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2009

rkhunter (1.3.4-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.3
   * Added patch to ensure /proc/kallsyms is readable, as some
     security frameworks prevent programs from reading it
     Thanks to Francois Marier <francois@debian.org> (Closes: #542139)
   * Added description to patches
   * Added README.source

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:29:56 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.4-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed non-ascii space in the weekly cronjob - thanks to
     Thibault VINCENT <tibal@reloaded.fr> (Closes: #532213)
   * Do not recommend libmd5-perl any more: the MD5 Perl module
     has been deprecated by the Digest::MD5 module
     (part of the perl package) (Closes: #539018)
   * Bumped Standards version to 3.8.2 (no changes needed)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:00:34 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed non-ascii chars in debian/config (Closes: #528577)
   * Let the package configure sucessfully on systems using prelink
     (Closes: #528820)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 17 May 2009 08:43:47 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.4-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated to new policy 3.8.1 (no changes needed)
   * Bumped debhelper compat to 7
   * Removed deprecated dh_clean -k in favour of dh_prep

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:12:05 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed bashism in postinst script (Closes: #518936)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:09:36 +0100

rkhunter (1.3.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added --nolog option when using --propupd (sensibly reduces the time
     needed to update the database)
   * Removed wpa_supplicant example entry as it is already automatically
     "whitelisted" by rkhunter
   * Added whitelist entry for /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz from the
     krb5-doc package (Closes: #511485)
   * Added recommends on lsof needed for the running_procs test
   * Added suggests on tripwire needed for the software intrusions test
   * Fixed DM-Upload-Allowed field (removed XS- prefix)
   * Fixed permissions on the DB directory: should be 750 and not 755
   * Fixed postinst script to only copy passwd and group files if they are
     not already there (ie. when installing rkhunter for the first time)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:22:22 +0100

rkhunter (1.3.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Add call to dh_lintian to install lintian overrides

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:22:38 +0100

2008

rkhunter (1.3.2-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated Spanish translation - thanks to
     Francisco Javier Cuadrado <fcocuadrado@gmail.com>
     (Closes: #506414)
   * Switched maintainers' roles (Micah as uploader, me as maintainer)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:29:53 +0100

rkhunter (1.3.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added patch to fix race condition when using --debug option
     (Closes: #496375)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:39 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added patch to allow the databases to be stored on a
     write protected media (Closes: #48900)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:58:58 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated Japanese debconf templates translation - Hideki Yamane
     <henrich@debian.or.jp> (Closes: #4489936)
   * Updated Swedish debconf templates translation - Martin Bagge
     <brother@bsnet.se> (Closes: #491783)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:50:22 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed typos in 10_monolithic-kernel.dpatch

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:53:01 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Do not run --propupd if debconf option apt_autogen
     is set (Closes: #471389)
   * Added a note about setting DPKG for PKGMGR option taking
     longer than the default value when running --propupd
     (Closes: #472114)
   * Fixed README.Debian about how to disable hashes|attributes tests
   * Check if module support is enabled before running module tests
     (Closes: #471808)
   * Do not ship defaulthashes.dat in the package as not used anymore
   * Updated to new policy 3.8.0 (no changes needed)
   * Removed obsolete linda override file
   * Changed mailx suggest to bsd-mailx

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:08:56 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [Julien Valroff]
   * New upstream release: bugfixes and improvements
     (Closes: #470718)
     + removed patches merged upstream:
       10_socklog.dpatch (Closes: #464256)
       20_suspscan-fix.dpatch
       15_allow-unknown-language.dpatch
   * Removed $RK_OPT from the daily cron job - all command line
     options can be set in the configuration file
   * Fixed postinst script to update the file properties database
     only if both attributes and hashes tests are enabled
   * Fixed APT configuration hook to do the same
   * Updated lintian overrides
   * Fixed log file permissions so that members of the adm group
     can read it
   * Fixed daily cron job so that logs are appended again
   * Updated Japanes debconf templates translation - Hideki Yamane
     <henrich@debian.or.jp> (Closes: #463248)
   * Updated copyright information
 
   [Micah Anderson]
   * [debian/README.Debian]:
     + Fix ALLOWHIDDENFILE and ALLOWHIDDENDIR names

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:44:45 +0100

rkhunter (1.3.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Debconf templates and debian/control reviewed by the
     debian-l10n-english team as part of the Smith review project
     (Closes: #452170)
   * [Debconf translation updates]
   * Galician (Closes: #452827)
   * Basque (Closes: #452944)
   * Finnish (Closes: #453155)
   * Italian (Closes: #453339)
   * Vietnamese (Closes: #453651)
   * Norwegian Bokmål (Closes: #453854)
   * Russian (Closes: #455205)
   * Dutch; Flemish (Closes: #451288, #455242)
   * Czech (Closes: #455234)
   * German (Closes: #455268)
   * Portuguese (Closes: #456367)
   * French (Closes: #456387)
 
   [ Julien Valroff ]
   * [debian/control]:
     + Added dependency on binutils instead of recommends
       (Closes: #448611)
     + Updates standards version to 3.7.3 (no changes needed)
     + Added Vcs-* fields
     + Added DM-Upload-Allowed field to allow me to upload directly
       the future revisions
   * Updated cron scripts to add a recipient to the forged e-mail
     (Closes: #451132)
   * Applied patch from Francois Marier <francois@debian.org> to take
     into account the new unhide package (Closes: #455353)
   * Actually removes the APT configuration hook on purge
   * Added sashroot to UID0_ACCOUNTS examples (Closes: #457667)
   * Changed daily cronjob so that it exits with 0 when package
     is removed (not purged) - thanks to Chris Butler
     <chrisb@crustynet.org.uk> (Closes: #461217)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:57:47 +0100

2007

rkhunter (1.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Micah Anderson ]
   * Fix typos in README.Debian (Closes: #443945)
 
   [ Julien Valroff ]
   * Bumped debian/compat and debhelper to version 5
   * Applied patch from SVN to recognize socklog as syslog daemon - thanks
     to Bastian Kleineidam <calvin _at_ debian.org> (Closes: #444382)
   * Applied patch from SVN improving error msg about unsupported languages,
     and added warning to the config file (Closes: #443941)
   * [debian/README.Debian]: (Closes: #445449)
     + Added a note about running rkhunter on a system with a
       monolithic linux kernel or in a vserver instance
     + Added an entry about sash causing a UID=0 warning
     + Added notes about third party tools supported by rkhunter, but
       not (yet) included in Debian
   * Only run rkhunter --propupd at configure time if the hashes test
     is not disabled
   * Added Recommends: for wget alternatives (curl|links|elinks|lynx),
     updated README.Debian and weekly cronjob (Closes: #443942)
   * [debian/patch/05_custom_conffile.dpatch]:
     + Updated to fix a typo in upstream configuration file (s/XINETD/INETD)
     + Added some more examples for INETD_ALLOWED_SVC and ALLOWPROCDELFILE
       thanks to Moritz Naumann (Closes: #443946)
   * Applied patch from SVN to fix false positive when running filesystem check
     after a suspscan test (Closes: #443943)
   * Weekly cronjob now issues a warning when no supported download tool is
     found (Closes: #445663)
   * Improved the cron scripts as suggested by Jörg Sommer <joerg _at_ alea.gnuu.de>
     (Closes: #445662)
   * Added an APT configuration file allowing the file properties database to
     be updated after each install or remove. Added a debconf template to allow
     the feature to be enabled/disabled - thanks to Jörg Sommer
     <joerg _at_ alea.gnuu.de> for suggesting this (Closes: #445661)
   * Added hostname to email reports subject line (Closes: #445791)
   * [debian/rules]:
     + Added debconf-updatepo call in the clean target to make sure all PO files
       are updated whenever the templates file is (also changed po-debconf to
       build-depends)
   * Moved Homepage to own field (from pseudo-field in long description)
   * Updated Galician debconf templates translation - Jacobo Tarrio
     <jtarrio _at_ trasno.net> (Closes: #447938)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:26:56 +0200

rkhunter (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release:
     + New command-line option '--propupd' replaces 'hashupd.sh'.
     + New command-line option '--hash' to select the hash function
       command for the file hash value check and the properties update.
     + Added support for Debian based systems, and the 'dash' and 'ash' shells.
     + Added basic internationalization (i18n) functionality.
     + Added two new command-line and configuration file options, '--
       enable' and '--disable' to specify which tests are to be carried
       out and which are to be ignored.
     + Application version numbers can now be whitelisted. This caters
       for those distributions that may patch a 'known bad' version, but
       without updating the original version number.
   * [debian/patches]:
     + Updated patches for new release
     + Removed most of the patches (useless or added upstream)
   * [ debian/postinst]:
     + run rkhunter --propupd at configure time
     + copy password and group files in the temporary directory
       to avoid warnings when rkhunter is first run
   * [ debian/postrm ]:
     + make sure that all the directories are remove on purge (and
       only on purge)
   * Exclude /var/lib/rkhunter/db/* from dh_md5sums (Closes: #424739)
   * [debian/control]:
     + Now recommends iproute

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:25:55 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.9-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Moved --check-listen option to /etc/default/rkhunter
   * Fixed FTBFS if built twice in a row (Closes: #424287)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Wed, 16 May 2007 20:13:49 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.9-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added dhclient3 to ALLOWPROCLISTEN examples (Closes: #411371)
   * Added Galician debconf templates translation - Jacobo Tarrio
     <jtarrio _at_ trasno.net> (Closes: #414114)
   * Added Dutch debconf templates translation -  Bart Cornelis
     <cobaco _at_ skolelinux.no> (Closes: #414759)
   * Added Brazilian Portuguese debconf templates translation - Herbert P
     Fortes Neto <h_p_f_n _at_ yahoo.com.br> (Closes: #417586)
   * Updated German debconf templates translation - Matthias
     Julius <mdeb _at_ julius-net.net> (Closes: #411217)
   * Lowered dependency on wget to recommend and documented this
     change in README.Debian (Closes: #330384)
   * Added lintian override for non-standard directory permission
   * Added linda override
   * debian/README.Debian:
     + changed FAQ location
     + fixed typo
     + made the structure clearer
   * debian/patches/08_update_manpage.patch: fixed typo
   * Fixed /etc/default/rkhunter permission

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:18:04 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.9-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added suggest to mailx to send reports generated by rkhunter
   * Added niceness priority setting in /etc/default/rkhunter
     default value is 0 which means no change (Closes: #398548)
   * Unactivated hashes check in daily cron job and documented
     this in README.Debian (Closes: #396501)
   * Added --check-listen option to standard daily cron job
   * Added recommend to binutils (Closes: #399040)
   * Added Japanese Debconf translation - Hideki Yamane
     <henrich _at_ debian.or.jp> (Closes: #400438)
   * Added German Debconf Translation - Matthias Julius
     <mdeb _at_ julius-net.net> (Closes: #400475)
   * Added Spanish Debconf Translation - Javier Ruano
     <javier.ruano _at_ estudiante.uam.es> (Closes: #404614)
   * Added patch to update man page so that it includes all
     the available options and parameters (Closes: #403861)
   * Made rkhunter tmp dir readable by root only
   * Fixed postrm script to empty tmp dir on remove/purge

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:49:21 +0100

2006

rkhunter (1.2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added patch to ship the package with only updated mirrors
   * Added patch to fix output when dash is linked to dash (Closes: #330930)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:58:10 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #390268)
     + New upstream maintainance team
     + Added check for packet capturing applications
     + Added check for processes using deleted files
     + Bugfixes and improvements
   * Removed/updated Debian patches for new release
   * debian/control:
     + added Homepage: pseudo-header
   * debian/watch
     + updated for new project homepage
     + updated for version 3
   * Fixed non-standard perms on check_update.sh script
   * Added /dev/.initramfs to the list of false positives
     in README.Debian (Closes: #381006)
   * Added Portuguese Debconf translation - Luísa Lourenço
     <kikentai _at_ gmail.com> (Closes: #381723)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:54:26 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.8-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed check of presence of SHAREDIR variable in configuration
     file - thanks to Mark van Eijk <m.v.eijk@stud.tue.nl> (Closes: #369672)
   * Added patch to fix typos in man page (Closes: #369436)
   * Fixed support of Debian architectures - patch from
     Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> (Closes: #370643)
   * Now depends on mail-transport-agent instead of mailx and uses
     /usr/sbin/sendmail in daily/weekly cron jobs (Closes: #377129)
   * Update standards version to 3.7.2 (no changes)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:38:02 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.8-4) unstable; urgency=low

   [Julien Valroff]
   * Added all Debian supported architectures to os.dat (Closes: #360707)
   * Added commented entries in rkhunter.conf for udev (Closes: #360071)
   * Now intalls db files to be only readable by root
   * Added GPL license blob to debian/copyright
   * Moved shared scripts from /usr/lib to /usr/share (due to arch: all)
   * Added dependency to net-tools
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.0, no further changes required
 
   [Micah Anderson]
   * Changed Build-depends-Indep to Build-depends to conform to
     new lintian strict errors

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:47:43 -0400

rkhunter (1.2.8-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed debian/rules and debian/control for 'arch: all'

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:48:05 +0100

rkhunter (1.2.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed broken mirrors
   * Added debian/testing amd64 entry to os.dat (Closes: #356642)
   * Changed architecture to all (Closes: #357451)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 5 Mar 2006 08:40:29 +0100

rkhunter (1.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upgraded to new release
   * Removed mirror 7 (Closes: #346503)
   * Fixed hash/dash mixup (Closes: #340382)

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:17:51 -0500

2005

rkhunter (1.2.7-16) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated weekly cronjob to only send errors of database updates
     unless you set DB_UPDATE_EMAIL in /etc/default/rkhunter to
     "yes". (Closes: #332261)
   * Updated /etc/default/rkhunter to allow for reports and updates
     to be sent to other email addresses (defaults to root)
   * Added French translation - Sylvain Archenault (Closes: #333563)
   * Added patch to escape the dot of filenames for the egrep call
     (Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>) (Closes: #334518)
   * debian/control:
     + Added dependency to perl
     + recommends libmd5-perl

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:08:18 -0400

rkhunter (1.2.7-15) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed typos in postinst script
   * Changed postinst script not to use sed '--in-place' option
     (Closes: #330693)
   * Added a note in README.Debian about packages known to set off
     false alarms
   * Updated debconf templates (Closes: #331469)
   * Added Swedish translation - Daniel Nylander (Closes: #331296)
   * Updated Swedish translation - Daniel Nylander (Closes: #331603)
   * Added Czech translation - Miroslav Kure (Closes: #331467)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:56:55 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-14) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed insecure file creation in cronjob, thanks to Thomas Prokosch
     (Closes: #330627)

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:33:12 -0400

rkhunter (1.2.7-13) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Julien Valroff]
   * Changed cron scripts not to use source bash built-in
     command (Closes: #330067)
   * Changed daily cron script to send reports only on
     warnings (Closes: #330127)
   * Changed README.Debian to reflect the changes made to
     cron scripts (Closes: #330068)
   * Changed default so that weekly database update and
     daily run can be enabled/disabled independently
   * Added debconf templates to enable/disable the cronjobs (Closes: #329624)
   * Added myself as co-maintainer
 
   [ Micah Anderson ]
   * Changed debian/control to Depend on ${misc:Depends} instead of
     debconf, this generates proper debconf dependencies.
   * Added || true to the end of the db_go in debian/config to
     prevent the script from dying if debconf can't display a
     question, or the user tries to back up.

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:13:11 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed README.Debian to spell default properly (Closes: #329315)
   * Added cron.daily to do the rkhunter check daily, removed the weekly
     check and made it update the database weekly instead. (Closes: #329411)

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:08:33 -0400

rkhunter (1.2.7-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * Build for upload (Closes: #243938)
   * Updated debian/rules to remove unused targets and noops
   * Updated debian/rules to install the upstream changelog and the
     /etc/default file using debhelper scripts, removed unused debhelper
     scripts
   * Updated debian/control to build-depend on dpatch and debian/rules to
     pull-in appropriate dpatch pieces
   * Updated debian/control, tightened up the description

 -- Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>  Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:14:05 -0500

rkhunter (1.2.7-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Modified 01_installer.dpatch:
     - fixed the INSTALLDIR value in rkhunter.conf
     - fixed path to documentation in some translations
 
   * Moved db and tmp directories to /var/lib/rkhunter
     (added a note in README.Debian about that)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:47:48 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed INSTALLDIR value in rkhunter.conf (Zak Kipling <zak@transversal.com>)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:39:32 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Minor fixes to pass lintian tests

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:35:08 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Renamed installer patch name

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Sun, 7 Aug 2005 10:30:09 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Cleaned up source packages

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:49:15 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added missing logrotate entry

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:04:44 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:34:55 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-3) experimental; urgency=low

   * Fixed bug with cron job
   * Fixed dependency to mailx for report

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:07:18 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added weekly cron job
   * Fixed removing process (failed because non-empty tmp dir)

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:54:09 +0200

rkhunter (1.2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

 -- Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>  Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:22:47 +0200

rkhunter (1.1.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Release. (Closes: #243938)

 -- Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:04:00 +0100