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2006

watchdog (5.2.6-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed postinst to allow missing entries in /etc/default/watchdog, closes: #387261

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:58:37 +0200

watchdog (5.2.6-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied upstream patch to prevent possible reboot because of uninitilized
     variable.
   * Added lsb-section to init script.

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:19:18 +0200

watchdog (5.2.6-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added Dutch po file, closes: #383337

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:17:22 +0200

watchdog (5.2.6-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added Czech po file, closes: #380527
   * Added some two bug fixes from CVS.

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:58:42 +0200

watchdog (5.2.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Check for existance of /etc/default/watchdog in postinst, closes: #376864

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:55:34 +0200

watchdog (5.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version, closes: #32547, #351398, #361839, #361835
   * Added French translation, closes: #368774
   * Added Portuguese translation, closes: #372819
   * Added missing db_stop to postinst, closes: #367126
   * Added udev to Depends: line as alternative to makedev
   * Added debconf-updatepo call to clean target in debian/rules
   * Fixed /etc/dafault/watchdog handling in postinst, bug reported by James
     Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:50:01 +0200

watchdog (5.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Switched to po-debconf, closes: #351398
   * Fixed lintian warnings/errors in postinst

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 9 May 2006 13:16:39 +0200

watchdog (5.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version, closes: #350557, #330463, #296477
   * Added patch to fix usage of /etc/default/watchdog, closes: #242214
     Thanks to Steffen Joeris <Steffen.Joeris@skolelinux.de>
   * Added a note to README.Debian that the kernel driver has to be loaded,
     closes: #287969

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:39:32 +0200

2005

watchdog (5.2.4-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Prompt via debconf.  Store configuration in /etc/default/watchdog
     (not a conffile).  Closes: #180094, #242214, #299629, #322510.
     Thanks to Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:12:07 +0200

watchdog (5.2.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Check for local changes to startup links before changing them

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 19 May 2005 19:03:38 +0200

watchdog (5.2.4-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Changed startup priority to 89, closes: #300432
   * Added path to init script, closes: #259277

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Sun, 8 May 2005 12:48:38 +0200

watchdog (5.2.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated manpages closes: #289386
   * Updated package descrition closes: #285367

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:17:24 +0100

2003

watchdog (5.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version closes: #199727

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:36:42 +0200

watchdog (5.2.3-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed /etc/init.d/watchdog help. closes: #180092
   * Added a longer sleep between stop and start during restart.
     closes: #180093

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Sun, 18 May 2003 17:07:21 +0200

watchdog (5.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add build-depends. closes: #191009

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:08:34 +0200

watchdog (5.2.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Do not run make distclean if no makefile is present. closes: #190620

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:31:36 +0200

watchdog (5.2.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add missing 0 so dir mode is correctly recognized. closes: #179357
   * Also fix existing directory.
   * Removed "volatile" keyword so watchdog does compile on woody again.
     closes: #179083

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:55:48 +0100

watchdog (5.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Somehow I had an .o file in the orig.tar.gz. No idea how that happened.
     New version does not. closes: #178881

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:50:51 +0100

watchdog (5.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Somehow "watchdog.c " came back. Argh.
   * Rename to 5.2.2 since the bug was in the orig tarball and this is an
     unreleased beta of 6.0 anyway.
   * Made option writemagic disappear and set by default. closes: #178689

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:44:00 +0100

watchdog (5.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Clean out tarball closes: #176825
   * Rename to 5.2.1 since the bug was in the orig tarball and this is an
     unreleased beta of 6.0 anyway.

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:22:33 +0100

watchdog (5.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Only write to open file streams closes: #175986

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:43:56 +0100

watchdog (5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Really adopted package this time
     closes: #79556, #104775, #79287, #174462, #122414, #136177, #174496
     closes: #120744, #120745, #174644, #148653
   * Added dependency on devfsd or makedev. closes: #150109

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:03:53 +0100

watchdog (5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Adopted completely. closes: #79556, #104775, #79287
   * Added lots of fixes from the 6.0 version in development
     Closes: #174462, #122414, #136177, #174496, #120744, #120745
   * Removed second watchdog.c file. Closes: #174644
   * Made sure prerm file is there. Closes: #148653

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:20:02 +0100

2002

watchdog (5.2-0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * NMU
   * Fix gcc 3.0 build failure.  Closes: #104775

 -- LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>  Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:06:36 -0700

2001

watchdog (5.2-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Adopted for the time being.
   * New upstream version (not yet available from the FTP sites),
     closes #81681, #86500, #43166, #38071, #44018
   * Fixed reboot-on-upgrade problem, closes: #79556, #79287

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:08:53 +0200

2000

watchdog (5.1-2) stable unstable; urgency=low

   * Uploaded to stable, adds --noscripts to debhelper invocation, closes:
     #53298, #61939 (grave).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:59:13 -0800

watchdog (5.1-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Added --noscripts to debhelper invocation, closes: #53298, #61939
     (grave).
   * Put #DEBHELPER# tag in so usr/doc kludge works.
   * Previous NMU fixed /sbin/MAKEDEV problem, closes: #55683.
   * Postinst remembers configuration on upgrade, closes: #36298.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:26:56 -0800

watchdog (5.1-0.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Lets upload the rc-bug fix to frozen as well. geez.

 -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:45:12 +0100

watchdog (5.1-0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Use /sbin/MAKEDEV, Closes: Bug#55683

 -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:39:55 +0100

watchdog (5.1-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * NMU to make sure new upstrem version makes it into potato.
     Sometimes 5.0 reboots because of a bug in watchdog.

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:29:13 +0100

1999

watchdog (5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstrem version, fixing unexpected shutdowns, closes: #46082.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:01:15 -0600

watchdog (4.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated to Standards-Version: 3.0.1.0.
   * Increased general level of debhelperness.
   * Bugs that should have been closed months ago:
     * Realtime mode now defaults to yes upstream, closes: #36521.
     * Return value of repair function is int upstream, closes: #34895.
     * #include <stdio.h> is now used, closes: #34908.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:45:15 -0500

watchdog (4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Corrected location of watchdog in test -f, closes: #36884.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:24:18 -0400

watchdog (4.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Included patch from Bart Warmerdam for glibc 2.1, closes: #35536.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sun, 4 Apr 1999 16:33:04 -0400

watchdog (4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version, closes: #34507.
   * Buildable on systems without watchdog already installed, closes:
     #33366.
   * No longer creates /man directory, closes: #33387.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:43:03 -0500

watchdog (4.3-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Uploaded for frozen, closes: #33201 (important), also closes: #28281,
     #32398, #28153.
   * Architectue-specific dependencies removed in clean, closes: #32783.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:38:58 -0500

watchdog (4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Zombie feature is now documented, closes: #28281, #32398.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:36:11 -0500

watchdog (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version, closes: #28153 (watchdog.conf not being read).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:20:41 -0500

1998

watchdog (4.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Tweaked logging info.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:06:06 -0500

watchdog (4.0-5) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Uploaded to frozen the fix from 4.0-4 (post-install script now uses
     "misc" to create the devices /dev/temperature and /dev/watchdog if
     missing (#30950)) on suggestion of Wichert Akkerman.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:14:10 -0500

watchdog (4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Post-install script now uses "misc" to create the devices
     /dev/temperature and /dev/watchdog if missing (#30950).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:02:14 -0500

watchdog (4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added an include <stdio.h> fix from Ben Collins to fix sparc
     compilation.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Dec 1998 21:09:41 -0500

watchdog (4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Corrected coment in /etc/init.d/watchdog (#30896).
   * Patched to compile on 2.1.131.
   * Bugs fixed in release 4.0-1: #19763.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:32:47 -0500

watchdog (4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Merged changes from non-maintainer release by Roman Hodek (#23444,
     fixing #19763).
   * Switched from debmake to debhelper packaging technology.
   * Updated to Standards-Version 2.4.1.4.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:00:52 -0400

watchdog (3.3-1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=medium

   * Non-maintainer release
   * Fix typo in /etc/init.d/watchdog ($run_watchdog instead of
     $run_cucipop) Fixes: #19763
   * Make it compile with current libc6-dev (2.0.7pre*) again. For this an
     additional #undef _LINUX_TYPES_H is needed in mount/nfsmount.c.
     Fixes: #23444

 -- Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>  Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:37:54 +0200

watchdog (3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version (#17984).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:51:06 -0500

watchdog (3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Added restart and force-reload targets to init.d.
   * Included the example scripts for custom system monitoring.
   * Mofified update-rc.d parameters so watchdog is the last to stop.
   * Greater compliance with the standard for console messages.
   * Updated to Standards-Version 2.4.0.0.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:42:53 -0500

1997

watchdog (3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:36:20 -0500

watchdog (3.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Protected configuration prompting with a conditional so it isn't used
     when dpkg is trying to abort (#12574).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Tue, 9 Sep 1997 23:07:46 -0400

watchdog (3.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Patched to build on sparc architecture, in the hopes that SparcLinux
     will one day support it.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Aug 1997 23:56:43 -0400

watchdog (3.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed /tmp/watchdog.$$ security hole in installation script (#11795).
   * Updated to Standards-Version 2.2.0.0.
   * Switched to pristine upstream tar archive.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Aug 1997 13:44:14 -0400

watchdog (3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added code to create /dev/temperature during configuration.
   * Now uses the MAKEDEV program to generate the devices.
   * Corrected three sentence spacing errors in full package description.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:34:52 -0400

watchdog (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Compiled against libc6.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:38:56 -0400

watchdog (2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Init script and postinst tweaked to comply with the Standard for
     Console Messages.
   * Added file checksums (debmake 3.2.2).

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sat, 8 Mar 1997 09:52:27 -0500

watchdog (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.
   * New upstream version: can now do an orderly restart if the system load
     starts climbing out of reach.
   * Updated to Standards-Version 2.1.2.2 with debmake 3.1.6.
   * Changed sequence code so watchdog starts early in the boot process.
   * Removed automatic kill of watchdog process so kernels compiled with
     CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT won't reboot.

 -- Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Feb 1997 19:21:29 -0500

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watchdog (2.0-0)

  * New upstream version
  * Fixed debian.rules file to be architecture independent
  
 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>  Thu May 30 13:03:27 MET DST 1996
  
watchdog (1.2-0)

  * New upstream version
  * Fixed some minor bugs in Debian files

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Thu May 23 14:21:27 MET DST 1996

watchdog (1.1-3)

  * Fixed debian.rules to include revision field

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Thu Mar  7 14:46:38 MET 1996
  
watchdog (1.1-2)

  * Corrected prerm script
  * Added run_watchdog variable to /etc/init.d/watchdog
  * Postinst script now can start watchdog

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Wed Mar  6 13:47:14 MET 1996

watchdog (1.1-1)

  * Added /etc/init.d/watchdog to debian.conffiles

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Wed Mar  6 12:03:29 MET 1996
  
watchdog (1.1-0)

  * Updated to new upstream version
  
 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Tue Mar  5 09:10:28 MET 1996
  
watchdog (1.0-1)

  * Added postrm file

 -- Michael Meskes <meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>  Sat Mar  2 11:23:20 MET 1996