alien (6.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added metrolink motif diffs from
    Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@nikocity.de>

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Jan 2000 13:57:47 -0800

alien (6.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed the problem I thought I fixed in 6.50. Hmm. Closes: #52402

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:21:43 -0800

alien (6.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added (very simple) build dep.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Dec 1999 23:34:10 -0800

alien (6.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixes to my build system.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  1 Dec 1999 14:19:52 -0800

alien (6.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed problem with relocatable packages, and probably several other
    unrelated problems that were introduced last version.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  1 Dec 1999 13:52:55 -0800

alien (6.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed an obsolete note from the man page.
  * Set locale to C while using rpm to pick at the .rpm file we are going to
    convert, Closes: #42282
  * Moved /usr/lib/alien to /usr/share/alien
  * Added --nopatch option, Closes: #47069

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:42:00 -0800

alien (6.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Benjamin Cant <ben@aegis.hands.com> to make it work even if
    there is no space after control file lines in a debian package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:41:59 -0700

alien (6.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now FHS compliant. But the packages it builds will probably not be..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Sep 1999 14:25:01 -0700

alien (6.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed alien.slp file generation.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  4 Sep 1999 23:49:10 -0700

alien (6.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * Checked into cvs. Added a fixlinks script to generate all symlinks.
  * Integrated into my build system for automatic home page updates.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  4 Sep 1999 23:17:50 -0700

alien (6.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on cpio. It is used in the rpm unpack phase after all, since
    alien uses rpm2cpio (Closes: #38969)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:15:38 -0700

alien (6.43) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
    seems to make sense for the transition.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Jul 1999 10:57:20 -0700

alien (6.42) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't call dh_fixperms. As bug #36700 points out, some things you'll
    want to convert have odd permissions intentionally. I suppose this
    change will make a lot of stuff that has odd permissions accidentially
    come through with bad perms, but that's life..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:51:37 -0700

alien (6.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed the makefile so it doesn't keep files owned by 500.500.
  * --version, -v works.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:30:22 -0700

alien (6.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * D'oh corrected powerpc problem.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:41:46 -0700

alien (6.39) unstable; urgency=low

  * When converting from rpm, ppc -> powerpc (Closes: #39550), patch by
    Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:12:03 -0700

alien (6.38) unstable; urgency=low

  * Disable localization when getting the rpm --version output.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 20 May 1999 14:55:29 -0700

alien (6.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * If the package that is being made into a deb has a release with no
    number in it, dpkg-deb barfs, so add "-1" to the release in that
    case. (#3755)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 May 1999 17:44:01 -0700

alien (6.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated XBF-i740 xserver diff.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  5 May 1999 13:44:03 -0700

alien (6.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed rpm minor version test.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  3 May 1999 13:35:18 -0700

alien (6.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adjusted the rpm version test - rpm 2.92 and above need --target.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:04:03 -0700

alien (6.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixes for rpm 3.0:
    - Since rpm --showrc has changed to a format that is now very 
      difficult to machine parse for the topdir value, don't. Instead,
      force rpm to output the rpm into the cirrent directory. This is
      more consistent anyway.
    - Detect rpm version and use --target or --buildarch appropriatly.
    - Fixed alien.rpm's own build process to work again (stupid macro
      substitutions...).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:20:27 -0700

alien (6.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dropped in diff files for the XBF-i740 xserver, thanks to Agustn
    Martn <agmartin@aq.upm.es>

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:57:54 -0700

alien (6.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * Actually included the fixed file to make the relocatrable packages work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:14:27 -0700

alien (6.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed applix 4.4.1 menu.
  * Fixed a problem with converting relocatable packages that contained
    the directory they claimed they could relocate into. This fixes the
    problem someone was having converting a Glide rpm - I forget who.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:02:53 -0700

alien (6.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * You don't need to be root to run alien -g or alien -s, so disabled the
    check there.
  * Removed extraneous install -d in debian/rules template file.
  * Added support for applix 4.4.1.
  * Fixed patch support, it's been broken.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Apr 1999 19:43:51 -0700

alien (6.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't call dh_installmanpages when converting to .deb, it can do the 
    wrong thing in some instances.
  * Handling of relocatable packages was broken. (#31868) Fixed it by
    looking at the rpm PREFIXES tag.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:28:41 -0800

alien (6.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depends on debhelper >= 0.88 so it can use -X option.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:00:36 -0800

alien (6.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * If 822-date fails, the error now suggests installing dpkg-dev. This is
    way up there in the alien faw and I'm tired of answering it.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Dec 1998 19:02:26 -0800

alien (6.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * Alien can now be installed into eg, /usr/local via a PREFIX variaible
    in the Makefile, based on work by Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>.
  * Typo fix from Roman Shterenzon.
  * Moved the patch files that come with alien out of /var/lib/alien 
    into /usr/lib/alien/patches. Alien will now check both directories for
    patches, /var first.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:12:10 -0800

alien (6.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * I hope this will work with i586.deb files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:19:19 -0800

alien (6.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * It seems perl 5.003 breaks alien, so I set up dependancies on 5.004, and
    updated documentation accordingly.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:26:21 -0800

alien (6.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated urls to the alien-extra stuff, it's now hosted on Bruce S.
    Babcock's machine.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:04:53 -0800

alien (6.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Exclude .Z files from compression by dh_compress when converting to .deb
    package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:54:01 -0800

alien (6.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Convert tar.Z files too.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:32:13 -0800

alien (6.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't fail even if dh_shlibdeps fails.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Nov 1998 21:44:32 -0800

alien (6.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Hack so it'll work on packages where the upstream version doesn't
    contain any digets.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:06:13 -0700

alien (6.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuilt with debhelper 1.1.15 so that patches arn't installed as man
    pages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:31:56 -0700

alien (6.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * When converting from .tgz files, use arch: all. Sort of a hack, but
    since we don't know what arch of stuff is in them, it's as good a 
    guess as any. This will let people use the conversion on other
    architectures. (#26253).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:57:39 -0700

alien (6.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug converting slp -> rpm, where filenames in the generated
    filelist didn't start with "/".

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:39:31 -0700

alien (6.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Die early if converting to a .deb and not root. Debhelper command will
    cause it to die later on, anyway. (#25775)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:45:38 -0700

alien (6.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't bother calling dh_strip when converting to a .deb. This has caused
    more trouble than it's worth.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:13:50 -0700

alien (6.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Will now properly convert rpm's that have things like + in their name.
    (#25656).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:09:30 -0700

alien (6.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * There was a problem converting rpm packages to tgz and slp formats (and
    to a much lesser degree converting them to dpkg format): any parent
    directories that were not in the rpm, but did have children in the rpm,
    would end up with bad permissions (700). Alien now does a smart scan to
    detect this and changes the permissions to a more sane 755.
  * When converting to slp or tgz, with -g or -s, output informative
    message, same as when converting to rpm or deb.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:06:37 -0700

alien (6.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove a junk file that crept in in the last version.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:00:32 -0700

alien (6.09) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a short document on how to generate a diff file for use by alien.
  * Fixed a security hole in alien generated rpm files that had scripts in
    them, that could allow a user to clobber files on the filesystem. Any
    such alien generated rpm files currently in existence already contain
    this bug, so be careful with them. Such files should be rare, they have
    to be generated by "alien --to-rpm --scripts".
  * That bug is even less likely, becuase it turns out --scripts has been
    broken since alien version 6.0. Oops. Fixed.
  * --single and --description were also broken since 6.0, and are fixed 
    now.
  * It used to be that only shell scripts could be converted to rpm format,
    because of a stupid bug. Fixed.
  * There has been a change in how rpm outputs the file list for a
    relocatable package - it used to strip the prefix from each filename,
    and I could get at it in the DEFAULTPREFIX tag. Now it doesn't, and that
    tag doesn't exist. The only change I actually had to make was to make
    alien send rpm's error about DEFAULTPREFIX not being a valid tag to
    /dev/null. All the code for dealing with DEFAULTPREFIX has been left in,
    for backwards compatability.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:33:17 -0500

alien (6.08) unstable; urgency=low

  * Automatic installation of .tgz and .rpm files was broken.
  * Removed yet another use of tar -I.
  * Generated .slp files now properly contain filenames all starting with
    "./", just like normal Stampede packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 May 1998 14:28:54 -0700

alien (6.07) unstable; urgency=low

  * New alien-extra's are available; updated the README to point to them.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  8 May 1998 23:01:37 -0700

alien (6.06) unstable; urgency=low

  * Noted in README that you need bzip2 for stampede conversions.
  * For compatability with non-debian systems, don't use tar -I, pipe bzip2,
    instead.
  * Fixed Toslp.pm to generate slp packages with the correct BINFORMAT
    settings.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  7 May 1998 16:36:48 -0700

alien (6.05) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed -k switch (#22168).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  6 May 1998 12:22:02 -0700

alien (6.04) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for generating slp packages -- alien is now capable of 16
    different types of conversions!
  * Cleaned up some of Fromslp.pm.
  * Added support for converting from .slp packages that use .gz
    compression, as well as .bz2.
  * Still TODO: handling postinst script when converting to/from .slp
    packages.
  * Updated Makefile to build .slp package of alien too, it will now appear
    on alien's homepage.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  3 May 1998 12:35:45 -0700

alien (6.03) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for converting from v5 Stampede linux packages. Still a
    little rough and mostly untested.
  * Note that though the documentation says it can convert to Stampede
    packages as well, this isn't implemented yet. But I wanted to get a
    snapshot of my work so far out for testing by the Stampede people.
  * Changed hard links back to symlinks.
  * Got rid of standards-version in the created .deb files, that was stilly
    to have in there.
  * Standardized warnings.
  * Fixed some documentation.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  2 May 1998 21:25:05 -0700

alien (6.02) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in README (#21126).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:25:17 -0700

alien (6.01) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * alien -i was broken, now fixed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Apr 1998 19:03:38 -0700

alien (6.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed the module interface to be much cleaner. Probably broke many
    things in the process.
  * use strict throughout.
  * It is now possible to do multiple conversions with a single run of
    alien.
  * Reworked the rules file used to convert to a debian package so it uses
    debhelper. Alien no longer uses debstd at all. Adjusted dependancies
    accordingly.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Mar 1998 16:22:50 -0800

alien (5.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated standards-version.
  * Fixed how it handles symlinks so the kernel 2.1.8x symlink bug doesn't
    prevent the package from building, by using hardlinks instead.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Feb 1998 13:39:49 -0800

alien (5.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * added --description= flag, that lets the description of slackware
    packages be set.
  * Put packages converted to .deb format into a section called "alien".
  * s/kite.ml.org/kitenet.net/g

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:05:14 -0500

alien (5.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied fix to preserve modification time when converting from rpm
    format. Thanks to Oberhumer Markus <k3040e4@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
  * Modified lsm to place alien into /pub/Linux/utils/packages.
  * Added md5sums file back in.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:30:29 -0400

alien (5.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use debhelper to build alien (still uses debstd to convert packages).
  * Use dpkg-deb if available, instead of using ar. This fixes #12318: alien 
    can now handle old format deb files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:52:08 -0400

alien (5.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added version info to filename of generated .tgz files.
  * Added --keep-version flag, which makes alien not increment the 
    release number/debian version number.
  * Man page fixups.
  * Fixes for epochs (for now, just remove epochs, since rpm cannot handle
    them.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:08:03 -0400

alien (5.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed binary-indep target.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Sep 1997 18:33:18 -0400

alien (5.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Exit with an understandable error if we can't write to the pwd.
  * Standardized error messages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:20:18 -0400

alien (5.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reccommend rpm >= 2.4.4-2, so noarch works, and /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/
    and /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/{noarch,<arch>} exist. Fixes #12220 and #12218.
  * Escape out variables in m// and s/// operators, fixes Bug #12219.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:31:06 -0400

alien (5.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Preliminary support for converting install scripts with the --scripts 
    option. We have to uuencode them for rpm's.
  * Revised documentation.
  * Routine update of debian/rules:
    Fakeroot and sudo fixes (#11325).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:24:49 -0400

alien (5.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed problem converting tgz files that contained files in the install/
    directory into rpm.
  * Ok, I'll announce this version to cola, instead of 5.11..
  * Updated .lsm description.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:26:13 -0400

alien (5.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Announce on cola again.
  * Added noarch support into alien.
  * Changed rpm package to noarch version.
  * Other fixes to spec file.
  * Routine update of debian/rules:
    Only run sudo when really necessary - makes fakeroot work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Jul 1997 20:58:56 -0400

alien (5.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an error in rpm package - all symlinks were being omitted from the
    package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:23:53 -0400

alien (5.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed stupid ugly bug in last version. "=~ tr" and "= ~tr" are very
    different things!
  * Reorganized some of the code.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:57:38 -0400

alien (5.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rpm doesn't like version numbers that contain dashes, so change to
    underscores when converting to rpm. Thanks to Arne Elofsson.
  * Added some examples to the man page.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:05:51 -0400

alien (5.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use installpkg to install slackware packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Jun 1997 17:55:51 -0400

alien (5.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * For slackware systems: added docs to README about alien-extra slackware
    package.
  * For redhat systems: include CHANGES, COPYING, lsm file in alien.rpm.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Jun 1997 13:06:40 -0400

alien (5.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added some more documentation and warnings about file ownerships getting
    screwed up if you run alien as non-root.
  * Added basic support for converting to Slackware tgz format. Mostly 
    untested. I confess, I did this just to simplify the documentation of 
    what alien can do. It was only 10 lines of code to add this, anyway. :-)
  * Had a hard drive crash and reassembled this package from bits and
    pieces. Hope it's not broken..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 31 May 1997 17:31:26 -0400

alien (5.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug that occurred if the full name field in the password file
    was empty, and ypmatch was installed.
  * Fixed another bug, that occurred if NIS is actually being used, where
    alien hung forever.
  * For non-debian systems, fix upgrades.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 May 1997 20:01:03 -0400

alien (5.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * For non-debian systems: falls back to the hostname if /etc/mailname
    isn't set

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 25 May 1997 19:50:07 -0400

alien (5.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Turns out alien has been broken for processing slackware packages since
    version 3.0. It was leaving an /install directory behind. Fixed this.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 May 1997 21:10:50 -0400

alien (5.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added partial support for relocatable packages: DEFAULTPREFIX is
    examined, and if set, a subdirectory by the same name is created in the 
    build directory of the package. This means relocatable packages end up
    in a sane location, not scattered in the root directory as they were
    previously.
  * Smarter guessing of patch file name to use, now looks at version number
    and revision number if neccessary.
  * Added a patch file for applix 4.3 (and one for the applix-english package).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 15 May 1997 18:35:46 -0400

alien (5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added some cautions to man page about not using alien to replace
    important packages.
  * This version will be released to the linux community at large, not just
    debian.
  * Added a README file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 7 May 1997 16:02:53 -0400

alien (4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug that made alien choke on packages that had 0 for their
    release or version number.
  * Removed obsolete alien.sh from the source package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 7 May 1997 15:17:33 -0400

alien (4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * When installing deb file, alien will use --no-force-overwrite
    The idea behind this is to make it difficult to trash your debian system
    by installing alien packages that overwrite files in it. This only works 
    if you use alien --install, not if you install the resulting .deb file by
    hand. This is a temporary fix until dpkg has --force-overwrite turned
    off by default.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:03:27 -0400

alien (4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * If a package has underscores in it's name and is being converted to deb
    format, change the underscores to dashes. Thanks to  
    Robert Coie <rac@mata.intrigue.com>
  * Strip out any other disallowed characters in package name when
    converting to deb.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:12:07 -0500

alien (4.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for converting deb to rpm, based on the "martian" program
    by Randolph Chung <rc42@cornell.edu>.
  * Huge reorganization, rewrite, and code cleanup.
  * As a side effect of the above, alien can also convert tgz into rpm now.
  * Use rpm -qcp to list conffiles from rpm files.
  * Reworked how conffiles are found from tar files.
  * Removed --noinstall option, changed alien to default to not installing
    generated packages, added --install option to make it install packages.
  * Removed --nopatch/--auto option, and changed patch lookup behavior. See
    the man page for an explination of the new behavior.
  * Now Recommends: dpkg-dev and make and Suggests: patch
  * Dropped feature of making slackware package install scripts into
    postinst. If there is any demand, I'll try to work this back into the
    program.
  * Rewrote most of the man page.
  * Fixed the version number so there are two digets in the minor revision 
    number.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:49:30 -0500

alien (3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug that was preventing alien from figuring out the version number
    of a tar file. (#8284)
  * Man page fixes, related to #8284.
  * Fixed a bug, present since 3.0, which was messing up conffile detection.
  * Removed README.debian. (It just pointed users to the man page, which is
    rather pointless.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:03:04 -0500

alien (3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Force package names to lowercase.
  * Fixed --noinstall option.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:35:46 -0500

alien (3.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rewrote alien in perl.
  * Command line options can be specified in any order.
  * -ppatch will no longer work. use --patch=<patchfile> instead.
  * Improved usage help.
  * Include extended description from rpm, if available.
  * Fixed a bug with descriptions/summaries/changelogs/copyrights on rpms
    that contained the '/' character crashing alien.
  * Increment revision number of rpms when they are alianized.
  * Recommends: cpio becuase it is needed for rpm2cpio extraction.
  * Patch files do not have to be compressed.
  * Routine update of debian/rules:
    Clean up junk files in subdirs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:08:02 -0500

alien (2.82) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use CHANGELOGTEXT, not CHANGELOG, when querying rpm files for
    changelogs. Fixes bug #7445.
  * Modification to work with rpm verison 2.3.7. This breaks compatability
    with previous versions of rpm. Modified control file to reflect this.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:09:18 -0500

alien (2.81) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected maintainer in debian/control.
  * Routine update of debian/rules:
    Modifications for multiple binary package support.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:25:40 -0500

alien (2.80) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a patch file for Applixware.
  * I'm looking for patch files for other commercial software, to add to the
    package. If you own commerical linux software and would like to
    contribute a patch, please contact me.

  * Generated debian/rules files will no longer pass package name to debstd
    (And neither does the debian/rules file for this package.)
  * Added -s switch for low disk space situations.
  * Added -i switch to build a package but not install it.
  * Added long options (--option), as I can never remember the short ones.
  * Fixed bug in guessing name of patch file to use.
  * Fixed bug that would not let you specify a patch file in the current
    directory, or a relative path to a patch file.
  * Don't use /etc/rpmrc as an indiciation of whether rpm is present, as 
    this is a conffile, and might be deleted. Test for actual rpm binary.
  * More friendly error message if patch file is not found, suggesting that
    you try -n option.
  * Rewrote the code that figures out information about the rpm files so it
    uses rpm --queryformat to determine everything.
  * If a rpm has a changelog, add it to the end of debian/changelog.
  * Add summary to the Description: field of generated control files.
  * Add info from a rpm's copyright field to to the copyright file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:35:10 -0500

alien (2.79) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer.
  * Updated man page with new author info.
  * Changes to debian/rules to make current maintainer more comfortable.
  * Improvements to follow when I find the time..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:54:47 -0500

alien (2.78) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected Priority
  * Cleanup debmake remnants

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:51:48 -0800

alien (2.77) unstable; urgency=low

  * alien source package completely split off from debmake. Looking for a
    new maintainer to provide some fresh ideas.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:23:21 -0800

debmake (2.76) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: Multi-binary support: Generate necessary subdirectories on the
    fly from files names subpackage.filename (if such files exist) to comply
    with Policy. This results in an alternate way of storing files for
    sub-package generation. Remember to erase those directories in the
    rules file if using this scheme!

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:04:21 -0800

debmake (2.75) unstable; urgency=low

  * debchange: Fix bug introduced in 2.74
  * debstd: support for configure script
  * adpkg: support for package configuration before installation

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:17:49 -0800

debmake (2.74) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: Output warning if scripts do not use /bin/sh as its interpreter
    #6062
  * bug: default to ae editor if joe is not present #5675, #6811
  * debchange: default to ae editor if joe is not present #6794

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:47:39 -0800

debmake (2.73) unstable; urgency=low

  * made dependant on perl
  * Description in control file updated
  * debchange: automatically rename native debian package directories on generating
    the next version. Fixes some problems with warnings at package
    generation time.
  * alien: some minor fixes update of manpage.
  * Document nodeps option of debstd
  * Fixes to the way uupdate recognizes new version numbers (again!)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:51:11 -0800

debmake (2.72) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix Bug #6690: release not able to handle multiple bug numbers.
  * Fix Bug #6669
  * debstd: check for debian/changelog and abort if not found

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:24:43 -0800

debmake (2.71) unstable; urgency=low

  * adpkg: support for virtual package recognition
  * lots of fixes to adpkg. Add functionality to figure out which installed
    packages need to be updated. Rudimentary replacement for dselect.
  * Fix to init.d template

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:24:11 -0800

debmake (2.70) unstable; urgency=low

  * new tool: adpkg a front end to dpkg which will install all depending
    packages, locate packages on its own and install packages one by one in order
    to insure minimum downtime for daemons on mission critical servers.
  * bug: give a correct errormessage if packagename not specified instead of
    failing with a shell error.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:40:01 -0800

debmake (2.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Sue Campbell contributes a HOWTO.first_time
  * new tools: todo and done by Hakan Ardo
  * Automatically install a debian/TODO if present

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:07:10 -0800

debmake (2.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: fix recognition of .so in manpages

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:18:26 -0800

debmake (2.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * new tools: deb2asc, asc2deb and asc2debinst allowing the conversion
    and easy modification of already packed up debian packages. Also
    allows writing of packages with an editor. asc2debinst does not yet
    work as intended.
  * release: change Bug number matching to match #[0-9]{4,5}.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:02:07 -0800

debmake (2.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * release: update manpage.
  * release: bug clearing did not work right... sigh....

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:28:59 -0800

debmake (2.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * release: Check for Bug# in changes files and ask maintainer if these
    bugs ought to be cleared. (Test Bug#4711)
  * debstd: 2.57 broke library scan functionality
  * uupdate: allow + characters in upstream packagename

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:08:03 -0800

debmake (2.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: Bug#5619 treat conffiles without \n at the end correctly
  * debstd: install maintainer generated shlibs file. Skip Library scan for
    that case
  * better directory name matching when looking for undocumented binaries.
  * link to undocumented.7.gz instead of undoc.7

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:15:27 -0800

debmake (2.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: -z option added to forbid removal of comments and empty lines from
    configfiles.
  * debstd: look for manpages also in /usr/X11R6/man

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:35:10 -0800

debmake (2.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * deb-make: Support specialities for native packages (such as copyright
    file for example)
  * debstd: reverse function of the -u option. Default is now no symlinks
    for undocumented binaries.
  * build: allow passing of options to dpkg-buildpackage
  * patch of Roman Hodek for some problems in debstd

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:49:19 -0800

debmake (2.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: Wrong warnings about a package not having executables fixed
  * two packages bug and alien split out from debmake. Dependencies
    reworked.
  * debstd: recognize games as a valid location for binaries and
    put links into section 6 for those binaries.
  * deb-make: fix to package name parsing
  * bug: Christian Schwarz: Ability to redirect bug report to stdout.
  * deb-make: Fix to document recognition by Christian Schwarz
  * uupdate: Diagnostics for existing original archives

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 5 Jan 1997 21:17:23 -0800

debmake (2.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * made a template from Lars example manpage for debian. Thanks!
    template will be customized with packagename, emailname, maintainername
  * uupdate: Fix version number recognition for tar files.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:46:16 -0800

debmake (2.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * uupdate: Fixes to the way the upstream version is recognized
  * uupdate: Figure out the new upstream version from patchname.
  * uupdate: Fixes to allow using a patch rather than a new archive.
  * uupdate: clean archive before patching it.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:14:41 -0800

debmake (2.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: sometimes the associated manpage to a binary was not found
    and an undocumented.7 link installed despite of the presence of a manpage!
  * debstd: if first parameter was not the package name that documentation
    file was not installed.
  * deb-make: Better matching for documentation

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:40:54 -0800

debmake (2.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * deb-make: probe for common forms of documentation in a sourcecode
    package and generate a rules file to install those by default.
  * debian/rules templates updated to reflect changes.
  * debstd: generate /usr/doc/package/changelog for native packages
  * debstd: does not need packagename anymore on invocation
  * debstd: Generate manpage symlinks for executables without corresponding
    manpages.
  * debchange: Fix bug #6380.
  * changelog fixed to spell Santiago's name correctly etc.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 1 Jan 1997 13:12:11 -0800

debmake (2.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * Check for /etc/suid.conf instead for /usr/bin/suidregister for suid
    binaries to avoid pre-dependency problems for suidmanager.
  * strip -g only for libraries instead of a full strip (Santiago Vila)
  * Changes to the rules template according to suggestion by Santiago Vila.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Dec 1996 12:43:11 -0800

debmake (2.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * uscan watch template provided.
  * new tool uscan: Scan upstream ftp sites for new releases and then
    dowload upstream releases, perform upstream update (using "uupdate"),
    rebuild package(s) (using "build") and upload new package (using
    "release") (Actions customizable, full automatic operation discouraged).
    Experimental status right now.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Dec 1996 12:06:32 -0800

debmake (2.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * debchange: -v option to set the version number provided
  * new tool uupdate: automatize upstream updates for sourcecode packages

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:33:02 -0800

debmake (2.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: shlib generation: .shlibs file does not belong into -dev
    package as previously claimed. .shlibs file put into library package
    restoring what previous versions of debmake did. The versions 2.17-2.20
    produced unusable .shlibs files!

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:59:16 -0800

debmake (2.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: examples / docs documents were moved with directory.
  * Bug in inetd.conf postrm handling

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:26:32 -0800

debmake (2.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * example .forward file for the exim mailer provided
  * debstd: diversions set the wrong package name
  * build: use gid=0 when building packages to avoid generating wrong
    ownerships.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:17:33 -0800

debmake (2.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * check dependencies of provided sharable libraries in addition to
    executables when calling dpkg-shlibdeps for a package.
  * info.ex: wrong spelling
  * debstd: manpage updated.
  * debstd: generate a changelog entry if debian/RELEASED is present.
  * shlibs management cleaned up.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:21:56 -0800

debmake (2.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * deb-make: add capability to copy sample libraries. Samples for
    multi-binary and library revised.
  * If first documentation file for debstd has "change" in its name install
    that file as changelog.upstream (according to standard).
    Please be sure in the future to list the upstream changelog first after
    the package name
  * Changed Library Templates according to Guy's advice

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:14:56 -0800

debmake (2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Library link for library.so was not generated.
  * Message regarding tar of debstd cleaned up.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:02:40 -0800

debmake (2.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * added instruction regarding tar problem
  * .shlibs file not correctly generated (Major Number screwed up)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:01:43 -0800

debmake (2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * deb-make asks for the type of package (single,multi,library) to generate
    and does not clutter the debian directory so much with .ex files.
  * Templates updated to use easier method for generating directories
    through a "dirs" file in the debian directory listing all necessary
    directories.
  * Incorrect menu template
  * Update Standards number to current

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:08:03 -0800

debmake (2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: bug in processing of menus
  * deb-make gave an errormessage about not finding a file. Did not
    affect functionality.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Dec 1996 10:04:50 -0800

debmake (2.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Prototype for library rules simplified
  * debstd: strip static libraries
  * debstd: automatically generate symlinks for sharable elf libraries

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Dec 1996 04:25:14 -0800

debmake (2.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Automatically strip libraries found.
  * Prototypes provided for ELF Library development

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:08:32 -0800

debmake (2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * menu package support: deb-make installs an template for the menu
    package.
  * debstd: Clean up package by removing empty directories if a file "clean" exists.
  * Joey: Support for Joost's menu package.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 1996 18:24:35 -0800

debmake (2.09) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: bug in info file processing
  * debstd multi-binary support: package tmp directory was not created.
    The control file "files" used to fail.
  * debstd manpage revised .

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:42:40 -0800

debmake (2.08) unstable; urgency=low

  * template inetd.conf.ex updated with example how to place an entry in a
    section
  * release: post the processed control file from debian/tmp/DEBIAN instead
    of the one from the debian directory when announcing packages.
  * debstd: warn if empty /usr/info

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Dec 1996 05:24:39 -0800

debmake (2.07) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: manpage updated
  * inetd.conf processor added (allows specification of sections and multiple entries)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:01:19 -0800

debmake (2.06) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: support for adding sections to /etc/aliases
  * bug: manpage + errormessage updated for filing bug reports as root

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:43:48 -0800

debmake (2.05) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd: Dont install copyright file if already installed by maintainer
  * debstd: Do not compress .gif and .html.
    New switch -c to switch off all compression for docs since there might
    be other html stuff not to be compressed.
  * release: Check environment variable DEBIAN_RELEASE_DESTINATION and
    uploads to that site. Default to master.
  * release: Consults a database of possible upload sites in
    /usr/lib/deb-make/upload.sites. Need to have the data for chiark!

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:18:29 -0800

debmake (2.04) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: set -v was accidentally left in the script

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sun, 8 Dec 1996 19:16:01 -0800

debmake (2.03) unstable; urgency=low

  * added the possibility to upload to other hosts using scp
    (ftp.fuller.edu and lalug.org available right now. Could someone sent me
    the data on chiark?)
  * depend on package file
  * debstd: info files not in main distribution directory were not installed.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:56:35 -0800

debmake (2.02) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: some more changes to the way subject lines are handled
  * debstd: some bugfixes relating to suid processing pointed out by Johnie Ingram
  * bug: Follow symlinks when trying to figure out the type of configfile
  * bug: Subject line can be edited when in the editor.
  * bug: debug switch (-d) added to send mail to postmaster@localhost
  * bug: manpage updated
  * fix some issues with multi-binary packages in debstd
  * template rules.multi updated

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Nov 1996 07:01:17 -0800

debmake (2.01) experimental; urgency=low

  * debstd manpage updated regarding suidmanager processing.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:22:19 -0800

debmake (2.00) experimental; urgency=low

  * Support for suidmanager (Generated scripts will check for presence of
    suidmanager and not use it if no suidmanager exists).
    A package can simply be rebuild and will use suidmanager if any
    setsid or setgid binaries are present. (ppp 2.3 is an example)
    Not documented yet.
  * debmake uses suidmanager to register build and debpkg with REGULAR
    permissions so that they can be changed in /etc/suid.conf
  * deb-make: Message on completion of debmake did not display intended text
  * bug: allow maintonly (-m) or quiet (-q) bug reports
  * bug: wrong matches on dependency parenthesis
  * bug: check if called with UID=0 and abort
  * control files reworked
  * Manual Pages updated
  * Multi-Binary capabilities now available from debstd. debmstd ceases to
    exist.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:28:38 -0800

debmake (1.99) unstable; urgency=low

  * procmail examples for filtering debian mailing lists included
  * README.debian revised: Made it clearer that debmake does not
    install any setuid programs.
  * build: include path for X11 binaries
  * bug: check if options given AFTER the packagename and give an
    errormessage if this is the case

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:18:45 -0800

debmake (1.98) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: artistics to figure out versions of virtual packages (Thanks to the
    support by Joey + Guy). Not sure if this will work for all packages though.
  * debmstd: add analysis of executable formats and warn if unknown.
  * bug: add options to suppress config files and supply a subject
  * bug: dont list configfiles that are binaries

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:02:16 -0800

debmake (1.97) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: speedup (circumvents dpkg now)
  * bug: allows filing a bug report against anything

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:51:37 -0800

debmake (1.96) unstable; urgency=low

  * release: use dupload if installed
    (One always needs to specify the host to upload to though.)
  * bug: removed some lines from the bugreports that were not really
    essential.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:22:14 -0800

debmake (1.95) unstable; urgency=low

  * release: Changes file was not uploaded (why is it not listed in the
    changesfile itself if it is to be uploaded ????)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Mon, 11 Nov 1996 21:30:20 -0800

debmake (1.94) unstable; urgency=low

  * alien: bug when building rpm packages
  * deb-make does no longer accept strange characters in directorynames.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 8 Nov 1996 19:41:30 -0800

debmake (1.93) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug: Depends: field was required in the description of the package
    processed.
  * debstd: bug in info processing. copied from debian instead of the main
    sourcedirectory.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 8 Nov 1996 15:44:33 -0800

debmake (1.92) unstable; urgency=low

  * build: manpage updated
  * build: add support for targets binary-indep and binary-arch

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 8 Nov 1996 06:12:18 -0800

debmake (1.91) unstable; urgency=low

  * suidwrappers will be disabled on installation/upgrade. Instructions are
    provided on how to use these wrappers from sudo, super or directly in
    README.debian.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:39:50 -0800

debmake (1.90) unstable; urgency=low

  * depend on dpkg and dpkg-dev
  * debmstd: New command for experimental support of multi-binary packages
    (debmstd will replace debstd when tested and found stable)
  * debmake: Generates templates for multi-binary packages
  * release: improved handling of files for multi-binary support
  * Example setup for multi-binary support included (mgetty)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:06:41 -0800

debmake (1.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * release: add an option "announce" to manually specify that
    debian/control should be posted.
  * bug in release: Announcement generated for releases

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:54:34 -0800

debmake (1.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * New directive in init scripts: NO_RESTART_ON_UPGRADE
  * Location of check for conffiles moved in debstd

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 5 Nov 1996 06:26:27 -0800

debmake (1.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * control prototype: standards made current
  * rules prototype chmod changed (Brian C. White)

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:13:54 -0800

debmake (1.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * debclean: can be called as a regular user
  * build: Added clean option

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Mon, 4 Nov 1996 05:42:37 -0800

debmake (1.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * build: Fixed behavior in case invoked in the wrong directory
  * debstd: Build /usr/doc/package/buildinfo.Debian with information
    regarding the system it was build on. (Chris Fearnley)
  * rules prototype revised
  * Removed junk from changelog prototype

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:54:09 -0800

debmake (1.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * debc does both dpkg -I and dpkg -c

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 3 Nov 1996 16:04:35 -0800

debmake (1.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * deb-make + alien: Username lookup now possible via NIS

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:29:14 -0800

debmake (1.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Some fixes to README.debian
  * Fixed bugs in the way debian/changelog is located in debi,debc,release

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 2 Nov 1996 09:52:59 -0800

debmake (1.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * New: "debi" installs generated .deb file (convenience script)
  * New: "debc" views contents of generated .deb file (convenience script)
  * Typical developmental cycle documented in README.debian
  * release: print scp error message and the e-mail address the announcement goes to

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 2 Nov 1996 08:48:25 -0800

debmake (1.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * New: "build" a suid wrapper for dpkg-buildpackage and "debian/rules binary"
  * New: "debpkg" a suid wrapper for dpkg.
  * debmake includes C code now and thus is architecture dependent
  * Suid wrappers accessible for users of group "root" only.
  * Complete development cycle possible from a regular account without
    having to "su".
  * Added check for the presence of ssh to "release" before trying
    do to an upload to master.
  * bug: filters comments and empty lines out of conffiles so that the
    included conffiles are not that long anymore.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 2 Nov 1996 06:27:15 -0800

debmake (1.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bug in release: Announce to wrong mailing list+ Bruces suggestions

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:54:08 -0800

debmake (1.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * debchange: RELEASED file not erased
  * More errorchecking in release
  * Removed creation of /etc from prototype
  * Updated docs

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:21:24 -0800

debmake (1.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * release script was not included

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:15:23 -0800

debmake (1.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a new tool "release" which will upload to master announce changes
    and record the fact that a release has been done in debian/RELEASED.
  * debchange: Generate a new release without specifically told so if
    the software has been released and a debian/RELEASED file is present.
  * debmake now takes the "Did I already upload this or not?" worry from you.
    and manages releases on its own.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:03:53 -0800

debmake (1.09) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug tool reworked: It now automatically includes Debian Version, Kernel
    version, a list of the version numbers of packages this package depends
    on and includes all modified conffiles.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:58:11 -0800

debmake (1.08) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bug in etc.postrm
  * Made sure that documentation is installed mode 644 owned by root.
  * Updated Docs

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:06:22 -0800

debmake (1.07) unstable; urgency=low

  * check for EDITOR environment variable
  * debstd warn on /etc files not in conffiles and conffiles not
    provided in /etc and on having files in /etc but no conffile (Bruce)
  * exceptions for library dependencies possible

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:32:26 -0800

debmake (1.06) unstable; urgency=low

  * structure of alien .orig file changes to be more or less conformant with
    the way source .orig files are done. Diffs better readable now and the
    customization includes the generators e-mail and name into the control
    files.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:08:50 -0800

debmake (1.05) unstable; urgency=low

  * rpminstall, tgzinstall replaced by alien command
  * alien structure allows moving around of binaries and patching them
    in debian/rules.
  * alien command needs testing and some real life experiences

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:43:35 -0800

debmake (1.04) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug in generation of modifications for files in /etc

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:46:35 -0800

debmake (1.03) unstable; urgency=low

  * debchange: no output in batch mode anymore
  * rpminstall, tgzinstall: -d option switches of calling debian/rules binary
  * debstd bug when giving the -m option.
  * On Bruces advice: advanced stripping of all binaries

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:02:30 -0800

debmake (1.02) unstable; urgency=low

  * Revised description in control
  * If the package provides libraries those are detected, appropriate
    information is generated for dpkg in "DEBIAN/shlibs" and a call to ldconfig
    is placed into the automatically generated postinst script.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:23:05 -0800

debmake (1.01) unstable; urgency=low

  * new command tgzinstall: Converts / installs a Slackware .tgz package
    with dpkg using the same technique as rpminstall.
  * rpminstall: diverse fixes
  * Bug: debmake installed X11 manpages twice and did not compress them
  * rpminstall generated .deb not erased

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:20:25 -0800

debmake (1.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * rpminstall : convert a package to debian (semi)sourcepackage, build it
    and install with dpkg. Does not do installation scripts right now.
    I was able to install gated like a debian package.
  * rpminstall enables a direct installation of Red Hat packages into the
    debian package maintenance system! All dpkg commands will work on it!
  * rpminstall uses debstd and thus compresses manpages + documentation and
    computes dependencies according to the libraries referenced by the 
    ELF binaries in the Red Hat package.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:17:51 -0800

debmake (0.99) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd gives message for unstripped binaries and strips them

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:20:58 -0700

debmake (0.98) unstable; urgency=low

  * New command bug to assist in sending bug reports
  * debchange: added batch mode f.e. : dch -n Bug fixed
    reults in generating a new release number and putting "bug fixed" in
    the correct place in changelog

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:42:00 -0700

debmake (0.97) unstable; urgency=low

  * Example file for inetd.conf configuration provided
  * Recognize package names with a -
  * Manpages reworked. Manpage for debclean added

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:37:17 -0700

debmake (0.96) unstable; urgency=low

  * debstd seaches for all executable binaries in package and runs
    dpkg-shlibdeps on all ELF binaries. No need to separately run
    dpkg-shlibdeps anymore.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:45:44 -0700

debmake (0.95) unstable; urgency=low

  * bugs in deb-make fixed. Checks for existing .orig archive

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:33:07 -0700

debmake (0.94) unstable; urgency=low

  * Set executable bit on debian/rules

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:57:51 -0700

debmake (0.93) unstable; urgency=low

  * bug in deb-make. Failed with cannot find X

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:39:11 -0700

debmake (0.92) unstable; urgency=low

  * backup files removed
  * use /etc/mailname to figure out e-mail address

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:06:46 -0700

debmake (0.91) unstable; urgency=low

  * inetd.conf script generation added
  * Got rid of all temp files to speed up debstd
  * Updated debstd manpage
  * Fixed diversions so that they really work.
  * Added -m option to switch of the automatic installation of manpages

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:29:17 -0700

debmake (0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Generate scripts for diversions (not sure if the code is up to standard)
  * Cleanup debstd
  * 822-date instead of date used to generate the date info.
  * Ability to generate scripts to add to config files in /etc included
  * example files and documentation files can be listed in file in debian

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:41:08 -0800

debmake (0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Generates maintenance scripts for info files, init.d scripts, purging of
    files.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:20:23 -0800

debmake (0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated documentation
  * Progress indicator
  * Some errormessages from gzip avoided
  * converts manpages just having .so <othermanpage> in it to symlinks
  * Gzipping separated for manpages (all), info (all) and docs (>4K)
    so we can easily adapt in case of future changes of policies.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:51:06 -0800

debmake (0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * debmake did not install scripts in debian directory!

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:47:16 -0800

debmake (0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Manpages were installed as executables
  * Display of redirected links was not correct

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:12:56 -0800

debmake (0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added automatic compression of documentation in /usr/man and /usr/doc
    if files are >1K.
  * Checks for dangling symlinks and redirects symlinks to filenames that 
    were changed due to compression.
  * Added rc.boot handling
  * Permissions for documentation were set to executable when debstd was
    used.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:44:26 -0800

debmake (0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a perl script debchanges which does maintenance of
    debian/changelog
  * Added manpage for debchanges and an alias "dch" since it is frequently
    used.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:00:15 -0800

debmake (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a native mode to have a package that does not need an .orig directory
  * Put debstd into /usr/bin so that it does not have to be included in the
    source archives.
  * Added manpages for debstd and deb-make

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:21:48 -0800

debmake (0.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.

 -- Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>  Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:21:48 -0800

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