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Debian Changelog xtell (2.10.5)

2007

xtell (2.10.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * add Portuguese debconf template (closes: #383390)

 -- Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>  Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:27:17 +0100

2005

xtell (2.10.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * fixed debconf dependency (closes: #332161)
   * included Swedish debconf template (closes:#330618)
   * don't divert write (caused problems since write is now managed with update-alternatives)

 -- Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>  Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:19:38 +0200

xtell (2.10.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * rebuilt with libreadline5-dev (closes: #326281)

 -- Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:57:17 +0200

xtell (2.10.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New Vietnamese translation thanks Clytie Siddall (closes: #324274)
   * New Czech translation thanks Miroslav Kuře (closes: #314771)
   * Updated German translation thanks Jens Seidel (closes: #313858)
   * add acute accent in my name to manpages
   * depend on adduser

 -- Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>  Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:47:58 +0200

xtell (2.10.1-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload for fixing l10n issues
   * Translations:
     - Updated Danish translation thanks Claus Hindsgaul (closes: #233273)
     - Updated Spanish translation thanks Carlos Alberto Martín Edo (closes: #201562)
     - New Dutch translation thanks Bart Cornelis (closes: #205355)
     - New Japanese translation thanks Hideki Yamane (closes: #259796)
     - New Traditional Chinese translation thanks Asho Yeh
   * Lintian fixes:
     - Remove initial capital letter in the package description
     - Escape hyphens used as minus sign

 -- Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:30:39 +0100

2003

xtell (2.10.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * added french debconf template, thanks to
     Philippe Batailler <philippe.batailler@free.fr>, closes: #184780

 -- Radovan Garabík <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>  Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:30:19 +0200

xtell (2.10) unstable; urgency=low

   * switched debconf templates translations into po-debconf
   * danish template added, thanks to Michael Kristensen <tazz@wtf.dk>
     (closes: #174729)

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:46:56 +0100

2002

xtell (2.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * fixed race condition when writing to logfile

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:48:10 +0200

xtell (2.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * fixed unterminated string bug in reverse DNS lookup
     and another one in checking for given tty filename
   * Russian debconf template added, thanks to
     Илгиз Калметев (Ilgiz Kalmetev) <ilgiz@bashtelecom.ru>

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:09:22 +0100

xtell (2.7) unstable; urgency=high

   * better checking for array sizes - fixes some buffer overflows
     and consequently remote shell exploits
   * test if specified tty is actually a terminal - fixes possibility
     of a DOS attack

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:20:27 +0100

2001

xtell (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * since xtell was added to /etc/services in netbase 4.06, we can do proper
     thing when adding entry to /etc/inetd.conf

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Sun, 21 Oct 2001 16:30:12 +0200

xtell (2.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * reconnecting to broken servers should now work
   * Spanish debconf template added (closes: #102992),
     thanks to Carlos Valdivia Yagüe <valyag@teleline.es>

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:31:34 +0200

xtell (2.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * several more improvement
   * again better portability
   * documentation updates
   * check for hostname when xtell client starts
   * corrected typo in strftime format string (nobody noticed, eh? :-))
   * added simple xtellreply script to /usr/share/doc/xtell/examples (closes: #78130)

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:23:45 +0200

xtell (2.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * client mostly rewritten from scratch, many minor improvements
   * some improvements in the server, too
   * removed binaries from tarball and fixed debian/rules to remove them
     automatically (closes: #94043)
   * added German debconf template (closes: #94148), thanks to Jörg Rieger
   * better portability

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:58:56 +0200

xtell (2.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * removed autoconf, it just made troubles
   * use debconf
   * various code cleanups and tweaks

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:39:27 +0200

2000

xtell (2.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * ask for ident only first time a connection is made (closes: #76016)
   * removed superflous \n in replies

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:30:02 +0100

xtell (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * rebuilt with a new GPG key

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:54:02 +0200

xtell (2.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * fixed broked diversion

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:20:51 +0100

xtell (2.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * moved to autoconf & automake
   * do not create .xtell-log if it does not exist
   * better init.d script
   * move dh_installinit after dh_suidregister in debian/rules to avoid
     premature execution when upgrading

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:19:37 +0100

xtell (1.91) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated Standards-Version
   * Compiled with new libreadline
   * Uses suidregister

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Fri, 7 Jan 2000 21:40:49 +0100

1999

xtell (1.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * Better dealing with broken servers

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:50:18 +0100

xtell (1.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * Oversight from previous versions in documentation corrected.
   * I again forgot to increase the version number.... fixed now.

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:01:25 +0100

xtell (1.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * linked with GNU readline library

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:34:06 +0200

xtell (1.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix typo in description. (Closes: #48056)
   * Put Radovan's name back in the maintainer field; I misunderstood how
     this whole "sponsor" thing is supposed to work.

 -- Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:23:17 -0500

xtell (1.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * upgraded Standards-Version
   * Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk> is the person
     responsible for this package; I am his sponsor and uploading it on his
     behalf.

 -- Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:02:27 +0200

xtell (1.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * messages can contain 8-bit characters
   * call start-stop-demon with path - it did break on some systems
   * build with new debhelper - FHS compliant
   * diversion for write(1) added - this time properly
   * documentation update

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Sun, 3 Oct 1999 21:42:56 +0200

xtell (1.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * the date used month number instead of day number... Oops. Fixed now.
   * increased version number which was still 1.1.... Double oops.

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:19:16 +0200

xtell (1.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * make xtell run as nobody in /etc/init.d/xtelld

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:51:18 +0200

xtell (1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * disabled diversion to write - we are playing it safe :-)
   * runs as daemon by default, not from inetd.

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:07:53 +0200

xtell (1.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * added write-compatibility mode
   * manual page updates
   * added diversion to write for debian package
   * replaced % with : to separate port from hostname
   * added logging of outgoing messages

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:15:32 +0200

xtell (0.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * converted to debhelper
   * code and Makefile cleanup
   * works under FreeBSD (thanks to Peter Rybár <prybar@fmph.uniba.sk>)

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>  Tue, 4 May 1999 13:56:13 +0200

xtell (0.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * should not access utmp file directly, which makes
     everybody happy, and (hopefully) avoids the whole mess
     with different utmp structures for different (g)libc
     versions.

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@fmph.uniba.sk>  Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:09:43 +0100

xtell (0.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Package debianized.
   * General code cleanup
   * Added --help and --version to xtell (as requested by PeHaSys)
   * No longer does empty line end sending messages - use ^D instead
   * does not use cuserid(3) anymore
   * Previous changes are:
     v0.6 - logging of messages added
     v0.5 - verbose mode added
     v0.4 - manual pages
     v0.3 - various fixes, does not required snprintf to compile
     v0.2 - fixed bug when printing % sign
     v0.1 - initial release

 -- Radovan Garabik <garabik@fmph.uniba.sk>  Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:16:48 +0100