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2009

pinfo (0.6.9-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Build-dep on libreadline-dev instead of libreadline5-dev
   * Copy in a fresh config.{sub.guess} at build time
     (closes: #535727)
   * Add ${misc:Depends} in the dependencies
   * Bump standards-version to 3.8.3 (no changes required)

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:50:08 +0200

pinfo (0.6.9-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Acknowlegde NMU upload (thanks Norbert!)
   * Move to standards-version 3.8.2
     - Add Homepage field to control file
   * Change Suggests on cupsys-bsd to cups-bsd
   * Move pinfo from the "Apps/Text" menu to "Help"
   * By default, don't clear the screen on exit (Thanks to Justin Pryzby)
     (Closes: #358996) [01_pinforc.dpatch]
   * Also build-depend on install-info
   * Make sure /usr/share/info/dir(.gz)? isn't shipped in the package
     (Closes: #535322)

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:17:28 +0200

pinfo (0.6.9-3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * add dependency on install-info (Closes: #532591)

 -- Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:37:10 +0200

2008

pinfo (0.6.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix bashism in debian/rules
     (Closes: #484430)
   * Fix a crash caused by closing a file that wasn't open
     (Closes: #362183)
   * Fix typos and grammar in docs
     (Closes: #431707)

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:02:44 +0200

2006

pinfo (0.6.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix building of man page and info file
   * Added watch file
   * Clean up debian/rules
   * Clean up the maintainer scripts

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:54:26 +0100

pinfo (0.6.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release:
     - use newer autoconf/automake tools (closes: #316286)
     - fixed patch searching issues (closes: #181907, #299891)
     - fixed segfault for info pages containing \0's (closes: #218939)
     - updated and added translations
       (closes: #332792, #313928, #332241, #348129)
     - nodes containing a "." are now correctly found
       (closes: #235134, #264270)
     - non-ASCII and widechar man pages are displayed correctly
       (closes: #262128)
     - improved the history behavior of the search input line
     - broken tag tables are now automatically fixed
     - fix segfault when a broken regexp is entered (closes: #222650)
     - fixed a number of segfaults caused by using uninitialized pointers and
       off-by-1 errors
     - fixed heap corruption caused by non-ascii chars in info pages
     - fixed text display on narrow terminals (closes: #288877, #320866)
     - fixed highlighting of searches
     - use default terminal colors. Thanks to Rob Funk for a patch.
       (closes: #138645)
     - use libreadline by default;  readline version 5 is now required.
     - better cooperation between ncurses and readline (closes: #222651)
     - fixed some memory leaks
     - got rid of tempnam() calls
     - fixed -Wall and -Wshadow compiler warnings
     - use utf8 in documentation files; fix typoes (closes: #337185)
   * Revamped debian/rules and archive layout
   * Added build-dependencies on debhelper, dpatch, bzip2, libreadline5-dev,
     libncursesw5-dev
   * Fixed FSF address in copyright file
   * Bumped debhelper compatibility level to 5
   * Use sensible-browser instead of lynx in default pinforc and adapt Suggests
     accordingly; add Suggests on cupsys-bsd|lprng|lpr for the lpr command

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:57:21 +0100

2005

pinfo (0.6.8-6) unstable; urgency=high

   * Added build-dependency on texinfo (closes: #290618, #296459)
   * Removed some leftover autogenerated files from the diff

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Mon, 9 May 2005 14:01:32 +0200

pinfo (0.6.8-5) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fixed timestamp skew issue with the building of pinfo.info by removing the
     info file from the diff and explicitly building in in debian/rules
     (closes: #290618, #296459)
   * Fixed building on systems with non-022 umasks by explicitly chmodding the
     $(TEMPDIR) dir
   * Removed Bugs: and Origin: headers from debian/control
     (closes: #220098)
   * Fixed spelling errors in man page (closes: #305625)
   * Fixed quotes in menu file
   * Remove config.{cache,status,log} in clean target
   * Boosted the Standards-Version to 3.6.1 (no changes necessary)

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Mon, 9 May 2005 11:11:20 +0200

pinfo (0.6.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.

 -- Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>  Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:01:25 +0100

2004

pinfo (0.6.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a typo in the infopage. (Closes:
   * Updated russian translation. (Closes: #268591)
   * Applied patch from Matthew Mueller to fix segfaults in pinfo
     when going back. (Closes: #261167)
   * The last two chances were included with the permission of the
     upstream author.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:58:03 +0200

pinfo (0.6.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed the XSI:isms in prerm. Thanks to David Weinehall for
     providing the patch. This will fix the bug report #260075.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:11:31 +0200

2003

pinfo (0.6.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream release.
   * This version will now correctly lookup entries in the dir page, when
     several matches are found. This fixes the bugreport #206155.
   * This version also allows selection of dir page with numbers. I verified
     this with the entry from automake-1.6. So the bugreport #186255 will
     now also be fixed.
   * The search prompt will now use a default item. So the bugreport #204055
     will now also be fixed.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:51:09 +0200

pinfo (0.6.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream release.
   * Now pinfo will also recognize entries like 'xxx/yyy' which are for
     example used by emacs21. This will address the issue reported as
     #174418.
   * This version will now also support the proper usage of the option
     -f. It will recognize raw file names when they begin with certain
     characters. This should fix the issue reported as #153527.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:54:08 +0100

2002

pinfo (0.6.6p1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream version.
   * This version should now catch all Reference/Hyperlinks that
     an info page contains. So the bug #137009 will now be fixed.
   * Also this version will now only clear the screen when the
     user specified the option -x. This address the bug #140248.
   * This package version also contains now a new prerm script
     which will unregister the info documentation. So bug #151573
     will now be also fixed.
   * Last but not least this version has again a working option -f, so
     bug #152617 is also now fixed.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:32:21 +0200

pinfo (0.6.5p3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream Release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Thu, 9 May 2002 10:14:26 +0200

pinfo (0.6.5p2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed safe_group handler. (Closes: #128908)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:11:49 +0100

pinfo (0.6.5p1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch to use INFOPATH variable from the configuration
     file.
   * Changed the version number to reflect the changes. Done with
     permission of the author Przemek Borys.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:43:59 +0100

pinfo (0.6.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed Build Process.
   * Fixed Build Process. (Closes: #133851)
   * Fixed broken search function. (Closes: #134150)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:43:38 +0100

pinfo (0.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream release.
   * Able to show the Pipes and FIFO section of the libc info pages
     (Closes: #125591)
   * Doesn't search in /usr/info, but in /usr/share/info. (Closes: #125978)
   * Fixed configuration and won't print security warning anymore.
     (Closes: #128908)
   * Changed Debian Makefile and added md5sum.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:28:49 +0100

2001

pinfo (0.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Correctly works with subdir info files. (Closes: #117223)
   * Will follow all links correctly. (Closes: #115070)
   * Includes japanese translation. (Closes: #120448)
   * Resizes correctly on SIGWINCH. (Closes: #119560)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:12:33 +0100

pinfo (0.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Fixed group naming in config-file. (Closes: #101547)
   * Fixed doucmentation. (Closes: #105591)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:08:05 +0200

pinfo (0.6.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Renamed SAFE-GROUP temporary to nogroup until debian solves this.
     (Closes: #10154)
   * Applied patch from Kevin Kreamer to prevent segfaulting due to
     going to non-existant line. (Closes: #105446)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:28:40 +0200

pinfo (0.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * pinfo will now parse all infopages. (Closes: #101348)
   * Fixed grammar in error message. (Closes: #102487)
   * Resolved conflict keymapping. (Closes: #90619)
   * Parses and highlights manpages now correctly. (Closes: #80519)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:30:08 +0200

2000

pinfo (0.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed prerm to allow a removal of the script. Thanks to Brendan
     O'Dea who pointed this bug out to me.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:50:54 +0200

pinfo (0.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed wrong entry /etc/pinforc, somehow missed this in the first
     build. (Closes: #74395)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:35:59 +0200

pinfo (0.6.1-0) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:50:32 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Somehow I forgot to install postrm, but now it should be lintian-clean.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 7 Oct 2000 11:34:51 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed the safegroup back to be nogroup (Somehow missed this in
     the previous packages :).
   * Added 3ncurses to the list of manpages.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:29:28 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Now made the real fix of the broken pinforc (mixed up file names :).

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:45:33 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed broken pinforc and added Suggest-Line.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:02:09 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added menu-file (closes: ##70029).

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:40:58 +0200

pinfo (0.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version with bugfixes.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:07:18 +0200

pinfo (0.5.9-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed debian/rules to be faster and more portable.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:07:18 +0200

pinfo (0.5.9-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added Build-Depends.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:50:09 +0100

pinfo (0.5.9-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed bad default for SAFEGROUP (closes: #59278)
   * Fixed prerm to contain correct information (closes: #59290)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:18:53 +0100

pinfo (0.5.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Recompilation for libncurses5.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:49:43 +0100

1999

pinfo (0.5.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed configuration-file

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:08:57 +0100

pinfo (0.5.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream Release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:23:06 +0100

pinfo (0.5.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed postinst-Script which pointed to wrong location (closes: #47544)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:24:52 +0200

pinfo (0.5.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed lintian bugs.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:24:14 +0200

pinfo (0.5.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upstream Release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:07:45 +0200

pinfo (0.5.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Upsream Release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:23:29 +0200

pinfo (0.5.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:48:10 +0200

pinfo (0.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new releases which fixes some bugs

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:30:45 +0200

pinfo (0.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 16 May 1999 16:28:00 +0200

pinfo (0.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed the permissions
   * Changed the MAILEDITOR-variable

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 4 May 1999 15:53:16 +0200

pinfo (0.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 3 May 1999 13:07:15 +0200

pinfo (0.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 2 May 1999 14:09:00 +0200

pinfo (0.5.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Registered pinforc (closes: #36739)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:43:12 +0200

pinfo (0.5.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added postinst and prerm for update-alternatives

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:11:23 +0200

pinfo (0.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream version

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:16:28 +0200

pinfo (0.4.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * provides now info-browser (closes: #35897)
   * corrected the copyright file.
   * rewrite of the entry in the control-file.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:09:00 +0200

pinfo (0.4.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release (closes: #35824)

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:08:47 +0200

pinfo (0.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Apr 1999 13:05:07 +0200

pinfo (0.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:14:16 +0200

pinfo (0.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * First Debian release.

 -- Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Feb 1999 09:22:04 +0100