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Debian Changelog xboard (4.2.7-7)

2006

xboard (4.2.7-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated Standards-Version compliance to 3.7.2
   * Fixed lintian warnings on man pages
   * Incorporated Amaya's patch for /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc migration
   * Postinst script changed to conform to POSIX sh.

 -- Alexander L. Belikoff <alexander@belikoff.net>  Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:02:02 -0400

xboard (4.2.7-6.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Get rid of the /usr/doc link in postinst (Closes: #378649).
   * Upgraded config.guess and config.sub

 -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:46:49 +0200

xboard (4.2.7-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed failure to launch on 8-bit displays (Closes: #163093)
   * Adopted the package (Closes: #360942)

 -- Alexander L. Belikoff <alexander@belikoff.net>  Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:33:24 -0400

xboard (4.2.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Orphaning as previously announced
   * debhelper compatibility level 5
   * Bump Standards-Version
   * debian/control:
     + add Build-Depends on libxaw-headers for compiling
     + fix indentation of Homepage
     + drop crafty from Suggests as it is non-free and recently only available
       on i386
   * debian/changelog: add missing CVE identifier to previous entry

 -- Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:51:17 +0200

2005

xboard (4.2.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix -icshost buffer overflow CVE-2004-2552 (Closes: #343560)
   * Too many independent multi-file patches, so now moving to dpatch

 -- Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:25:34 +0100

xboard (4.2.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Don't popen in binary mode anymore, thus allowing cmail to work again
     from within xboard (Closes: #327831)
   * override lintian warning xboard source: source-contains-CVS-dir

 -- Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:24:21 +0200

xboard (4.2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer (Closes: #321343)
   * New upstream release (Closes: #259558)
     + dropped some patches from diff.gz as they are now included upstream
       (3.6.2 entry in changelog, set -e in configure, mktemp in pxboard,
       strerror in xboard.c).
     + dropped .PP from beginning of manpage (Closes: #237829), also inserted
       date
     + still has xterm hardcoded, now changed to x-terminal-emulator and added
       appropriate Suggests. Thanks, Frankie Fisher! (Closes: #295115)
   * debian/control:
     + Standards-Version 3.6.2
     + drop B-D on xlibs-dev as xaw3dg-dev pulls in all that is needed
     + drop trailing full stop in short description
     + add upstream homepage to long description
   * debian/copright:
     + extend information about previous and current maintainer(s)
   * debian/menu: added menu entry for active chessboard, clarified other entry
     (Closes: #228403)
   * debian/rules:
     + dropped kk13.pgn
     + include newer config.{guess,sub}, using B-D on autotools-dev
       (Closes: #205155, #303340)
     + complete redo, using debhelper v4
   * Dropped postinst, postrm, prerm and xaw-wrapper.config, they are not
     necessary anymore / debhelper will take care; added preinst to faciliate
     updates / removing registered alternates
   * debian/watch: added
   * Acknowledge NMU, thanks Sebastien Bacher! (Closes: #192196)

 -- Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:44:56 +0200

2003

xboard (4.2.6-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * NMU to fix a RC bug
     + Applied patch from the BTS to fix flex error (Closes: #192196).

 -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>  Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:54:21 +0200

2002

xboard (4.2.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Modified postinst to ignore an existing /usr/doc/$package directory.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:16 -0500

xboard (4.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:03:43 -0500

xboard (4.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed symlink /usr/doc -> ../share/doc.
   * Fixed reference to GPL.
   * Improved stripping of binaries.
   * Removed icon=none from menu file.
   * Added a pxboard man page.
   * Fixed Low-time-warning patch. (Closes: Bug#131597)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:14:25 -0500

xboard (4.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Fixed symlink /usr/doc -> ../share/doc.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:57:23 -0500

2001

xboard (4.2.3-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added "Chess" menu hint.  (Closes: Bug#121024)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:41:06 -0500

xboard (4.2.3-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Modified source to use strerr instead of sys_errlist.  (Closes:
     Bug#112861)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:29:34 -0400

xboard (4.2.3-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with Xaw3D widget set.  (Closes: Bug#94568)
   * Updated freechess.org IP address.  (Closes: Bug#103080)
   * Fixed -[x]ncp flag to work all of the time.  (Closes: Bug#94024)
   * Removed "-g" gcc option as per policy.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:37:32 -0400

xboard (4.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added "libxaw-dev" to Build-Depends.  (damn damn Branden
     Robinson!) (Closes: Bug#92958)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:13:57 -0400

xboard (4.2.3-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Modified Build-Depends to use the new X package names.  (damn Branden
     Robinson) (Closes: Bug#92688)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 4 Apr 2001 06:14:57 -0400

xboard (4.2.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied patch from Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> to provide a
      visual low time warning.  (Closes: Bug#88856)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Mar 2001 09:18:38 -0500

xboard (4.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Added additional ICS menu entries.  (Closes: Bug#87874)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:39:44 -0500

xboard (4.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Added menu entry for ICS mode.  (Closes: Bug#83798)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:06:59 -0500

2000

xboard (4.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Removed menu entry for "X Gnuchess".  (Closes: Bug#72032)
   * Changed control file to suggest "phalanx".

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:17:52 -0400

xboard (4.0.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added a patch from Milan Zamazal <pdm@seznam.cz> to add a list of
     options to the command line error message.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:18:44 -0400

xboard (4.0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed build dependencies.  (Closes: Bug#59976)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:41:23 -0500

xboard (4.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (bugfix release).

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 6 Mar 2000 05:46:24 -0500

xboard (4.0.5-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Added build-time dependencies.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:17:00 -0500

xboard (4.0.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed Y2K bug in cmail causing it to return 19100 for the year 2000
     in the "Date" field of PGN files.  (Closes: Bug#54268)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:12:03 -0500

1999

xboard (4.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Fixed cmail to work with games whose names contain spaces.
     (Closes: Bug#51203)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:26:18 -0500

xboard (4.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed FHS /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition scheme.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:32:12 -0400

xboard (4.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Fixed FHS support.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:29:28 -0400

xboard (4.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added suggestions for gnuchess and crafty.  (Closes: Bug#41727)
   * Fixed alternatives used for xaw-wrapper support.  (Closes: Bug#42150)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:19:36 -0400

xboard (4.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added xaw-wrapper support.  (Closes: Bug#38001)
   * Added the xchess bitmaps to the package.
   * Modified build procedure to remove parser.c so that it can be
     generated by lex.  The parser.c that comes with the upstream source
     incorrectly uses stdin/stdout.
   * Moved the doc, info, and man directories to /usr/share as per
     the FHS.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:47:23 -0400

xboard (4.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Added zippy features to xboard.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:54:26 -0500

1998

xboard (4.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Now recommends the new xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages.
     (Fixes: Bug#28712)

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:06:13 -0500

xboard (4.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Regenerated parse.c with lex so that it will compile with glibc-2.1.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:45:38 -0400

xboard (4.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:14:32 -0400

xboard (3.6.2-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed pxboard to securely use a temporary file.  Fixes Bug#19814.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:08:09 -0500

xboard (3.6.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed old FSF address from copyright file.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:55:16 -0500

xboard (3.6.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Changed menu entry to XBoard (stand alone mode) and X Gnuchess
     (run gnuchess in xboard).

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:15:27 -0400

1997

xboard (3.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Libc6/xlib6g release.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Oct 1997 14:13:41 -0400

xboard (3.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Added FAQ to /usr/doc/xboard.
   * Fixed the entry for the menu package.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 28 May 1997 16:44:49 -0400

xboard (3.5.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added Debian menu support.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:24:48 -0400

xboard (3.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:03:35 -0500

1996

xboard (3.4.pl1-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed dependency on X11R6.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:46:08 -0500

xboard (3.4.pl1-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * First release with the new source format.

 -- Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:26:16 -0400