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Debian Changelog swapspace (1.10-4)

2008

swapspace (1.10-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer. (Closes: #499116)
   * debian/rules:
     - Converted to debhelper v7.
     - Some cleanup.
     - Turned off verbose building mode.
     - Moved dh_installman parameter to debian/manpages.
     - Added quilt makefile.
     - Made 'nostrip' and 'noopt' in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS really working.
   * debian/control:
     - Added build-dependency on quilt.
     - Bumped debhelper dependency to (>= 7).
     - Bumped 'Standards-Version' to 3.8.0.
     - Added dependency on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) for status_of_proc in
       initscript.
     - Short descriptions now starts with the non-capital letter.
     - As package conflicts with swapd that is optional, swapspace went to
       extra (by policy).
   * debian/copyright:
     - Renewed download place.
   * debian/swapspace.init:
     - Implemented 'status' option as required by LSB.
     - Replaces 'echo's by proper LSB functions lsb_daemon_msg, lsb_end_msg.
     - Removed displayed by swapspace daemon output as it breaks LSB script
       output.
     - Added '--oknodo' option to STARTCMD to make 'start' return 0 when daemon
       is already running.
   * debian/patches:
     - Started to use quilt patching system.
     - Converted useful stuff from diff.gz to 100-makefile-debian-flags.patch.
     - 100-makefile-debian-flags.patch: corrected to use Debian-specified build
       flags.
   * debian/watch:
     - Added.
   * debian/compat:
     - Bumped to 7.

 -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>  Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:14:13 +0300

swapspace (1.10-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed FTBFS: cc1: error: unrecognized command line option. Closes: #475988

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:15:17 +1000

swapspace (1.10-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * NMU acknowledgement. Closes: #468748, #438078
   * Updated homepage. Closes: #474100
   * Fixed the following lintian messages:
     - swapspace source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 44
     - swapspace source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2 (current is 3.7.3)
     - swapspace: description-contains-homepage

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:16:57 +1000

swapspace (1.10-1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload to solve release goal.
   * Add LSB dependency header to init.d scripts (Closes: #468748).
   * Make sure package build properly with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip
     (Closes: #438078).

 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>  Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:06:56 +0200

2006

swapspace (1.10-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Fixed "dies when memory low". Closes: #383214.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:02:30 +1000

swapspace (1.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch from upstream author to deal with the format of
     /proc/meminfo when it doesn't end with a unit, like "kB".
     Closes: #377449.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:24:21 +1000

swapspace (1.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:32:40 +1000

swapspace (1.6-2) unstable; urgency=high

   * Fixed "Fails to start with /proc/meminfo parse error", closes: #377449.
     Patch by Robert August Vincent II <bob@html.com>.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:26:27 +1000

swapspace (1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:01:30 +1000

swapspace (1.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial debian release, closes: #322282.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:52:35 +1000

2005

swapspace (1.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Redesigned internal state machine; improved corner-case behaviour
   * Custom signal handlers are now reusable
   * Signal-triggered stats dump now goes to log if appropriate
   * New -v|--verbose option logs state transitions and other debug info
   * Updated documentation
   * Makefile installs binary as world-executable (and strips it first)
   * Can be built with most configuration features disabled
   * Much more extensive dumps of internal state on signal receipt
   * Add own C/cpp options to those set in environment
   * New -P|--paranoid option wipes swapfiles after use
   * More thorough checking of swap path setting
   * Handles swapfiles being deactivated by third party
   * Improved handling of kill signals
   * SIGUSR2 forces algorithm to "diet" state
   * New -e|--erase option: deallocate all swap files and exit
   * Checks for sufficient disk space before attempting to create swapfile
   * Checks swapdir's filesystem size on startup
   * Rewritten swapfile sizing formula
   * Cleaned up logging system
   * Rephrased "meekness" as "elasticity"

 -- Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@sipa.or.th>  Thu, 01 Aug 2005 18:30:00 +0700

swapspace (1.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Supports Linux 2.4's /proc/meminfo format; no longer requires 2.6 kernel
   * Only deallocates if enough memory stays free for entire cooldown period
   * Failure to parse /proc/meminfo is now fatal
   * New --version option
   * Additional sanity checking of memory statistics

 -- Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@sipa.or.th>  Thu, 16 June 2005 19:30:00 +0700

swapspace (1.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Consider part of non-dirty cached memory (and buffers) to be free space
   * Re-tuned default parameters for new accounting
   * Unified logging code--it's not pretty, but it's prettier
   * No longer bother with "negotiable" minimum swapfile sizes
   * Clarified startup message ("require n extra bytes" to "would prefer []")
   * Systematic rounding of swap sizes to page size
   * Pad help output to align long options names vertically
   * Fix: "smaller than expected" informational message was printed too often

 -- Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@sipa.or.th>  Thu, 26 May 2005 17:00:00 +0700

swapspace (1.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Debian package.

 -- Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@sipa.or.th>  Fri, 20 May 2005 14:00:00 +0700