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Debian Changelog pstotext (1.9-5)

2010

pstotext (1.9-5) unstable; urgency=medium

   * New maintainer (closes: #585061)
   * [debian/control] updated dependency on ghostscript (closes: #539671)
   * [debian/rules] -fno-string-aliasing workaround to prevent broken
      compilation of type punning   (closes: #586914)
   * [debian/copyright] new maintainer, including pstotext.txt only once
     (closes: #289097)
   * [debian/control] updated to Standards-Version: 3.9.0.0 (no changes needed)
   * [debian/control] new Homepage field added; added ${misc:Depends}
   * [debian/{preinst,postinst,prerm,postrm}] deleted because trivial
   * [debian/README.debian] doc path fixed; new maintainer
   * [debian/compat] set to 7
   * [debian/source/format] set to "3.0 (quilt)"
   * [debian/watch] added
   * patches moved from diff.gz to debian/patches
   * [debian/rules] - builds in debian/pstotext instead of debian/tmp;
     dh_installman instead of dh_install_manpages; wiped useless dh_*

 -- Jan Jeroným Zvánovec <jero@zvano.net>  Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:23:58 +0200

2006

pstotext (1.9-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * [main.c] Applied patch courtesy of Martin Ehmsen <ehmsen@gentoo.org> to
     unbreak pstotext on input from stdin which was broken by 1.9-3's security
     patch. (Closes: #356988)

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Sun, 21 May 2006 20:14:12 +0200

pstotext (1.9-3) unstable; urgency=high

   * [main.c] Security fix. popen(3) was being used in a construct which could
     did not perform sufficient cleanup/quoting of filenames; these filenames
     could come from untrusted sources like a web indexing service and could
     thus be misused to execute shell code as the user running pstotext. The
     use of popen(3) has been replaced by an explicit fork/pipe construct
     which does not involve the use of a shell. (Closes: #356988)
   * [debian/control] Change the non-virtual package suggestion for the
     dependency on the "gs" virtual package to gs-gpl as gs-aladdin has become
     a transitional package.
   * [debian/control] Updated Standards-Version.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Fri, 5 May 2006 17:09:48 +0200

2005

pstotext (1.9-2) unstable; urgency=high

   * [main.c] Security fix: call Ghostscript with -dSAFER to prevent malicious
     PostScript data from altering the filesystem or opening pipes to arbitrary
     external programs. This problem was remotely exploitable (through
     pstotext's registration with /etc/mailcap as a viewer application).
     The problem was identified and patched by Max Vozeler <xam@debian.org>.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:43:55 +0200

2004

pstotext (1.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream, incorporating Debian's code changes.
   * [debian/copyright, debian/README.Debian] Updated.
   * [debian/control] Updated Standards-Version.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:21:53 +0100

2003

pstotext (1.8g-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Implemented current policy and updated Standards-Version accordingly.
   * Corrected priority.
   * [debian/mime] Added `copiousoutput' to the PDF entry. (Closes: #207374)
   * [debian/mime] Added workarounds for lynx not dealing with the
     `copiousoutput' flag properly. (Closes: #170848)

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:08:05 +0200

2002

pstotext (1.8g-5) unstable; urgency=medium

   * MAXPATHLEN patch caused core dump on empty argument list; reworked it.
   * Minor code cleanup: dealt with a few compiler warnings.
   * Use mkstemp() in tempfile generation.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:43:43 +0100

2001

pstotext (1.8g-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Applied patch from James A Morrison to remove use of MAXPATHLEN as
     needed for GNU/Hurd. (Closes: #113738).

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:28:29 +0100

pstotext (1.8g-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Restored MIME support that went missing.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Wed, 23 May 2001 20:45:19 +0200

pstotext (1.8g-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch by Matthew Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> to fix a problem with
     filename quoting that broke pstotext on filenames containing spaces.
     (Closes: #86421)
   * Added build dependency on debhelper.
   * Updated Standards-Version.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:46:06 +0200

2000

pstotext (1.8g-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Discovered a new upstream version was released some time ago.
   * Updated Standards-version.
   * Folded gs-aladdin suggestion into Depends: line.
   * Updated email address.
   * Updated to current debhelper capabilities.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>  Sat, 27 May 2000 17:18:47 +0200

1999

pstotext (1.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * FHS migration.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:51:46 +0200

pstotext (1.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed order of fields in application/pdf mailcap entry. (Closes: bug#42441)
   * Moved manpage to FHS-conformant location.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Thu, 5 Aug 1999 22:09:26 +0200

pstotext (1.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Use dh_installmime (fixes: mailcap entry in the wrong directory).
   * Updated Standards-Version.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:03:56 +0200

1998

pstotext (1.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Fixed lintian warning.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:05:26 +0100

pstotext (1.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated for the new mime-support.
   * Fixed Barrie's surname in the changelog.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:54:03 +0200

pstotext (1.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed preinst script. (Thanks to Barrie Stott for reporting the problems
     he had with the old one).

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:52:23 +0200

pstotext (1.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:05:53 +0200

pstotext (1.6-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Really silence the mailcap test. The previous version's error
     redirection was wrong. (fixes #18524).
   * Used maintainer name from my PGP user ID.
   * Checked compliance with current policy; no bashims.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:52:24 +0100

pstotext (1.6-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Silenced the mailcap test for application/pdf (bug #16433); remove the
     old test if present.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Mon, 5 Jan 1998 13:43:37 +0100

1997

pstotext (1.6-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Switched from debmake to debhelper.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:42:02 +0100

pstotext (1.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Now registers as a MIME viewer for PostScript and PDF; especially for use
     outside X.
   * Copyright file generated, rather than copied from source file, so the
     release number and date are up to date.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Wed, 24 Sep 1997 08:40:03 +0200

pstotext (1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Now in main, as its main function (extracting text from PostScript
     files) can be done without needing non-free packages.
   * Added a note to debian.README explaining you need gs-aladdin to extract
     text from PDF.
   * Changed dependencies to comply with the requirements for main.
   * Install files with preserved timestamps.
   * Tar part of the .orig.tar.gz is pristine (upstream distribution is in
     .tar.Z format).

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:56:46 +0200

pstotext (1.5-2) non-free; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with libc6.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:32:46 +0200

pstotext (1.5-1) non-free; urgency=low

   * Initial Release. Added Debian package maintenance files.
   * Small fixes to reduce warnings (added return-types and includes and such)
   * This package goes in non-free because it depends on a non-free
     version of ghostscript.

 -- J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:10:51 +0100