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2009

policykit (0.9-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add support for /var/run being a tmpfs. (Closes: #532101)
     - Create /var/run/PolicyKit dynamically on boot by using an init script.
       Original patch by Martin Pitt, thanks. Updated patch to only run the
       init script in runlevel S at priority 75.
     - Do no longer ship /var/run/PolicyKit in the package itself.
   * debian/control
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1.
   * debian/patches/04_entry_leak.patch
     - Plug a memory leak. Patch pulled from Fedora.
   * debian/patches/05_manpage_typo_fix.patch
     - Fix a small typo in the polkit-auth man page. (Closes: #523565)
   * debian/patches/06_no_inotify_or_path_max.patch
     - Add support for systems which don't support inotify (like hurd) and
       don't use PATH_MAX unconditionally, instead use dynamically growing
       buffers. (Closes: #521756)
       Patch by Samuel Thibault, thanks.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:55:34 +0200

policykit (0.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Switch patch management system to quilt.
   * debian/control
     - Wrap Build-Depends.
     - Demote Recommends: policykit-gnome to Suggests. (Closes: #513758)
     - Bump Build-Depends on debhelper to (>= 7).
   * debian/compat
     - Bump debhelper compat level to 7.
   * debian/rules
     - Include debhelper.mk before any other files as recommended by the cdbs
       documentation.
   * debian/patches/03_consolekit0.3-api.patch
     - Try both the ConsoleKit 0.3 and the older 0.2 API, to work with either.
       Patch pulled from Ubuntu.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:25:52 +0100

policykit (0.9-2) unstable; urgency=high

   [ Simon McVittie ]
   * Add patch committed in Fedora (although not upstream) by the upstream
     maintainer, to allow PolicyKit to be used when CVE-2008-4311 has
     been fixed in dbus-daemon. (Closes: #510646)
 
   [ Michael Biebl ]
   * debian/control
     - Add ${misc:Depends} to all binary packages.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:18:56 +0100

2008

policykit (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * debian/control
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No further changes.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:53:11 +0200

policykit (0.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add symbols files for libpolkit2, libpolkit-grant2 and libpolkit-dbus2.
   * debian/policykit.postinst
     - Set correct permissions for all files. (Closes: #482064)
     - Define a small helper function to apply the permissions. This makes it
       more concise and readable.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Fri, 23 May 2008 04:33:48 +0200

policykit (0.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release.
     - SECURITY - CVE-2008-1658:
       Fixes format string vulnerability in the grant helper. (Closes: #476615)
   * debian/control
     - Add Build-Depends on pkg-config.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:39:08 +0200

policykit (0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:02:59 +0100

2007

policykit (0.7-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * New upstream release. (Closes: #455874)
   * debian/control
     - Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3. No further changes required.
     - Add Build-Depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.73).
     - Change Homepage URL to http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/.
       (Closes: #446504)
     - Improve package description. (Closes: #446554)
   * debian/copyright
     - All code is now licensed under the MIT/X11 license. Update the copyright
       notice accordingly.
   * debian/policykit.dirs
     - Add the directory /var/lib/PolicyKit-public.
   * debian/policykit.install
     - Install the D-Bus config and service files for the PolicyKit system
       service.
     - Install /var/lib/misc/PolicyKit.reload.
   * debian/rules
     - Fix the permissions of /var/lib/misc/PolicyKit.reload.
   * debian/policykit.postinst
     - Use dpkg-statoverride to check for local modifications before setting
       the SUID/SGID bits.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:01:38 +0100

policykit (0.6-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * debian/control
     - Use new "Homepage:" field to specify the upstream URL.
     - The Vcs-* fields are now officially supported, so remove the XS- prefix.
     - Add a Recommends: policykit-gnome to the policykit package.
     - Enable SELinux support by adding a Build-Depends on libselinux1-dev for
       all supported platforms.
   * debian/policykit.postinst
     - Install polkit-grant-helper-pam with the correct permissions.

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:02:33 +0100

policykit (0.5-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * Initial release. (Closes: #397087)

 -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:38:04 +0200