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2011

suck (4.3.2-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add a su directive in the logrotate file (Closes: #651272)

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:41:37 +0100

suck (4.3.2-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/copyright remove references to sucknews.org as this domain name
     has nothing to do with suck (Closes: #617597).

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:43:37 +0100

suck (4.3.2-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed deprecated -H{C,I,O} options (Closes: #612258).

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:51:11 +0100

2010

suck (4.3.2-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control add quilt in Build-depedns. New patch 01_rpost-ssl to add
     ssl support to rpost (Closes: #501343).
   * Added libperl-dev in Build-depends.
   * Fix typo in get-news rpostopts --> rpostoptions (Closes: #605272).
   * Fix read file configuration with number (Closes: #410372).

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:52:15 +0100

2008

suck (4.3.2-6) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low

   * Upload to testing-proposed-updates because this package has been removed
     in march before my ITA. Now the package is clean.

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:23:39 +0100

suck (4.3.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer (Closes: #494620)
   * Quote CFLAGS in make call (Closes: #476056)
   * Remove libperl-dev from Build-Depends because the configure script
     doesn't find libperl. This better than enabling libperl because for now
     suck is working (Closes: #463152)
   * Call perl with -w in get-news (Closes: #460608)
   * debian/NEWS.Debian rename file in NEWS and fix bad date format.
   * Moves to Policy 3.8.0
      o Removed debian/conffiles

 -- Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:28:08 +0200

2006

suck (4.3.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * fix rpostoptions in get-news (Closes: #363321)
   * fix return-code checking with inn in get-news (Closes: #312375)
   * fix a vs an in package description (Closes: #300064)
   * standards version 3.7.2
   * remove unused templates (Closes: #286065)

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Sat, 13 May 2006 10:38:48 -0700

2004

suck (4.3.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * fix userid bug in getnews (Closes: #264177)
   * remove obsolete debconf templates (Closes: #234763)
   * build-conflict libsocksd-dev

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:29:19 -0700

2003

suck (4.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix path of innctl in get-news so posting works properly from inn
   * Patches from upstream development
     - better handle no such article errors (Closes: #197781)

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:44:35 -0800

suck (4.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rewrite article-posting code in get-news.  Previous version was
     totally non-functional.  (closes: #208831)
   * Allow quiet, verbose, and timestamp to be set in config file.
     (closes: #212775)
   * Ignore suck returning 1 (no articles fetched) in get-news.
     (closes: #207540)
   * Split NEWS.Debian into NEWS.Debian and README.Debian.
   * Policy version 3.6.1 (no changes)

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:12:13 -0700

suck (4.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * new upstream release -- incorporates many Debian changes
   * total rewrite of get-news
     - Now supports non-inn2 local servers like cnews
     - in perl, so recommend perl
     - fixes broken config parsing (Closes: #162166, #191268)
     - should be faster (fewer forks, only read config once)
     - timestamp option (Closes: #172426)
     - revise get-news man page, actually include it (Closes: #198087)
     - write errors to stderr (Closes: #198088)
     - display error if suck has problem (closes #151392)
   * Update to Debian policy 3.6.0 (no changes)
   * Build-depend on inn-dev 2.4, so we get the current libraries
     - Suck should still work with older inn2 with -HO option
   * /etc/suck/get-news.conf is now a conffile
     - no longer copy from /usr/share/doc (against policy)
     - no longer using debconf
   * only change ownership/permissions of get-news.conf if upgrading from
     before 4.3.1-1
   * Rename README.Debian to NEWS.Debian

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:01:00 -0800

suck (4.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * convert from dh_installmanpages to dh_installman
   * ssl fix from Uns Lider (Closes: #142794)
   * make sure to compile with -lssl (Closes: #173282)
   * Fix FTBFS with new inn2-dev (no more inn/configdata.h)
   * Rewrite to allow runtime history database format selection.
     Add libdbz subdir with modified cnews libdbz.
     See README.Debian. (Closes: #137437, #161048)
   * remove confict with inn (see above)
   * build-depend on libperl-dev so perl processing is enabled
     (Closes: #172908)
   * Handle SIGINT so database not corrupted (Closes: #145150)
   * remove build-depend on libsocks4 so socks support is disabled.
   * Update to Debian policy 3.5.9 (no changes)
   * minor cleanup for compiler warnings

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:54:14 -0800

2002

suck (4.3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remember to upload source as well.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:00:11 +0100

suck (4.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Give reasonable error rather than segfault if host not specfied
     to rpost (closes #172131)

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:23:03 -0800

suck (4.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Fix ownership/permissions on /etc/suck/getnews.conf (closes #172126)
   * Change remote host in getnews.conf only if we just install example
   * New upstream release
   * Adopting (closes #165123)

 -- Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>  Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:49:57 -0800

suck (4.3.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Change exit -1 in get-news and post-news to more sane values.
     (closes: #147560)
   * exit sanely when not being able to open /var/lib/suck/*
     (closes: #151394)
   * Fix typos in get-news, namely rpostopstions is now rpostoptions
     (closes: #161932)
   * Reorganize the parsing in get-news a bit (closes: #157274)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:37:11 +0200

suck (4.3.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Sigh, forgot to upload source.  Again.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 22:48:54 +0200

suck (4.3.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Sigh, forgot to upload source.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:47:51 +0200

suck (4.3.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * moved to main
   * Add documentation from Marcin Kasperski (closes: #139585)
   * Fix debconf templates (closes: #138088)
   * Add support for per-site rpost and suck options and document them in
     the sample get-news.conf.  (Closes: #127321)
   * Apply patch for allowing "new" port notation (closes: #123207)
   * Move local posting before remote posting, and don't die on failed
     postings,  though die at the end.  (closes: 138006)
   * Add French templates (closes: #138808), and split the debconf
     templates to different files.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sun, 7 Apr 2002 03:18:32 +0200

2001

suck (4.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Hopefully fix segfault. (closes: #111029)
   * Fix SSL option in suck.c (closes: #123206)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:23:44 +0100

suck (4.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (closes: #121392)
   * Rebuild with non-broken libsocks4 (closes: #121181)
   * Move to non-us (since this supports SSL)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:06:30 +0100

suck (4.2.5-17) unstable; urgency=low

   * Second try at eliminating the ugly segfault, now with a modified max
     Message-ID patch applied. (closes: #111029)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:13:43 +0200

suck (4.2.5-16) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix segfault by reverting the maximum Message-ID-patch, but bumping
     the maximum length to 512. (closes: #108181)
   * Update builddeps, we use dh_installlogrotate, which means that we need
     debhelper 2.0.103 or newer.
   * Move /var/state/suck to /var/lib/suck (closes: 108228)
   * Fix a few sprintfs to snprintfs.
   * Install samples (closes: 108436)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:00:26 +0200

suck (4.2.5-15) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remove the maximum Message-ID length and make it arbitary.  (closes: #107620)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:21:47 +0200

suck (4.2.5-14) unstable; urgency=low

   * remove -x in put-news
   * Make /etc/news/server a fallback in case we don't have a default news
     server in /etc/suck/get-news.conf. (closes: #98973)
   * add rpostoptions to get-news.conf and support it in get-news.
     (closes: #100341)
   * add spanish template (closes: #102136)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:31:08 +0200

suck (4.2.5-13) unstable; urgency=low

   * Conflict with inn >> 0.0.0 and inn2 < 2.3.0, this should fix the
     dependency trouble. (closes: #93927)
   * possible to control sucking and posting separately.  (closes: #90593)
   * Make -q -q get-news shut completely up. (closes: #91743)
   * removed call to dh_testversion.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:39:04 +0200

suck (4.2.5-12) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix up the conflicts line, actually, we depend on inn2 >> 2.3 now.
   * Fix the permissions of /etc/suck, /var/{spool,log,state}/suck
   * Rebuild with new libsocks4, which fixes the missing dependency on
     libsocks4.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:37:40 +0200

suck (4.2.5-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed put-news so that it now works with inn 2.3 storage api (closes:
     #81160), but I also had to fix up chkhistory, so we need to conflict
     with inn2 < 2.3.0 :( .  I'd appreciate if somebody knew a way around
     this, so that we could continue to support inn 1.x and 2.[12].x
   * removed the suidregister call (which wasn't doing anything anyhow).

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:30:14 +0100

suck (4.2.5-10) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed the hack which was introduced in the last version, thanks to
     Marco d'Itri.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:02:00 +0100

suck (4.2.5-9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added support for multiple password/username combos in
     /etc/suck/get-news.conf
   * export NNTP_USER and NNTP_PASS variables in get-news
   * Add a temporary hack around the fact that rnews in inn and inn2 have
     different command line options.  (closes: #87644)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:50:55 +0100

suck (4.2.5-8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Clean up old NMU fixed bugs (closes: #61142, #62080, #64387, #67602,
     #67764)
   * Added example ip-up script (closes: #57511)
   * cleaned up get-news somewhat, including logging rpost to errorlog
     instead of stderr.  (closes: #73660)
   * uses rnews instead of innxmit and fix so that the flush is set whether
     we use rnews or innxmit. (closes: #83727)
   * put-news had wandered around.  Moved to it's proper place again
     (closes: #86606)
   * Lots and lots of cleanups in get-news.  Tell me what I've broken. :)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:54:25 +0100

suck (4.2.5-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed up so that we use debhelper the proper way and don't touch
     conffiles.  (closes: #86119)
   * Added manpage for put-news.

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:15:02 +0100

suck (4.2.5-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added missing put-news.  (closes: #85735)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:59:09 +0100

suck (4.2.5-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Duh!  I should have put the previous missing line in postinst, not
     postinst.debhelper.  Mea Culpa, but this shouldn't haven't been
     installed into the archive.  (closes: #85460, #85454)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:22:05 +0100

suck (4.2.5-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a typo in the postinst where the postinst wouldn't run because
     of a missing '#! /bin/sh'.  (closes: #85460, #85454)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:24:19 +0100

suck (4.2.5-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Adopted the package (closes: #80492)
   * Use custom options when fetching from all servers (closes: #66608)
   * Make sure the post-download state files exist, using patch in 76752.
     (closes: #76752)
   * Added lmove (closes: #66089)
   * get-news now puts the authentication stuff in the environment - small
     patch for suck.c and rpost.c needed, forwarded upstream. (closes:
     #63917)
   * Changed from yada to debhelper
   * Added some README files which weren't included before.
   * Added Swedish, Norwegian and German translations to the debconf
     template. (closes: #83401, #83485)

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>  Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:08:47 +0100

suck (4.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with yada 0.9.3.  Closes: Bug#81705.
   * Conforms to Standards version 3.2.1:
     * Added support for the `debug' build option.

 -- Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:36:29 +0100

2000

suck (4.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources (closes: #67764)
   * Added note in get-news.conf for inn2 (closes: #62080)
   * Added some new headers in default put-news filter (closes: #67602, #64387)
   * Orphaned the package

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:30:22 +0100

suck (4.2.2-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Modified put-news script for compatibility with inn2 (closes: #56758)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Feb 2000 20:42:57 +0100

suck (4.2.2-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Added Build-Depends field
   * Fixed debconf config (closes: #56220)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:33:53 +0100

suck (4.2.2-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Used better sed command in postinst (closes: #54511)
   * Patched get-news to support new INN 2 /var/spool/news layout
     (Lee Maguire) (closes: #55384)
   * Added debconf support

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:25:58 +0100

1999

suck (4.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources (closes: #34502, #42286)
   * Converted package management to YADA
   * Partially upgraded to standards version 3.0.0:
      - FHS-compliance, with the notable exception of the
      /usr/doc/ -> /usr/share/doc/ switch.
      - savelog -> logrotate switch.
   * Added a README.Debian (closes: #39169)
   * Compiled with more standard options (closes: #36269)
   * get-news fix : post downloaded articles to local server
     even if upload fail (closes: #34936)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:31:25 +0200

1998

suck (3.10.1-3) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

   * Patched get-news to clean batch files (Fixes: Bug#26600)
   * Patched get-news to keep OUTGOING with inn (Fixes: Bug#28228)
   * Moved put-news in /usr/lib/suck

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:54:24 +0100

suck (3.10.1-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed a syntax typo in get-news (Fixes: Bug#28099)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:49:17 +0200

suck (3.10.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources (Fixes: Bug#27575)
   * Merged get-news.inn and get-news.cnews
   * Patched get-news to support passing options to suck
     (Davide G. M. Salvetti) (Fixes: Bug#27025)
   * Added cron.weekly /var/log/suck directory test (Fixes: Bug#26054)
   * Patched get-news to add `date` to suck-status (Fixes: Bug#18861)
   * Added X-Server-Date in get-news.conf (Fixes: Bug#24552)
   * Deleted reference to lpost in suck manpage (Fixes: Bug#21735)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:29:52 +0200

suck (3.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 7 Feb 1998 02:45:00 +0100

suck (3.8.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Modified get-news script to accept -port option (Bug#16358)
     (Mark Baker patch)
   * Fixed libc6 Makefile problem (Bug#14065)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:13:17 +0100

1997

suck (3.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources
   * Modified get-news script to accept -q option (Bug#14941)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:12:35 +0100

suck (3.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release with pristine sources (Bug#13408)
   * Build with libc6

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:18:26 +0200

suck (3.5.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed get-news manpage section

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Aug 1997 22:47:57 +0200

suck (3.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Used debian suck_config.h

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Aug 1997 21:56:59 +0200

suck (3.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream source
   * Move logs in /var/log/suck (Bug#11055)
   * Added get-news manpage (Bug#11849)
   * Fixed postinst sed problem (Bug#11850)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:02:47 +0200

suck (3.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream source (Bug#10895)
   * Only suggests news-transport-system (Bug#10549)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Jun 1997 22:36:31 +0200

suck (3.4.1-2) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

   * Fixed put-news script to change only the headers (Bug#9314)
   * Changed default sed command in get-news.conf (Bug#9313)
   * Fixed directory for outgoing newsfeeds in get-news.inn (Bug#9312)
   * Changed timeout value (Bug#8714)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 3 May 1997 22:52:46 +0200

suck (3.4.1-1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

   * New upstream source (fixes killer bug) (Bug#8453)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:31:37 +0200

suck (3.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream source
   * Corrected bad rnews path in get-news.cnews script (Bug#7479)
   * Modified put-news script to read the sed command in get-news.conf

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:15:15 +0100

1996

suck (3.3.2-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream source (bug fixes only release)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:23:16 +0100

suck (3.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream source
   * Modified get-news script to accept authinfo options (Brian Mays patch)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 15:42:26 +0200

suck (3.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=routine

   * Fixed /etc/cron.weekly/suck script
   * Fixed history file path (bug#4670)

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Wed, 2 Oct 1996 21:49:20 +0200

suck (3.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Converted package management files to new Debian-1.2 style
   * Added postrm purge call
   * Added weekly logsfiles rotation

 -- Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:53:56 +0200

Old changelog format(s), not parsed

suck (2.6.3-2); urgency=routine

  * Corrected debian.rules for new naming scheme
  * Modified get-news script to have multiple site feeds
  * Deleted section field in debian.control
  * Support multiple architectures (Bug#3887)
  * Fixed user and group ownership of some files (bug#3828)
  * Corrected bad put-news path in get-news script (Bug#3938)
  * Corrected bad title in /etc/suck/get-news.conf file (Bug#3938)
  * Provided list of the compiled defaults options (Bug#3938)

suck (2.6.3-1); urgency=low

  * Initial release
  * Added Debian Linux package maintenance system files
  * Modified get-news script