1 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
7 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
13 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
16 right place. Closes: #55065
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
20 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
27 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Make all examples rules files executable.
30 * Copyright date updates.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
34 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
37 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
42 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
48 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
55 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
61 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
67 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
73 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
76 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
77 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
78 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
79 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
80 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
81 bits until all files have been registered.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
85 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
88 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
89 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
90 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
91 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
92 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
93 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
94 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
95 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
96 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
97 otherwise change the result at all.
99 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
100 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
101 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
102 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
103 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
108 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
114 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
117 act on files that don't exist.
118 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
119 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
120 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
122 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
123 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
124 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
125 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
129 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
135 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
141 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
144 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
148 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
151 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
153 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
154 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
155 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
159 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
162 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
163 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
164 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
165 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
166 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
167 does not compress. Closes: #41733
168 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
170 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
172 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
176 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
183 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
189 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
198 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
214 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
217 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
218 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
219 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
220 I made some changes, though:
221 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
222 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
223 that is a clear violation of policy.
224 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
225 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
226 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
227 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
228 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
229 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
230 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
231 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
232 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
234 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
244 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
247 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
251 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
254 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
255 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
260 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
266 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
273 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
276 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
277 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
278 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
279 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
280 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
281 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
282 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
286 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
292 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
296 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
297 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
301 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
307 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
310 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
314 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
317 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
318 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
322 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
324 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
329 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
333 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
337 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
339 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
340 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
341 for the dependancies to be generated.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
345 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
348 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
352 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
355 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
356 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
357 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
362 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
365 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
366 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
370 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
376 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
382 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
385 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
389 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
395 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
397 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
398 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
399 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
400 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
401 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
402 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
403 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
404 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
405 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
406 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
407 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
408 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
409 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
413 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
415 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
416 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
417 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
419 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
420 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
421 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
422 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
423 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
424 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
426 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
427 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
431 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
434 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
438 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
445 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
447 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
448 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
453 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
456 for building debhelper.
457 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
461 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
468 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Fixed makefile commit target.
471 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
475 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
478 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
479 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
480 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
481 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
482 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
483 it's always available.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
487 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
490 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
491 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
492 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
496 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
499 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
500 modules. (Closes: #42171)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
504 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
510 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
513 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
517 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
523 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
526 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
527 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
528 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
532 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
535 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
540 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
543 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
544 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
546 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
547 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
551 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
557 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
563 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
565 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
566 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
570 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
573 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
574 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
576 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
580 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
583 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
584 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
585 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
589 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
592 things if CDPATH is set.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
596 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
602 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
605 seems to make sense for the transition.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
609 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
612 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
617 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
620 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
621 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
625 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
628 that version. (Closes: #40589)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
632 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
634 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
635 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
636 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
637 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
638 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
648 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
651 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
652 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
653 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
654 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
655 * debhelper.1: documented this.
656 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
657 current compatability level is equal to that number.
658 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
659 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
660 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
665 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
667 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
668 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
669 * README: mention doc/v2
670 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
671 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
675 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
677 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
678 be using this script RSN.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
682 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
685 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
686 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
687 more than 1 init script.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
691 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
694 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
698 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Changed perl version detection.
701 * Changed call to find.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
705 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
708 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
710 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
715 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Really include dh_installpam.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
721 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
724 * Wrote man page for same.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
728 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
731 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
732 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
737 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
744 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
747 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
748 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
749 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
754 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
757 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
758 well. (Closes: 38900)
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
762 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
765 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
766 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
770 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
776 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
783 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
789 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
791 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
792 help from Julian Gilbey.
793 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
794 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
795 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
796 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
797 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
798 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
799 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
804 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
810 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
812 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
817 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
823 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
829 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
832 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
836 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
839 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
843 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
846 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
850 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
856 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
859 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
863 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
865 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
869 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
871 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
875 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
878 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
879 may be deleted. (#35845)
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
883 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Various man page enhancements.
886 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
891 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
894 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
895 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
899 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
902 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
903 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
904 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
906 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
907 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
912 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
918 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Another very minor typo fix.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
924 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Very minor typo fix.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
930 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
933 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
934 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
938 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
944 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
946 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
947 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
948 variables properly (#34850).
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
952 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
954 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
958 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
961 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
962 (automatically generated by build process).
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
966 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
968 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
972 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
975 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
976 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
978 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
982 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
985 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
989 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
991 * README: minor typo fix.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
995 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
998 leave it at that. :-)
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1002 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1008 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1014 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1017 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1018 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1019 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1023 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1026 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1030 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1033 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1037 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1040 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1041 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1042 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1043 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1047 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1050 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1051 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1052 Craig Small for spotting this.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1056 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1059 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1060 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1064 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1070 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1073 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1077 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1079 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1080 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1081 working on the last version of debhelper.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1085 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1088 being made. (#23255)
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1092 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1098 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1101 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1105 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1108 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1109 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1110 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1111 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1115 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1118 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1119 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1120 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1121 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1123 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1124 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1126 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1131 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1137 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1143 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1146 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1147 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1148 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1149 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1150 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1151 suidregister actually supports it.
1152 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1153 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1157 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1164 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1167 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1168 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1169 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1170 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1171 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1172 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1173 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1177 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1179 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1180 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1184 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1187 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1188 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1189 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1190 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1194 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1197 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1199 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1200 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1201 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1202 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1203 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1204 effect, either. (#30118)
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1208 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1214 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1217 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1218 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1222 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1228 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
1231 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
1232 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
1233 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
1234 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
1238 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
1241 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
1242 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
1246 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
1252 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
1255 packages, painlessly.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
1259 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
1265 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
1271 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
1277 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * The perl conversion is complete.
1281 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
1283 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
1284 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
1285 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
1290 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
1293 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
1294 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
1295 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
1299 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
1302 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
1304 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
1306 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
1307 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
1311 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
1314 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
1315 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
1319 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
1325 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
1328 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
1329 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
1330 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
1331 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
1332 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
1336 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
1339 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
1340 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
1341 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
1342 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
1346 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
1349 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
1353 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
1356 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
1357 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
1358 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
1359 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
1360 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
1361 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
1362 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
1363 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
1367 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
1373 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
1376 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
1377 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
1378 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
1383 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
1386 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
1390 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
1393 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1397 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1400 sections of shared libraries.
1401 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1402 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1403 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1404 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1405 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1406 things you don't want them to.
1407 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1408 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1412 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1415 shared libraries. (#26414)
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1419 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1421 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1422 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1423 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1424 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1428 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1432 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1434 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1435 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1436 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1437 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1438 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1442 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1445 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1449 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1452 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1453 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1458 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1461 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1465 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1468 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1469 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1470 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1471 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1472 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1474 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1475 remove debian/files properly.
1476 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1477 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1478 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1479 * Removed bogus menu file.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1483 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1486 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1490 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1493 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1494 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1495 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1496 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1497 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1498 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1505 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1506 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1507 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1508 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1512 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1519 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1522 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1523 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1525 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1526 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1527 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1528 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1529 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1530 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1537 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1538 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1539 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1540 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1541 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1542 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1543 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1544 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1545 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1546 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1547 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1548 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1549 passed any switches.
1550 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1554 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1557 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1558 at all for a long while.
1559 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1560 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1561 large chunks in the process.
1562 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1563 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1564 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1569 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1572 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1574 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1582 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1583 that don't always have the same files in them.
1584 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1585 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1586 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1594 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1595 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1596 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1597 updating 27 man pages.
1598 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1599 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1600 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1601 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1602 programs act on. (#25247)
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1610 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1611 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1612 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1613 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1614 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1615 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1620 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1627 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1634 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1637 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1641 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1647 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1650 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1651 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1652 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1653 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1654 package by accident.
1655 * Is version 1.0 next?
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1659 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1662 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1663 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1667 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1670 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1671 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1672 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1673 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1674 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1676 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1681 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1684 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1685 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1689 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1692 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1696 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1699 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1700 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1705 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1711 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1714 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1715 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1720 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1726 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1729 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1730 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1731 past week. Thanks, guys!
1733 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1734 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1735 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1736 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1737 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1738 would do in the same situation.
1739 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1740 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1742 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1744 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1745 permissions changed.
1746 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1747 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1748 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1749 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1750 files are treated identically.
1751 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1752 * Minor man page fixes.
1753 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1754 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1755 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1759 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1762 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1763 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1764 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1765 use -X multiple times, too.
1766 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1767 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1771 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1774 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1775 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1779 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1782 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1786 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1789 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1790 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1791 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1792 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1793 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1794 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1795 shape if you're starting a new package.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1799 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1802 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1806 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1809 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1810 because of missing symlinks.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1814 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1820 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1823 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1824 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1825 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1826 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1827 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1829 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1830 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1834 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1836 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1837 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1838 to be changed after the fact :-)
1839 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1843 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1846 no version string after the -V.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1850 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1852 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1853 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1858 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1861 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1865 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1868 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1869 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1870 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1871 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1872 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1873 I always welcome corrections!
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1877 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1883 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1886 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1887 * Documented this new switch.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1891 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1894 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1895 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1896 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1897 no packages use the old behavior.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1901 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1904 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1905 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1909 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1912 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1916 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1922 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1925 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1929 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1932 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1933 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1934 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1938 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1944 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1947 into the source package by accident.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1951 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1954 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1955 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1956 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1957 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1958 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1959 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1964 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1968 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1969 inspired to implement some of it.
1970 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1974 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1977 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1981 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1984 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1985 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1989 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1992 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1993 have done.) (#17598)
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1997 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2003 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2009 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2012 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2016 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2019 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2020 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2024 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2027 argument processor in perl.
2028 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2029 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2030 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2031 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2035 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2038 type directories. (#16933)
2039 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2040 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2041 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2042 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2043 are supported. (#16935)
2044 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2049 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2052 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2056 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2060 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2061 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2062 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2063 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2064 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2065 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2069 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2072 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2073 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2075 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2076 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2077 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2078 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2079 a given package, or -i or -a.
2080 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2081 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2082 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2083 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2084 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2085 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2086 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2087 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2088 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2090 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2091 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2092 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2096 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2099 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2100 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2105 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2108 does not have a section.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2112 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2115 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2116 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2117 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2121 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Fixed typo #16215.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2127 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2130 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2131 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2132 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2133 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2134 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2139 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2142 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2143 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2144 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2149 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2155 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2161 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2164 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2165 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2166 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2167 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2168 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2169 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2173 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2179 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2182 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2186 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2189 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2190 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2191 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2195 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2198 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2202 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2208 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2211 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2215 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2218 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2222 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2228 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
2231 postinst, postrm, etc.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
2235 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
2241 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
2244 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
2245 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
2246 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
2247 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
2248 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
2252 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
2255 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
2256 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
2260 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
2263 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
2267 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
2270 installing package files into.
2271 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
2276 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
2280 * Install examples/rules* executable.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
2284 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
2290 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
2293 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
2297 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
2300 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
2301 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
2302 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
2303 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
2307 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2309 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
2310 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
2311 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
2312 multiple binary packages.
2313 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
2314 should rebuild them with this version.
2315 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
2319 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
2322 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
2326 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
2329 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
2333 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
2336 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
2337 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
2338 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
2339 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
2340 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
2341 debian/README.debian.
2342 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
2343 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
2344 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
2345 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
2346 in a few situations.)
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
2350 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
2356 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
2362 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
2365 * Fixed several man pages.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
2369 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
2372 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
2373 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
2377 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
2380 is ready for general use.
2381 * Added man pages for all commands.
2382 * Multiple binary package support.
2383 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
2384 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
2385 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
2387 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
2388 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
2389 auto-installed as parameters.
2390 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
2392 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2395 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2396 the package build directory it is to act on.
2397 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2398 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2399 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2403 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2405 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2406 ready to replace debstd.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400