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2006

dhelp (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low

   * updated Vietnamese translation of debconf templates (Closes: #397099,
     thanks to Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>)
   * added Romanian translation of debconf templates (thanks to Eddy
     Petrisor <eddy.petrişor@gmail.com>)
   * added Russian translation of debconf templates (Closes: #343843,
     thanks to Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y@gmail.com>)
   * added Swedish translation of debconf templates (Closes: #332367,
     thanks to Daniel Nylander <yeager@lidkoping.net>)
   * added Spanish translation of debconf templates (Closes: #336068,
     thanks to César Gómez Martín" <cesar.gomez@gmail.com>)
   * switched changelog to UTF-8, fixed odd date entry
   * new FSF address in Debian copyright

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:19:44 +0100

2005

dhelp (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low

   * debconf-2.0 alternative dependency added (Closes: #331801, thanks to
     Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> for the report)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:00:17 +0200

dhelp (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=high

   * applied patch from Robert Harris <robert.f.harris@blueyonder.co.uk> to
     avoid segmentation faults (Closes: #330488, thanks to Daniel Schepler
     <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> for the report)
   * fixed wrong spelling in dhelp file (Closes: #31212, thanks to Esteban
     Manchado Velázquez <zoso@foton.es> for investigations)
   * added Vietnamese translation of debconf templates (Closes: #311586,
     thanks to Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>)
   * added Portuguese translation of debconf templates (Closes: #315874,
     thanks to Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:10:52 +0200

dhelp (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low

   * added Czech translation of debconf templates (Closes: #308205, thanks
     to Martin Sin <martin.sin@seznam.cz>)
   * added Japanese translation of debconf templates (Closes: #273603, thanks
     to Hideki Yamane <henrich@samba.gr.jp>)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Mon, 9 May 2005 14:08:46 +0200

dhelp (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low

   * handle missing /usr/share/doc directory gracefully (Closes: #300440,
     thanks to Marc Langer <marc@marclanger.de> for the report and Gustavo
     Franco <stratus@debian.org> for the patch)
   * quote command in menu file
   * use mozilla-firefox as real package for recommends on virtual package
     www-browser

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:24:45 +0200

2004

dhelp (0.5.19) unstable; urgency=low

   * improved error messages from dsearch in respect of missing search
     engine or database (Closes: #272614, #272951, thanks to James R. Van
     Zandt <jrvz@comcast.net> for the patches)
   * updated dhelp manual page (Closes: #147727)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:21:37 +0200

dhelp (0.5.18) unstable; urgency=low

   * properly untaint search specification in dsearch CGI script
   	(Closes: #229688, #254552, thanks to  Dan Jacobson
     <jidanni@jidanni.org> and Dafydd Harries <daf@muse.19inch.net> for
     reporting)
   * added German translation of debconf templates (Closes: #252329, thanks
     to Erik Schanze <schanzi_usenet@gmx.de>)
   * added Dutch translation of debconf templates (Closes: #250233, thanks
     to Luk Claes <luk.claes@ugent.be>)
   * added Turkish translation of debconf templates (Closes: #252939,
     thanks to Recai Oktas <roktas@omu.edu.tr>)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:26:05 +0200

dhelp (0.5.17) unstable; urgency=low

   * Recognize epiphany as X11 browser (Closes: #241536, thanks to Dan
     Korostelev <dan@ats.energo.ru> for the report)
   * Removed obsolete dh_dhelp script (Closes: #74846, #115047)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:34:39 +0200

dhelp (0.5.16) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed maintainer back to Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>
     (Closes: #210439)
   * Acknowledge bugs closed in NMUs
     (Closes: #203082, #207793, #210657, #230351)
   * Proper handling of creation and deletion of /var/lib/dhelp also fixes
     another bug (Closes: #202213)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:32:11 +0100

dhelp (0.5.15-0.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Really apply Alexander Kogan patch.

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:07:24 +0100

dhelp (0.5.15-0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Create /var/lib/dhelp in postinst. Closes: #230351
     Thanks to Alexander Kogan for the patch
   * Switch to gettext for debconf templates. Closes: #207793
   * French debconf templates translation. Closes: #210657

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:20:57 +0100

2003

dhelp (0.5.15-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload
   * dhelp_parse.c: Changed stat() to lstat() in rm_r(), thanks to
     John Belmonte <jvb@prairienet.org> (Closes: #203082)

 -- Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>  Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:16:25 +0200

dhelp (0.5.15) unstable; urgency=low

   * changing /cgi-bin/man2html to /cgi-bin/man/man2html in dhelp_parse.
     (Closes: #182864)
   * added Daniel Nouri, a good friend of mine and a amazing programmer to
     the uploaders-field in debian/control. He will help me in maintaining
     and developing dhelp in future. Thanks! :-)
   * changed "make clean" to "make distclean" in debian/rules. Thanks to
     Michael Banck for this hint.
   * added dh_fixperms to debian/rules.

 -- Daniel K. Gebhart <dkg@con-fuse.org>  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:51:56 +0000

dhelp (0.5.14) unstable; urgency=low

   * switching maintainer to Daniel K. Gebhart <dkg@con-fuse.org>
     (Closes: #172346)

 -- Daniel K. Gebhart <dkg@con-fuse.org>  Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:41:39 +0200

2002

dhelp (0.5.13) unstable; urgency=low

   * deactivated warning message on directories not included in
     /usr/share/doc/dhelp/.dhelp (Closes: #118600)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sat, 7 Sep 2002 23:59:00 +0200

dhelp (0.5.12) unstable; urgency=low

   * added debconf template translation to Brazilian Portuguese
     (Closes: #144648, thanks to Paulo R. Ormenese <pormenese@uol.com.br>)
   * modified icons to get the background color right (Closes: #147198,
     thanks to Laurent Bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr> for reporting and
     Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> for providing the icons)
   * removed unnecessary check on search parameters (Closes: #151184)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Wed, 22 May 2002 02:22:55 +0200

dhelp (0.5.11) unstable; urgency=medium

   * made "other documents" link relative (Closes: #82757)
   * avoid Perl warnings if browser undefined
   * really set the defaults for console/X browsers
   * removed gnome-help-browser from list of X browsers (Closes: #143869,
   	thanks to Thomas Langen <langen@langensoft.de> for reporting it)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:57:26 +0200

dhelp (0.5.10) unstable; urgency=high

   * rewritten copyright file to comply with policy (Closes: #111762)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:36:24 +0200

dhelp (0.5.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * rewrite of the dhelp script:
     - checks now if a WWW server listening on the localhost (Closes: #36880)
     - browser is now configurable by debconf and configuration files
       (Closes: #80218)
     - provides a --help option now (thanks to Chris Tillman
       <tillman@azstarnet.com>, Closes: #126583)
   * use .png images instead of .gif ones (Closes: #116676)
   * more comprehensive description about accessing the online
     help system in debian/control (Closes: #106957)
   * directories database, help, misc and otherosfs added to debian/dhelp
     (Closes: #119709)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:43:39 +0100

2001

dhelp (0.5.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * dsearch displays appropriate message now in case of missing search
     results (Closes: #67741, #123286)
   * made dhelp script working with search tokens again
   * removed obsolete dhelp_fsstnd

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:44:16 +0100

dhelp (0.5.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * more titles added (Closes: #121279)
   * remove /usr/doc/HTML2 on postinst (again Closes: #84206)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:36:27 +0100

dhelp (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * use Debian logo from http://www.debian.org (Closes: #46338)
   * removed outdated README.debian (Closes: #119705)
   * run dh_compress (Closes: #119759)
   * remove /usr/doc/HTML2 on purge (Closes: #84206)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:52:32 +0100

dhelp (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * dsearch checks now if a search token is supplied (Closes: #34807)
   * added missing entries to dhelp's .dhelp (Closes: #117362)
   * added a warning if the title is missing
   * typo and email address fixed in dhelp.html

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:19:45 +0100

dhelp (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * images were installed in a subdirectory of /usr/share/doc/dhelp,
     so they couldn't displayed in a browser accessing the dhelp pages

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:05:39 +0100

dhelp (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * fixed a number of a places to stop dhelp_parse immediately if an error
     occurs
   * stop if string after <directory> in .dhelp starts with a slash
     (Closes: #21361)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:42:39 +0200

dhelp (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * call dh_installdirs to ensure that /var/lib/dhelp exists (Closes: #116490)
   * call make install instead of installing manually

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:34:13 +0200

dhelp (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * chown of /var/lib/dhelp removed from postinst too (Closes: #60964)
   * removed old Debian Online Help from menu file
   * use Swish++ as search engine now (Closes: #57932, #63693, #92906, #111547)
   * moved build operations to build target (Closes: #115455)
   * CREDITS file added
   * use dh_clean instead of removing files manually
   * postinst rewritten, we no longer care about /usr/doc (Closes: #114922)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:12:00 +0200

dhelp (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * automake support added
   * removed dhelp_parse_fsstnd (Closes: #89073)
   * no longer give away /var/lib/dhelp to www-data (Closes: #60964)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:52:08 +0200

dhelp (0.3.24) unstable; urgency=low

   * Force usage of libdb3. (Closes: #112659)

 -- Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>  Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:08:33 +0200

dhelp (0.3.23.2) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * NMU
   * include source this time.  Closes: #104805.

 -- LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:45:58 -0600

2000

dhelp (0.3.23) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dsearch: security fix for glimpse's temp files (#60853)

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:42:05 +0100

dhelp (0.3.22) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dsearch: DoS security check (#60849)

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:24:09 +0100

dhelp (0.3.21) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dsearch: dhelp console support fixed  (#55545, #20891)

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:24:48 +0100

dhelp (0.3.20) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * installation scripts changed
   * parser bug "can't open ..." fixed

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:30:33 +0100

dhelp (0.3.19) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * alpha patch (bug report #44082) added
   * AOLserver support in dhelp (bug report #54527)
   * dsearch: sorting bug solved, new look
   * dsearch: supports /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc
 	     -- please test this new feature --

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:34:29 +0100

dhelp (0.3.18) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dh_dhelp
   * upload to frozen

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 20:21:50 +0100

dhelp (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low

   * most changes of 0.3.16 removed
   * /usr/doc/HTML is a link to /usr/share/doc/HTML
   * old packages can be found at /usr/doc/HTML2

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:22:22 +0100

1999

dhelp (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_dhelp: support for policy 3.1.0.0
   * fsstnd/dhelp_parse.c: hacked to follow symlinks
     (policy 3.1.0.0)
   * README in /usr/doc/HTML and /usr/share/doc/HTML added
     (bug #49793: dhelp deletes this directories)
   * documentation updated

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:48:09 +0100

dhelp (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_dhelp: + supports -p/-P options
 	      + supports dh_installdeb
   * dh_dhelp man page (new)
   * policy 3.1.0.0 (package itself)

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:54:21 +0100

dhelp (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low

   * new dhelp_parse_fsstnd to support FSSTND.

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:43:09 +0200

dhelp (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low

   * dhelp: support for gnome-help-browser
   * dhelp_parse.c: #include <db.h> for "old" systems
   * debian/cron.weekly: policy 3.0.0.0
   * dsearch: policy 3.0.0.0
   * man pages: policy 3.0.0.0

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:36:38 +0200

dhelp (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low

   * Makefile: link with db1
   * dhelp_parse.c: #include <db/db.h>
   * Policy 3.0.x: /usr/share/doc
   * new debian/menu (bug #41140)
   * dhelp_parse.c: new look
   * dhelp: support for gzilla & amaya added

 -- Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:20:09 +0200

dhelp (0.3.11) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dhelp: perl -T problem solved (bug #31211)
   * cron.weekly: cd /  (bug #30499)
   * dhelp_parse: core dump problem solved: variables to small
 	         (bug #31602)

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:30:21 +0000

1998

dhelp (0.3.10-0.1) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * no maintainer upload, because developer has no working
     development system
   * dhelp_parse: problems with long <linkname> solved
   * uploader note: read the diff from 0.3.9 on ftp.debian.org.  Seems
     OK to me (auth concerns).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:57:28 +0100

dhelp (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Danish translations

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:58:51 +0200

dhelp (0.3.8) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * debian/postinst: redirect glimpse messages to /dev/null
                      (reported bug)
   * debian/control: httpd recommends -> suggests (reported bug)
                     Standards-Version: 2.4.0.1

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Fri, 15 May 1998 7:21:03 +0200

dhelp (0.3.7) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * debian/rules: create /var/lib/dhelp directory, needed to fix
                   problem between dhelp and doc-base

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 20:17:05 +0100

dhelp (0.3.6) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * man pages: + dhelp (en,de)
                + dhelp_parse (en)
   * dhelp: + searching without httpd bug fixed
            + use local httpd (apache) if possible
            + delete existing temp file (security)
   * dhelp_parse: fixed error in get_item(), necessary for
                  long descriptions like in doc-linux-html
   * debian/control
   * doc/dhelp2dwww.pl: new script for package maintainers
   * doc/sgml2dhelp.pl: new script for package maintainers

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:12:43 +0100

dhelp (0.3.5) unstable frozen; urgency=low

   * dsearch: important security bugfixes

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:34:29 +0100

dhelp (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_dhelp: option -noleaf (NFS bug of Linux)
   * debian/dhelp
   * documentation

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:43:20 +0100

dhelp (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_dhelp: chmod
   * bug fix: Spanish translation
   * debian/posting: run glimpse in the background
   * dsearch: French support (Yann)
   * dhelp_parse: html_w_tail() French support

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:54:20 +0100

dhelp (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * dsearch: bugfix
   * dh_dhelp: script for package maintainers (!!!)
   * Priority: optional
   * doc/dhelp.html: description of dh_dhelp

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:55:12 +0100

dhelp (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * dhelp_parse: foreign language support in html_w_tail ()
                  (English, German, Italian, Spanish)
   * new dsearch (written in Perl) with foreign language support
     (English, German, Italian, Spanish)
   * cgiparse binary removed (i386 -> any)
   * dbugreport removed
   * debian/dhelp: titles in Italian, Spanish

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>  Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:04:20 +0100

dhelp (0.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * dhelp_parse: symlink problem #2
   * French titles (thanks Yann)
   * dhelp_parse: better error checking

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Sun, 1 Feb 1998 18:10:21 +0100

dhelp (0.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * dhelp_parse: "/usr/doc is a symbolic link" problem solved
   * /usr/bin/dhelp: X11 WWW browser
   * documentation
   * dhelp_parse: better error checking
   * dhelp_parse: "recursive symbolic link in /usr/doc" problem solved

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:20:32 +0100

dhelp (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * postinst
   * cron.weekly -> conffiles
   * dhelp_parse: compiled with option -O

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:55:37 +0100

dhelp (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * dhelp_parse: missing tail bug fixed
   * cron.weekly: bug fix for *.html.gz

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:59:21 +0100

1997

dhelp (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Priority: standard
   * dhelp_parse -r deletes /var/lib/dhelp/dbase
   * dhelp_parse: better error checking, flag <dtitle>
   * debian/dhelp includes <dtitle> for English, German groups
   * cgiparse binary (from CERN httpd)
   * dsearch (WWW search)
   * dbugreport (report Debian bugs)

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Wed, 31 Dec 1997 14:34:59 +0100

dhelp (0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new dhelp_parse (written in C using db library), much faster

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Mon, 29 Dec 1997 18:53:33 +0100

dhelp (0.1-4) experimental; urgency=low

   * some bug fixes from Christian Schwarz

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Wed, 23 Jul 1997 18:50:06 +0200

dhelp (0.1-3) experimental; urgency=low

   * fix title bug in dhelp_index

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Mon, 30 Jun 1997 20:40:45 +0200

dhelp (0.1-2) experimental; urgency=low

   * several bug fixes

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Sat, 28 Jun 1997 19:20:13 +0200

dhelp (0.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * Initial release.

 -- Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.d400.de>  Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:04:34 +0200