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Debian Changelog netkit-telnet (0.17-34)

2006

netkit-telnet (0.17-34) unstable; urgency=low

   * The 'update-inetd' batch release.
   * debian/control: Added Depends on update-inetd

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:18:50 +0100

netkit-telnet (0.17-33) unstable; urgency=low

   * Patched telnetd.postinst to fix removal of telnetd-ssl.
     Thanks Ian Beckwith for the patch. (Closes: #389278)
   * Changed telnetd.telnetd to telnetd in inetd configuration.
     Former format not supported by inetutils-inetd.
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2.2. No change

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:21:38 +0200

2005

netkit-telnet (0.17-32) unstable; urgency=low

   * telnet/commands.cc: Patched to reject invalid port numbers.
     Thanks a lot Justin Pryzby for the patch (Closes: #300273)
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.6.2.0. No change

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:17:12 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-31) unstable; urgency=low

   * Build against new libstdc++6.
   * Moved to debhelper compatability 4. Created debian/compat.

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:04:06 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-30) unstable; urgency=low

   * telnetd.postrm. Added '|| true' to rmdir of old directories.
     This will allow removal of the package when home dir of the
     telnetd user is already gone. (Closes: #308439)

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:58:11 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-29) unstable; urgency=high

   * The 'Brown Paper Bag' release.
   * Don't create /nonexistent when adding telned user. (Closes: #302395)
   * urgency set to high since this has to go into sarge.

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:47:21 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-28) unstable; urgency=high

   * telnet/telnet.cc: Fixed buffer overflow in the handling of the
     LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients (CAN-2005-0469).
     Thanks Martin 'Joey' Schulze for the patch.

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:10:01 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-27) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer
   * debian/control. Removed full stops from packages descriptions to shut
     lintian up.
   * Changed $HOME of telnetd user to /nonexistent. (Closes: #272312)
   * debian/menu. Set full path to telnet in command field.

 -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>  Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:07:06 +0100

2004

netkit-telnet (0.17-26) unstable; urgency=high

   * telnetd/utility.c: Fix remote DOS hole (CAN-2004-0911). Thanks Herbert Xu.
     (Closes: #273694)

 -- Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:22:59 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-25) unstable; urgency=low

   * telnet/commands.cc: Fix buffer overflow when $HOME is too big.  Thanks
     Josh Martin. (Closes: #264846)

 -- Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 04:21:36 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-24) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #249714)
     - control (Maintainer): Set myself.

 -- Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>  Wed, 19 May 2004 02:10:38 +0200

netkit-telnet (0.17-23) unstable; urgency=low

   * Accept numeric telnet options in telnet (closes: #242018).
   * Added telnet dependency on netbase for /etc/services.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 15 May 2004 17:13:42 +1000

2003

netkit-telnet (0.17-22) unstable; urgency=low

   * Use colon as separator for chown (closes: #217404).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:45:30 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-21) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed build-stamp/install-stamp from debian/rules.
   * Removed obsolete warning options from configure.
   * Disable 8-bit mode if parity bit is enabled (closes: #203544).
   * Disabled trigraph warnings.
   * Commented out tokens after endif.
   * Added -b option to telnet (closes: #194736).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:38:04 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-20) unstable; urgency=low

   * Use 8-bit mode without binary option as default (OpenBSD via
     Xisco Calafat).
   * Added port specification to telnetrc (closes: #144921).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 25 May 2003 19:02:35 +1000

2002

netkit-telnet (0.17-19) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied Hurd patch (Robert Millan, closes: #149325).
   * Fixed telnetlogin path in telnetd manpage (closes: #150812).
   * Do not abort if user/group does not exist in prerm (closes: #149181).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:05:20 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-18) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added missing El's in telnetd(8).
   * -S now accepts a number (closes: #136804).
   * Show the machine we are connected instead of the first (closes: #137554).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 7 Apr 2002 09:41:12 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-17) unstable; urgency=high

   * Provide telnet-server (closes: #120180).
   * Fixed IAC+SB crash (closes: #122313, #128988).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:13:23 +1100

2001

netkit-telnet (0.17-16) unstable; urgency=low

   * Set resolv_hostp outside the source routing ifdef in telnetd.
   * Documented telnet options -4 and -6 (closes: #109636).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:38:05 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-15) unstable; urgency=low

   * Don't ignore all EADDRINUSE errors in telnet.
   * Don't clear the environment in telnetlogin (closes: #108872).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:38:11 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-14) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fixed netobuf buffer overflows.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:52:25 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-13) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Updated devpts check to include devfs as well.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 19 May 2001 15:33:41 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added include <sys/time.h> to telnetd/utility.c (closes: #96803).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 9 May 2001 21:17:12 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added exit 0 to telnetd.postrm (closes: #93934).
   * Changed misleading help message (closes: #94231).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:52:11 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Renamed member printf to xprintf (closes: #91351).
   * Use new in C++ compiler test (closes: #91353).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:34:12 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed path to license file (Christoph Martin, closes: #86476).
   * Added missing #DEBHELPER# tag to telnet.prerm (Hiroyuki YAMAMORI,
     closes: #86894).
   * Only call update-alternatives in prerm if removing or deconfiguring
     (closes: #87330).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 00:00:59 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed remnant of suidregister from telnetd (closes: #85882).
   * Fixed handling of sockaddr lengths (closes: #86177).
   * Dynamically allocate editedhost (closes: #86080).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:53:11 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added includes for gcc 2.97 (Randolph Chung, closes: #83337).
   * Avoid DNS lookups if the address is numerical (closes: #83828).
   * Added menu hint (closes: #80161).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:10:59 +1100

2000

netkit-telnet (0.17-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added menu entry for telnet (closes: #74845).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:08:44 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a memory allocation bug.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:12:57 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Relaxed telnetlogin a bit.
   * Provide telnet-client (closes: #70549).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:42:53 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Check for EAFNOSUPPORT after calling socket(2) in telnet.
   * Added IPv6 support for telnetd.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:28:48 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.17-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Install telnetlogin ourselves (closes: #69773).
   * Fixed alternatives typo (closes: #69597).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:01:38 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.17-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Applied a modified version of Jason Gunthorpe's IPv6 patch for telnet
     (closes: #68998).
   * Read /etc/telnetrc before .telnetrc if it exists.  The idea was from
     Robert Luberda.  Documented the special hostname DEFAULT (closes: #69113).
   * Use alternatives for /usr/bin/telnet (closes: #56754).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:06:48 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.16-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Handle localchars correctly (closes: #66039).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:01:42 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.16-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a bug in responses to TTYPE queries where a (null) could be sent
     instead of the correct terminal type (closes: #63155).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 6 May 2000 09:42:58 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.16-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Disabled signal handling that does not work (closes: #62388).  Patches
     that provide correct signal handling are welcome.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:58:22 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.16-3) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

   * Restored the default to not being 8-bit clean since it breaks SunOS
     (closes: #60352, #60386).  People who need 8-bit cleanness should use -8.
   * Made FHS compliant.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:39:00 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.16-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Recompiled with libncurses5.
   * Changed the permission of /usr/lib/telnetd/login to 4754 (closes: #58786).
   * telnet is now 8-bit clean by default since it appeared to be so in slink,
     albeit unintentionally (closes: #57685).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:10:47 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.16-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with security fixes.
   * Run as root if devpts is not present.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:42:29 +1100

1999

netkit-telnet (0.14-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Compile login with -g -O2 -Wall.
   * Fixed path to default login in in.telnetd(8).
   * Fixed usage() output (closes: #51498).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:43:39 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.14-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Call fatalperror() instead of fatal() when getpty() fails.
   * Delete telnetd group before creating telnetd (closes: #46659).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:52:36 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Redirect stderr for group existence check to /dev/null.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:00:31 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Check for existence of user/group before removing (fixes #45651).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 21:07:18 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Depend on base-files (>= 2.1.8) for group utmp (fixes #44687).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:53:08 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with working fakeroot (fixes #44043, #44044).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 3 Sep 1999 20:32:28 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * telnetd is now a member of utmp (fixes #43543).
   * Call adduser with --quiet (fixes #43587).
   * configure now works with egcs 2.95 (fixes #43580, #43747)

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:18:06 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * telnetd now depends on adduser and passwd (fixes #43515).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:49:25 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Installed the login wrapper (fixes #42092).
   * Reopen logging if necessary (fixes #36149).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:17:24 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.12-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch from Matt McLean for openpty support (fixes #35629).
   * Use glibc versions of logout/logwtmp.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:16:14 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.12-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a bug with hostnames longer than 64 characters (fixes #33559).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:24:36 +1100

1998

netkit-telnet (0.12-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Uploaded to slink.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:04:40 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.12-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with libncurses4.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 1 Nov 1998 19:38:49 +1100

netkit-telnet (0.12-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with libstdc++2.9 (fixes #27789).

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:32:04 +1000

netkit-telnet (0.12-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Release.

 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:50:43 +1000