1 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
6 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
7 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
8 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
9 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
10 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
11 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
12 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
13 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
14 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
15 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
19 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
21 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
22 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
23 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
25 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
26 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
27 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
28 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
29 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
30 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
32 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
33 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
37 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
40 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
44 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
51 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
53 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
54 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
59 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
62 for building debhelper.
63 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
67 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
74 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Fixed makefile commit target.
77 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
81 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
84 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
85 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
86 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
87 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
88 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
89 it's always available.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
93 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
96 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
97 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
98 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
102 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
105 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
106 modules. (Closes: #42171)
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
110 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
116 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
119 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
123 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
129 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
132 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
133 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
134 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
138 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
141 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
146 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
149 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
150 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
152 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
153 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
157 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
163 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
169 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
171 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
172 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
176 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
179 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
180 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
182 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
186 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
189 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
190 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
191 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
195 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
198 things if CDPATH is set.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
202 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
208 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
211 seems to make sense for the transition.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
215 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
218 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
223 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
226 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
227 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
231 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
234 that version. (Closes: #40589)
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
238 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
240 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
241 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
242 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
243 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
244 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
248 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
254 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
257 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
258 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
259 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
260 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
261 * debhelper.1: documented this.
262 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
263 current compatability level is equal to that number.
264 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
265 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
266 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
271 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
273 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
274 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
275 * README: mention doc/v2
276 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
277 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
281 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
283 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
284 be using this script RSN.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
288 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
291 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
292 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
293 more than 1 init script.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
297 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
300 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
304 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Changed perl version detection.
307 * Changed call to find.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
311 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
314 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
316 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
321 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Really include dh_installpam.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
327 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
330 * Wrote man page for same.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
334 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
337 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
338 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
343 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
350 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
353 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
354 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
355 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
360 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
363 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
364 well. (Closes: 38900)
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
368 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
371 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
372 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
376 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
382 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
389 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
395 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
397 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
398 help from Julian Gilbey.
399 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
400 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
401 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
402 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
403 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
404 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
405 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
410 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
416 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
418 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
423 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
429 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
435 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
438 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
442 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
445 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
449 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
452 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
456 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
462 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
465 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
469 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
471 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
475 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
477 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
481 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
484 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
485 may be deleted. (#35845)
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
489 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Various man page enhancements.
492 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
497 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
500 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
501 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
505 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
508 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
509 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
510 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
512 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
513 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
518 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
524 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Another very minor typo fix.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
530 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Very minor typo fix.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
536 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
539 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
540 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
544 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
550 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
552 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
553 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
554 variables properly (#34850).
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
558 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
560 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
564 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
567 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
568 (automatically generated by build process).
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
572 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
574 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
578 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
581 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
582 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
584 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
588 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
591 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
595 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
597 * README: minor typo fix.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
601 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
604 leave it at that. :-)
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
608 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
614 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
620 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
623 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
624 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
625 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
629 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
632 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
636 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
639 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
643 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
646 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
647 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
648 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
649 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
653 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
656 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
657 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
658 Craig Small for spotting this.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
662 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
665 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
666 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
670 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
676 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
679 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
683 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
685 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
686 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
687 working on the last version of debhelper.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
691 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
698 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
700 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
704 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
707 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
711 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
713 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
714 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
715 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
716 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
717 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
721 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
724 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
725 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
726 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
727 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
729 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
730 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
732 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
737 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
739 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
743 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
749 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
752 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
753 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
754 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
755 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
756 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
757 suidregister actually supports it.
758 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
759 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
763 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
770 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
773 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
774 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
775 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
776 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
777 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
778 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
779 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
783 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
785 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
786 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
790 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
793 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
794 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
795 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
796 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
800 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
803 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
805 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
806 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
807 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
808 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
809 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
810 effect, either. (#30118)
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
814 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
820 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
823 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
824 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
828 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Spelling and typo fixes.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
834 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
836 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
837 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
838 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
839 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
840 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
844 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
847 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
848 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
852 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
854 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
858 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
861 packages, painlessly.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
865 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
871 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
877 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
883 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
885 * The perl conversion is complete.
887 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
889 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
890 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
891 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
896 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
899 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
900 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
901 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
905 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
908 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
910 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
912 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
913 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
917 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
920 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
921 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
925 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
931 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
933 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
934 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
935 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
936 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
937 * dh_installmenu, dh_installwmacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
938 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
942 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
945 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
946 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
947 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
948 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
952 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
955 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
959 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
962 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
963 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
964 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
965 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
966 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
967 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
968 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
969 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
973 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
979 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
982 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
983 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
984 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
989 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
992 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
996 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
999 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
1003 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
1006 sections of shared libraries.
1007 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
1008 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
1009 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
1010 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
1011 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
1012 things you don't want them to.
1013 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
1014 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
1018 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
1021 shared libraries. (#26414)
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
1025 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1027 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
1028 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
1029 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
1030 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
1034 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
1038 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
1040 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
1041 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
1042 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
1043 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
1044 the program to not fail. (#26214)
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
1048 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
1051 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
1055 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
1058 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
1059 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
1064 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
1067 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
1071 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
1074 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
1075 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
1076 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
1077 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
1078 I apologize for the inconvenience.
1080 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
1081 remove debian/files properly.
1082 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
1083 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
1084 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
1085 * Removed bogus menu file.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
1089 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
1092 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
1096 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
1099 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
1100 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
1101 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
1102 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
1103 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
1104 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
1108 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
1111 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
1112 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
1113 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
1114 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
1118 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
1125 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
1128 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
1129 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
1131 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
1132 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
1133 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
1134 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
1135 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
1136 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
1140 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
1143 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
1144 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
1145 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
1146 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
1147 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
1148 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
1149 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
1150 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
1151 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
1152 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
1153 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
1154 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
1155 passed any switches.
1156 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
1160 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
1163 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
1164 at all for a long while.
1165 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
1166 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
1167 large chunks in the process.
1168 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
1169 install many oddly named files it died on before.
1170 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
1175 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
1178 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
1180 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
1185 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
1188 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
1189 that don't always have the same files in them.
1190 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
1191 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
1192 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
1196 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
1200 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
1201 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
1202 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
1203 updating 27 man pages.
1204 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
1205 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
1206 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
1207 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
1208 programs act on. (#25247)
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
1212 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
1216 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
1217 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
1218 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
1219 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
1220 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
1221 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
1226 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
1233 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
1240 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
1243 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
1247 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
1253 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
1256 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
1257 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1258 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
1259 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
1260 package by accident.
1261 * Is version 1.0 next?
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
1265 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
1268 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
1269 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
1273 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
1276 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
1277 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
1278 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1279 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
1280 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
1282 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
1287 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
1290 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
1291 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
1295 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
1298 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
1302 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
1305 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
1306 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
1311 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
1317 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
1320 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
1321 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
1326 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
1332 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
1335 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
1336 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
1337 past week. Thanks, guys!
1339 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
1340 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
1341 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
1342 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
1343 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
1344 would do in the same situation.
1345 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
1346 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
1348 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
1350 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
1351 permissions changed.
1352 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
1353 some people enjoy changing root's name.
1354 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
1355 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
1356 files are treated identically.
1357 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
1358 * Minor man page fixes.
1359 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
1360 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
1361 --no-act is on. (#23054)
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
1365 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
1368 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
1369 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
1370 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
1371 use -X multiple times, too.
1372 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
1373 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
1377 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
1380 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
1381 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
1385 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
1388 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
1392 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
1395 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
1396 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
1397 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
1398 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
1399 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
1400 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
1401 shape if you're starting a new package.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
1405 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
1408 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
1412 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
1415 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
1416 because of missing symlinks.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
1420 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
1426 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
1429 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
1430 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
1431 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
1432 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
1433 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
1435 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
1436 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
1440 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1442 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
1443 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
1444 to be changed after the fact :-)
1445 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
1449 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
1452 no version string after the -V.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
1456 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
1458 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
1459 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
1464 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
1467 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
1471 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
1474 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
1475 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
1476 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
1477 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
1478 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
1479 I always welcome corrections!
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
1483 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
1489 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
1492 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
1493 * Documented this new switch.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
1497 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
1500 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
1501 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
1502 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
1503 no packages use the old behavior.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
1507 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
1510 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
1511 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
1515 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
1518 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
1522 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
1528 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
1531 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
1535 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
1538 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
1539 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
1540 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
1544 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
1550 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
1553 into the source package by accident.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
1557 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
1560 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
1561 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
1562 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
1563 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
1564 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
1565 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
1570 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
1574 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
1575 inspired to implement some of it.
1576 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
1580 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
1583 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
1587 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
1590 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
1591 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
1595 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
1598 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
1599 have done.) (#17598)
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
1603 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
1609 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
1615 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
1618 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
1622 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
1625 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
1626 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
1630 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
1633 argument processor in perl.
1634 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
1635 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
1636 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
1637 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
1641 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
1644 type directories. (#16933)
1645 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
1646 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
1647 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
1648 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
1649 are supported. (#16935)
1650 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
1655 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
1658 This has been broken since version 0.30.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
1662 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
1666 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
1667 version requirements in the shlibs file.
1668 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
1669 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
1670 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
1671 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
1675 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
1678 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
1679 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
1681 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
1682 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
1683 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
1684 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
1685 a given package, or -i or -a.
1686 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
1687 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
1688 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
1689 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
1690 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
1691 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
1692 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
1693 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
1694 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
1696 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
1697 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
1698 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
1702 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
1705 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
1706 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
1711 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
1714 does not have a section.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
1718 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
1721 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
1722 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
1723 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
1727 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed typo #16215.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
1733 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
1736 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
1737 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
1738 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
1739 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
1740 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
1745 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
1748 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
1749 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
1750 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
1755 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
1761 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
1767 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
1770 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
1771 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
1772 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
1773 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
1774 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
1775 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
1779 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
1785 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
1788 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
1792 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
1795 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
1796 the dh_* programs (#15497).
1797 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
1801 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
1804 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
1808 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
1814 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
1817 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
1821 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
1824 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
1828 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
1834 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
1837 postinst, postrm, etc.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
1841 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
1847 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
1850 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
1851 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
1852 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
1853 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
1854 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
1858 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
1861 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
1862 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
1866 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
1869 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
1873 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
1876 installing package files into.
1877 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
1882 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
1886 * Install examples/rules* executable.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
1890 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
1896 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
1899 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
1903 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
1906 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
1907 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
1908 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
1909 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
1913 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1915 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
1916 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
1917 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
1918 multiple binary packages.
1919 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
1920 should rebuild them with this version.
1921 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
1925 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
1928 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
1932 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
1935 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
1939 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
1942 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
1943 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
1944 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
1945 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
1946 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
1947 debian/README.debian.
1948 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
1949 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
1950 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
1951 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
1952 in a few situations.)
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
1956 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
1962 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
1968 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
1971 * Fixed several man pages.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
1975 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
1978 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
1979 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
1983 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
1986 is ready for general use.
1987 * Added man pages for all commands.
1988 * Multiple binary package support.
1989 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
1990 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
1991 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
1993 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
1994 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
1995 auto-installed as parameters.
1996 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
1998 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
2001 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
2002 the package build directory it is to act on.
2003 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
2004 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
2005 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
2009 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
2011 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
2012 ready to replace debstd.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400