 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
737 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
738 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
739 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
744 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
750 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
752 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
757 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
763 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
769 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
772 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
776 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
779 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
783 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
786 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
790 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
796 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
799 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
803 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
805 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
809 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
811 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
815 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
818 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
819 may be deleted. (#35845)
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
823 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Various man page enhancements.
826 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
831 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
834 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
835 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
839 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
842 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
843 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
844 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
846 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
847 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
852 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Another very minor typo fix.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
864 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Very minor typo fix.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
870 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
873 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
874 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
878 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
884 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
886 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
887 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
888 variables properly (#34850).
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
892 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
894 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
898 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
901 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
902 (automatically generated by build process).
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
906 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
908 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
912 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
915 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
916 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
918 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
922 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
925 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
929 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
931 * README: minor typo fix.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
935 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
938 leave it at that. :-)
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
942 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
948 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
954 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
957 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
958 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
959 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
963 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
966 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
970 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
973 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
977 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
980 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
981 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
982 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
983 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
987 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
990 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
991 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
992 Craig Small for spotting this.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
996 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
999 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1000 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1004 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1010 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1013 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1017 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1019 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1020 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1021 working on the last version of debhelper.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1025 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1028 being made. (#23255)
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1032 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1038 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1041 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1045 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1048 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1049 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1050 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1051 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1055 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1058 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1059 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1060 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1061 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1063 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1064 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1066 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1071 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1083 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1086 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1087 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1088 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1089 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1090 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1091 suidregister actually supports it.
1092 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1093 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1097 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1104 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1107 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1108 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1109 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1110 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1111 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1112 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1113 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1117 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1119 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1120 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1124 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1127 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1128 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1129 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1130 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1134 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1137 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1139 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1140 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1141 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1142 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1143 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1144 effect, either. (#30118)
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1148 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1154 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1157 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1158 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1162 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1168 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1171 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1172 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1173 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1174 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1178 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1181 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1182 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1186 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1192 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1195 packages, painlessly.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1199 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1205 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1211 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1217 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * The perl conversion is complete.
1221 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1223 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1224 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1225 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1230 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1233 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1234 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1235 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1239 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1242 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1244 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1246 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1247 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1251 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1254 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1255 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1265 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1268 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1269 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1270 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1271 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1272 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1276 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1279 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1280 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1281 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1282 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1286 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1289 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1293 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1296 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1297 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1298 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1299 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1300 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1301 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1302 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1303 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1307 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1313 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1316 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1317 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1318 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1323 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1326 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1330 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1333 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1337 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1340 sections of shared libraries.
1341 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1342 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1343 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1344 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1345 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1346 things you don't want them to.
1347 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1348 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1352 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1355 shared libraries. (#26414)
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1359 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1361 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1362 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1363 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1364 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1368 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1372 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1374 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1375 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1376 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1377 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1378 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1382 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1385 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1389 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1392 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1393 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1398 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1401 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1405 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1408 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1409 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1410 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1411 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1412 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1414 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1415 remove debian/files properly.
1416 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1417 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1418 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1419 * Removed bogus menu file.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1423 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1426 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1430 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1433 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1434 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1435 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1436 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1437 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1438 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1442 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1445 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1446 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1447 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1448 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1452 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1459 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1462 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1463 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1465 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1466 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1467 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1468 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1469 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1470 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1474 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1477 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1478 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1479 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1480 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1481 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1482 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1483 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1484 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1485 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1486 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1487 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1488 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1489 passed any switches.
1490 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1494 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1497 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1498 at all for a long while.
1499 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1500 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1501 large chunks in the process.
1502 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1503 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1504 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1512 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1514 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1522 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1523 that don't always have the same files in them.
1524 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1525 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1526 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1530 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1534 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1535 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1536 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1537 updating 27 man pages.
1538 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1539 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1540 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1541 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1542 programs act on. (#25247)
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1546 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1550 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1551 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1552 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1553 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1554 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1555 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1560 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1567 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1574 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1577 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1581 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1587 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1590 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1591 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1592 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1593 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1594 package by accident.
1595 * Is version 1.0 next?
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1599 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1602 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1603 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1607 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1610 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1611 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1612 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1613 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1614 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1616 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1621 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1624 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1625 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1629 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1632 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1636 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1639 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1640 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1645 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1651 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1654 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1655 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1660 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1666 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1669 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1670 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1671 past week. Thanks, guys!
1673 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1674 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1675 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1676 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1677 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1678 would do in the same situation.
1679 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1680 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1682 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1684 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1685 permissions changed.
1686 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1687 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1688 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1689 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1690 files are treated identically.
1691 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1692 * Minor man page fixes.
1693 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1694 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1695 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1699 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1702 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1703 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1704 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1705 use -X multiple times, too.
1706 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1707 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1711 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1714 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1715 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1719 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1722 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1726 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1729 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1730 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1731 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1732 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1733 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1734 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1735 shape if you're starting a new package.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1739 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1742 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1746 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1749 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1750 because of missing symlinks.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1754 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1760 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1763 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1764 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1765 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1766 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1767 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1769 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1770 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1774 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1776 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1777 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1778 to be changed after the fact :-)
1779 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1783 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1786 no version string after the -V.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1790 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1792 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1793 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1798 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1801 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1805 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1808 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1809 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1810 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1811 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1812 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1813 I always welcome corrections!
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1817 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1823 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1826 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1827 * Documented this new switch.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1831 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1834 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1835 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1836 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1837 no packages use the old behavior.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1841 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1844 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1845 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1849 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1852 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1856 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1862 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1865 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1869 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1872 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1873 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1874 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1878 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1884 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1887 into the source package by accident.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1891 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1894 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1895 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1896 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1897 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1898 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1899 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1904 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1908 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1909 inspired to implement some of it.
1910 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1914 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1917 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1921 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1924 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1925 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1929 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1932 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1933 have done.) (#17598)
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1937 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1943 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1949 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1952 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1956 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1959 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1960 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1964 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1967 argument processor in perl.
1968 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1969 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1970 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1971 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1975 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1978 type directories. (#16933)
1979 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1980 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1981 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1982 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1983 are supported. (#16935)
1984 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1989 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1992 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1996 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2000 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2001 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2002 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2003 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2004 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2005 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2009 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2012 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2013 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2015 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2016 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2017 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2018 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2019 a given package, or -i or -a.
2020 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2021 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2022 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2023 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2024 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2025 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2026 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2027 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2028 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2030 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2031 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2032 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2036 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2039 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2040 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2045 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2048 does not have a section.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2052 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2055 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2056 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2057 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2061 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Fixed typo #16215.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2067 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2070 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2071 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2072 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2073 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2074 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2079 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2082 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2083 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2084 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2089 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2095 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2101 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2104 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2105 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2106 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2107 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2108 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2109 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2113 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2119 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2122 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2126 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2129 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2130 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2131 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2135 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2138 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2142 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2148 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2151 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2155 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2158 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2162 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2168 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2171 postinst, postrm, etc.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2175 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2181 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2184 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2185 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2186 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2187 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2188 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2192 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2195 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2196 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2200 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2203 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2207 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2210 installing package files into.
2211 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2216 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2220 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2224 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2230 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2233 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2237 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2240 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2241 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2242 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2243 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2247 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2249 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2250 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2251 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2252 multiple binary packages.
2253 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2254 should rebuild them with this version.
2255 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2259 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2262 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2266 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2269 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2273 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2276 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2277 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2278 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2279 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2280 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2281 debian/README.debian.
2282 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2283 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2284 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2285 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2286 in a few situations.)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2290 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2296 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2302 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2305 * Fixed several man pages.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2309 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2312 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2313 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2317 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2320 is ready for general use.
2321 * Added man pages for all commands.
2322 * Multiple binary package support.
2323 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2324 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2325 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2327 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2328 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2329 auto-installed as parameters.
2330 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2332 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2335 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2336 the package build directory it is to act on.
2337 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2338 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2339 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2343 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2345 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2346 ready to replace debstd.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400