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Debian Changelog mingetty (1.07-3)

2010

mingetty (1.07-3) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fix bug introduced by patch from #597382: the return value of nice()
     is the new nice value. (Closes: #597382)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:12:51 +0100

mingetty (1.07-2) unstable; urgency=high

   * Critical security patch: Fix unsafe chroot call. (Closes: #597382)
   * Checked dependencies for locusts. (Closes: http://xkcd.com/797/)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:51:12 +0100

2005

mingetty (1.07-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. Changes:
     + Only prepends /dev/ to the tty name if the given tty doesn't start
       with a /.
   * Fix buffer overflow due to use of strcat and strcpy. (Closes: #221841)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:32:50 +0100

2004

mingetty (1.06-3) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fix failure on udev systems. (Closes: #243247)
   * Standards-Version: 3.6.1

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:33:50 +0100

2003

mingetty (1.06-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "assume spherical admin of uniform density" release
   * Keep manoj and friends happy by bloating debian/control
     description field. In the extended description, it is assumed that
     the administrator knows what a tty and a virtual console is.
     (Closes: #209705)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:20:25 +0100

mingetty (1.06-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #181886)
     + Ignores errors in setting permissions on devices in /dev
       (Closes: #204967).
     + nohangup option doesn't use vhangup() (Closes: #53184,#163769)
     + New options:
         autologin, chdir, chroot, delay, nonewline, noissue, nohangup,
         nohangup, nohostname, loginprog, nice.
   * Fix description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly lintian
     warning.
   * Standards version 3.6.0. (No changes needed.)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:01:23 +0100

2002

mingetty (0.9.4-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch to make things work a little better with devfs, which
     I believe is used by debian-installer. (Closes: #81275)
   * Bump standards version to 3.5.7:
     - Don't make /usr/doc symlinks
     - Honour DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:05:00 +0100

2001

mingetty (0.9.4-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #107964)
     - Thanks for the NMUs. (Closes: #91588, #93984, #93985)
   * Fix lintian errors:
     - spelling-error-in-copyright Debian/GNU Linux Debian GNU/Linux
     - copyright-refers-to-old-directory
   * Updated to latest standards version (3.5.6)
   * Use debhelper instead of custom debian/rules file.
   * Use dumb terminal setting on s390. (Closes: #113500)
   * Apply patch obtained from RedHat SRPM:
       mingetty-0.9.4-syslog.patch fixes a possible printf attack.
   * Call setsid() to ensure that we don't already have a controlling
     tty, and make an error message more descriptive.
     (Closes: #51756)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:37:02 +0000

mingetty (0.9.4-7.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/copyright: point to /usr/share/doc/copyright

 -- Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:15:06 +0200

mingetty (0.9.4-7.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/rules: moved doc and man to /usr/sahre (closes: bug#91588)
   * debian/prerm, debian/postinst, debian/rules: add /usr/doc/ transition
     scripts
   * debian/control: added priority and section to binary.
   * debian/control: Standards-Version 3.1.0

 -- Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:01:15 +0200

1999

mingetty (0.9.4-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added patch from Dan Gohman <gohmandj@mrs.umn.edu> to use standard
   utmp access functions in libc. (closes: bug#44097)

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:33:50 -0400

mingetty (0.9.4-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Allow - in login names (closes: bug#35199)

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:24:48 -0500

mingetty (0.9.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remove superfluous call to utmpname (closes: bug#34726)

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:40:11 -0500

mingetty (0.9.4-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Maintainer release to satisfy Shaleh. :-)
   * Redid debian/rules.
   * Closes fixed bug (closes: bug#28550)
   * Closes fixed bug (closes: bug#27505)

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:48:18 -0500

1998

mingetty (0.9.4-3.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Small patch for ARM port.

 -- Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>  Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:20:36 -0700

1997

mingetty (0.9.4-3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer release
   * Compiled with libc6
   * Upgraded to Standards-Version 2.3.0.1.
   * Reset permissions on /dev/vcsN and /dev/vcsaN on logout. (Fixes #13509)

 -- Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 1997 00:53:00 +1100

1996

mingetty (0.9.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Corrected maintainer address

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Sep 1996 13:13:42 -0400

mingetty (0.9.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Converted to new source packaging format.

 -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>  Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:21:19 -0400