Debian Changelog checkinstall (1.6.1-9)

2009

checkinstall (1.6.1-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Move to debhelper 7
   * Add misc:Depends to the Depends line
   * Remove dependency on findutils
   * Remove dependency on libc headers
   * Use correct quilt version
   * Update the checkinstall homepage
   * Allow overriding architecture in Debian. Closes: #501027
   * Document use of quilt in patch management
   * Update standards version (no changes needed)

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:33:05 -0400

2008

checkinstall (1.6.1-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Recommend make since it's the most used install tool. (Closes: #487964).
   * Use quilt for managing patches to upstream sources.
   * Allow Requires to be used in Debian. (Closes: #469639)
   * Turn off system translation by default, since it is currently broken.
   * Update the Vcs-* tags since we moved to Git.

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:06 -0400

checkinstall (1.6.1-7) unstable; urgency=high

   * Use mktemp instead of awk magic to create temporary directories.
     The original implementation had a race condition that allowed for a
     symlink attack. This is security related, so set urgency to high.

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:58:05 -0400

checkinstall (1.6.1-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Use the new Vcs-* fields.
   * Do not ship empty directories.
   * Use $(MAKE) instead of make in the makefile
   * Support Provides: field in debian.
   * Depend on dpkg-dev, since we use dpkg-architecture
     (Closes: #484828)
   * Move url to the Homepage field.
   * Convert debian/copyright to UTF-8.
   * Bump standards version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed).

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:57:53 -0400

2007

checkinstall (1.6.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix typo: striping -> stripping.
   	(Closes: #447776)
   * Fix FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64.
   	(Closes: #451111)
   * Move manpage to section 8 and note that checkinstall must be run as root.
   	(Closes: #448533)

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:29:15 -0300

checkinstall (1.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix access() filtering in checkinstall.
   	(Closes: #404542)
   * Fix backup cleaning that may delete stuff we don't want to.
   * Remove spurious quotes which may behave badly under some conditions.
   * Find files created under /home and ask for exclusion.
   * Don't strip installwatch.so in upstream's Makefile
   	(Closes: #436621)

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:56:47 -0400

checkinstall (1.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix FTBFS in some archs, by fixing the build dependencies.
   	(Closes: #422213)

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Fri, 04 May 2007 13:17:01 -0400

checkinstall (1.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Avoid shell command reinterpretation.
   	(Closes: #306075)
   * Ease kernel module package creation by detecting depmod calls
     and acting accordingly.
     	(Closes: #373103)
   * Fix FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD, patch from Cyril Brulebois.
   	(Closes: #414310)
   * Comment =yes and =no arguments to options in the man page.
   	(Closes: #409340)
   * Check for correct version numbers.
   	(Closes: #175240)
   * Check for correct package names in Debian.
   	(Closes: #356524)
   * Fix typos in checkinstall and installwatch man pages.
   * Do not pase usage information through a pager.
   * Fix charset in spanish and german translations
        (Closes: #418494)
   * Add XS-Vcs-Svn and XS-Vcs-Browser fields to debian/control
   * Pass messages to gettext without \n, add it later.
   * Correct the readlink definition to match the newer 2.5 glibc: now return
     a ssize_t instead of an int.

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:12:41 -0400

2006

checkinstall (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Tag files in /etc as conffiles
   	(Closes: #284786)
   * Fix backup restoration changing permissions of the root directory.
   	(Closes: #342578, #281823)
   * Fix erronous manpage sgml files.

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Wed, 6 Dec 2006 00:02:32 -0300

checkinstall (1.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix temporary script deletion (Thanks to David Jarvie for the patch)
   	(Closes: Bug#367935)
   * --requires works for all packages, not just rpm
   * Default documentation installation to /usr/share/doc instead of /usr/doc
   * Remove duplicate version information when usage information is displayed
   * Fix getcwd when in filesystem translation mode. Patch from David Brown.
   	(Closes: Bug#374648)
   * Rewrite both man pages (we now build-dep in docbook-to-man)
   	(Closes: Bug#238202, Bug#351969)
   * Fix upper case detection under some locales
   * Check for underscores in debian package names.
   	(Closes: Bug#364813)
   * Fix typo: maintaner != maintainer.
   	(Closes: Bug#377609)
   * Fix documentation installation directory (Thanks to Martintxo).
   	(Closes: Bug#383541)

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:18:19 -0400

checkinstall (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Taken over checkinstall and installwatch.
     - Merged with installwatch
     - Recreated the packaging, and fixed installation locations.
   * New upstream release
     (Closes: Bug#347469, Bug#295229, Bug#322555)
   * Suggests gettext
   * Fixed typos in the checkinstall manpage. Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann.
     (Closes: Bug#247999)
   * Scripts now run bash instead of sh, due to possible bashisms
   * Fixed amd64 installations, thanks to Martin Samuelsson and Alexandra N.
     Kossovsky
     (Closes: Bug#298152)
   * Depends in findutils >= 4.2
     (Closes: Bug#357496)
   * Upgrade policy version to 3.7.2

-- Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:19:26 -0300

2004

checkinstall (1.5.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Applied patch from "Martin H" to fix doc installation
     (Closes: #174108)
   * Now using /usr/bin/sensible-pager for a pager, instead of "less".
     (Closes: Bug#225630)
   * Regenerated and "fixed" manpage - Thanks Colin Watson for the fix.
     (Closes: Bug#175141)

-- Matt Hope <dopey@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:56:58 +1000

2003

checkinstall (1.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed directory path in checkinstall script
     (Closes: Bug#164849)
   * Added a "Depend" on "file".
     (Closes: Bug#192611)
   * Updated `Standards-Version'
 
   * Applied patches/fixes from Morten Hustveit <morten@debian.org>
     (Much respect for fixing these)
      - Replaced `eval echo $1` with "$1" when setting maintainer.
       (Closes: Bug#165483)
      - Replaced description in man-page with a more suitable one.
       (Closes: Bug#174538, Bug#212559)
      - Default to creating Debian packages.
       (Closes: Bug#181832)

-- Matt Hope <dopey@debian.org> Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:40:27 +1000

2002

checkinstall (1.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
     - PPC Arch "fixup" rewritten
       (Closes: Bug#171040)
 
   * Documentation directory name (/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME) now
     correctly calculated from the package name, rather than the source
     directory name.
     (Closes: Bug#165481)
 
   * Documentation directory changed from defaulting to /usr/doc/ to
     /usr/share/doc/
     (Closes: Bug#165480)

-- Matt Hope <dopey@debian.org> Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:18:57 +1100

checkinstall (1.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/rules; Changed #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/sh as script contains
     bash-isms.
     (Closes: Bug#157348)
   * Added in a check for if (arch="ppc") { arch="powerpc" }
     (Closes: Bug#155218)

-- Matt Hope <dopey@debian.org> Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:35:23 +1000

checkinstall (1.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial package
     (Closes: Bug#122914)

-- Matt Hope <dopey@debian.org> Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:38:08 +1000