debconf (1.5.71) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Kevin Locke ]
* Dialog: Fix whiptail ellipsized selections (closes: #922279).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:30:35 +0000
debconf (1.5.70) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Colin Watson ]
* When using whiptail, trim select/multiselect items to fit if necessary
(closes: #478281).
[ Manpages translations ]
* French (Jean-Philippe MENGUAL; closes: #916598).
[ Programs translations ]
* French (Baptiste Jammet; closes: #918939).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:02:24 +0000
debconf (1.5.69) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Manpages translations ]
* German.
[ Programs translations ]
* Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert; closes: #874287).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Remove the Qt frontend (formerly Kde), as qt4-perl is on its way out
(closes: #629405).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:42:35 +0100
debconf (1.5.68) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Modestas Vainius ]
* Rename current Kde frontend to Qt.
* Add Debian/{FrontEnd,Element}/Qt* to debian/copyright.
* Add new Kde frontend that is driven by debconf-kde-helper (and requires
package of the same name). libqtcore4-perl and libqtgui4-perl packages
are no longer necessary and can be safely removed. (Closes: #631769)
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:00:56 +0100
debconf (1.5.67) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov; closes: #898134).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Chase Vcs-Git redirection (thanks, Raphaël Hertzog).
* Adjust IFS handling in confmodule to work around #901185.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:16:03 +0100
debconf (1.5.66) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Programs translations ]
* French (Baptiste Jammet; closes: #887754).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Move VCS to salsa.debian.org.
* Mark debconf-doc Multi-Arch: foreign.
* Port the Gnome frontend to GTK+ 3 (closes: #883442, LP: #1736618).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:50:20 +0000
debconf (1.5.65) unstable; urgency=medium
* Declare Breaks on update-notifier-common (<< 3.187~) for the move of
debconf.py to separate binary packages (thanks, Steve Langasek; closes:
#881574).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:26:13 +0000
debconf (1.5.64) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Colin Watson ]
* Split debconf.py out to new python-debconf and python3-debconf binary
packages (closes: #709198).
* debconf.py: Allow the Debconf class to be used as a context manager
(closes: #877096).
* Simplify creation of documentation directory symlinks using
"dh_installdocs --link-doc".
[ Programs translations ]
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
[ Debconf translations ]
* Albanian (Eva Vranici).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:52:50 +0100
debconf (1.5.63) unstable; urgency=medium
* "Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts" from 1.5.62
was too intrusive due to changing Debconf::ConfModule, and broke some
existing maintainer scripts that e.g. ran ucf with relative paths.
Instead, just chdir to / before running maintainer scripts in
dpkg-reconfigure and chdir back afterwards (closes: #608648).
* In the Gnome frontend, hide the cancel button, and prompt for
confirmation when the close button is pressed (closes: #501767).
Original idea by Michael Vogt with an amendment by Joey Hess; some code
by Martin Pitt.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jul 2017 02:23:47 +0100
debconf (1.5.62) unstable; urgency=medium
* Upgrade to debhelper v9 and dh-exec.
* Make debconf provide python-debconf and python3-debconf, in preparation
for splitting those out to separate binary packages (see #709198).
* dpkg-preconfigure: Don't write "Extracting templates from packages:"
progress output if stderr is not a terminal (closes: #701818).
* Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts (closes:
#608648).
* Install to $Config{vendorlib} rather than hardcoding /usr/share/perl5.
* Upgrade to copyright-format 1.0.
* Policy version 4.0.0.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:38:14 +0100
debconf (1.5.61) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Niko Tyni ]
* Use File::Temp instead of the deprecated POSIX::tmpnam() in
Debconf::TmpFile (closes: #863071).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 21 May 2017 18:08:30 +0100
debconf (1.5.60) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christian Perrier ]
* French manpages translation. Thanks to Baptiste Jammet.
Closes: #849394
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:58:59 +0000
debconf (1.5.59) unstable; urgency=medium
* Use HTTPS for Vcs-* URLs, and link to cgit rather than gitweb.
* Set source format to 3.0 (native).
* frontend: Load templates when we're being run from any maintainer
script, not just preinst/postinst (closes: #817083).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:59:28 +0000
debconf (1.5.58) unstable; urgency=medium
* Don't update po/debconf.pot unless doing so changes something other than
the POT-Creation-Date header. The basic approach here is from gettext,
though implemented a bit more simply since we can assume perl.
* Show choices for teletype/readline boolean questions (closes: #802840).
* Move bash completion file to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:27:10 +0000
debconf (1.5.57) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Colin Watson ]
* Drop alternative Suggests on gnome-utils (closes: #792219). It hasn't
existed since squeeze, it dropped gdialog in 2003, and debconf only
supported gdialog for about three weeks in 1999 anyway.
* Escape braces in regexes to avoid deprecation warning with Perl 5.22
(closes: #786705).
* When creating a new template and finding that it already exists in the
database, ensure that a question of the same name exists too (closes:
#518322, #779920).
[ Jérémy Bobbio ]
* Use UTC when running xgettext for build reproducibility. Closes: #783255
[ Debconf translations ]
* Brazilian Portuguese (Adriano Rafael Gomes). Closes: #785464
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:33:36 +0100
debconf (1.5.56) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* Tighten dependency on debconf for packages sharing their /usr/share/doc
to comply with Debian policy 12.3 (closes: #779420).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Make Debconf::DbDriver::File stop trying to mkdir the empty string if
configured with a path that does not contain a slash (closes: #682959).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:54:33 +0000
debconf (1.5.55) unstable; urgency=low
* Team upload
[ Programs translations ]
* Dutch updated. Closes: #771731
* Spanish updated. Closes: #771847
* Indonesian updated
* Catalan updated
* Japanese updated. Closes: #771886
* Basque updated. Closes: #771899
* Romanian updated. Closes: #772065
* Bulgarian updated. Closes: #772077
* Polish updated
* Swedish updated
* Esperanto updated
* Portuguese updated. Closes: #772582
* Turkish updated. Closes: #772813
* Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #773076
* Thai updated. Closes: #772967
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2014 08:43:06 +0100
debconf (1.5.54) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
[ Colin Watson ]
* Update Vcs-* to current canonical URLs.
[ Manpages translations ]
* Portuguese updated. Closes: #756178
[ Programs translations ]
* Czech updated. Closes: #764054
* Russian updated. Closes: #765914
* Slovenian updated. Closes: #766199
* Fix typo in Hungarian translation. Closes: #770803
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:06:08 +0100
debconf (1.5.53) unstable; urgency=low
[ Apollon Oikonomopoulos ]
* Teletype: page only if screen has more than two rows
Closes: #745504
[ Programs translations ]
* German.
* French (Christian Perrier).
* Danish (Joe Hansen). Closes: #732167
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:03:26 -0400
debconf (1.5.52) unstable; urgency=low
[Joey Hess]
* Remove dpkg-reconfigure -a, which existed only to accumulate bug
reports about bugs in other packages.
Closes: #721329, #664825, #558262, #617618, #707987
* Fix bad uses of length @array. Closes: #723841
[ Programs translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #718188
[ Manpages translations ]
* French updated. Closes: #697458
* German updated.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:15:51 -0400
debconf (1.5.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix warning when /var/cache/debconf is missing.
Closes: #709928
* debconf-set-selections: Do not change the default template
value when overriding the value of existing questions. Closes: #711693
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:26:46 -0400
debconf (1.5.50) unstable; urgency=low
* KDE frontend: Work around multiple bugs in the perl code generated
by puic4. The frontend works again. Closes: #702210
* doc/Makefile: Avoid adding duplicated =encoding to pod files.
Closes: #704866
* Avoid find -perm +mode breakage caused by findutils 4.5.11,
by instead using -perm /mode. Thanks, Oron Peled
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 04 May 2013 23:45:04 -0400
debconf (1.5.49) unstable; urgency=low
* frontend: Don't set title in the maintainer script case when the
action is âtriggeredâ. This totally confuses the Debian Installer
(âConfiguring man-dbâ instead of âConfiguring grub-pcâ, notably).
Closes: #679327
-- Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:02:36 +0100
debconf (1.5.48) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: Fix incorrect scoping of control_path that broke
handling of multiple packages (closes: #690755, LP: #1076322).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:31:38 +0000
debconf (1.5.47) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manpages translations ]
* German updated.
[ Joey Hess ]
* GTK frontend: Do additional probing in child process to catch cases
where trying to use GTK will cause an otherwise uncatchable crash.
Closes: #690776 Thanks, James Hunt
* debconf-devel.7: Mention that CAPB capabilities are separated with spaces.
Closes: #694626
[ Colin Watson ]
* dpkg-reconfigure: Fix trigger processing to cope properly if some of the
triggered packages use debconf (closes: #686071).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:18:46 +0000
debconf (1.5.46) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manpages translations ]
* Put the Danish translation of manpages from #664901 in the right
place (and also convert its encoding that was broken by a BTS bug)
* Activate Danish translation of manpages by adding the needed addenda
Closes: #664901
[ Programs translations ]
* Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #683191
* Fix typo in the french translation of debconf-show(1)
LP: #1025045
* Polish (Marcin Owsiany). Closes: #683207
* Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #683223
* Bengali PO file header fixed
* Esperanto updated (Felipe Castro).
* Indonesian updated (Andika Triwidada).
* Simplified Chinese updated (Xingyou Chen).
* Bulgarian updated (Damyan Ivanov). Closes: #683245
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #683306
* Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #683341
* French (Steve Petruzzello).
* Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #683527
* Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #683548
* Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #683585
* Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #683615
* Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen). Closes: #683967
* Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
* Vietnamese (Nguyá»
n VÅ© HÆ°ng).
* Arabic (Ossama Khayat).
* Hebrew (Lior Kaplan).
[ David Prévot ]
* Make sure to keep the previous strings while updating PO files.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:17:14 +0100
debconf (1.5.45) unstable; urgency=low
[ Programs translations ]
* German updated.
[ Colin Watson ]
* dpkg-reconfigure: Fix dpkg-query parsing when detecting which triggers
are pending (LP: #1018884).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:57:38 +0100
debconf (1.5.44) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf translations ]
* Vietnamese (Hai Lang)
* Latvian (RÅ«dolfs Mazurs). Closes: #674707
* Lithuanian (Rimas Kudelis). Closes: #675699
* Welsh (Daffyd Tomos).
[ Joey Hess ]
* File DbDriver: Get actual filename, following symlinks.
This makes it possible to switch back and forth between
debconf and cdebconf. Thanks, Regis Boudin
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:03:42 -0400
debconf (1.5.43) unstable; urgency=low
[ Programs translations ]
* Danish updated. Closes: #664901
[ Debconf translations ]
* Uyghur (Sahran). Closes: #627013
* Serbian Latin (Janos Guljas). Closes: #600143
[ Colin Watson ]
* Make debconf.py Python 3-compatible directly, which only requires
dropping pre-2.6 support (2.6 was in squeeze), and drop the separate
debconf3.py implementation. The previous Python 3 implementation
expected read and write to be binary files, while this expects them to
be text files. Technically this is an interface break, but since
'import debconf; debconf.Debconf()' was failing (since sys.stdin and
sys.stdout are text files), I claim that nobody was using this until now
anyway.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 06 May 2012 18:57:59 +0100
debconf (1.5.42) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* File DbDriver now creates the directory for the file if it is missing.
(All other DbDrivers that write files already did this.) Closes: #636621
[ Emmet Hikory ]
* Display error messages in noninteractive frontend (Closes: #367497)
[ Debconf translations ]
* Polish (MichaÅ KuÅach). Closes: #657264
[ Manpages translations ]
* German updated.
* Portugese updated (Américo Monteiro).
* Spanish updated. Closes: #636241
* Sinhala; (Danishka Navin). Closes: #641106
* Russian updated. Closes: #656110
[ Programs translations ]
* Norwegian Bokmål updated. Closes: #654798
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add a belt-and-suspenders test that Text::CharWidth::mblen is not
returning bogus values, before using Text::WrapI18n. See #641957
* Avoid an uninitialized value warning when a blank line is received
from the client. Closes: #651642
[ Colin Watson ]
* Remove all hardcoded executable paths, using a new Debconf::Path module.
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Set environment variables expected by maintainer scripts. Closes:
#560317
* Do not hardcode the path of maintainer scripts, in order to support the
multiarch layout.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Process any newly pending triggers after running maintainer scripts.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:08:49 +0000
debconf (1.5.41) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Make sure __pycache__ is removed on clean (from local python3 tests).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix IFS sanitization. Really fixes #381619.
* dpkg-reconfigure, dpkg-preconfigure: Call cdebconf versions if
the DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF variable is set. (Regis Boudin)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:35:06 +0200
debconf (1.5.40) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* Updated Russian man page translation. Closes: #625935
* Updated Galician translation of program po file. Closes: #626475
* Add back documenation for the kde frontend.
[ Martin Pitt ]
* Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm: Port from Gnome2::Druid to Gtk2::Assistant.
Original patch by Jani Monoses, thanks! (Closes: #542175, LP: #415038)
* Debconf/Element/Gnome/Select.pm: Drop unused Gnome2 import.
* debian/control: Change libgnome2-perl suggestion to libgtk2-perl
accordingly.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix Gnome frontend to honour backup capability again, and make backup
page handling work properly.
* Version libgtk2-perl Suggests to match the upstream version where
Gtk2::Assistant was introduced.
* Convert from deprecated Gtk2::Combo to Gtk2::ComboBox.
* Make sure you can't press Forward on a progress bar in the Gnome
frontend.
* debconf.py: Drop popen2 compatibility code. subprocess has been
available since Python 2.4, which is old enough that it was dropped from
squeeze.
* Build for all currently supported Python 2 versions (closes: #584844,
#626706).
* Convert to dh_python2 (closes: #603965, #616786).
* Add Python 3 support.
* Perl gets a bit confused by Debconf::Config and Debconf::Priority using
each other, and objects to bareword use of priority_list in
Debconf::Config if you do 'use strict; use Debconf::Priority' before
Debconf::Config is loaded. Work around this. Thanks to James Hunt for
pointing this out.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:50:23 +0100
debconf (1.5.39) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* Moved to a git repository. Updated control file fields.
* Removed debconf-english dummy package, and dropped debconf-i18n to a
Recommends. Debootstrap will still install debconf-i18n as it is
priority Required.
* debconf-set-selections: Fix comment handling to match description.
In particular, continued lines that start with a "#" are not comments.
And, comments only occur at the start of a line (possibly with some
whitespace before). Closes: #589519
* Updated Danish translation of program po file. Closes: #624645
[ Steve Langasek ]
* Mark debconf Multi-Arch: foreign to indicate that it satisfies the
dependencies of packages from other than the native arch. Closes:
#614197
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:21:12 -0400
debconf (1.5.38) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Correctly handle disabling the backup capability in a confmodule after
it was previously enabled.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Fix encoding in Spanish translation. Closes: #607688
* Fix encoding in Hebrew debconf translation.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Update copyright file to use DEP5 syntax, and expand with some
historical data.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:46:27 -0400
debconf (1.5.37) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manpages translation ]
* Spanish added (huge thanks to Omar Campagne). Closes: #599401
* French completed (Christian Perrier).
[ Debconf translations ]
* Icelandic (Sveinn à Felli).
* Serbian (Janos Guljas). Closes: #600142
* Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #600626
* Dutch (Eric Spreen). Closes: #603953
* Greek (Emmanuel Galatoulas). Closes: #604451
* Dzongkha (dawa pemo). Closes: #604458
[ Helge Kreutzmann ]
* Fix (mostly) typos. Thanks Florian Rehnisch <eixman@gmx.de> for noticing.
Addresses: #518395.
Also unfuzzy all translations as far as possible.
* Update German translation where unfuzzing was not enough (actually a no-op
as Florian already translated appropriately).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:11:22 +0000
debconf (1.5.36) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf translation updates ]
* Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #592176
* Icelandic added (Sveinn à Felli).
* Telugu (Arjuna Rao Chavala). Closes: #593095
* Arabic (Ossama Khayat). Closes: #595453
* Danish (Joe Hansen). Closes: #595439
* Turkish (Recai Oktas).
* Malayalam (Saji Nediyanchath).
* Hindi (Kumar Appaiah).
* Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #595469
* Korean (Changwoo Ryu). Closes: #595517
* Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto). Closes: #596197
* Lithuanian (KÄstutis BiliÅ«nas). Closes: #596204
* Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #596508
* Persian (Behrad Eslamifar). Closes: #590697
[ Programs translation updates ]
* Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #592178
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:27:50 +0100
debconf (1.5.35) unstable; urgency=low
[ Sune Vuorela ]
* Resurrect the Kde frontend, ported to libqt4-perl.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:20:05 +0100
debconf (1.5.34) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf translation updates ]
* Bosnian (Armin BeÅ¡iroviÄ).
* Kazakh added (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov). Closes: #589006
* Belarusian (Viktar Siarheichyk). Closes: #591668
[ Colin Watson ]
* Use 'dh $@ --options' rather than 'dh --options $@', for
forward-compatibility with debhelper v8.
* Handle ll[_CC]@modifier as a locale name. Closes: #591633
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:53:52 +0100
debconf (1.5.33) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf translation updates ]
* Tamil added. Closes: #578280
* Irish added. Closes: #578281
* Romanian (Eddy PetriÈor). Closes: #582556
* Khmer (Khoem Sokhem).
* Traditional Chinese (Tetralet). Closes: #587194
* Galician (Jorge Barreiro). Closes: #587795
* Croatian (Josip Rodin).
[ Manpages translation updates ]
* Portuguese added. Closes: #588652
[ Programs translation updates ]
* Portuguese. Closes: #577586
* Slovenian added. Closes: #585115
* Traditional Chinese (Tetralet). Closes: #587195
* Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #587806
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix new initialized value warning from perl 5.12.
Closes: #578849
[ Colin Watson ]
* Remove carriage return characters from Swedish programs translation. In
some cases these were in the middle of a line, breaking the format for
strict parsers.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:10:04 +0100
debconf (1.5.32) unstable; urgency=low
* File: Avoid using filetest to test if database can be written to, as that
is not in perl-base. Instead, try to open database for read+write,
and if it fails, open readonly without locking. Closes: #577632
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:53:46 -0400
debconf (1.5.31) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Squash chomp warning in Debconf::FrontEnd::Teletype on EOF or error.
* Test database writability more carefully to avoid breaking use of
debconf under fakeroot. Closes: #577299
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix uninitialized value warning if debconf -f is not followed by
another parameter. Closes: #575870
[ Programs translation updates ]
* Simplified Chinese (soyi).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:05:07 +0100
debconf (1.5.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't open file databases read-write if the database is read-only, or if
the file isn't writable (e.g. running debconf as non-root). Closes:
#575070
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:18:00 +0000
debconf (1.5.29) unstable; urgency=low
[ Programs translation update ]
* Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov). Closes: #558085
* German (Helge Kreutzmann)
* Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #569254
* Hebrew (Lior Kaplan).
* Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #573057
* Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen). Closes: #573053
* Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #573122
* Polish (Marcin Owsiany). Closes: #573124
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #573195
* Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #573984
* Asturian (Marcos).
* Dutch (Frans Pop).
* Swedish (Daniel Nylander).
* Khmer (Khoem Sokhem).
* Bengali (Md. Rezwan Shahid).
* Indonesian (Parlin Imanuel).
* Catalan (Guillem Jover).
* Esperanto (Felipe Castro).
* Traditional Chinese (Kan-Ru Chen).
[ Manpage translation updates ]
* French (Florentin Duneau). Closes: #573867
* German (Helge Kreutzmann)
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #556275, #573202
[ Debconf translations ]
* Bengali (Sadia Afroz).
* Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #559500
* Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #558659
* Swedish (Martin Bagge). Closes: #551945
* Simplified Chinese (èè¿å¼º).
* Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #568368
* Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #568976
* Gujarati (Kartik Mistry). Closes: #571680
* Slovenian (Vanja Cvelbar). Closes: #570345
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf-devel(7): Note why SETTITLE is generally used rather than TITLE.
Closes: #560323 (Thanks, Frans Pop)
* DbDriver::File: Open file read-write so exclusive flock locking can be
done portably. Fixes issue on Solaris. (Thanks, James Lee)
Closes: #563577
* Prevent dialog from escaping "\n" to a liternal newline in the text
it displays by doing some tricky things with UTF-8 zero-width characters.
Closes: #566954 (Thanks, Ben Hutchings)
[ Colin Watson ]
* Build for Python 2.6. Closes: #574759
[ Joey Hess ]
* Clean up use of POSIX perl module, which exports a large amount
of stuff by default. Closes: #574573
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:51:30 +0000
debconf (1.5.28) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Put debconf-i18n in Section: localization, to match overrides.
* Remove unused subcommand parameter from
Debconf::FrontEnd::Passthrough::progress_data().
* Override Lintian warning about debconf's postrm not calling db_purge;
debconf itself is a special case here.
* Declare "Media change" string as needing translation. (apt gives us
translated messages for substitution into the extended description here,
but not for the short description.)
* Remove unused 'use I18N::Langinfo' from Debconf::Element::Gnome
(LP: #387112).
* Upgrade to debhelper v7. In the process, convert to python-central with
DH_PYCENTRAL=nomove (since we need our modules to be usable even when
debconf is unconfigured; at the moment, the effect of this use of
python-central is only to add a Python-Versions control field).
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Add translation of "-a" in "man dpkg-reconfigure".
Patch by Simon Paillard.
* Suggest reporting bugs related to French translations in the French
l10n mailing list. Patch by Simon Paillard.
* French debconf translation update
[ Joey Hess ]
* document --terse in relevant man pages and show --no-reload in
dpkg-reconfigure usage. Closes: #548994
* German man page addendum fixed. Closes: #546789
* Dropped the KDE frontend. libqt-perl is uninstallable, and
work on the new qt4 perl bindings and a new KDE frontend based on
them is not ready. If the KDE frontend is specified, debconf will
now attempt to fall back to the Gnome frontend, or failing that,
to dialog. Closes: #522580
* Enable set -e in debconf-utils postinst.
[ Programs translation updates ]
* Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #551379
[ Debconf translation updates ]
* Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales).
* Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov).
* Finnish (Tapio Lehtonen).
* Czech (Miroslav Kure).
* Esperanto (Felipe Castro).
* Simplified Chinese (Carlos Z.F. Liu).
* Slovak (Ivan Masár).
* German (Holger Wansing).
* Bengali (Md. Rezwan Shahid).
* Basque (Piarres Beobide).
* Japanese (Kenshi Muto).
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:14:23 -0400
debconf (1.5.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix Plural-Forms header in Tagalog translation.
* debconf-apt-progress: If we didn't start the debconf frontend ourselves,
then it's unlikely that the passthrough child will be able to start
debconf normally, so tell it to use a pipe database in that case and
rely on passthrough to save answers (LP: #337306).
* debconf-apt-progress: DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND is always set here at some
point, even if only on the second run after starting debconf, so we need
to invert our handling of the check for whether we started the debconf
frontend ourselves (LP: #347648).
* Minor GET optimisation: fetch the question value only once rather than
twice.
* debconf-apt-progress: If we get cancelled very early on before managing
to start the process we're controlling, make sure that we don't carry on
and start it anyway, and that we still return 30.
* debconf-apt-progress: Handle cancellation right at the end. We don't
have a process to kill at this point, but we should at least return the
correct exit code.
[ Manpages translations ]
* Completed german man page translation. Closes: #518396
* Completed French man page translation. Closes: #520787
[ Debconf translations ]
* Added Asturian. Closes: #518977
* Added Bengali
[ Programs translations ]
* Added Asturian. Closes: #518977
* Added Bengali
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:50 +0100
debconf (1.5.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Use 'key not in dict' rather than 'not dict.has_key(key)' in debconf.py;
dict.has_key is deprecated in Python 2.6.
* debconf-apt-progress: Don't send STOP if we didn't start the debconf
frontend ourselves; in that case the application calling us should
arrange to stop itself.
* debconf.py: Use subprocess rather than popen2 if it's available. popen2
is deprecated in Python 2.6.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:33:57 +0000
debconf (1.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf-devel(7): Fix state machine example to handle case where user
backs out of first question.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Support overriding frontend's package name determination (used to set
the owner) using the DEBCONF_PACKAGE environment variable. Useful for
applications driving debconf other than by way of package installation.
* Refer to po-debconf(7) rather than its README (thanks, James R. Van
Zandt). Closes: #505392
* Refer to debconf-show(1) from dpkg-reconfigure(8) for those who just
want to see the current configuration. Closes: #506070
* Only use -C fields when explicitly disabling internationalisation within
debconf (or when DEBCONF_C_VALUES=true), not merely when in the C
locale. Based on a patch by Frans Pop, for which thanks! Closes: #476873
* Force fallback to the default template if we encounter 'en' in the
locale list and no language-specific template for English was
found,since English text is usually found in a plain field rather than
something like Choices-en.UTF-8. This allows you to override other
locale variables for a different language with LANGUAGE=en. Thanks again
to Frans Pop. Closes: #496631
[ Manpages translations ]
* Completed german man page translation.
[ Debconf translations ]
* Corrections in german translation with apologies for
forgetting this bug report. Closes: #462302
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:04:02 +0000
debconf (1.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf(7): Clarify reason for libterm-readline-gnu-perl being recommended
for users of readline frontend. Closes: #497357
[ Manpages translations ]
* Updated german man page translation. Closes: #492370
* German proofread by Helge Kreutzmann. Copyright fixed to include
Florian Rehnisch
* Corrected French manpages translation wrt "interactive".
Closes: #496555
[ Debconf translations ]
* Hindi updated.
* Greek updated. Closes: #498580
[ Programs translations ]
* Hindi updated.
* Greek updated. Closes: #498577
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf.7: Remove whitespace in manrefs. Closes: #498446
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fall back to untranslated fields if asking explicitly for any
nonexistent translated field, not just Choices-C. For example, asking
for Choices-en.UTF-8 should fall back to Choices if Choices-en.UTF-8
doesn't exist. LP: #271652
* Remove some dead code in Debconf::Template::AUTOLOAD.
* Add an AUTHOR section to debconf-escape(1) to make the German po4a
translations work better.
* Add missing =back to debconf-apt-progress(1)'s OPTIONS section.
* Use =head1 in German POD addendum, not =HEAD1. Together with switching
output to UTF-8 (below), this fixes various problems with German manual
page output. Closes: #492368
* Recode all manual pages to UTF-8 and re-enable Russian manual page
generation, now that pod2man has a --utf8 option. Requires perl (>=
5.10.0-16) as bug #500210 broke the Russian pages. Closes: #485756
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:07:17 +0100
debconf (1.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
[ Manpages Translations ]
* Russian updated. Closes: #482288
* French updated.
* German added. Closes: #486869
[ Debconf translations ]
* Macedonian. Closes: #485993
* Romanian. Closes: #488530
* Korean. Closes: #491515
[ Programs translations ]
* Catalan. Closes: #486714
* Romanian. Closes: #488530
* Korean. Closes: #491515
[ Joey Hess ]
* Typo. Closes: #486870
* Disable Russian man pages until the encoding issue affecting them can be
fixed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:49 -0400
debconf (1.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Improve LDAP KeyByKey option by setting the LDAP search base to the exact
key that is requested. Patch from Davor Ocelic.
* Initial support for storing templates database in LDAP. (i18n not
supported). Patch from Davor Ocelic. Closes: #477531
[ Manpages Translations ]
* Russian updated. Closes: #462780
[ Debconf Translations ]
* Bulgarian updated.
* Polish updated. Closes: #478041
[ Programs Translations ]
* Bulgarian added. Closes: #478431
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 2008 19:36:48 -0400
debconf (1.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix method call in LDAP dbdriver. Closes: #475545
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:55:08 -0400
debconf (1.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Use signal names rather than numbers in debconf-apt-progress.
* Fix use of 'next' rather than 'return' in debconf-apt-progress
handle_status.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:38:28 +0000
debconf (1.5.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Add a hack to the teletype frontend to allow typing "q" at a "[More]"
prompt and break out of the 'pager'. Useful when ucf's diff turns out
to be many many pages in length. There's no UI indication that "q" works
here, but it's the same as in other pagers like less.
* Add (experimental, nonstandard) implementation of the X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE
protocol command. Should be compatible with cdebconf's. Closes: #427091
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:59:34 -0500
debconf (1.5.18) unstable; urgency=low
[ Søren Hansen ]
* debconf-apt-progress sometimes gets captured by buggy daemons, causing
tasksel to hang because $debconf_command_eof never becomes true.
STATUS_READ should be the last fd to close, so checking $status_eof is
sufficient (LP: #141601).
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf(1): Document that this command is rarely used. Closes: #457598
* Add missing newlines to some error messages. Closes: #457609
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:08:27 +0000
debconf (1.5.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Partial support for cancelable progress bars. While the dialog frontend
cannot support them due to limitations in whiptail(1) and dialog(1),
and I haven't implemented support in frontends like gnome or kde,
the confmodule does now check to see if the frontend's progress bar
methods return nonzero, and will pass that nonzero status along
to the caller.
* Implemented support for cancelable progress bars in the passthrough
frontend.
* debconf-apt-progress: Check for the progress bar being canceled, and if
this happens, try to kill the apt process. Users of debconf-apt-progress
that want a cancelable progress bar can thus just set the progresscancel
capb before calling it and everything should work. Of course, this should
only be done when the apt operation being run is one that can be cleanly
killed.
* debconf-apt-progress: Notice if the child exited abnormally, and exit
nonzero.
* Avoid setting a default title of "Configuring " when starting up the
frontend if no package name could be determined.
* Fix the passthrough frontend to not clear the capb on startup.
* debconf-apt-progress: Add --dlwaypoint option.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:57:15 -0500
debconf (1.5.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Drop python 2.3. Closes: #447864
* debconf-apt-progress: Add --no-progress option intended to be used
by apt-install in d-i.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:01:13 -0400
debconf (1.5.15) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add manual page description for debconf-set-selections. Closes: #435954
* Ignore AttributeError in the Python DebconfCommunicator destructor, so
that you don't get a confusing exception message if you give the wrong
number of arguments to the constructor.
* Don't use dh_python's postinst fragment (and copy its prerm fragment by
hand). debconf is too important to fail because some random python
module wouldn't compile. Closes: #225384, #293820
[ Debconf Translations ]
* Nepali updated. Closes: #435388
[ Programs Translations ]
* Nepali added. Closes: #435389
[ Joey Hess ]
* Applied Davor Ocelic's patch adding a keybykey option to the LDAP
DbDriver. Closes: #440857
(Note that it currently has some minor uninitialised value warnings.)
* TERM isn't set if run from synaptic, avoid uninitialised value in Readline
frontend. Closes: #307568
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:26:20 -0400
debconf (1.5.14) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Retry flock() on EINTR. Failing that, print the errno if flock() fails
so that we have a better chance of working out why.
* Install Python confmodule for python2.5 as well.
* Add confmodule bindings for the DATA command.
* Somebody looking at confmodule(3) probably actually wants
debconf-devel(7). Add a reference in SEE ALSO.
* Make sure that apt status commands and debconf protocol commands under
debconf-apt-progress are properly interleaved. Closes: #425397
[ Debconf Translations ]
* Marathi added. Closes: #416805
* Basque updated. Closes: #418897
[ Programs Translations ]
* Marathi added. Closes: #416805
* Punjabi added. Closes: #427327
* Basque updated. Closes: #418902
* Esperanto added. Closes: #428275
[ Joey Hess ]
* Increase selectspacer to 13 for dialog. May be needed due to changes in
new versions of dialog.
* Update url to web site in README.
[ Trent Buck ]
* Fix bash_completion syntax. Closes: #425676
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:58:39 +0100
debconf (1.5.13) unstable; urgency=low
[ Man pages translations ]
- French updated
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix kde frontend to "show" noninteractive elements so they can handle
setting their values appropriately. Closes: #413509 (except possibly for
the strange and unreproducible bits)
* Avoid initialising kde until the first question is found that needs to be
displayed using it. The Qt module could fail in some ugly ways during
destruction if kde stuff was initialised but never used. (See #413509)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:53:58 -0500
debconf (1.5.12) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf Translations ]
- Updated Esperanto. Closes: #404588
- Updated Slovenian. Closes: #405581
- Added Malayalam. Closes: #405910
[ Joey Hess ]
* Bubulle requested I include a copy of debconf.pot in the source, rather
than cleaning it, so here it is. Note that it's not included in svn, to
avoid churn.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Fix typos in debconf-devel(7) and debconf(7). Closes: #410168, #410169
[ Joey Hess ]
* po/Makefile: Smarter detection of no-op changes to po files.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:46:20 -0500
debconf (1.5.11) unstable; urgency=low
[ Programs Translations ]
- Updated Dutch. Closes: #391311
- Updated Portuguese. Closes: #392703
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add need_tty field to frontend objects. dpkg-preconfigure can test
this if it fails to reopen /dev/tty, and avoid dying if the frontend
doesn't care about the tty, as happens in g-i when preconfiguring using
the passthrough frontend. Closes: #401876
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:30:50 -0500
debconf (1.5.10) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Better support for locale aliases. Thanks to Nicolas François
for the patch. Closes: #232044
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:26:50 -0500
debconf (1.5.9) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf Translations ]
- Updated Bosnian. Closes: #396654
- Updated Greek
- Updated Nepali.
- Updated Bulgarian. Closes: #397778
[ Programs Translations ]
- Added Bosnian. Closes: #397282
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:35:19 -0500
debconf (1.5.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix passthrough frontend's handling of noninteractive elements.
Instead of duplicating the code in their show method, which varies for
some types (select), just call the show method. Closes: #396147
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:57:34 -0500
debconf (1.5.7) unstable; urgency=low
[ Programs Translations ]
- Updated Chinese (Simplified)
- Updated Danish. Closes: #392194
- Updated Dutch. Closes: #392192
- Updated Hebrew. Closes: #391155
- Updated Korean. Closes: #393615
- Updated Kurdish.
- Updated Portuguese.
- Added Thai. Closes: #394633
- Updated Vietnamese.
[ Debconf Translations ]
- Updated Albanian
- Updated Belarusian
- Updated Chinese (Traditional)
- Updated Greek. Closes: #392192
- Updated Indonesian.
- Added Thai. Closes: #394631
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:32:07 -0400
debconf (1.5.6) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix names of Kde and Gnome frontends in the frontend selection question.
Closes: #389939, #388679, #391650
* Set IFS to a sane value before calling printf, in case the maintainer
script does something nasty to it. Closes: #381619
* Dialog backtitle unbranding. Closes: #376116
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Correct a grammar error in the french man page translation
[ Programs Translations ]
- Updated French.
- Updated Khmer. Closes: #375064
- Updated Galician. Closes: #391173
- Updated Spanish.
- Updated Catalan.
- Updated Slovak.
- Updated Dzongkha.
- Updated Norwegian Bokmal.
- Updated Ukrainian
- Updated Swedish
- Updated Basque
- Updated Dutch
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese
- Updated Hungarian
- Updated Finnish
- Updated Japanese
- Updated Czech
- Updated German
- Updated Romanian
- Updated Turkish
- Updated Polish
- Updated Italian. Closes: #391559
- Updated Traditional Chinese
- Updated Arabic. Closes: #391614
- Updated Russian
[ Debconf Translations ]
- Updated Dzongkha. Closes: #388016
- Added Nepali. Closes: #374950
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:09:45 -0400
debconf (1.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
[ Debconf Translations ]
- Updated Wolof
[ Programs Translations ]
- Added Kurdish. Closes: #387811
- Fixed typos in Italian. Closes: #387820
[ Colin Watson ]
* debconf-apt-progress: Die if debconf-apt-progress/media-change can't be
displayed.
* debconf-apt-progress: Avoid falling through to generic progress updating
code from media-change handling.
* When asking for a Choices-C field in a template, fall back to Choices
(etc.); if i18n is disabled then asking for Choices tries Choices-C
first. This lets you say "Choices: ${CHOICES-TRANS}" and "Choices-C:
${CHOICES}" to substitute reliably into translated and untranslated
templates without having to ensure that ${CHOICES-TRANS} is translated
to the same thing in every language.
* Make sure that languages whose codes are prefixes of other language
codes don't accidentally match those languages. This is mostly
significant for C, but could also be a problem once translations for
languages with three-letter codes start being widely deployed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:26:43 -0400
debconf (1.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Split out Choices in templates. Sorry, translators.
* Activate the generation of Russian man pages by po4a, KOI8-R encoded
Closes: #385549
* Translations:
- Updated French
- Added Welsh (from D-I translations)
- Added Dzongkha (from D-I translations)
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Updated Catalan debconf translation (Closes: #380344).
- Updated Estonian debconf translation (Closes: #380352).
- Updated Italian debconf translation.
- Updated Simplified Chinese debconf translation.
- Updated Tagalog debconf translation.
- Updated Norwegian Bokmal debconf translation.
- Updated Korean debconf translation (Closes: #380378).
- Updated Arabic debconf translation (Closes: #380381).
- Updated Danish debconf translation (Closes: #382002).
- Updated Hungarian debconf translation.
- Updated Malagasi debconf translation.
- Updated Russian debconf translation (Closes: #380427).
- Updated Slovak debconf translation (Closes: #380432).
- Updated Czech debconf translation (Closes: #380437).
- Updated Finnish debconf translation (Closes: #380453).
- Updated Hebrew debconf translation.
- Updated Brazillian Portuguese debconf translation.
- Updated Japanese debconf translation (Closes: #380477).
- Updated Romanian debconf translation (Closes: #380495).
- Updated Latvian debconf translation.
- Updated Turkish debconf translation.
- Updated Galician debconf translation (Closes: #380592).
- Updated Lithuanian debconf translation.
- Updated Punjabi debconf translation.
- Updated Portuguese debconf translation.
- New Khmer debconf translation (Closes: #375064).
- New Khmer programs translation (Closes: #375066).
- Updated Vietnamese debconf translation (Closes: #382328).
- Updated Basque debconf translation (Closes: #382459).
- Updated Ukrainian debconf translation (Closes: #382504).
- New Dzongkha programs translation (Closes: #382623).
- Updated Spanish debconf translation (Closes: #382713).
- Updated German debconf translation (Closes: #384370).
- Updated Swedish debconf translation (Closes: #386509).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add support for media-change in debconf-apt-progress.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:44:33 -0400
debconf (1.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Translations:
- Updated French debconf translation.
- Added Dzongkha programs and debconf translation.
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- New Nepali programs translation (Closes: #373725).
- Updated Korean debconf translation (Closes: #374152).
- Updated Estonian debconf translation (Closes: #374324).
- Updated Italian debconf translation (Closes: #374728).
- Updated Finnish programs translation.
- Updated Hungarian programs translation.
- Updated Hindi debconf translation.
- New Khmer debconf translation (Closes: #375064).
- New Khmer programs translation (Closes: #375066).
- Updated Esperanto debconf translation.
- Updated Macedonian debconf translation.
- Updated Catalan debconf translation (Closes: #376139).
- Updated French manpage translation (Closes: #376186).
- New Russian manpage translation (Closes: #376748).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Use printf rather than echo to send commands to debconf, to avoid
breaking escaped commands if /bin/sh is dash (closes: #306134).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix amusing lintian warnings about debconf's own templates not meeting
best practices for debconf templates.
* Removed the following template translations which all had broken
translated choices lists, which triggered lintian warnings and broke
debhelper: dz ne km
I can't fix those languages; feel free to re-add your translation
when it's actually fixed. Removed bug closure numbers above for these
and contacted translators.
* Current version of policy.
* Since lintian is being insanely strict about changelog formats now,
I had to remove the comment at the end of the stripped down changelog
that tells where to get the full changelog.
* No longer a need to call dh_python twice, the new version apparently
sets things up for both 2.3 and 2.4 with one call.
* debhelper v5.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:45:25 -0400
debconf (1.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Stop the Gnome and Kde frontends from displaying select questions with
zero or one choices, or multiselect questions with zero choices; this
was broken due to an error in multiple inheritance (thanks, Gary Coady;
closes: https://launchpad.net/bugs/42187).
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf-get-selections: Don't skip notes or errors, people may want to
preseed those.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:26:20 -0400
debconf (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Remove trailing whitespace from some .P requests in man pages, to make
po4a happier.
* Strip only trailing newlines from replies in the Python confmodule,
rather than all leading and trailing whitespace.
* Retry readline() in the Python confmodule if it's interrupted by a
signal.
* Typo fixes in Debconf::Encoding documentation.
* Add cloexec keyword argument to Python DebconfCommunicator class,
defaulting to False; if True, the file descriptors connected to
debconf-communicate will be marked close-on-exec.
* Avoid needlessly marking cache db items dirty on addowner if the entry
already had that owner.
* Add a --no-reload option to dpkg-reconfigure, to allow you to prevent it
from reloading templates before running confmodules. This may be useful
for performance if you know that the templates database is already
correct.
* Handle escaped commas ("\,") and escaped spaces ("\ ") in Choices and
Value fields in questions, matching cdebconf. I've grepped the archive
for backslashes in Choices fields in templates and in db_set and
db_subst commands and found nothing that this change would break, while
it lets us use more code from d-i in the installed system.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Stop mailing notes since something like 90% of the use of that data type
is abuse anyway. Error messages will still be mailed if necessary.
* In the gnome and kde frontends, exit 1 not 0 when cancel is hit.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2006 19:09:58 -0500
debconf (1.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Define UTF-8 as the encoding for all passthrough communication (it was
previously undefined, causing installer breakage when using non-UTF-8
locales). Now the passthrough frontend recodes everything to UTF-8 when
talking to the UI agent, and we recode DATA parameters from UTF-8 to the
user's charmap. Closes: #355251
* Note that if you try to exchange non-ASCII text with debconf at the
moment using anything but the DATA command, you lose unless you know
that the other end is using the same character encoding as you.
Retrofitting encoding sanity is hard.
* Accept -- as an end-of-options terminator in frontend, even though it
doesn't currently take any arguments. Simplifies a corner case in
cdebconf compatibility.
* Notice and error out on write errors (such as ENOSPC) when saving
databases. Should help with a lot of database corruption bugs.
Closes: #198297, #247849 (we hope)
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Rename the Punjabi translation file name from pa_IN to pa
to fit a decision taken in -i18n
* Man pages translations:
- French updated
- Complete translator information in addenda
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Arabic updated programs (Closes: #357010).
- Arabic updated debconf (Closes: #360584).
- Brazilian Portuguese updated debconf (Closes: #357653).
- Romanian updated programs (Closes: #361152).
- Romanian updated debconf (Closes: #361157).
- Indonesian updated programs (Closes: #361185).
* Fixed typo in French debconf-devel manpage (Closes: #358525).
* Small correction in German programs translation (Closes: #358804).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Finally applied Danilo Piazzalunga's gnome multiselct usability patch,
which turns it into a list of checkboxes. Closes: #294116
* Set maintainer to debconf-devel mailing list, this package is noticably
Colin^Wteam maintained now. Closes: #265570
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:54:06 -0400
debconf (1.4.72) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Expand substitution variables when replying to localised METAGET
requests for description, extended_description, or choices.
* Add support for an 'escape' capability. If a confmodule sets this using
CAPB, then commands it sends to debconf will be processed for backslash
escapes (\n is a newline, \ followed by any other character is just that
character) and debconf's replies will be backslash-escaped similarly.
This allows such things as embedding newlines in substitutions and
fetching extended descriptions using METAGET; the use of a capability is
required because otherwise this would break compatibility with old
confmodules. Closes: #126753
* debconf.py: Avoid leaking a file descriptor from DebconfCommunicate.
* Fix truncation of multi-line return values to handle values over two
lines long correctly.
* Add a debconf-escape program and make the confmodules unescape text
automatically in escape mode. At present we don't escape text
automatically, but you can use 'debconf-escape -e' yourself if you want
an easy way to do that.
* Remove *.pyc and *.pyo on clean.
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Hungarian new programs. Closes: #353933
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add the same insane kind of fork check for Qt having a working display as
we already had for GTK, since both libraries are written by monkeys who
think that having a *library* exit(3) is a good idea if there's not a
usable display. Sheesh. (On the plus side, the same monkeys have taught
users to not care if it takes a 9 ghz machine to run a simple dialog, so
who cares if we have to use expensive forking to work around your brain
damage.) Closes: #354656, #244972, #246133
[ Christian Perrier and the French team ]
* Switch to po4a for man pages translations
* Complete update of the French manpages translations
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:58:20 +0000
debconf (1.4.71) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Brazilian portuguese updated programs. Closes: #352415
- Bulgarian updated debconf. Closes: #351046
- Catalan updated programs. Closes: #350966
- Danish updated programs. Closes: #352238
- Dutch updated programs. Closes: #351538
- French updated programs. Closes: #351227, #352485
- Hungarian updated debconf. Closes: #352271
- Portuguese updated debconf and programs.
- Turkish updated debconf and programs.
- Ukrainian updated debconf and programs. Closes: #350680
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Translations:
- Corrected encoding of Turkish
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:11:09 -0500
debconf (1.4.70) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Fix spelling error in French translation
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add experimental confmodule support for cdebconf, now that the file
conflicts between debconf and cdebconf have been removed: set
DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF to have /usr/share/debconf/confmodule try to run
the cdebconf frontend rather than the debconf frontend. (I expect this
not to work smoothly yet; for a start, cdebconf won't have a useful
database!)
* Only conflict with cdebconf (<< 0.96).
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Baskish updated programs.
- Czech updated programs.
- Dutch updated debconf.
- Finnish updated debconf.
- Galician updated programs.
- German updated debconf and programs.
- Greek updated programs.
- Hebrew updated debconf and programs.
- Italian updated programs. Closes: #350387
- Japanese updated programs. Closes: #350251
- Latvian updated debconf.
- Lithuanian updated debconf.
- Norwegian (nb) updated debconf and programs.
- Polish updated debconf and programs.
- Punjabi updated debconf.
- Russian updated programs. Closes: #350159
- Simplified Chinese updated programs.
- Slovak updated programs.
- Slovenian updated debconf.
- Spanish updated debconf and programs.
- Swedish updated programs.
- Tagalog updated programs.
- Traditional Chinese updated programs.
- Vietnamese updated debconf and programs. Closes: #350087
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:16:01 +0000
debconf (1.4.69) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Japanese updated debconf and programs. Closes: #348965
- Simplified Chinese updated debconf. Closes: #349600
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix shadowing of 'bool' builtin in debconf.py getBoolean() (found by
pychecker).
* Add support for templates of type 'error', which are largely treated
like notes except that they are displayed no matter what the priority
and even if they've previously been seen. For example, this can be used
for input validation errors. This is compatible with cdebconf.
* Fix crash in kde frontend while handling PROGRESS STOP.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:53:46 +0000
debconf (1.4.68) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Italian updated debconf. Closes: #346114
- Slovak updated debconf and programs. Closes: #346371
- Turkish updated debconf. Closes: #347714
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:37:34 -0500
debconf (1.4.67) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Translations:
- Greek updated programs. Closes: #344643
- Tagalog updated debconf. Closes: #344749
- Catalan updated debconf and programs. Closes: #344966
- Czech updated debconf and programs. Closes: #345339
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf.conf(5) typo fix. Closes: #344336
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add bash completion file (thanks, Alexandra N. Kossovsky).
Closes: #301998
* Fix DebconfCommunicator inheritance.
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Catalan updated programs and debconf. Closes: #344966
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:42:30 +0000
debconf (1.4.66) unstable; urgency=HIGH
[ Colin Watson ]
* DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE causes all databases from the config file to be
opened read-only, including the templates database, partly because it's
hard to do otherwise and partly because DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE is used for
passthrough applications which want to avoid two debconf instances both
opening the same templates database read-write. Unfortunately this
breaks if anyone tries to register new templates. As a workaround, stack
a throwaway pipe database in front of the configured templates database
if DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE is in use. Closes: #343902
* Translations:
- Indonesian updated debconf (Closes: #344512).
- Greek updated debconf (Closes: #344585).
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:46:36 +0000
debconf (1.4.65) unstable; urgency=HIGH
* Remove my progress bar check of the last version since it breaks
passthrough, especially where the actual progress bar was started by the
destination frontend.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:37:19 -0500
debconf (1.4.64) unstable; urgency=HIGH
[ Colin Watson ]
* debconf-apt-progress: Make sure to start up a debconf frontend properly
(including saving/restoring @ARGV) in all modes except --config, not
just in the all-in-one mode. Closes: #344159
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add a check in the ConfModule to make sure that a progress bar is
available before trying to use it.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:16:14 -0500
debconf (1.4.63) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* debconf-apt-progress: Allow --from and --to to be used with --start to
change the endpoints of the created progress bar.
* Add DebconfCommunicator class to debconf.py to allow speaking the
debconf protocol over a debconf-communicate subprocess. Useful for
querying the debconf database noninteractively.
[ Luk Claes ]
* Translations:
- Basque updated programs and updated debconf (Closes: #342093).
- Russian updated programs translation (Closes: #342771).
- Russian updated debconf translation (Closes: #342773).
- Galician updated debconf translation (Closes: #343056).
- Danish updated debconf translation (Closes: #343431).
- Swedish updated debconf translation (Closes: #344059).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Slightly optimised the postinst script while leaving old transition
handling code in it by moving old code into blocks with a single check for
really old versions of debconf.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Add debconf-updatepo to the clean rule as recommended to always have
up-to-date PO files for debconf translations.
* Debconf translations:
- French updated
[ Joey Hess ]
* Changes to the Makefile to deal with changed quoting rules for continued
strings in new version of make.
* Current standards version.
* Use commas as separator in the choices list for nb and fa
* Split build-depends and -indep.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:30:31 -0500
debconf (1.4.62) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add debconf-apt-progress, as discussed on debian-boot@, to install
packages using debconf to display a progress bar. Requires apt 0.6.41.
* Fix DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE to work properly when given a database name from
debconf.conf.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Remove newline removal code from perl mangling in Makefile.
* Reword debconf-apt-progress/preparing template since it might be used for
removals too.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:51:54 -0500
debconf (1.4.61) unstable; urgency=low
* The default debconf priority changes from medium to high in this release.
This is consistent with the default pririty used already for fresh
installs by d-i, and with the definitions of debconf priorities -- high
priority questions have no reasonable default answer so should be
displayed, while medium priority questions do have a default and can be
skipped easily.
Please do not use this change as an excuse to inflate priorities of
questions!
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:07:08 -0500
debconf (1.4.60) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Programs translations:
- Swedish updated. Closes: #338607, #339832.
- Tagalog updated. Closes: #338611.
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Programs translations:
- French updated.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Improve message diplayed if kde frontend cannot start due to missing Qt.
Closes: #341315
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:14:16 -0500
debconf (1.4.59) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Remove the obsolete entries from the Ukrainian translation of
debconf. Closes: #325413
* Fix some typos in debconf-devel(7). Closes: #335035
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix variables in man page example. Patch from Jérémy Bobbio.
Closes: #326134
* debconf-get-selections: Include a comment with available choices for
select and multiselect questions.
* Don't compress demo templates file. Closes: #336477
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add progress indicator to dpkg-preconfigure if we're running in apt mode
and there are more than 30 packages (arbitrarily selected) to
preconfigure. We'll make more calls to apt-extracttemplates as a result,
but the progress indicator only ticks once every 30 packages so it
shouldn't be too bad.
* Fix typo in debconf-show(1). Closes: #326739
* Mention in debconf(1) that debconf(7) is in the debconf-doc package.
Closes: #308888
* Look at the output of 'lsb_release -is' (falling back to 'debian' if
/etc/debian_version is present) to figure out which logo to display in
the Gnome frontend.
* Install python confmodule for both python2.3 and python2.4 (since
/usr/lib/site-python doesn't work properly yet).
[ Luk Claes ]
* Programs translations:
- Russian updated. Closes: #332880
- Swedish updated. Closes: #333811
* Debconf translations:
- Romanian updated. Closes: #333199
- Portuguese updated. Closes: #332934
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:59:30 -0500
debconf (1.4.58) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* debconf-set-selections: support wrapping of long lines with "\".
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Rewrite the debconf/priority short description to have the same
wording than cdebconf
Translations merged from cdebconf translations (languages not yet
supported in debconf added with translations from cdebconf)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:09:51 -0400
debconf (1.4.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Run puic in LC_ALL to fix build failure in French locale in August.
Closes: #322122
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:22:25 -0400
debconf (1.4.56) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Debconf translations:
- Arabic added (thanks Mohammed Adnène Trojette). Closes: #320762
[ Colin Watson ]
* Force dialog progress bars to the full available screen width right from
the start, to avoid the box flashing as longer info messages are added.
Matches cdebconf.
* Fix zero-arg case of passthrough's title method to return the title
rather than emptying it.
* The approach used by progress bars of saving the title when a progress
bar starts and restoring it when it stops doesn't work if somebody sets
the title when a progress bar is up. Instead, remember the last title
that was explicitly requested and restore that on progress stop.
* If DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC is set to a file that exists, use it in preference
to the system debconf.conf files. Closes: #299216
* Never send STOP through the passthrough interface. One of the uses for
passthrough is putting a progress bar in front of base-config's package
installation, and that previously sent a STOP after every package, which
shut down the debconf instance running the progress bar. Frontends shut
themselves down anyway when their input goes away, so the STOP was
unnecessary.
* Allow setting the pipe driver's outfd to 'none' to throw the database
away on shutdown. Helps with #312072.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:55:12 +0100
debconf (1.4.55) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* confmodule: avoid using non-XSI local variables; instead use a nasty
temporary IFS setting hack and _db_local_ namespace. Closes: #242011
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix error message on uninitialised template database.
* Add DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE environment variable with the same syntax as
DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE and DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK, which bypasses all the
normal databases (thus avoiding locking them). Useful for local testing
or for running two concurrent debconf instances.
* Start a new, bigger dialog instance when updating a progress bar with
info text that won't fit into the current instance.
* Start/restart dialog progress bars at the correct percentage.
* Fix showdialog return values.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:04:55 +0100
debconf (1.4.54) unstable; urgency=low
* Make dialog progress bars interruptible: if a question needs to be asked
while a progress bar is up, we tear down the progress bar and restore it
afterwards where we left off. The gnome frontend is still broken in this
situation, although at least kde and readline work fine.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:20:20 +0100
debconf (1.4.53) unstable; urgency=low
[ Luk Claes ]
* Manpage translations:
- Updated French confmodule manpage. Closes: #318410
[ Sylvain Ferriol ]
* add Test::Debconf::DbDriver::CommonTest::test_shutdown to verify sync of
data between cache and file on shutdown.
* add Test::Debconf::DbDriver::CommonTest::test_shutdown to verify sync of
data between cache and ldap on shutdown.
* add unit tests to validate debconf_copydb.
* add Test::CopyDBTest::test_201431. Closes: #201431
* modify debconf.schema because extendedDescription attribute has an
inappropriate matching rule => slapd (2.2.23-8) failed
* set the type of the template in Template::new because if we don't
use Template::load, it do not appear in template instance
* call Cache::shutdown in LDAP::shutdown to synchronize data between
cache and ldap.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add Kamion to the uploaders.
* debconf-get-selections: Use new d-i logfile path for --installer mode.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Fix template -C handling to avoid clobbering $field for later requests
for the same template.
* debconf-get-selections: Tolerate both old and new d-i logfile paths.
* Implement the DATA command, so that debconf can act as a UI agent
communicating with another instance of debconf running the passthrough
frontend.
* Add myself to debian/copyright for progress bar support.
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:19:41 +0100
debconf (1.4.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Colin Watson:
- Lower-case the field name passed to METAGET, since the template
database stores fields that way.
- If a template name ending in -C is requested (e.g. via METAGET),
return the untranslated template regardless of the locale.
- Strip off DOS line endings in debconf-set-selections.
- Autoflush stdout in debconf-communicate so that stdout can be a pipe.
- Clean up stray newlines in DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debconf-communicate
output.
- Add read and write keyword arguments to debconf.py:Debconf.__init__(),
to allow using this module with a debconf-communicate subprocess
rather than having to re-exec the current process inside a frontend.
* Debconf translations:
- Vietnamese added. Closes: #313509
* Programs translations:
- Romanian updated. Closes: #303804
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:00:57 +0100
debconf (1.4.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Colin Watson
- Fix spelling of "unknown" in copied database items with no owners.
- Pass SETTITLE straight through the passthrough frontend (with
accompanying DATA) rather than turning it into TITLE. Closes: #292989
* Joey Hess
- Patch from mfz to allow dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive to work
consistently with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive and with common sense,
by testing for forced_frontend. Closes: #312550
* Programs translations:
- French spellchecked
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:03:01 -0400
debconf (1.4.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Colin Watson
- Generate po/debconf.pot in sorted order by source filename, rather
than having it be in whatever order find(1) happens to produce.
- Implement INFO command from cdebconf, to display an out-of-band
informative message. Closes: #304332
- Revert stdin/stdout inversion from debconf 1.1.30; that caused the
dialog child process to read from stdout and write to stdin (which
miraculously happened to work, at least for terminals). Instead, avoid
the perl warning from #155682 by restoring stdin first after the open3
call.
- Add progress bar support, using the cdebconf PROGRESS protocol. The
editor and web frontend implementations are stubs.
- Correct location of standalone template files in debconf-devel(7)
(should be /usr/share/debconf/templates/progname.templates).
- Extend passthrough protocol slightly to send SUBST commands for any
substitution variables that are set for each question.
- Translate select/multiselect defaults to the current locale when
sending them to a passthrough UI agent, and translate the value
returned by the UI agent back to C.
* Joey Hess
- debconf man page update. Closes: #309698
* Christian Perrier
- Man pages typos corrected. Closes: #309010, #309011, #309013
* Programs translations
- Italian updated. Closes: #310288
-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sat, 28 May 2005 21:08:59 +0100
debconf (1.4.49) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf translation updates:
- Italian. Closes: #304908
* Fix an enxironment variable name in debconf(7). Closes: #305260
* Document in the debconf-set-selections man page that
debconf-get-selections is in debconf-utils. Closes: #305262
* Fix typo in Debconf/Template.pm : s/speerated/separated
Unfuzzy translations
Closes: #307165
* Program translation updates:
- Italian.
- French, directly received from l10n team
- Danish. Closes: #305994
- Vietnamese. Closes: #307067
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 4 May 2005 19:24:09 -0400
debconf (1.4.48) unstable; urgency=low
* Joey Hess
- Apply patch from Denis Barbier to translate --help output. See #167177
- Make debconf-set-selections not fail if it encounters an unknown
question type.
- Overload the type field in preseed files; if it's "seen" then
instead set the seen flag; this allows for preseeding that only changes
a default value but still leaves the question unseen.
- This obsoletes the --unseen flag in debconf-set-selections, but
I've left it in and working for now since things probably already use
it.
* Christian Perrier
- Man page typo fixs. Closes: #302746, #302749, #302747, #302748, #302752
* Program translation updates:
- Slovak. Closes: #302509
- Spanish. Closes: #302528
- Traditional Chinese. Closes: #302532
- Hebrew
- Brazilian Portuguese. Closes: #302539
- Japanese. Closes: #302552
- Dutch. Closes: #302580
- Ukrainian. Closes: #302595
- Turkish. Closes: #302596
- Basque. Closes: #302616
- Simplified Chinese: Closes: #302636
- Czech: Closes: #302679
- Portuguese: Closes: #302691
- Greek: Closes: #302850
- Tagalog: Closes: #303172
- Romanian: Closes: #303804
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 07:55:27 +0200
debconf (1.4.47) unstable; urgency=low
* Since python confmodule checks only to see if DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND
exists, dpkg-reconfigure needs to delete it, not unset it. Closes: #302004
* Translations:
- Galician updated. Closes: #296470
- Spanish updated. Closes: #301126
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:19:37 -0500
debconf (1.4.46) unstable; urgency=low
* Translations:
- Greek updated. Closes: #293912
- Polish updated. Closes: #295378
- Traditional Chinese added. Closes: #294892
- Tagalog updated (programs) and added (debconf). Closes: #296050
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:39:21 -0500
debconf (1.4.45) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix bad use of gettext from previous patch. In fact, debug statements are
not intended to be translated, so revert that part of it. Closes: #293675
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:14:08 -0500
debconf (1.4.44) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix a rogue quotation mark intorduced in the translatable string patch
in the previous version. Closes: #293666 (and approximatly 2e5 other bugs
that will be filed before dinstall tomorrow).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:39:04 -0500
debconf (1.4.43) unstable; urgency=low
* Christian Perrier
- Mark more strings as translatable. Closes: #225463
* Colin Watson
- The passthrough frontend sets the value of visible questions by
getting the value from the UI agent, but it didn't set the value of
invisible questions as the confmodule expects it to. It now sets the
value of invisible questions in the same way as the noninteractive
frontend.
* Joey Hess
- In dpkg-reconfigure man page, note that -a works as --all.
Closes: #292416
* Translations:
- French updated
- Italian updated. Closes: #291797
- Simplified Chinese updated. Closes: #291799
- Dutch updated. Closes: #291805
- Russian updated. Closes: #291806
- Czech updated. Closes: #291810
- Portuguese updated. Closes: #291837
- Ukrainian updated. Closes: #291861
- Catalan updated. Closes: #291868
- Norwegian Nynorsk updated. Closes: #291882
- Spanish updated. Closes: #291885
- Hebrew updated. Closes: #291906
- Japanese updated. Closes: #291924
- Danish updated. Closes: #291988
- Finnish updated. Closes: #292051
- Indonesian updated. Closes: #291948
- Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #291980
- Slovak updated. Closes: #291947
- Swedish updated. Closes: #292036
- Basque updated.
- Romanian updated. Closes: #292306
- Korean updated (but still incomplete)
- Tagalog added. Closes: #292608
- Arabic added (from Arabeyes CVS)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:29:10 -0500
debconf (1.4.42) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix bug in man page example script. Closes: #286335
* Add --unseen flag to debconf-set-selections. Closes: #286318
* Fix typo in man page example. Closes: #285099
* Patch from mdz to improve the passthrough frontend:
- Use DEBCONF_READFD and DEBCONF_WRITEFD for passthrough communication
if DEBCONF_PIPE is not set to a socket.
- Change passthrough protocl for INPUT command so it is the same as in
the debconf protocol, and pass the type of the question in a "DATA type"
command.
- Fix passing of extended descriptions in DATA. Note they're newline
escaped.
- Pass choices for multiselect questions.
- Now usable with cdebconf as the client on the other side of the
passthrough channel.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:01:58 -0500
debconf (1.4.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Translations:
- Finnish updated (programs). Closes: #280709
- Romanian added (programs). Closes: #283209
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:22:42 -0500
debconf (1.4.40) unstable; urgency=low
* Joey Hess
- Force PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 in confmodule, confmodule.sh, debconf.py, and
Debconf::Client::ConfModule to avoid bad behavior of the dynamic linker
when Text::Iconv is loaded but its symbols have not really been
resolved. This caused debconf to be killed with a relocation error
in certian upgrades from woody involving packages that use debconf in
their preinst. Closes: #278417 Thanks to Andrew Suffield and Branden
Robinson for analysis.
- Add check in frontend and debug message if PERL_DL_NONLAZY is not set
to 1 when it's run from a preinst, in case I missed other entry points.
* Colin Watson
- Set the seen flag on questions asked in the noninteractive frontend if
DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN is set to true. This allows debootstrap to
behave better (partly fixes #238301).
* Translations:
- Indonesian added (programs). Closes: #275981
- Traditional Chinese renamed from zh_TW.Big5.po to zh_TW.po
(Christian Perrier)
- Simplified Chinese added (programs). Closes: #277470
- Slovak translation added (programs and debconf). Closes: #279299
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:20:39 -0500
debconf (1.4.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Joey Hess
- Avoid a warning message in DbDriver::Copy that's triggered by d-i
debconf preseeding. Closes: #275122
* Translations:
- Spanish updated (programs). Closes: #274148
- Hebrew added (both). Closes: #274381
- Italian added (programs) and updated (debconf). Closes: #274582, #274584
- Norwegian Nynorsk added (programs). Closes: #275081
- Polish updated (debconf). Closes: #275815
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:16:57 -0400
debconf (1.4.38) unstable; urgency=low
* Joey Hess
- Tightended the versioned conflicts/replaces on debconf-utils in
debconf-i18n. Closes: #273970
* Translations:
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (programs). Closes: #273941
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org> Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:11:00 +0200
debconf (1.4.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Translations:
- Correct errors in Greek translation by Konstantinos Margaritis
- Italian debconf update. Closes: #272521
- Czech debconf update. Closes: #273522
- Russian translation updates. Closes: #272723
- Dutch translation added. Closes: #272535
- Portuguese translation added. Closes: #273227
* Spelling error in "man page" of debconf-show fixed. Closes: #272541
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:14:59 -0400
debconf (1.4.36) unstable; urgency=low
* Joey Hess
- Used wrong regexp in last version.
* Translations:
- Updated French translation (programs and debconf)
Closes: #242935, #264152, #271373, #255657
- Updated/added Ukrainian translations (programs and debconf)
Closes: #270088
- Polish debconf translation updated
Closes: #271398
- Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation checked
Closes: #271412
- Correct trivial errors to Russian and Polish translations headers
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:09:14 -0400
debconf (1.4.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix debconf-get-selections to not choke on files with comments followed
by nothing.
* Allow multiple spaces between all values except the last one in preseed
files.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:30:42 -0400
debconf (1.4.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Skip questions with no known type also in debconf-get-selections.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:25:20 -0400
debconf (1.4.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Skip title questions in debconf-get-selections along with the notes, text,
and errors previously skipped.
* Add titles to the list of known types in debconf-set-selections, just in
case.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:42:50 -0400
debconf (1.4.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Hack in an --installer parameter in debconf-get-selections so the d-i
manual can document a sane way to generate d-i preseeding files.
* Add the question's short description as a comment in
debconf-get-selections output, and skip notes, text, and errors.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:46:03 +0100
debconf (1.4.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Improve the man page with state machine improvements and better back out
handling from Bruce Perens.
* Minor Danish po file update. Closes: #262131
* Patch from David Schweikert to let dpkg-reconfigure use the noninteractive
frontend if forced to do so. Closes: #263398
* Patch from Julien Louis to add translations of debconf-communicate and
debconf-set-selections to debconf-i18n. Closes: #264140
* Ran recode latin1..utf-8 debian/changelog. Closes: #214563
* Add Tukish po file translation from Recai Oktas. Closes: #264713
* Japanese po file update from kmuto. Closes: #265984
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:11:33 +0100
debconf (1.4.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix and update German translation. Thanks, Michael Piefel. Closes: #260572
* Update Basque templates translation. Thanks, Piarres Beobide Egaña.
Closes: #260678
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:35 -0400
debconf (1.4.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Force two spare lines to be available for select and multiselect lists
in the dialog frontend. Closes: #255652
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:16:31 -0400
debconf (1.4.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo fixes in debconf-devel.7. Closes: #253341
* Put back the PREVIOUS_MODULE stuff, at least console-data "uses" it,
although it does nothing, is undocumented, etc.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:28:25 -0400
debconf (1.4.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Change the shell confmodule to not construct functions on the fly.
The new code is smaller, a bit faster, and simpler, but the important
thing is that it does not clobber $@. The old version messed up $@ if
parameters contained spaces.
* Removed the never completed PREVIOUS_MODULE stuff from the shell,
perl, and python confmodules.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:14:31 -0400
debconf (1.4.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Basqe translation by Piarres Beobide Egaña. Closes: #247321
* German translation update. Closes: #251731
* Catalan translation update. Closes: #251786
* Remove soi-unsightly trailing blanks in debconf-show output.
Closes: #252482
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 2004 14:35:50 -0400
debconf (1.4.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Overload Template object's stringification, so metaget of a question's
template field returns the name of the template. Closes: #244089
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:50:09 -0400
debconf (1.4.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryako to make the dialog frontend use a
utf-aware width function when calculating dialog sizes. Closes: #245688
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:15:52 -0400
debconf (1.4.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Update po/ja.po. Closes: #241786
* Fix frontend capitalisation warning. Closes: #242277
* Wording tweak in dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #242917
* Update po/da.po. Closes: #243202
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:01:02 -0500
debconf (1.4.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove old stuff for cvs repo in README. Closes: #241252
* Improve handling of bad priorities, and documentation. Closes: #241292
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:29:43 -0500
debconf (1.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Ukrainian po file. Closes: #241044
* Fix more encoding problems with the gnome frontend introduced by the last
patch. Closes: #240898
* In the KDE frontend, don't show the window until there is a question to
ask. Closes: #239109
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:04:56 -0500
debconf (1.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix Gnome frontend's display of select and multiselect questions
and notes to use more of the available space. Closes: #229009
Thanks to Mark Howard for this patch.
* Use tooltips to display the help texts for questions in the Gnome
frontend. Closes: #240299 (Mark Howard). The Help bttons are still
left in the UI for now.
* Updated Greek po file from Konstantinos Margaritis. Closes: #240641
* French po update from Julien Louis. Closes: #240648
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:41:16 -0500
debconf (1.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed all sigils. Closes: #223020, #182239, #239916
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:01:40 -0500
debconf (1.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Turkish po file translation from Recai Oktas. Closes: #239141
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:29:51 -0500
debconf (1.4.16) unstable; urgency=medium
* Dialog and whiptail differ in their handling of --nocancel with
--defaultno. Never use the two options together. Closes: #236943
* Bump the urgency, this bug can cause bad things to happen and needs to be
fixed in testing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:59:28 -0500
debconf (1.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix call to to_Unicode in KDE String element. Closes: #236574
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:13:00 -0900
debconf (1.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix display on non-latin symbols in the KDE frontend. Closes: #235837
(Thanks, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
* Added Chinese po files. Closes: #235950 (thanks, Carlos Liu)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:36:18 -0500
debconf (1.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated French manpages from Julien Louis, includes new
debconf-{get,set}-selections translations. Closes: #235690
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:31:51 -0500
debconf (1.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated Spanish templates translation. Closes: #232662
* Fix dialog frontend's handling of user entering nothing in an inputbox,
in this case whiptail's output FD is eof, and care must be taken to not
return undef. Closes: #233618, #226963, #227732
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:35:36 -0500
debconf (1.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Use treeview for gnome multiselect lists (kov). Closes: #232090
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:33:40 -0500
debconf (1.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from Sylvain Ferriol:
- allow empty calues in LDAP DbDriver
- change debconf.schema to support slapd 2.1.x. Closes: #215878
- adds a test suite for DbDrivers.
Thanks, Sylvain!
* Work around perl bug #231619 by unnecessarily using fields in
DirTree.pm. Closes: #227013
* Patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryakov to fix display of messages in KOI8
locales using the GNOME frontend. Closes: #231302
* Re-introduce debconf-get-selections and debconf-set-selections.
The former goes in debconf-utils, the latter in debconf so it can be
used for preseeding during new installs.
* Patch example in debconf-devle(7) to deal with variables that the admin
removed from the config file, but when turned back on via a
dpkg-reconfigure. Thanks, Daniel Kobras.
* Update Polish translation. Closes: #230869
* New Ukrainian translation by Eugeniy Meshcheryako. Closes: #230964
* Update French translation. Closes: #231496
* Update Dutch translation, sorry that took so long. Closes: #227884
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:08:43 -0500
debconf (1.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove padding whitespace from the end of lines in select questions
in the teletype frontend.
* Explicitly waitpid on dialog in the dialog frontend, to work around
some kind of perl / linux 2.6 behavior change with plain wait.
Closes: #228987
* New Czech translation by Miroslav Kure. Closes: #230600
* Updated Danish translation. Closes: #230618 (non-templates)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:08:08 -0500
debconf (1.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix debian/po/fi.po.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:17:33 -0500
debconf (1.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated de.po from Leonard Michlmayr.
* Gustavo Noronha Silva:
- work around encoding problems when using UTF-8 locales and Gnome
frontend. Closes: #226896
- use a scrooled window instead of a vscrollbar so that
looong texts will fit better.
- addbutton now accepts mnemonics, good for usability!
* Fix misc formatting and tab damange.
* pt_BR update from Gustavo Noronha Silva.
* Updated debian/po/ja.po from Kenshi Muto. Closes: #227462
* Updated debian/po/da.po from Morten Brix Pedersen. Closes: #227617
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:05:55 -0500
debconf (1.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated Finnish translation. Closes: #226900
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:36:52 -0500
debconf (1.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add a Greek translation by Konstantinos Margaritis. Closes: #226834
* Updated the French translation. Closes: #226226
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:02:02 -0500
debconf (1.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Port of the gnome frontend to GNOME2 libs:
* Debconf/Frontend/Gnome.pm, Debconf/Element/Gnome.pm,
Debconf/Element/Gnome/*.pm:
- fixed debian logo exibition
* Makefile, debian-logo.png, debian-logo.xpm:
- use a png instead of a xpm to have a cuter interface =P
* Above changes from Gustavo Noronha Silva. Closes: #225503
* Fix broken fallback from noninteractive frontend in dpkg-reconfgure.
Closes: #226205
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:49:21 -0500
debconf (1.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Deal better with hostname -f during debootstrap.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:36:48 -0500
debconf (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from Denis Barbier to fix return values from select and multiselect
in the KDE frontend to take localisation into account. Closes: #225504
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:16:38 -0500
debconf (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Add an exerimental KDE frontend, contributed by Peter Rockai.
Closes: #224040
* Generate Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/WizardUi.pm in Makefile using puic,
so build-depend on libqt-perl.
* Added basic pod docs for the Kde frontend, though it could stand
improvements.
* Fix code formatting to match the rest of debconf.
* Use frontend debug facility instead of developer.
* Remove some dead code and useless init methods that just call super.
* Split modules into their own files where appropriate; better handling
of libqt-perl less systems with Kde frontend selected.
* Suggest libqt-perl.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:03:46 -0500
debconf (1.3.22) unstable; urgency=medium
* When the teletype frontend is processing the answer to a boolean
question, accept English answers even if the locale is set to some other
language, as the question may not yet be translated. Closes: #220472
* Remove cruft that acted as if "" was a default value in Teletpye Boolean.
Closes: #210671
* debconf-copydb, DbDriver/Copy: deal better with input dbs that have no
Owners fields, such as cdebconf templates dbs. Assume that the owner is
"unknown" in this case.
* Add support for the SETTITLE command to better handle translated titles.
Closes: #172218, #213184
* Drop ucfirst of package name in default title.
* Make Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule deprecation warning go to stderr,
not log.
* Conflict with versions of whiptail before --default-item was added.
* Use --default-item in dialog frontend, instead of the nasty menu
reordering. Yay!
* Move debconf-communicate from debconf-utils to debconf, it is needed by
base-config 2.0.
* Urgency medium to help the new base-config get into testing quickly.
* Dialog frontend set values to "" or defaults when the user hit cancel or
escape and capb backup was not enabled. Instead, in this case do not
change any values.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:05:22 -0500
debconf (1.3.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix multiselect elements in non-C locales. Closes: #221410
Thanks to Kenshi Muto and Akira TAGOH for the debugging.
* Numerous typo and consistency fixes in man pages by Yann Dirson.
Closes: #221670
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:49:43 -0500
debconf (1.3.20) unstable; urgency=low
* The locations of debconf-get-selectons and debconf-set-selections are
swapped. The former should move to debconf, while the latter moves to
debconf-utils. Since dpkg is broken and doesn't allow me to move them
at all, I have removed both of them from the binary packages for now.
Closes: #218648, #218698, #218712, #218661, #218685, #218683, #218658
Closes: #218667, #218646, #218676, #218644 (Well, I hope that's all!)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:42:52 -0500
debconf (1.3.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Added debconf-get-selections and debconf-set-selections, based
loosely on work by Petter Reinholdtsen. Closes: #214617
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:12:10 -0500
debconf (1.3.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Various man page fixes (Closes: #217170).
* Add translated debconf-devel.fr.7, and update Debconf::Client::ConfModule
and debconf translations. All from Julien Louis. Closes: #217536
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:52:13 -0400
debconf (1.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Sort list of owners in Question.pm before returning it. The changes to
hash randomization in perl 5.8.1 made the order random otherwise, which
breaks owners = choices style comparisons. It was also possible before
that if a db was moved to a different dbdriver backend, the order would
change. Closes: #217088
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:14:18 -0400
debconf (1.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from Fabian Franz to add support for Xdialog to the dialog
frontend, removing the old gdialog cruft.
* Fix some indentation from Xdialog patch.
* Set selectspacer for Xdialog.
* Remove undocumented DEBCONF_FORCE_GDIALOG variable, add
DEBCONF_FORCE_XDIALOG.
* Document DEBCONF_FORCE_XDIALOG.
* Patch from Denis Barbier to fix handling of locales containing a @.
Closes: #215345
* Danish update Morten Brix Pedersen. Closes: #216531
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:56:38 -0400
debconf (1.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Spanish update. Closes: #212401
* Russian update. Closes: #214364
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:01:00 -0400
debconf (1.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Move from build-depends-indep to build-depends, to match current policy.
* Updated Japanese template po file from Kenshi Muto. Closes: #210374
* Removed the outdated debconf tutorial which was aimed at converting
pre-debconf packages to debconf. Use debconf-devel(7) for all your debconf
development needs.
* Got rid of all the xml stuff, trimmed build deps down.
* Lots of other doc reference updates.
* Removed the pre 0.9 downgrade warning from prerm.
* Removed the debconf.cfg removal code from postinst.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:18:16 -0400
debconf (1.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
* pt_BR template po update. Closes: # 207963
* French po file update. Closes: #208365
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:24:53 -0400
debconf (1.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Update Spanish templates. Closes: #206803
* Fix name of dpkg-preconfigure in its help output. Closes: #206892
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:48:21 -0400
debconf (1.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed the showold question, and all showold support except what's
necessary for dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #129666, #184142
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:28:56 -0400
debconf (1.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Dutch templates po file translaton. Closes: #204916
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:47:43 -0400
debconf (1.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
* French man page updates from Julien Louis. Closes: #204745
* Move dh_python to python2.3 module directory. Closes: #206165
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:15:25 -0400
debconf (1.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Make the LDAP driver not crash debconf if it is not Required and it fails
to connect. Closes: #203780
* Added perl to Suggests line since perl and/or perl-modules are
needed by eg, the readline frontend. Also added note to man page.
Closes: #203766
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:12:29 -0400
debconf (1.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated French translaton by Christian Perrier. Closes: #203101
* debconf-i18n conflicts/replaces older debconf-utils, which used to have
the translated copydb manpages. Closes: #203619
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:38:25 -0400
debconf (1.3.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a typo.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:54 -0400
debconf (1.3.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Improved wording of error message while parsing config file.
Closes: #184991
* debconf-copydb: Include --owner-pattern option in the synopsis and usage.
Closes: #201680
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:02 -0400
debconf (1.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
* readline and teletype frontends do not display default in brackets,
and do not special case empty string as the default. It's more important
that the user be able to enter an empty string reliably. Default values
are still provided if Term::Readline::Gnu is installed. Closes: #183970
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:03:19 +0200
debconf (1.3.3) unstable; urgency=low
* FORCE_DIALOG is now renamed to DEBCONF_FORCE_DIALOG, and documented.
Also, it now simply sets the preference; if dialog is not installed
debconf will use whiptail with this variable set.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:16:09 +0200
debconf (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
* The "free meals all week" release.
* Do the debconf-utils doc dir transition in its postinst, not preinst.
Closes: #201018, #201024, #201019, #201018, #201017
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:18:35 +0200
debconf (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Amaya says I can't eat until I fix a RC bug" release.
* Updated ja.po. Closes: #200764
* Fix debconf-utils preinst to not try to remove the old directory on a
fresh install. Closes: #200941
* debconf-i18n needs to Replaces debconf, as it takes over files from the
old version.
* First DebConf^3 upload.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:12:03 +0200
debconf (1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf will now use Tomohiro KUBOTA's Text::WrapI18N module for line
folding, thus supporting proper display of:
- multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5,
- combining characters and fullwidth characters which occupy zero
and two columns on screen, and
- languages which don't use whitespace between words (Chinese and
Japanese) and mixture of such languages and other languages.
* Debconf also makes use of Tomohiro's Text::CharWidth module for character
counting.
* Known bugs:
- Line-folding of prompt line in readline frontend is not aware of
multibyte encodings nor combining/fullwidth characters (Bug#195678).
- For dialog frontend, "dialog" package should not be used because
it doesn't yet support multibyte encodings nor combining/fullwidth
characters (Bug#195674). (Dickey is working on it.)
* The above is made possible thanks to the work of Tomohiro KUBOTA
<kubota@debian.org>.
* Extended Deconf::Encoding module to provide wrap, $cols, and width.
It loads Tomohiro's modules if available, and falls back Text::Wrap and
length if not.
* Reorganized the i18n support, so all necessary packages are installed by
default (Closes: #196475, #173647), and so it can easily be removed
(saving 500k) for those who don't need it and lack disk space.
Introduced debconf-i18n and debconf-english packages.
* Link debconf-utils doc dir to debconf's, since it depends on it anyway.
With transition preinst script. Saves 60k.
* debconf-english and debconf-i18n are linked also.
* debconf-show: Act on all packages named on command line. Closes: #198036
* debconf.fr.7 update. Closes: #198096
* debian/po/fr.po update
* SCHEIDLER Balazs <bazsi@balabit.hu> provided a patch to make the
passthrough frontend skip hidden elements. Closes: #198503
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:53:20 -0400
debconf (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
* Make the conflict with whiptail-utf8 versioned (to the last version
before it was removed) since whiptail provides it. Closes: #197863
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:01:37 -0400
debconf (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Follow up with a Spanish template update, also from Carlos.
Closes: #196786
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:03:28 -0400
debconf (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
* Spanish translation update from Carlos Valdivia Yagüe. Closes: #196672
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:44:13 -0400
debconf (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Conflict with whiptail-utf8 until it gets --output-fd support.
Closes: #195818
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:35:38 -0400
debconf (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
* Conflict with whiptail versions before 0.51.4-7, which adds --output-fd
support.
* Turn on output-fd support for whiptail.
* Wrap priority question better on narrow terminals. Closes: #195485
* Make Net::LDAP use LDAPv3 since that's the default provided by slapd
now. Closes: #195673
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:31:15 -0400
debconf (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Conflict with dialogs older than 0.9b-20020814-1, which added --output-fd.
* Add support to dialog frontend for using the --output-fd switch when using
dialog, to separate error messages and output. Closes: #194331
However, whiptail does not yet implement --output-fd, so you can still
screw your system up using whiptail and a bad TERM setting. This is
whiptail bug #55182.
* Updated Japanese translation. Closes: #193747
* Updated French translation. Closes: #194525
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 May 2003 11:50:49 -0400
debconf (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
* 822 formatter: Support values beginning with whitepace. (See #189026)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 2003 15:51:32 -0400
debconf (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Several French translation updates from Julien Louis. Closes: #189448
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:43:38 -0400
debconf (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't need PATH munging for dh_installdebconf since po-debconf is used
now. Closes: #185913
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:07:00 -0800
debconf (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated pt_BR template po file again. Closes: #184950
* typo, Closes: #185587
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:21:34 -0800
debconf (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated pt_BR template po file. Closes: #183301
* Complete de and da translations downloaded from DDTP.
(NB, some have trailing whitespace fuzzyness issues.)
* debconf-mergetemplates: Split field and lang non-greedily on field,
to properly split eg, fr.iso-8859-1. Patch from Dennis.
* Patch from Roderich Schupp:
- PackageDir needs to manually remove files on shutdown, calling
inherited remove method fails as the items are not in the cache
anymore. This only shows up if using PackageDir for both config and
templates.
- Fix typo in Directory::remove which kept it from removing "-old"
backup files.
- Make PackageDir::shutdown Call endfile on format.
Closes: #182725
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:46:54 -0500
debconf (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Use ! not ^ in confmodule character class. Closes: #183032
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:32:23 -0500
debconf (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Now provides the debconf-2.0 virtual package. Note that 2.0 is the debconf
protocol version, not the package version. Packages that depend on debconf
should begin to migrate over to the new virtual package, as it will
eventually let cdebconf be used as an alternate.
(However, I will wait for this to get into testing before changing
dh_installdebconf's generated dependencies, to avoid blocking too much
from testing.)
* No longer provides debconf-tiny.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:06:18 -0500
debconf (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
* confmodule: split on only one whitespace. Closes: #182287
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:40:20 -0500
debconf (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Update for debconf-show.fr.1 and confmodule.fr.3.
* debconf-getlang and debconf-mergetemplate now print deprecation warnings.
* Set $Text::Wrap::break = qr/\n|\s(?=\S)/ Closes: #159653
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:23:16 -0500
debconf (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Debugf message when skipping 1 or 0 select select question.
Closes: #181620
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:28:57 -0500
debconf (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
* With a name like POSIX_ME_HARDER, what do you expect? Turned it off in
dialog frontend. Closes: #178746
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:23:56 -0500
debconf (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
* To find .debconfrc, look up the home directory of the current user with
getpwuid, instead of trusting $HOME, which is untrustworthy thanks to
programs like sudo. Closes: #181288
* Sylvain Ferriol enhanced debconf-show so it can list debconf databases,
owners of questions, and so it can be limited to list only owners or
questions in a given database.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:20:17 -0500
debconf (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
* French man page updates from Julien Louis.
* Updated Russian po files from Serge Winitzki. Closes: #180891
(corrected po/ru.po broken quote and added missing \n)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:29:11 -0500
debconf (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
* LDAP DbDriver: If bind to server fails, throw an error (that can be
downgraded to a warning by making the DbDriver non-required), instead of
calling a method of an undefined value. Closes: #175989
* Applied Denis Barbier's LANGUAGE env variable support patch.
Closes: #172704
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:15:14 -0500
debconf (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated pt_BR.po from Andre Luis Lopes, Closes: #177224
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:49:51 -0500
debconf (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-copydb: Fixed -c parsing for passwords with colons in them, etc.
Closes: #173796
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:33:41 -0500
debconf (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Build-depend on python for dh_python. Closes: #172839
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:30:59 -0500
debconf (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Added --default-priority to dpkg-reconfigure.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:28:33 -0500
debconf (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a python binding for debconf written by moshez. If you use it, you
must take care of making your package depend on python; debconf itself
does not. It only works with python 2.2.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:13:35 -0500
debconf (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated da.po. Closes: #171890
* Force unset POSIXLY_CORRECT in dialog frontend; whiptail cannot use
sleect list params after -- (the only truely safe way to pass them) if
this variable is set. Closes: #170646
* Fixed a typo in debconf-devel man page. Closes: #172152
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:01:43 -0500
debconf (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Mention text data-type in deconf-devel(7). #168761
* Updated French man pages.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:05:53 -0500
debconf (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed up templates and po/output. Closes: #167600
* Patch from Roderich Schupp fixes double lock issue with PackageDir
DbDriver.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:11:25 -0500
debconf (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Reworded debconf/priority template. Closes: #60541
* Updated zh_TW.Big5.po.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:27:08 -0500
debconf (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix debconf/helper confusion in debconf-devel(7). Closes: #166585
* Don't let readline frontend be used with Term::ReadLine::GNU and emacs
shell buffers, as those two don't get along. See bug #166987
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:49:53 -0500
debconf (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Include topmost 100 changelog entries now in the hope that I will rarely
release debconf 100 times between entries into testing. I'm still leery of
bloating the base system with 50k of ancient changelog. Closes: #165399
* Added debconf.conf.fr.5.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:44:05 -0400
debconf (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Ongoing French manpage translations.
* Italian template update. Closes: #164807
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:24:19 -0400
debconf (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Added DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC environment variable, which reportbug can set to
make it ignore ~/.debconfrc when gathering debconf information.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:39:58 -0400
debconf (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: run prerm script. Should be safe.
* Doc update Closes: #162978
* Use po-debconf for debconf package's own template translations.
* debconf-getlang and debconf-mergetemplate are deprecated in favour of
po-debconf.
* Added docs to debconf-devel(7) about using po-debconf.
* Remove old translation section from tutorual.
* Remove bts-script.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:33:30 -0400
debconf (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated ja.po. Closes: #162268
* Updated ca.po.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:12:09 -0400
debconf (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed name of french debconf-getlang(1) translation file so it will be
put into the binary package. Closes: #161879
* Similar for debconf-copydb and debconf.1. Closes: #161878
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:35:05 -0400
debconf (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Turn on binmode on output to avoid encoding re-conversion.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:17:16 -0400
debconf (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Experiment in signing a deb for the archive failed: apt-ftparchive and all
apt deb parsing are horribly screwed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:39:09 -0400
debconf (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo, Closes: #161518
* dpkg-reconfigure: Don't imply that a package is broken if it is not
installed. Closes: #161528
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:38:24 -0400
debconf (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed fileutils dep. Debconf's postinst has changed a lot and it is not
needed. Closes: #161421
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:12:41 -0400
debconf (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Hmm, I wasn't aware that perl ran use's inside eval {} blocks at compile
time. Use quotes instead. Closes: #161308, #161273
* Updated ja.po from Junichi Uekawa.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:26:08 -0400
debconf (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Added support for encoding specification in translated templates. Use
field names of the form "Field-ll_LL.charset". Example:
Description-de_DE.UTF-8
* The reccommended encoding of all debconf templates files is UTF-8.
Whenever it is possible, do not use other encodings. The possibility to
support non-UTF-8 encodings is provided just in case.
* Prefer a field matching the user's charset and language. If one is
not found, look for one matching the user's language, and use iconv to
convert to their charset.
* Suggest libtext-iconv-perl, without which the above will not work.
* This is all experimental, untested, and undocumented.
* Closes: #148490
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:22:02 -0400
debconf (1.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Add question when loading a template if the question is gone and the
template still claims to own it. This should never happen unless you
have a disk crash or bad kernel hang when using debconf, but enough
people experience it to waste too much of my time. This is more robust.
Closes: #151406, #160960
* Update fr.po
* Fixed typos in debconf.conf.
* fix_db.pl: Loop only 10 times. Closes: #153775
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:03:47 -0400
debconf (1.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Added back Polish template translation. Closes: #160183
* Fixed bad use of gettext in gnome hostname thing. Closes: #160209
* Updated Polish po file. Closes: #160210
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:36:08 -0400
debconf (1.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed undefined sigil problem with [More] prompt.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:02:21 -0400
debconf (1.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed stdin/stdout inversion in call to open3 in dialog frontend.
Closes: #155682
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:05:31 -0400
debconf (1.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow stacked dbdrivers with readonly databases on top.
* Patch from Michel Dänzer to put the hostname in the gnome window title.
Closes: #141235
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:24:55 -0400
debconf (1.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Man page type fixes and translations from Philippe Batailler
and Julien Louis.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:49:11 -0400
debconf (1.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Minor templates fixes by Denis Barbier. Closes: #158189
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:16:53 -0400
debconf (1.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo, Closes: #157885
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:35:59 -0400
debconf (1.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Added several translated French man pages from Julien Louis.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:41:34 -0400
debconf (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Be forgiving of leading/trailing whitespace in lines of debconf.conf.
Closes: #157010
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:59:00 -0400
debconf (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Typos. Closes: #155547, #155572
* debconf-devel(7) example conffile premision preservation pathch
Closes: #157134
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:55:46 -0400
debconf (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Added DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE and DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK environment variables
that are very useful for feeding databases to remote hosts for unattended
ad-hoc mass upgrades. Based on a patch by Sam Vilain.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:49:36 -0400
debconf (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Deal better with empty or soly-comments config files.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:22:12 -0400
debconf (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected references to /usr/doc in man page. Closes: #154571
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:44:16 -0400
debconf (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from "Devin Carraway" <debbug-debconf-20020724@nospam.devin.com>
to debconf-mergetemplate outputs what part is fuzzy. Closes: #154109
* Used said output to quickly fix up debconf's two fuzzy template items.
Very nice!
* Allow regular user to run dpkg-reconfigure --help. Closes: #153916
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:08:51 -0400
debconf (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't override default die; that makes catching dialog frontend failure
to run in an eval when TERM is unset fail.
* Detect multiline protocol errors and warn, and work around.
* Updated debconf.conf.5 pt_BR translation.
* Make dialog frontend refuse to run with TERM=unknown. Closes: #153122
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:04:08 -0400
debconf (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed bug in PackageDir exists when called on nonexistant items that
were part of an existing package.
* Directory DbDriver is pure virtual now; I had to move exists and iterator
out of it, and it is fairly useless by itself.
* Seems that LDAP has no end of quoting problems, and Dagfinn Ilmari
Mannsåker sent in a patch to update more of them (changes the schema again
amoung other things). Closes: #152477
* Stop leaking priority fields into the config database.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:38:55 -0400
debconf (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed up iterator for PackageDir DbDriver. PackageDir still has problems
with a few edge conditions.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:58:45 -0400
debconf (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
* The "no, DebConf 2 is over there" release.
* Added a new dbdriver called "PackageDir" that stores items for each package
in separate files (shared items go in their own file) in a subdirectory.
This is a tradeoff between the load speed of DirTree and the
manageability and smaller size of the flat file that has been the default
so far. Locality of reference is reasonable when debconf is used on a
per-package basis, as in debian. This dbdriver is planned to superceed
File as the default once it's gotten some testing.
If you want to test this, edit your debconf.conf to define new databases
of this type into it, use debconf-copydb to copy your existing databases
into the new ones, and then make the new ones be used by default.
* Applied a patch from ilmari@ping.uio.no (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) to the
LDAP dbdriver to change fields to IA5 text, skipping empty fields.
Closes: #139779
* Made more vocal about use of capitalized frontend names, which are
deprecated. Fixed the couple of places in the debconf tree that still used
the old style.
* Note that debconf.conf(5) pt_BR translation is outdated.
* Make Directory (and not just DirTree) dbdriver refuse to accept
names with .. in them.
* Added support for backup files to Directory, and thus to DirTree as well,
and defaulted it to on.
* Modified cache load methods to call a cacheadd method to add items back
to cache; this allows a load method to actually load up related items when
asked for one item.
* Doc updates.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:18:33 -0400
debconf (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
* moved debconf.8 and debconf-devel.8 to section 7, and updated all
references. Closes: #150594
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:09:07 -0400
debconf (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Redesigned sigil classes a trifle, and added sigils to dialog frontend.
Using the boring punctuation ones by default there.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:41:53 -0400
debconf (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Added priority sigils to the readline frontend. If you don't like the
smileys, put Smileys: false in debconf.conf. To disable sigils entirely,
use Sigils: false. I will implement smiley customization for $25. (Ads
in a changlog -- you saw it here first :-P)
Besides looking cute, the intent here is to make it obvious what priority
a question is being asked at, to help combat priority inflation. Varying
types of sigils will be added to the other frontends as well.
* Made the examples in debconf.conf have some acuaintance with reality.
Closes: #150078
* A patch from Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> to debconf.8 documents ways of
using debconf in clusters and large installations. Closes: #150206, I
guess.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:23:20 -0400
debconf (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed warnings if a question was displayed, then unregistered, then
debconf tries to set its seen flag. Triggered by packages that ask a
question and then purge in their postrm.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:17:58 -0400
debconf (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed nasty uninitalized values from DirTree driver.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 May 2002 12:27:58 -0400
debconf (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
* French po update from Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@tuxfamily.org>.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 May 2002 10:20:27 -0400
debconf (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Have Debconf::Log override die and print a stack trace.
* Denis Barbier sent in a nice patch to clean up gettext strings. Thanks!
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 22:18:13 -0400
debconf (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure now sets DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 before running postinst
scripts. A postinst with an expensive operation to avoid at
reconfiguration time can look at this. This is a hack and we will
eventually transition to passing "reconfigure" to postinst scripts;
postinst scripts that use debconf are encouraged to begin accepting such a
parameter already.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 14:27:32 -0400
debconf (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed transition_db.pl to pass the new extra type argiments to
Question->new and Template->new. Thanks to the help of Pre and Cliph on
irc. Closes: #147932
* Don't run all the db mangling code in the whole postinst on fresh
installs.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:53:57 -0400
debconf (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed something to do with propigation of template types through database
stack driver into accept method when setting up a brand-new template with;
clearly broken at version 1.1.0. Looks like I recoded it properly but forgot
to delete the old code. Closes: #147576, #147684, #147620
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 02:28:48 -0400
debconf (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Tighthened up the version number in the dbeconf-utils conflicts.
Closes: #147490
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 22:12:38 -0400
debconf (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Push 1.1 branch into unstable from experimental.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:06:29 -0400
debconf (1.1.2) experimental; urgency=low
* Really fixed apt.conf.d file.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 May 2002 21:03:07 -0400
debconf (1.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
* debconf-mergetemplate will now only drop old templates if it is passed
a --drop-old-templates parameter. The old waqy broke base-config's build,
and might break anytime someone calls the program by hand in a weird way.
I will turn this parameter on in dh_installdebconf though.
Closes: #145436
* Updated french po file.
* Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp> sent in a new Japanese templates
file.
* Fixed apt.conf.d file.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:24:29 -0400
debconf (1.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
* NOT targeted at woody.
* debconf-mergetemplate now drops out of date translations by default.
The --outdated flag allows for the old behavior of keeping them.
Closes: #131173
* Added a "debconf" program, which runs a given program inside debconf
without all the nasty hackiness that auto-debconf invocation entails.
The future hope is that dpkg becomes smart enough to run postinst scripts
that use debconf by means of this program. Closes: #75578, #119338
This means a conflict with cdebconf.
* This command is the best way to debug debconf-using scripts, you can run
a command like debconf sh -x my-script. Documented that, Closes: #84864
* And the debconf command has a --showold option. I added a DEBCONF_SHOWOLD
variable for good measure. Closes: #130072
* Split the configdb into two files, a password database and a database for
all else. This allows normal users to query the debconf db for items that
are not passwords, which should be generally useful. The immediate
application is a bug report plugin that includes debconf-show output..
* The configdb split will happen automatically on systems with an unmodified
debconf.conf. Admins of systems with a modified debconf.conf will need to
do it manually, if it is done at all.
* I had to move debconf-copydb into the main debconf package, since it is
used to do the db split.
* Make failure to open a database cause the init method to abort, even if
the db is not required. Cuts down on ugly messages.
* Fixed accept method to look up the real template of a question instead of
assuming that there will be a template by the same name as the question.
* I had to add a third parameter to Debconf::Question->new to make
accept/rejecttype really work right. And similar to all the addowner
methods. And fixed a typo that had prevented it from working at all.
* Added a DEBCONF_NOWARNINGS environment variable. Amoung other things this
can be used to turn off the frontend fallback messages. Closes: #103288
* Have debconf-show open the db readonly, so it will not contend for locks.
* Put debconf-show in /usr/bin/.
* Turned on comment stripping of some more files.
* Now supports escaped substitution variables in templates, do it like
"\${foo}", and "${foo}" will be displayed. Closes: #122818
* Made the dialog frontend smarter about exceedingly wide select and
multiselect choices. Closes: #129224
* Using upper-case in the value of DEBIAN_FRONTEND is deprecated, and
debconf now warns when it detects this if DEBCONF_DEBUG is set to
developer. Closes: #131800
* Do not skip displaying multiselect questions that have only one choice;
the user still needs to choose between one and none. Closes: #139489
* Don't load Getopt::Long unless there are options to process in
Debconf::Config.
* A multiselect question, once displayed, gets its value set to the selected
choices, in the same order as those choices appear in its Choices field.
Previously, the order had been undefined. Closes: #129768, #135961
* Warn when an unknown field is found in a template. Closes: #131227
* Stronger reccommendation of libterm-readline-gnu-perl in documentation.
Closes: #136284
* Settled on one email address.
* Some s/Syntax:/Usage:/
* Patch from Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> to let debconf-copydb
filter by owner. Closes: #136488
* Uses debhelper v4.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:54:03 -0400
debconf (1.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Made fix_db.pl more robust in the face of really screwed up db's.
* Updated debconf schema using OID numbers allocated under
enterprise.Debian.package.debconf by Wichert.
* Fixed ancient program name in old tutorual. Closes: #141904
* Fixed some typos and crazy man escapage in debconf.devel(8),
Closes: #140991
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:27:43 -0500
debconf (1.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a bug in the Stack driver's iterator, needed by FAI.
Thanks to Joerg Lehmann <joerg@luga.de> for the patch.
* Typo and spelling corrections (did not change verbiage to verbage however;
I do not intend that connotation). Closes: #131807
* Added --force to dpkg-reconfigure.
* Fixed typo in debconf.conf. Closes: #140085
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:27:18 -0500
debconf (1.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Versioned conflicts with debconf-tiny, see #137019
* Corrected some wording in the German translation. Closes: #137005
* Removed translated default fields in the Russian template (don't do that,
folks).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:54:40 -0500
debconf (1.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> contributed a LDAP backend
database for debconf. This will open up all kinds of new possiilities
for using debconf in a cluster, etc. It is currently experimental, and
will not be used unless you enable it; so there is no chance this new
code will impact the freeze.
* Wrote debconf-devel(8) man page, which attempts to be a complete
reference for developing packages that use debconf. Read it.
* Fixed the doc-base name of the debconf tutorial.
* Minor change to debconf-mergetemplate man page synopsis.
* Refuse to use the dialog frontend if the screen is too small,
it'll fall back to the text frontend which will work on screens
down to about 2 lines of 20 characters each. Closes: #132972
* Fixed typo, Closes: #134161
* Patch from Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org> to make debconf-getlang
work better with ll_LL form languages. Closes: #134307
* Display choices for boolean questions in the editor frontend,
Closes: #135078
* Improved the section in the tutorial on translations. Patch from Denis
Barbier. Closes: #96836
* Added a new Russian template from Ilgiz Kalmetev, Closes: #135839
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:37:19 -0500
debconf (1.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed uninitialized value warning in Teletype frontend.
Actually, this was a bug that did not let it display only one column on
choices when necessary; triggered by quake2-data.
* Incuded a short README.Debian for debconf-utils, Closes: #129541
* Made the README point to all the main docs for users and developers.
Closes: #129545
* Deregister SIGPIPE handler after confmodule finishes, so it is not called
after the object is gone. Closes: #129463
* Chomp whitespace at the end of field continuation lines; this fixes a
bug that caused some indented lines to be accidentially wrapped up to
the previous line.
* Stop using funky grave quotes in this package's templates.
* Updated Spanish template. Closes: #128838
* Updated Catalan.
* Added German po file, updated templates.
* Killed the following overly-outdated translated templates: pl, ru,
zh_CN, zh_TW, nl, ja, it.
* fi and gl have one fuzzy translation each, and all the rest are fine.
* Corrected incorrect indents in a number of translated templates, sigh.
* debconf(8) tweak, Closes: #130348
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:30:25 -0500
debconf (1.0.25) unstable; urgency=medium
* The "bite the bullet" release.
* Enhanced fix_db.pl to detect and deal with every debconf db corruption
scenario that has been reported to me. Run it on upgrade from versions
prior to this one. I suspect that all instances of inconsistent and
corrupt debconf db's are due to past bugs in debconf and especially the
transition from the crufty old data::dumper db, and the "fix" for the
missing template problem, plus possibly some unclean shutdown problems.
So fix them all now, and either the problems go away for good or I prove
my theories wrong if they pop back up later.
* Closes: #128707, #128265, #99786
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:25:06 -0500
debconf (1.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Reverted the $Text::Wrap::break change from the last version, as that was
making Text::Wrap eliminate multiple \n's, which leads to display
problems. Closes: #128034
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:59:58 -0500
debconf (1.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Delete vanishing extended descriptions when merging templates.
Closes: #126239
* Set $Text::Wrap::break=q/\s+/ everywhere I use Text::Wrap,
see bug #126202
* zh_TW.Big5.po update
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:13:39 -0500
debconf (1.0.22) unstable; urgency=HIGH
* I've had a number of reports of truncated templates files (that make
debconf crash later). Some if not all are related to system hangs while
an upgrade is in progress. Since debconf is already very careful to do
updates atomically, nearly the only safety feature left is to sync files
after writing them, which I have now done for all db file writes. My
hypothesis is that the atomicity was being thwarted by disk caching.
Closes: #122891, #112921, #122825, #112921 (??)
* Directory DbDriver was unlocking the db too early, fixed.
* ConfModule: on startup(), automatically CLEAR. Closes: #122176
* Fixed crash if a question is INPUT, UNREGISTERed, and then we GO.
Closes: #120303
* Updated fr.po from Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>
* Also a patch from Martin to make 'make check' in po output stats.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:10:12 -0500
debconf (1.0.21) unstable; urgency=high
* High urgency upload to get this into testing before the freeze, as it
fixes a bug that can cripple upgrades from stable.
* Conflict with whiptail << 0.50.17-7, as some version between that one and
the 0.50-7 in stable changes something that is required to make the
fix I put in for values starting with dashes work. Closes: #122182
* Added a number of Brazilian Portuguese man pages.
Closes: #122011, #122012, #122017, #122018, #122019, #122026, #122028
Closes: #122027, #121982, #122001
* Updated Swedish translation.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:55:23 -0500
debconf (1.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Documented that debconf-getlang runs descriptions through a word-wrapper.
Closes: #97049
* When parsing a template description, if there is a " \n", don't turn that
into " " when collapsing newlines, and instead go with just a single
space.
* From Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>, a patch to the Gtk frontend
that makes it more usable with packages with a large multiselect widget,
or with lots of concurent questions. The main change is that the window
now scrolls. Closes: #113801
* Federico also sent a patch that moves widgets in the gtk frontend around
for better cosmetics.
* Added a debconf.8 man page translated to pt_BR by Andre Luis Lopes
<andrelop@ig.com.br>, Closes: #121155
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:47:23 -0500
debconf (1.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated pt_BR debconf translation thanks to Gustavo Noronha Silva and
#debian-br. Closes: #119029
* Added several pointers to the debconf specification. Closes: #119340
* Minor spelling corrections to man page. Closes: #119843
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:46:41 -0500
debconf (1.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Another French update.
* Danish translation by Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>
* frontend: don't glob unnecessarily, Closes: #117077
* Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> figured out how to turn off the gnome
session manager warnings. Closes: #116087
* Turns out that the gnome frontend ARGV stomping was not being backed out
if gtk failed to init due to a bad DISPLAY. Fixed that, which probably
Closes: #118513
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:01:51 -0400
debconf (1.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Reworded the 'not preconfiguring' method, since it seems to confuse
people.
* Updated French translation, except for the above change.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:27:50 -0400
debconf (1.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo, Closes: #116275
* Added dashsep support for password and text elements in the dialog
frontend. Closes: #116642
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:39:52 -0400
debconf (1.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Frontend::Gnome: erase @ARGV before calling Gnome->init, since that
blasted subroutine parses @ARGV, and throws untrappable exceptions if it
sees an argument it doesn't know about. This makes tzsetup -y work with
the gnome frontend.
* Appled patch to japanese templates to work around the multibyte "word"
wrapping bug. Closes: #115314
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:15:54 -0400
debconf (1.0.13) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed inverted test added in last version. Aargh. This mistake means that
any package with doubly-indented debconf descriptions built with debconf
1.0.12 needs to be rebuilt, or the description will look nasty.
* Dialog frontend fixups:
- changed the spacer value for dialog to 0, instead of 4, which seems ok
and fixes some bad displays, like 1 line tall select lists.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:50:05 -0400
debconf (1.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified the template parser just a bit, to not add a blank line
before any template data if a template's extended description began with
a doubly-indented line. Closes: #114708
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:30:10 -0400
debconf (1.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Whoops, I forgot that Frontend::makeelement could be used as a class
method! This release fixes the scary, harmless, warning messages.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:46:47 -0400
debconf (1.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
* The "did someone mention a freeze?" release.
* Added 'Teletype' frontend, which should work on any teletype, no matter
how primative (yeah, even the ones with paper in them, or the one on
the s/390, or what you get when you ssh -T).
* Renamed the Text frontend to Readline, which better reflects what it's
all about. Of course, it's now derived from Teletype. And of course
I did this in a way that won't break anything that still tries to use a
frontend called Text..
* Added the elementtype field to FrontEnd, which lets closely related
frontends share elements without a lot of trouble; Readline uses this.
* Fixed a bug in the dialog frontend that made it display the same
infobox multiple times sometimes (with very short screens).
* Renamed Tty to ScreenSize to release confusion, and removed the
</dev/tty thing I put in long ago, since dpkg-preconfigure reopens
the tty, which should work around that ancient problem.
* Editor frontend will now work on terminals w/o a controlling tty, since
at least vim (and probably most vi's, and ed too of course!) do work ok
on such a terminal.
* Fixed Directory DbDriver to call SUPER on shutdown, which is necessary
to save out the cache. I broke that in 1.0.02, and that's why this
upload is medium urgency. Closes: #113913
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:11:54 -0400
debconf (1.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected multiselect text frontend help line to make sense in terse
mode. This involved removing any mention of numbers or letters.
Closes: #113416, #113414
* Quick and dirty gnome multiselect scrolling patch from Federico Di
Gregorio <fog@mixadlive.com>. Still looking for a better fix.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:03:21 -0400
debconf (1.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed overoptimization in File DbDriver that made it not unlock the
file if the db was saved and there were no changes to save. This was
breaking dpkg-reconfgigure of non-debconf packages. Closes: #113140
* Implemented savedb menthod in the Directory driver (just unlocks the
database), which is needed to make dpkg-reconfigure of
non-debconfiscated stuff work.
* Renamed savedb to shutdown, which more clearly indicates what that
method is supposed to do.
* pt_BR updates. Closes: #112336
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:15:13 -0400
debconf (1.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfigure: deal with horrendous numbers of packages
Closes: #110894
* Make SIGWINCH handler deal with being called in the middle of global
destuction (not as bad as it sounds..). Closes: #111149
* Minor French update, Finnish update Closes: #110897, and Galician
update.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:49:35 -0400
debconf (1.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
* Let's call it 1.0, folks!
* This leaves the following big things for later:
- a better confmodule interface that doesn't eat stdin/out
- container template types
- select list with explainations
- a textual replacement for the dialog frontend that is just as
easy to use, and sucks less
- better developer's documentation
- regression tests
- everything else in the TODO file
* I mention a dialog frontend replacement that does not suck. The slang
frontend was intended to be just that, but it is a failure, with big
problems like unscrollable extended descriptions, UI clunkiness, etc.
Nobody wants to fix these issues, and so the best thing to do is remove
it, before a lot of people begin to use it.
Closes: #66170, #81344, #96302, #74722, #77085, #101643
* Removing the slang frontend also involved:
- getting rid of debconf/helpvisible, which was only used by it
- modifiying the debconf/frontend's template description, thus making
all the translatione be out of date again, right as I release 1.0.
Bleh. I was able to clean up the french template, but all the other
translations of that template were too out of date to live, so I
removed it from them. I am accepting updated translations, and I would
love to get a 1.1 release out with fully up-to-date translations of
everything.
- doc updates
- libterm-stool-perl will be removed, so removed relations to it
- ensuring an upgrade path, if not a very clean one, for people who had
it set to use the slang frontend. You'll get dialog now, and just
ignore that nasty set of perl errors you get while upgrading to this
version, I can't do anything about it w/o some nasty hacking.
* Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> quickly updated the Spanish translaton
and added Catalan as well.
* Allow notes to be saved from the gnome frontend even if they have
already been seen. Closes: #110510
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:37:27 -0400
debconf (0.9.97) unstable; urgency=low
* French update from Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:19:36 -0400
debconf (0.9.96) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed note mailed message so it doesn't hardcode where it is mailed to.
Closes: #108287
* Updated the zh_TW.Big5 translation.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:33:19 -0400
debconf (0.9.95) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed an overloaded field problem in the Backup DbDriver.
* Fixed the InFd field of the Pipe DbDriver so it actually works, and
it may now be set to "none" to stop it from reading a db on startup.
This allows use of stuff like this, to get a partial debconf db dump,
which developers may find useful when getting info on bugs:
debconf-copydb configdb out -c Name:out -c Driver:Pipe \
-c InFd:none --pattern='^slrn/'
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:17:09 -0400
debconf (0.9.94) unstable; urgency=low
* New logo from Jared Johnson <solomon@futureks.net>, quite nice too.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:32:04 -0400
debconf (0.9.93) unstable; urgency=low
* Complete zh_TW.Big5 translation from "Hin-lik Hung, Shell"
<shell@shellhung.org>
* html2text fixed, revert workaround
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:13:44 -0400
debconf (0.9.92) unstable; urgency=low
* Worked around html2text bug (broken stdin handling) to make
tutorial.txt not be empty.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:34:17 -0400
debconf (0.9.91) unstable; urgency=low
* Added debian logo for gnome frontend. It looks like crap, but at least
the frontend runs now. Anyone want to come up with a version of the
debian logo that looks good on a blue background (or come up with a new
color scheme for this frontend -- if you know how to make a gnome driud
use some color other than white for the foreground title color ), is
the right size (64x64 I think), and doesn't eat 200+ colors?
* Other gnome frontend fixups:
- Fixed help dialog; run_and_close doesn't work, so first run and then
close.
- Gnome elements are now responsible for packing in the label and help
buttons. This makes it cleaner for text and notes to not include help
buttons, and it lets booleans not pack in a label. Instead, the
checkbox itself has the text of the question after it, which is much
nicer. Also, text type questions are displayed as unadorned labels,
which is the Right Thing.
- Make the overall window title be "Debconf", while the druid title
varies.
- Fixed multiselect questions so the defaults are auto-selected.
- Removed sigsegv handler thing. It seems to not be needed any more?
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:34:23 -0400
debconf (0.9.90) unstable; urgency=low
* Merged in Progeny's gnome frontend.
* Lots of code changes to this frontend, to bring it current from debconf
0.3, fix tab damage, not break perl object abstractions, add some docs,
remove dead code, and so forth. Mostly untested, probably quite a few
bugs introduced here, but they'll just affect this frontend, so I don't
feel _too_ bad about slipping it in so near to freeze.
* In the gnome (well, gtk) sucks department, why does the thing throw an
untrappable exception if the DISPLAY can't be connected to? Myopic. I
added a nasty hack to fork an entire process that just checks to see if
gnome is going to make debconf blow up when init'ed, or if it'll work.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:09:26 -0400
debconf (0.9.81) unstable; urgency=low
* Made frontend fallback messages less likely to generate FRNBs
(Frequently-Reported Non-Bugs).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:02:56 -0400
debconf (0.9.80) unstable; urgency=medium
* Looks like new shared templates have been ignored ever since 0.9.10!
Symtoms that installed a second package that shared a template
with an already installed first did not add the second owner to the
list of owners. It's possible that this was also responsible for
sporadic reports of db corruption; the question that should belong
to a template going away when the only recorded other owner was purged.
* Added a call in the postinst to a program to clean up after this
problem.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:11:44 -0400
debconf (0.9.79) unstable; urgency=low
* Cute, debconf was ignoring fsets of seen of questions that were asked
previously in the same session. Overagressive caching. Closes: #104490
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:28:52 -0400
debconf (0.9.78) unstable; urgency=low
* Allow for spaces and options in $EDITOR. Closes: #104445
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:27:23 -0400
debconf (0.9.77) unstable; urgency=low
* Expanded debconf.8 to include most of the text of the debconf user's
guide, and removed the user's guide. Added some additional docs to the
man page.
* Register the debconf tutorial with doc-base. Closes: #103973
* No longer shipping the introduction, though it's still in the source
for historical interest.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:31:22 -0400
debconf (0.9.76) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't use double dashes for dialog, though they are needed for
whiptail. Gag. Closes: #103867
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:08:22 -0400
debconf (0.9.75) unstable; urgency=low
* Put back debconf/helpvisible question, and made the slang frontend
toggle it again. This makes changes to the slang frontend help visiable
status made by hitting the button persistant again.
* In terse mode, default help to not visible no matter what the
helpvisible setting.
* Closes: #103621
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:33:45 -0400
debconf (0.9.74) unstable; urgency=low
* Introducing terse mode. You know what you're doing, and so you're using
the text frontend (of course!) as you do a remote upgrade from rexx over
a 30 hop, 95% packet loss link to another continent. Every byte hurts.
You don't need all those touchy-feely verbose help screens. Terse mode is
for you. (Well, for me anyway. Damn this wireless link.)
# dpkg-reconfigure debconf --terse
What interface should be used for configuring packages? Text
Ignore questions with a priority less than.. low
Show all old questions again and again? no
* Added DEBCONF_TERSE variable.
* Added terse support to text frontend.
* Renamed debconf/helpvisible to debconf/terse.
* Terse can be configured in debconfrc and with --terse too.
* Finally tracked down the mysterious text frontend title printing bug --
it happened if nothing was displayed, but a note was mailed.
* Updated korean translation from Eungkyu Song <eungkyu@sparcs.org>
Closes: #103260
* Added brazillian portuguese po file from Gustavo Noronha Silva
<kov@debian.org>, Closes: #103253
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:22:15 -0400
debconf (0.9.73) unstable; urgency=low
* Added debconf-show, which displays all questinos belonging to a
package, their values, and indicates if they have been seen or not, all
in a compact format handy for bug reports. Now why didn't I think of
this before?
* To keep the bit scales balanced, removed an unused template.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:22:15 -0400
debconf (0.9.72) unstable; urgency=low
* Dropped libterm-stool-perl down to a suggests.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:29:48 -0400
debconf (0.9.71) unstable; urgency=HIGH
* No changes. Testing has debconf 0.9.41, which breaks under perl 5.6.1.
5.6.1 just went into testing. This needs to go in ASAP.
* aj, if you see this, this is your cue to slam this package into testing
without any delay at all.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:16:26 -0400
debconf (0.9.70) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed pod2man silly man page header issue. Closes: #101766
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:11:16 -0400
debconf (0.9.69) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix doc link, Closes: #101114
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:37:32 -0400
debconf (0.9.68) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed the last known bug in the text frontend, cleaned up TODO.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:00:15 -0400
debconf (0.9.67) unstable; urgency=low
* Let's make the templates cache mode 644. There's nothing sentative in
there. (Modified the debconf.conf file.)
* Convert Mode field to octal on the fly to precent confusion.
* Spell checked debconf.conf.5. Along the way, I discovered that a field
name in the debconf db was mispelled. So, "Extention" should really be
"Extension". Update your debconf.conf. Since this is not used in the
stock config file, and I've never seen it used, I did just rename the
field, breaking backwards compatability.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:27:52 -0400
debconf (0.9.66) unstable; urgency=low
* Prevent Editor::Note's from feeding undef values into the db,
Closes: #100776
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:37:14 -0400
debconf (0.9.65) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed unsupported command message to include the syntax error code.
* Also, include full line in the error message, may make debugging easier.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:41:13 -0400
debconf (0.9.64) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated the user's guide frontend section.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:04:57 -0400
debconf (0.9.63) unstable; urgency=low
* Man page section fixes, Closes: #100076
* Noted in description of shell library that yes, the protocol commands
are lower-cased (it already explained about the db_ prefixing).
Closes: #100276
* Text frontend UI changes: select and multiselect lists no longer have
lettered choices. Instead, it uses numbers, and any unique anchored
substring of a choice is understood, too. The old system was great,
except when it sucked. This should scale more evenly.
* Added full completion to the text frontend! Now it really is the best
frontend, for sure..
* French po file update from Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>.
* Fixed an obscure bug that made the REGISTER command fail if the owner
was set to "" (or any other perlwise-false string).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:53:43 -0400
debconf (0.9.62) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated Korean translation (templates, not po file) from Eungkyu Song
<eungkyu@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr>, Closes: #99034
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2001 13:35:28 -0400
debconf (0.9.61) unstable; urgency=low
* Added some space after prompts in text frontend, which seems to
visually set off each new question more clearly.
* Made the text frontend's long-broken shutdown() method work, to
always ensure you have hit enter at a prompt if a message is printed
out as the last part of a debconf run. After trying that out for a bit,
I found I hated it, so I removed the method.
* Put a blank line between short description and long description for
notes.
* In template parsing, don't add leading spaces before new paragraphs.
(This was manifesting as an ugly one-space indent on paragraphs 2 and
on, in the text frontend.)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 May 2001 20:03:47 -0400
debconf (0.9.60) unstable; urgency=low
* Make dpkg-preconfigure read all of its input in --apt mode, even if it
cannot preconfigure, so apt doesn't think it failed. However, this will
only work in normal operation, and things might break in exceptional
circumstances. I think this is a bug in apt.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 May 2001 15:22:16 -0400
debconf (0.9.59) unstable; urgency=low
* Now that perl-base has Getopt::Long, I can get rid of the handrolled
option parsing code in most every debconf utility, saving quite some
LOC's. Even better, I was able to set up some global options for many
utilities, so -f, --frontend, -p, and --priority are standard. And all
the programs handle -h and --help too. More global options will likely
follow.
* Fixed dpkg-reconfigure --all.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 May 2001 17:36:50 -0400
debconf (0.9.58) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified Template->clearall() to actually remove fields, rather
than just setting them to ''. The old behavior broke badly if a
localized Choices field was "cleared" -- debconf would then refuse to
display that question in that locale, since there were no choices to
choose from. Closes: #95487
* To make that fix possible, I had to add yet another function to the
DbDriver interface, removefield().
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 18:39:23 -0400
debconf (0.9.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed all the lvalue stuff. Not used (I hope!), breaks under perl
5.6.1.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 23:53:20 -0400
debconf (0.9.56) unstable; urgency=low
* The POSIX_ME_HARDER release.
* confmodule: more shell fun and games. Should now deal with spaces at
the end of protocol lines. I will not go into the gory details, but it
is *disgusting*. Closes: #91229 (RC)
* ConfModule.pm: support a tab as the delimiter between numeric and
textual return codes.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 16:39:22 -0400
debconf (0.9.55) unstable; urgency=low
* A typo in debconf-getlang was making it incorrectly mark some things as
fuzzy. Fumitoshi UKAI pointed out the fix, Closes: #97475
* Some Spanish updates by Carlos Valdivia Yagüe.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 15:17:31 -0400
debconf (0.9.54) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified extended description parsing to not stick a space at the end
of every paragraph, Closes: #97002
* Made template parsing less strict, allowing there to be no space after
the colon. You should not do that though, except perhaps if the field
value is blank. Closes: #97060
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 May 2001 21:14:18 -0400
debconf (0.9.53) unstable; urgency=low
* In the dialog frontend, add a -- before the items in a select or
multiselect list when running dialog. This allows the items to start
with dashes..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 May 2001 15:25:51 -0400
debconf (0.9.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Dialog is the default frontend for new installs again, since slang
still need work, and cannot work on the base system anyway.
Closes: #96381
* DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL can be used to change where debconf mails notes and
stuff to, overriding whatever is in the config file. Note that it may
be set to "" to disable mails. Closes: #95956
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 May 2001 21:36:50 -0400
debconf (0.9.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed to converting html with html2text, which does better than
links.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:02:54 -0400
debconf (0.9.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Remove /var/lib/debconf on upgrade. Nothing uses it anymore,
and it contains some large old database files, and on most systems,
a large amount of cruft (temporary files, editor backup files, backups
of the db, sockets, the list goes on and on).
* Expunged all remaining traces of the directory from debconf and its
documentation.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 18:59:09 -0400
debconf (0.9.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Correcgted bashism in docs, Closes: #96139
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 May 2001 15:34:06 -0400
debconf (0.9.40) unstable; urgency=high
* Fixed a bug in dpkg-reconfigure that made reconfiguring base-config
fail half way through because of db lock contention problems. Db->save
was not causing the db to shut down all the way, because
%DbDriver::drivers still had a reference to it. That should be a
WeakRef, but WeakRef's arn't available in base, so I had to solve it
differently: I redefined savedb() to also close the db, dropping all
locks. Closes: #95449 (The high urgency is because this breaks new
installs of woody..)
* Also fixed dpkg-reconfigure to re-load the db properly after all this
(typo).
* Fixed an overoptimization in the Text Dialog input Element that caused
it to default inconsistently to yes or no the first time, and y or n
thereafter.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 May 2001 14:50:57 -0400
debconf (0.9.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed the debug and log stuff in debconf.conf and removed log-to.
This will break any debconf.conf files which used that stuff, but I'm
proably the only one. The new scheme is more realistic -- you can have
debconf always log a given thing, while turning on debugging of other
things temporarily on the fly.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:04:51 -0400
debconf (0.9.38) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-doc moved to section doc, Closes: #94840
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:28:35 -0400
debconf (0.9.37) unstable; urgency=low
* The "timezone bingo" release.
* Made syslog logging work with syslogd in its default configuration,
which only listens to the unix domain socket, not inet.
* If any of the syslog stuff fails, catch the exception and don't
log anything (think single user mode). I thought about falling back to
stderr logging, but if you log to syslog you probably don't want the
log info scrawled accross the console during routine single user mode
upgrades.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:57:06 -0500
debconf (0.9.36) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed variable expansion problem if a variable existed twice in the
same line. It was caused by $2 getting clobbered. Closes: #94395
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:01:01 -0700
debconf (0.9.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Closes: #93493
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:37:21 -0700
debconf (0.9.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed undefined values with log_to.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:54:25 -0700
debconf (0.9.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated to important priority since some important priority stuff uses
it.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:45:07 -0700
debconf (0.9.32) unstable; urgency=low
* The config file can have a Debug: line that is the same as always
setting DEBCONF_DEBUG. The config file can also be used to redirect
debug output to the syslog.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:10:21 -0700
debconf (0.9.31) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-mergetemplates: ignore locale settings, as they should not take
effect for this program. Closes: #91860
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:43:44 -0800
debconf (0.9.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com> contributed a Galician translation,
bringing the number of languages supported up to 15.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:49:15 -0800
debconf (0.9.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by "Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)"
<kov@debian.org>, Closes: #90864
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:49:51 -0800
debconf (0.9.28) unstable; urgency=high
* The "bugger testing" release.
* Uploaded with high urgency because I am SICK AND TIRED of getting
2 bugs a day from people who have downgraded to the ancient debconf in
testing and broken their systems, the 2 other bugs a day from people
who panic at the sight of a perl -w message, and the 3 or 4 messages a
day on -user from people who are experiencing other, tangential
problems.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:20:53 -0800
debconf (0.9.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved config file reading into Debconf::Config. This let me easily add
support for configuring more things in the config file. You can specify
a frontend or a priority in there with more to come soon.
* Config file can also be used to set Admin-Email, which defaults to
root, but can redirect mail to anyone. Also, this can be used to
turn off mail entirely. Closes: #70677
* Made dpkg-preconfigure print usage if called incorrectly, instead of
a screen of crazed messages.
* Tightened up protocol parsing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:06:09 -0800
debconf (0.9.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Completed and updated Finnish translation by Jaakko Kangasharju
<ashar@iki.fi>
* Added code in the postinst to delete any files that inexplicably linger
in /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/, since since files break the current debconf
badly. I don't know why two people have reported files there; it's
either user error or some crazy dpkg bug. Closes: #89471
* Check to make sure a template has owners besides just existing before
returning it in Template->new. This should not be necessary, but
it fixes a problem with the templates db sometimes having templates
that lack any owners. I hypothesize that the problem was caused by
one of the early 0.9x releases, but I cannot reproduce it, so this will
have to do for a workaround. Closes: #89155
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:26:11 -0800
debconf (0.9.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Branden is able to trigger the most obscure cases. :-)
Fixed a bug where a question was unregistered and removed, then
the confmodule tried to access the question again in the same run, and
Debconf::Question has a question object by that name cached, so it used
it, and the results were ugly. The fix is simple: when a question is
unregistered, remove the object from the cache. Closes: #89262
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:24:08 -0800
debconf (0.9.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed how I disable echo in password prompts in the text frontend.
For all readline libraries except ReadLine::Perl, I just use stty
-echo. That doesn't work for ReadLine::Perl, so I had to read the line
myself in that case. What a PITA. Closes: #89324
* Fixed dialog frontend to display cancel button when backing up is
enabled. Closes: #89364
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:18:56 -0500
debconf (0.9.23) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfigure: fixed problem with it trying to run an unlinked
config file if there was a template parse error (triggered by tgif).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:11:04 -0800
debconf (0.9.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Debug driver and simplified some other debug output.
* Added Pipe db driver. If Craig really wants, he can use this to do
exactly what he was complaining that debconf could not do. I think,
though, that there are really better ways of accomplishing the same thing.
* Added versioning to some 'use base'es, to detect people who have an old
base.pm floating around somewhere. See bug #89050
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:24:37 -0800
debconf (0.9.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Simplified the functions generated by /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
by using read -r a b instead of doing the set -- split thing.
* Sanitize IFS in there, so things like cvs's config script that mangle
it will not produce unexpected results. Closes: #88830
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:59:22 -0800
debconf (0.9.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed stacks so shadowing actually works and non-topmost items can be
seen (stupid thinko). Also improved debug output. I now have some
satellite systems that are successfully using a master debconf db for
defaults, with local modifications stored locally (using icky nfs as
the transport though), so stacks are useful, but still experimental.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:03:22 -0800
debconf (0.9.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Made Db.pm read /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf if no other config file
is found, so it will have sensible defaults in two situations:
1) user decides to delete file in /etc
2) upgrade from pre-conffile version, and debconf is asked to do
something before it is configured
Closes: #88840
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:25:28 -0800
debconf (0.9.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Renamed Copy driver to Backup, and renamed its fields too -- if you
have used it already, take note!
* Some internal restructuring of db driver classes.
* Added debconf-copydb, the all-singing all dancing db conversion,
excerpting, and copying tool, to debconf-utils.
* Backups of File db's can be turned off.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:15:51 -0800
debconf (0.9.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Made dpkg-preconfigure drop a user-level debug item including the name
of the package and its version as the package is preconfigured.
Closes: #88855
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:08:30 -0800
debconf (0.9.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated transition_db.pl to fix skipping of items with no owner.
Closes: #88820
* Documented in the user's guide that it needs apt-utils 0.5 or above for
preconfiguration (really later, since that is currently broken in
apt..) Closes: #88705
* Made apt-extracttemplates be less scary if apt-utils is not installed.
We really need a better solution here, I think..
* Updated french translation from Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:19:05 -0800
debconf (0.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Made the File DbDriver keep a backup file in -old, and
greatly increased the robustness of its writes. Closes: #88804
* Increased the robustness of the writes done by the directory driver
too, though it doesn't keep backups.
* For general backup purposes, introduced a new metadriver called
Copy, which does all reads and writes to one driver, while sending
a copy of all writes to another driver.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:56:32 -0800
debconf (0.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Resetting the value of a question that had no default stuffed an undef
into the cache dbdriver, which made the 822 formatter warn of
uninitialized values. Fixed by making template field accesses always
return a defined value, even if the field isn't present. Closes: #88751
* Fixed some exporter problems.
* Removed bogus preconfig template item (again..).
* Moved dirty flag out into its own hash, so items in the cache can be
marked dirty and removed at the same time. This should really fix
unregistration of items. I had been meaning to do this last week, but
it seems I forgot.
* Actually enabled the optimization of not saving flatfile db if no
changes were made, and made it not save deleted items.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:26:58 -0800
debconf (0.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified the transition script to detect corrupt old databases that
have some questions with undefined templates. Those are just skipped,
and it prints out a warning. I've only had one report of this problem
so far. Closes: #88731
* Strip the transition script.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:38:59 -0800
debconf (0.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
* I think the haikus are over. :-)
* Renamed apt.conf.d file to 70debconf.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:04:40 -0800
debconf (0.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Workaround a bug
that showed up in fresh installs
or ancient upgrades. Closes: #88682, #88676
The fix is simple:
just don't abort if it fails
to unregister.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:06:15 -0800
debconf (0.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Though I waited long --
twelve days -- I must upload now.
(And thus, miss testing.)
* The long overdue
backend database is here:
the missing quarter. Closes: #50437
And so the version
approaches 1.0 -- joy!
Though more work awaits.
* Db setup lore
is in debconf.conf(5)
in debconf-doc.
You'll find it's layered;
quite a flexible design
(many thanks, Wichert).
Users can setup
their own debconf db's or
use the global one.
(If, that is, they choose
to use the DirTree driver
for the global store.) Closes: #81574
* To make this work, though,
debconf must conflict with old
cdebconf versions.
The ones that themselves
used /etc/debconf.conf
as their config file.
* And I had to write
some transition code, too (bleagh),
to reformat stuff.
This should work better
than past conversions, I hope.
Still needs testing, though.
So, it won't delete
the old database files yet,
'till I'm sure that's safe.
Anyhow, reports
of trouble in past upgrades
are now obsolete. Closes: #80940, #88256
(Report new bugs though,
if you must. I don't mind (much).
Just don't send dups, please.)
* All of debconf's code
does sane temp file opens now:
no more cruft in var.
* The interface to
debconf-communicate
has utterly changed.
* I updated the
Dutch translation (or rather,
some Dutch guy did -- thanks). Closes: #87493
Other translations
are probably outdated
after these changes.
Come to think of it,
the Dutch one may be too; it's
a week or two old.
* Debconf must always
be usable, so I made
it pre-dep on perl.
* The new db code
fixes a db reload
bug in -reconfigure. Closes: #85873
* Some bugs are fixed in
the preconfigure program
by this upload too:
Overfiend, it makes
two passes now, so scary
shared templates will work.
* Besides these changes,
some mods to support the new
apt slipped in somehow:
apt.conf.d
is used rather than munging
apt.conf by hand.
* I gladly removed
apt-extracttemplates: moved
to apt-utils.
Preconfiguring
requires that package now
be installed, to work.
A Reccommends is
present in debconf, but, <sigh>,
apt will ignore it.
So you might have to
install apt-utils by hand
to get it working.
On the plus side, though --
porters everywhere rejoice --
debconf is arch all!
So maybe it'll
get into testing one day,
not many weeks hence.
* And I think that's all
the changes of note in this
release of debconf.
I'll stop sitting here
in the dark counting fingers,
and zinc off to bed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Mar 2001 02:36:31 -0800
debconf (0.5.64) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated to new perl policy.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:16:02 -0800
debconf (0.5.63) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-communicate now accepts piped input, or you can just run
it and talk with debconf on the fly over stdin.
* use debhelper v3.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:36:33 -0800
debconf (0.5.62) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix compilation with apt 0.4. Closes: #86417
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:58:13 -0800
debconf (0.5.61) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed outdated test of $@ from element creation code.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:24:10 -0800
debconf (0.5.60) unstable; urgency=low
* Dutch templates file from "Thomas J. Zeeman" <tjzeeman@cs.vu.nl>,
Closes: #85549
* Added code to support foolish downgrades to really old and crufty
versions of debconf. Closes: #85124
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:49:52 -0800
debconf (0.5.59) unstable; urgency=low
* Added half a Finnish translation (the templates half), by Jaakko
Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi>, Closes: #85199
* More unremarkable changes here and there.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:49:07 -0800
debconf (0.5.58) unstable; urgency=low
* Italian template update.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:38:29 -0800
debconf (0.5.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected an off-by-one in FSET arg checking, Closes: #84792
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:04:11 -0800
debconf (0.5.56) unstable; urgency=low
* Another french po file update.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:18:16 -0800
debconf (0.5.55) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated Franch translation from Martin Quinson
<Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>
* debconf-getlang now preserves fuzzy translations accross multiple runs,
if a new translation is not put in. I also had to rename the -OLD
fields to -fuzzy.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:39:25 -0800
debconf (0.5.54) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a couple of memory leaks that the absurd bug in magicfilter
exposes. Closes: #84211
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:18:46 -0800
debconf (0.5.53) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated the Swedish translation.
* Made debconf-getlang more or less ignore whitespace as a factor
in fuzzy translations.
* Now you have to list the files to look at in stats mode too,
seems hardcoding the lookup wasn't such a good idea.
* Removed the -q flag, just use --stats instead.
* Added Korean translation from Eungkyu Song <eungkyu@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr>
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:19:11 -0800
debconf (0.5.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Now that policy includes the debconf spec, I have removed the spec
from this source tree and debconf-doc. Since the version in policy is
canoical, I have removed the spec from cvs too. It will remain in the
Attic for historical purposes. I do still include a copy of the priority
table so it can go in the user's guide, and debconf-doc now suggests
debian-policy.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:46:35 -0800
debconf (0.5.51) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-getlang supports detection of fuzzy translations now,
and can display translation stats for a package too. See man page.
* Added dialog frontend back to template description for now.
Closes: #83670
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:01:07 -0800
debconf (0.5.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Changes to do with -ll_LL field localizations. These should actually
work now.
* Suddenly I have to hardcode the docbook xml version in DOCTYPE. Very
strange.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:17:48 -0800
debconf (0.5.49) unstable; urgency=low
* Clean up after bogus foo/bar template I accidentially released.
* Added German template translation by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>,
Closes: #82914
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:07:07 -0800
debconf (0.5.48) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected overrides disparities.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:36:05 -0800
debconf (0.5.47) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfigure: Split on any whitespace, Closes: #82579
* po/Makefile is now smart about msgmerge just updating datestamps,
and doesn't let such trivial changes be checked into cvs.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:28:24 -0800
debconf (0.5.46) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfigure: don't split on apt-extractemplates output on
' ', use \s
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:08:27 -0800
debconf (0.5.45) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed type that broke slang note elements, Closes: #81869
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:33:55 -0800
debconf (0.5.44) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified slang frontend to not instantiate Term::Stool widgets until
the GO command. This allows for thinge like:
db_set foo yes; db_input priority foo || db_set foo no
* All other frontends should already handle this just fine.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:38:22 -0800
debconf (0.5.43) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified shell confmodule to use read -r, so if \ characters are
read in, it will not interpret them. That was causing mangled password
entry problems in base-config, Closes: #77920. It could also cause
random hangs if the data was just right..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:43:21 -0800
debconf (0.5.42) unstable; urgency=low
* apt-extracttemplates null pointer checking, Closes: #77787
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:57:38 -0800
debconf (0.5.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified a few places in the tutorial to refer to essential packages,
not the base system. Closes: #81350
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:06:02 -0800
debconf (0.5.40) unstable; urgency=low
* Build-depends perl-5.6-base, Closes: #81328
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:39:24 -0800
debconf (0.5.39) unstable; urgency=low
* To keep debconf out of testing for nother two weeks, I fixed a bug
involving truncation of excessively-long short descriptions in the
slang frontend. Closes: #80163
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:04:39 -0800
debconf (0.5.38) unstable; urgency=low
* I guess perl is fixed now, so I can remove the bogus dependancy.
Thanks, bod!
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:39:59 -0800
debconf (0.5.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Aw hell, that won't work; too many things still depend on old versions
of perl.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:48:07 -0800
debconf (0.5.36) unstable; urgency=low
* The "I didn't get a fixed perl for $MAJOR_WINTER_HOLIDAY" release.
* Conflicts with every perl-*-base package before perl-5.6-base, because
perl's alternatives system has been known to make /usr/bin/perl point
at some old version of perl, even though debconf depends on 5.6, which
breaks things pretty badly.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:28:04 -0800
debconf (0.5.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Both dialog and whiptail now support --nocancel, which the dialog
frontend will use now if a cancel button is not appropriate.
Closes: #67419
* Reluctantly brought back a *temoporary* dependancy on perl-5.6 until
it gets it act in order. Closes: #79571 (Debian *cannot* be released
while debconf has this bogus dependancy.)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:00:59 -0800
debconf (0.5.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed umask-related build problem, Closes: #78453
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:41:56 -0800
debconf (0.5.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed screen refresh forcing in the slang frontend, it makes
it look like crap and if someone writes to the screen, that is their
problem, not mine.
* Corrected recently introduced resizing bug in slang frontend.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:42:52 -0800
debconf (0.5.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed bogus perl-5.6 dependancy, now that perl is fixed.
* Now that base.pm is in perl-5.6-base, I no longer need to do hackery in
my Makefile to avoid using that module. Got rid of it, and versioned
dep on perl-5.6-base.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:07:46 -0800
debconf (0.5.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Put README.translators in debconf-doc.
* Finally broke in and implemented multiselect support for the slang
frontend. Closes: #65782, #67242, #67340, #71095, #78571
* That was harer than it seems, I had to change Slang Elements to hold
groups of widgets, and support that everywhere. I also found it best to
move all the wiget positioning code into Elements from the frontend.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:51:53 -0800
debconf (0.5.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified tutorial, Closes: #78537
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:24:07 -0800
debconf (0.5.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Two chinese translations of the templates file (zh_CN, zh_TW), from
zw@debian.org
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:34:51 -0800
debconf (0.5.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed test from dpkg-reconfigure for .config script. The test
shouldn't be necessary; postinst scripts _should_ be idempotent.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:53:29 -0800
debconf (0.5.27) unstable; urgency=low
* If debconf is run without a controling tty..
- TERM will not be defined. This breaks the dialog frontend (which is
broken pretty badly by the lack of a tty too ;-), so detect
lack of TERM and refuse to use that frontend.
- Same for slang frontend.
- Lack of a controlling tty messes with the Text frontend,
though it still half-way works in some circumstances.
I've made its parent, the Tty frontend, detect this and bail.
- That also affected the Editor frontend (which could perhaps work in
this situation, but only if you use an X based editor, and tough
luck then).
... so in conculsion, if you do this, you'll probably get the
Noninteractive frontend. Woe on you if you're upgrading ssh and it
clobbers PermitRootLogin. :-(
* Tagged all frontend fallback messages for i18n.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:26:38 -0800
debconf (0.5.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected uninitialized value leading to looping bahavior in text
frontend, Closes: 77923
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:37:21 -0800
debconf (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: Wait until after loading db before doing frontend
fix up. Closes: #77847
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:54:19 -0800
debconf (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:23:56 -0800
debconf (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed noninteractive note element to not let the shell get its grubby
little hands on unvalidated input, which was making it puke.
Closes: #77589 and a whole raft of other bugs filed against X which we
will be merging to it. Special thanks to Ingo Saitz for providing many
debug logs, and the person I've forgot who should delete my debug
account from their box now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:22:09 -0800
debconf (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Temporarily depends on perl-5.6 until perl-5.6-base is fixed so
POSIX.pm works without the former package installed. Grrre.
Closes: #77399, #77397 (really perl's bugs, but it has enough open on
this issue already).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:27:56 -0800
debconf (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low
* The stuff the postinst adds to apt.conf now doesn't return a error
code and make the apt run fail even if peices of the system like perl
are broken, as they are now for so many people. I had held off on this
change for a long time, but enough is enough.
* Also some not-yet-ready copletion stuff in the text frontend.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:22:26 -0800
debconf (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low
* The text frontend now supports backing up! It's now probably the
most usable of all debconf frontends, if you're comfortable at the
command line. Give it a try! (Tab completion is on the horizon, too.)
* A pretty painful reorganization of how all Elements return and validate
values -- at least it's consistent now.
* Probability I broke something this time: 76.51%
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:55:05 -0800
debconf (0.5.01) unstable; urgency=low
* Added something to the help to make select widgets more obvious.
* Fixed sizing of select widgets.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:19:05 -0800
debconf (0.5.00) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified all the frontends to deal with this scenario:
A config scripts asks questions a, b, and c. a and c are asked at
priorities that make them visible, b is not. The user gets to c,
and backs up.
Previously, debconf would loop back to b, skip it again, and return the
user to c. Now it is smart enough to go back to a once b is skipped.
* Changed how debconf keeps track of what questions have been seen
before. Now it tracks this info on a per confmodule basis, and when a
confmodule terminates, sets the "seen" flag on (almost) all questions
that were displayed. Questions that are shown multiple times during the
same confmodule run will indeed appear multiple times[1]. This makes
supporting backing up trivial; it means that people have no excuse to
play around with the isdefault flag anymore, which they almost always
got wrong anyway; and it renames that flag to the much clearer "seen".
* It is possible that this change breaks confmodules that expect to be able
to display the same question twice with impunity.
* NOTE NOTE NOTE if you use this new behavior, make sure to depend on
debconf (>= 0.5)!
* The isdefault flag will continue to work, it is just mapped to the
inverse of the "seen" flag now, and deprecated.
* All the frontends were reworked to various degrees to make this work,
and I got rid of a fair bit of redundant code too.
* Modified debconf's own config script to use these features and sure
enough, it looks quite clean and simple now.
* Updated all docs.
* Added nasty code to transition from the isdefault flag to the new flag.
* Fixed backup in dialog frontend, 255 == -1
* Just to make life more interesting, I made debconf depend on perl 5.6;
which allows me to remove all my crud working around bugs in perl
5.005, and lets me use lots of nifty 5.6-specific features, but not,
sadly, lvalues.
* Probability of all this breaking something: 99.99%
.
[1] Unless they are to be displayed in the same block.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:07:19 -0800
debconf (0.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Swedish translation from peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:42:51 -0800
debconf (0.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected man page location, Closes: #76747
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:28:16 -0800
debconf (0.4.09) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected italian choices list to include translation of "critical".
I don't see any problems in the other translations. (No, there is no
automated check yet.) Closes: #75312
* Slang frontend now forces a refresh each time. It pains me to do this,
but it prevents screen corruption if something is output in between.
Closes: #72891
* Wrote a debconf.8 man page, Closes: #58287 It's very tiny right now;
I'd sorta like to convert the docbook userguide.xml and use it as the
man page, but I cannot figure out docbook2man. Help!
* Closes: #76273, this bug is only in a not really released version.
* Randolph updated apt-extracttemplates to build with the new apt. I
have converted that to use ifdefs so it should build with both.
* Added a hostname to the mails sent out by the noninteractive frontend,
as admins may have multiple hosts configured to sent mail with the same
hostname. Closes: #76653 Also reformatted the messages some for clarity
and conciseness.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:58:53 -0800
debconf (0.4.08) unstable; urgency=low
* Randolph updated apt-extracttemplates to use the new libapt.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:42:07 -0800
debconf (0.4.07) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a subtle bug in the slang frontend. This bug made noninteractive
elements not be "shown" ever, so they didn't send mail. It also made
noninteractive select elements get "" shoved into them whenever they
were INPUT, which messed up some things like progeny's postfix package.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:30:21 -0800
debconf (0.4.06) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a check to the metaget command to make sure the requested field
exists.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:47:47 -0700
debconf (0.4.05) unstable; urgency=low
* Ignore any number of leading and trailing newlines around templates,
since the spec doesn't really say There Must Be Only One, and it can be
useful to have more. Closes: #75420
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:32:09 -0700
debconf (0.4.04) unstable; urgency=low
* confmodule: Properly quote arguments to frontend, just in case.
Closes: #74827
* debconf-loadtemplates was totally hosed. It forgot to load the db up,
and so it wiped it all out when it saved it! Fixed, Closes: #74826
* Added basic syntax checking and usage to debconf-getlang (and
debconf-loadtemplate too). Closes: #74825
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:41 -0700
debconf (0.4.03) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a typo in the preinst.
Closes: #75318, #66484, #75322, #75328, #75339, #75341, #75319, #75367,
#75399 (and probably a bunch more, but they're merged anyway). Actually
tested this time, and it actually works.
* Patch from bod to wrapper.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:15:25 -0700
debconf (0.4.02) unstable; urgency=low
* Bod rewrite the ConfModule wrapper. Now should handle errors properly.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:51:46 -0700
debconf (0.4.01) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved over to a hopefully more robust check in the preinst to see if
the database needs to be converted, after receiving two reports that
the current check is not always firing. Closes: #75240
* Patch from Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr> to po/Makefile, adding
stuff for translators. It automatically merges the new debconf.pot
with .po files, and outputs stats on how up-to-date the translation is.
* Seems that the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule stub from bod
isn't good enough. :-( The problem is code that calls stuff like
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule::title directly. Ugh. Added an AUTOLOAD
with a nasty eval to deal with this. Closes: #75239
* Fixed an uninitialized value if a boolean item has no default. Bleagh.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:24:03 -0700
debconf (0.4.00) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed recursive build-dependancy on debconf-utils. There were two
ways to do this, the quick hack way and the move lots of directories in
cvs way. I took the latter.
* While I was reorganizing *EVERYTHING*, I renamed all the perl modules,
what was Debian::DebConf::foo is now Debconf::foo.
Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is now just Debconf::ConfModule, but
a stub module exists in the old location for backwards compatability
(thanks, bod).
* If you use the new module, you should depend on this version of
Debconf!
* This hacking also required some ugly ugly hacking of the debconf
database. Debconf needs a real database. :-(
* I guess this means the filename in all the .po files are wrong, bug
since those filenames are in comments, the .po files should continue to
work, right?
* debconf-utils now depends on debconf >= 0.4, so it will continue to
work.
* Needless to say, this was a massive PITA all around. I've NEVER going
to do this again, so I hope I got it right.
* For a short while, I considered using MakeMaker. That is, until I
noticed MakeMaker had no way of marking scripts for install into
/usr/sbin, and after not one but two perl gods advised me using it for
anything more cpmplex than a simple library package was not a good
idea. People have asked me to use MakeMaker in the past, and it's just
not going to happen unless you send me a very nice patch.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:35:41 -0700
debconf (0.3.83) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed CVS dirs that snuck into the binary debs.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:37:40 -0400
debconf (0.3.82) unstable; urgency=low
* French templates and po file from
Martin Quinson <mquinson@zeppelin-cb.de> (shrug ;-)
* Added some useful info to Template parse exceptions.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:43:54 -0400
debconf (0.3.81) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Spanish templates file from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:45:28 -0700
debconf (0.3.80) unstable; urgency=low
* Japanese now fully up to date thanks to Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>
Closes: #72697
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:56:48 -0700
debconf (0.3.79) unstable; urgency=low
* Copyright change: debconf is now licensed under the terms of the BSD
copyright, minus the advertising clause. I have contacted all
contributors and they agree with this license change. This also changes
the license of the Configuration Management spec. The sole exception to
this change is some libapt code in Client/preconfigure that is part of
the /usr/lib/debconf/apt-extracttemplates binary. That code remains
under the GPL, as it is part of libapt. It will hopefully be moved back
into libapt one day. apt-extracttemplates is not necessary for the
proper functioning of debconf; it is just a binary used in an
optimization.
* Motivations for this change were various. I want programs to be able to
use debconf even if they are not licensed under the GPL, and it could
be argued debconf serves as a library (with varying degrees of
correctness depending which part you were talking about). I would like
debconf to be available to others, including the BSD community, some of
whom I know are looking at issues that could possibly be solved by
debconf.
* Several reogranaizations for this. Deleted doc/COPYING. Added a README.
Included the text of the copyright into debian/copyright, since it is a
slightly modified BSD license (minus point 3). Modified numerous files
for the new copyright. Removed Client/preconfigure/README, and included
the text that was in it (expended) indo debian/copyright. Added
doc/COPYING to Client/preconfigure/ (how many copies of the GPL do
_you_ have in your cvs repository? ;-) Caused debian/copyright to be
linked to doc/COPYRIGHT in the source tarball.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:02:59 -0700
debconf (0.3.78) unstable; urgency=low
* Let's just say that you really don't want to install version 0.3.77.
I'll probably get oh, 15 bug reports on this one. :-(
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:06:52 -0700
debconf (0.3.77) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated templates.ja from Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>. Still
out of date, though. Closes: #71937
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:30:57 -0700
debconf (0.3.76) unstable; urgency=low
* Whoops, let's not install cvs .#* files into the binary package or
generate POD docs for them, shall we?
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:57:17 -0700
debconf (0.3.75) unstable; urgency=low
* Reworded and reformatted some of Debconf's questions. Translations:
not yet up to date.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:27:12 -0700
debconf (0.3.74) unstable; urgency=low
* Sometimes you put in something to be helpful, and it comes back to bite
you in a major way. Say you add some code to /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
to allow broken postinst scripts that use debconf to still echo stuff to
stdout and not have it go to debconf. Then you find that this hack makes
legitimate code that uses the confmodule and uses the perl ConfModule
library nested inside, not work. So your choices are to add a further
hack to the perl ConfModule, or end all these hacks and do things
cleanly. Unfortunatly, several packages have come to depend on the hack.
What do you do?
* Well I chickened out and hacked Client::ConfModule. But I have added an
entry to the TODO, and if you have a broken debconf-using package,
expect a bug report soon.
* Some copyright file cleanups.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:35:58 -0700
debconf (0.3.73) unstable; urgency=low
* My night for stupid debconf bugs. It turns out that the
string element in the dialog frontend was causinng the
default from the template to be used if the a text input
line was returned empty. Now "" is returned as it should
be. I know one package bitten by this is cvs, in its
repository directory selection question.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:27:20 -0700
debconf (0.3.72) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a really stupid typo in the editor and text frontends
that made them ignore the width of the screen.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:08:22 -0700
debconf (0.3.70) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't strip Client::ConfModule of pod docs.
* Build depends on a links that support -dump. Don't know when this was
added, so I'll just build-depend on the current version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:30:04 -0700
debconf (0.3.69) unstable; urgency=low
* Questions w/o extended descriptions are a bad thing. The tutorial
now speaks more strogly about this.
* Added Spanish translation thanks to Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>.
Only the .po file so far, not templates.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:15:47 -0700
debconf (0.3.68) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected a title refresh bug in the slang frontend, Closes: #70693
* Other minor fixes.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:34:53 -0700
debconf (0.3.67) unstable; urgency=low
* Spelling corrections from Sean, who should ispell the xml next time.
* Killed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #70508 (This one is
tickled only by nasty packages like sslwrap that provide no extended
descriptions to their questions. Evil.)
* Fixed a debconf corrupted database crash. This is, I think, just
another bit of fallout from the very old debconf db corruption problem
(see changelog entry 0.3.19). Closes: #69781, #69582
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:48:48 -0700
debconf (0.3.66) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected the wrapping-of-bulleted-lists issue. It is now possible to
have bulletted lists or other preformatted text in a templates file
just like you would in a normal debian control file -- 2 space indent.
Closes: #65518
* This was too easy. Silly me.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:17:54 -0700
debconf (0.3.65) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed preconfiguring -- since version 0.3.60, it has unnecessarily
skipped preconfiguring of all packages that Depend: on debconf w/o a
version. Silly thinko..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:27:05 -0700
debconf (0.3.64) unstable; urgency=low
* Switched to using links to convert html to text, since it
a) handles tables ok
b) doesn't omit link references
* Long-overdue fix to the specification -- added the list of commands to
it -- they were removed when it was converted to xml.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:06:39 -0700
debconf (0.3.63) unstable; urgency=low
* Make a nice non-scary message if Term::Stool is not installed and one
tries to use the slang frontend. For some reason, normal perl cannot
load lib messages seem to be scaring users to death. Closes: #68557
* Fixed doc dir symlink, Closes: #68558
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:24:22 -0700
debconf (0.3.62) unstable; urgency=low
* Reworked rules file, since this package now has arch-indep and -dep
parts. Split build dependancies along those lines. Closes: #68461
* Removed obsolete Version.pm (Randolph's code does the checking now).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:20:21 -0700
debconf (0.3.61) unstable; urgency=low
* Passthrough fix. s/carp/croak/
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:23:25 -0700
debconf (0.3.60) unstable; urgency=low
* So we (culus, tausq, joeyh) did some benchmarking, and figured out how
to speed up dpkg-preconfigure by about 3x. It turns out most of the
existing overhead was in calls to dpkg-deb, which is slow, and in all
the forking necessary to do said calls, which is also slow. So we moved
the initial package scanning out into a C++ program which links to apt
code and is quite fast. (Sadly, it's also quite big, and has bloated
debconf by 30k and made it arch-dependent.) Anyway, I guess it's worth
it to save a few seconds. <shrug>
* Some internal code reogranizations and function renames and stuff,
to make things more flexable.
* New Passthrough "frontend" to allow third-party GUI operation, by
Randolph Chung. This is currently somewhat experimental.
* Frontend fallback is now based on per-starting-frontend lists -- ie,
slang can fallback to dialog while dialog falls back to slang, without
an infinite loop being created. Closes: #68337
* Capabilities fix: There was a problem if, eg, debconf and then cvs were
configured. Debconf supports BACKUP, cvs does not, but the frontends
were not informed of the change. Now they are, and the slang frontend
properly dims out the back button in this situation.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:03:09 -0700
debconf (0.3.53) unstable; urgency=low
* Cleanups to the xml docs to use "question" consistently.
* Fixed stupid tab expansion problem. It's really Text::Wraps' fault; bug
filed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:56:49 -0700
debconf (0.3.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Since jade generates the ugliest html I have ever seen, I'm now
using tidy to clean that up and indent it properly.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:43:48 -0700
debconf (0.3.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed some undefined value warnings, Closes: 67029
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:59:27 -0700
debconf (0.3.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed FrontEnd::makeelement to not crash if a question has no
associated template. This should never happen, but a very old version
of debconf left behind databases with that problem. The fix is trivial:
just use $question->type instead of $question->template->type. This has
the exact same effect, with the side effect of catching undef'd
templates and not crashing. It goes on to not make an element in that
case, which is reasonable.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:50:46 -0700
debconf (0.3.49) unstable; urgency=low
* s/dpkg-getlang/debconf-getlang/ # Closes: #65918
* Typo fix, Closes: #65919
* More debug code added for bug #66484.
* Added italian translation of templates file (po still needs to be
translated), from Eugenia Franzoni <eugenia@pluto.linux.it>
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:50:35 -0700
debconf (0.3.48) unstable; urgency=low
* Added debug code to help track down bug #66484.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:24:53 -0700
debconf (0.3.47) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Japanese translation from Akira YOSHIYAMA <yosshy@cts.ne.jp>
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:54:40 -0700
debconf (0.3.46) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed documentation of isdefault flag, which needs to be renamed.
Cf, Bug #64374.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:05:27 -0700
debconf (0.3.45) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected a bua in how text multiselect elements parsed input: A
2-diget number would be incorrectly split into 2 numbers. Closes: #66195
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:38:36 -0700
debconf (0.3.44) unstable; urgency=low
* Russian translation update.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:56:54 -0700
debconf (0.3.43) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't let the dialog frontend run with with TERM=dumb either.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:33:57 -0700
debconf (0.3.42) unstable; urgency=low
* Running debconf's dialog frontend inside an emacs shell buffer is a
VERY bad idea. Dialog/whiptail tend to exit immediatly with an error
message. Said error goes to stderr. Unfortunatly, the design of
dialog/whiptail is such that you _read_ stderr to get the user's reply,
and a return code of 1 is also not unusual. Thus, random garbage about
emacs not being a suitable terminal gets fed into the debconf database.
Yich. To prevent this nestiness, the dialog frontend will now refuse to
run in an emacs shell buffer.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:06:12 -0700
debconf (0.3.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Some Polish translation fix of which I am ignorant.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:10:43 -0700
debconf (0.3.40) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated Polish translation.
* Fixed perl 5.6 specific error message.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:25:56 -0700
debconf (0.3.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed slang hide/show help button to be wide enough for
the currentl localization. Closes: #64752
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 May 2000 15:52:33 -0700
debconf (0.3.38) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a minor bug in frontend -- notice when a template file has been
successfully loaded, and don't keep trying to find it.
* Applied the same fix to multiselect elements that I applied to select
elements in the last version. I think using internationalized debconf
should work pretty well now.
* The editor frontend now asks that you separate chocies in multiselect
questions with spaces and commas, so it will work if the choices
contain spaces.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 May 2000 13:19:43 -0700
debconf (0.3.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Added Russian translation, by Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
* Added French translation, by Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com>
* Now that I have real localizations to work with, I can find some
related problems.
- Fixed all select elements to translate back to C locale whatever is
input into them. They had been storing it internally in the language
that was being used, and passing those localized values to the
config scripts that used them, which didn't exactly work very well..
- Similarly, translate the default value, which is in the C locale, to
the current locale before using it to prompt the user.
* Made frontend fallback even more robust, mainly to deal with the results
of the above mentioned select element nastiness.
* Element::Editor::Select had the wrong parent; this is corrected.
* Added a newline at the end of the files the editor frontend generates,
since vim likes to see one there.
* Failure to make an input element has been upgraded to be a warning
message, instead of the debug message it was before. This should not
happen in normal use, if it does, I want to know. (Of course, the slang
frontend still has no multiselct elements, maybe this will remind me to
fix that sometime..)
* Fixed a nasty infinite recusion error in the web frontend, which
actually works now.
* Reworked the debconf debug mechanism. It now uses symbolic names for
various types of debug messages, and DEBCONF_DEBUG specifies which
types are shown. See the User's Guide for details.
* Some reorganizations to the Tutorial; split out some big sections into
entities to aid maintenance. Moved namespace.txt into the tutorial as
an Appendix.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 May 2000 14:05:37 -0700
debconf (0.3.36) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed typo that broken the web frontend (#64474)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 May 2000 20:36:51 -0700
debconf (0.3.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated and completed the Polish l10n thanks to Marcin Owsiany
<porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.
* Now build depends on the latest debhelper to automatically merge
translated templates files.
* Corrected stupid mistake I made when I added sprintf() calls. Now new
Polish translation is fully functional.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:21:49 -0700
debconf (0.3.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed minor bug in Template stringification.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 May 2000 12:43:56 -0700
debconf (0.3.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Note to self: test before uploading
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 May 2000 22:09:35 -0700
debconf (0.3.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a minor bug in debconf-getlang to do with when Default needs to
be translated.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 May 2000 16:34:48 -0700
debconf (0.3.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Jazzed up the Template class. It can now load in templates files and
instantiate whole sets of templates on the fly. This is good because
that code used to be in ConfigDb, which is the part of debconf that
will probably go away eventually.
* Templates can also strignify themselves now, which recreates a
templates file entry. And there is a class method for stringifying a
whole list of objects, which can recreate a whole templates file.
* The above new functionality lets me use the Template class for
something new: management of translated templates files. Added some new
utilities to help with splitting and merging templates files for
translation. The idea for these utilities came from Michael Sobolev
<mss@transas.com>. Thanks, Michael!
* Added mentions of these utilities to the tutorial.
* Broke off all the small and non-essential utilities into a new
debconf-utils package. Developers and extreme power users may want it,
others will not.
* All the programs in debconf-utils now have names starting with
"debconf-". This means dpkg-debconf has been renmaed (again) to
debconf-communicate, and dpkg-loadtemplate has been renamed to
debconf-loadtemplate. I hope these are the last name changes.
* Used sprintf in all gettext() calls that have a parameter. This may
have messed up the polish translation though.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:31:14 -0700
debconf (0.3.30) unstable; urgency=low
* gettextized the entire source tree, so it can now be translated. I used
Locale::gettext for this, but since it is not in base, I have arranged
for debconf to continue working if it is not found (just using the C
locale).
* Added polish translation from Marcin Owsiany
<porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 May 2000 17:05:56 -0700
debconf (0.3.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Prompted priority to standard, since lynx depends on it. Closes: #63346
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 18:26:53 -0700
debconf (0.3.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't use the 'lib' module in Client/frontend. Closes: #62629
* Dpkg-preconfigure in apt mode bails if it is asked to scan just one
package. Thete's no benefit to preconfiguration if you're just doing
one, because apt is just going to install it immediatly anyway. This
optimizes for the "apt-get install foo" case.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:00:15 -0700
debconf (0.3.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Catch undefined value returned if a package that is not installed is
preconfigured, and use '' instead. This clears up the undefined value
warning people have been seeing for months.
Closes: #55498, #57792, #62263, #53657
* Fixed for a while: Closes: #48816
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:40:48 -0700
debconf (0.3.21) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected bug in slang frontend -- if the last item in a dropdown
select box was default, it was not highlighted as such correctly.
Closes: #62021
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:14:37 -0700
debconf (0.3.20) unstable; urgency=low
* debconf-doc conflicts with older versions of debconf that contained the
manpages. Closes: #62030
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:34:14 -0700
debconf (0.3.19) unstable; urgency=low
* Added crazy new frontend: it just makes a pseudo-config file, and
pops up your favorite editor on it.
* Killed question w/o template debug code, I'm reasonably sure the problem
is just happenning to people who had a very old version of debconf, and
that the problem is being corrected properly.
Closes: #62004, #61970, #61947
* Added debug code to try to track down the uninitialized value in
confmodule startup/open2 bug.
* Fixed a bug in the 'use base' expander that was causing multiple
inheritance to turn into syntax errors.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:06:42 -0700
debconf (0.3.18) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure detects if your default frontend is Noninteractive,
and uses Slang instead so you actually get to reconfigure the package.
Closes: #57614
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:32:26 -0700
debconf (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low
* And this is an upload with the -doc package turned back on. Maybe one
day a ftp admin will be kind enough to approve that new package..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:08:50 -0700
debconf (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
* This is a quick build w/o the -doc package, to allow debconf to get
quickly through incoming without waiting for manual approval (I have
some important bugs fixed in the many versions below that are stuck in
Incoming.)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:00:44 -0700
debconf (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't crash if a question has no associated template. That should never
happen, but I have one report of it happening. I suspect that some
rather old version of debconf caused the problem. It's also possible
that deleting the templates.db file might cause similar problems. I've
made debconf ask for bug reports in this case, so I can gather more
data.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:18:33 -0700
debconf (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Tightended up regexp that pareses Template: lines, so spaces are not
allowed in the name of a template. As a side effect, this just ignores
trailing space on all fields in a templates file. I hope this has no
bad side effects..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:37:37 -0700
debconf (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Minor doc updates.
* Fixed syntax error in Client::ConfModule, Closes: #61535
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:22:31 -0800
debconf (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
* Used exported sub names in a few places I missed before.
* Renamed AutoSelect::frontend and AutoSelect::confmodule to
make_frontend and make_confmodule, and allow them to be exported
too.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:53:55 -0800
debconf (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Added dpkg-debconf. This is a program that lets you send commands to
debconf directly from the command line. Will probably be quite useful
for debugging purposes. (We used to have something like this a long,
long time ago, but I like this new design better.)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:26:19 -0800
debconf (0.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Added dpkg-loadtemplate, a simple program that loads templates into the
debconf database. This is *not* intended to be used by debian packages,
but can be useful for debugging purposes and for pre-seeding the
database before installing a package.
* Moved all external manpages for perl programs into POD format.
* Updated all pod docs to fix formatting problems.
* debconf-tiny is no more. Instead, we now have debconf and debconf-doc.
This makes debconf proper be nearly as small as debconf-tiny used to be
and gets rid of the set of problems associated with debconf-tiny.
* This huge and unmanageable changelog is 20k compressed. To make debconf
a reasonable size, I am only including the last 5 changelog entries in
debconf; the rest go in -doc.
* Several modules are now Exporters, and I use that where possible to
reduce code size.
* Strip all pod docs out of modules in binary package. Ugly, but saves a
great deal of space.
* Killed off the gtk frontend. The code has been rotting, and it just
needs to be rewritten.
* Changed the AutoSelect fallbacks around, most frontends now fall back
to Slang.
* Text frontend no longer always prompts for a Enter press at the end of
a run.
* Moved some doc files into doc/ in the source package.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:57:54 -0800
debconf (0.3.01) unstable; urgency=low
* AUTOLOAD function now creates field accessor functions on the fly.
Slight speedup.
* s/property/field/g
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:42:28 -0800
debconf (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
* New custom slang frontend. Give it a try!
* * warning * *
This frontend does not yet support multiselect list boxes. So you might
not see a very few questions that packages may ask if you use this
frontend.
* Build-depend on w3m, Closes: #60815
* Added links in confmodule man page, Closes: #60780
* Ignore backups if the client does not support them.
* If asked to present the same question twice in a single block,
skips the second occurrance.
* Fairly large reorganization of code throughout debconf, and more
internal module documentation.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:36:32 -0800
debconf (0.2.107) unstable; urgency=low
* Made noninteractive select elements smarter. If the value is set, but
is set to something not on the list, disregard it and pick the first
element from the list. This is actually an important bugfix; it's been
causing problems with apt-setup in base-config, making
http.us.debian.org be incorrectly picked as the default when users try
to set up apt to use a country that just has one mirror on file.
* Closes #60160 (important)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:30:52 -0800
debconf (0.2.106) unstable; urgency=low
* Added DEBIAN_PRIORITY for consitency.
* Text frontend now prompts you to hit return if text has been displayed
w/o a prompt. This is to prevent said text from running off the screen
during a dpkg run. To make this work, I had to add a shutdown method to
frontends, to be called before a frontend is destroyed.
* Denastified the object property references all over. I just hope I didn't
remove any direct accesses that were meant to be there (often a good
way to introduce infinite loops, so use this version with care..)
* Optimized the Text frontend's handling of resize events.
* Fixed a compile error in the specification, and actually installs the
spec's gif.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:44:30 -0800
debconf (0.2.105) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed noninteractive note element to not mark the item as seen if
/usr/bin/mail doesn't exist. (Oops)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:13:40 -0800
debconf (0.2.104) unstable; urgency=low
* Use fully-qualified path for dpkg-preconfigure in apt.conf,
Closes: #58469
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:36:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.103) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed quite obsolete exim samples. I don't want to maintain samples
anymore past those needed by the tutorial and a regression test script.
There is quite enough real debconf code out there.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:10:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.102) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected three ways badly written packages could make
dpkg-preconfigure die:
- They could try to ask questions that didn't exist.
- They could try to ask questions using garbage priority values.
- They could have garbage template files that lack required fields.
All three are now handled sanely, and debconf even tells the client
what stupid thing it has done in the first 2 cases. To make that work,
I made FrontEnd::add much simpler, and moved a lot of the failure-prone
code into Confmodule::command_input, and did some other
reorganizations.
* Checked and I don't think any more cases like this exist in debconf.
* While I was at it, I shut up messages about failing to make
noninteractive elements in debug 2 mode. A common FAQ causer.
* Added a Debian.bugtemplate file, in an attempt to get people to report
bugs that are actually useful. This is used by newer reportbug
packages.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:08:03 -0800
debconf (0.2.101) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed another stupid typo, that messed up text select and multiselect
elements sometimes.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:15:33 -0800
debconf (0.2.100) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a stupid typo introduced last version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:34:26 -0800
debconf (0.2.99) unstable; urgency=low
* Added --unseen-only switch to dpkg-reconfigure. This makes it only ask
questions that have not been asked before. Closes: #59260
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:30:21 -0800
debconf (0.2.98) unstable; urgency=low
* When debconf or debconf-tiny is purged, the database is not deleted if
debconf or debconf-tiny is still installed. Closes: #59029
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:19:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.97) unstable; urgency=low
* word-wrap all text that is mailed at 75 columns, Closes: #58911
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:09:43 -0800
debconf (0.2.96) unstable; urgency=low
* Catch SIGPIPEs from confmodules and handle them. Closes: #58847, #58818
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:34:29 -0800
debconf (0.2.95) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: Now forces priority to low when reconfiguring
packages. People have often complained that it should do this,
so it does now. Added a swtich to disable this behavior, which should be
used by eg, the boot floppies when it reconfigures base-config. Also,
re-wrote the switch parsing to match how it's done in dpkg-preconfigure.
* Removed lots of extortions to use -plow from docs.
* Bother. base.pm is not in perl-base. Added nasty code to fix this when
building debconf-tiny.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:59:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.94) unstable; urgency=low
* Copyright and url updates.
* dpkg-reconfigure: don't run the postrm of the package. Doing so breaks
things when for example, the package uses dpkg-divert and tries to
remove diversions in the postrm. This cannot be an isolated problem
either. This reverses the change made in version 0.2.52, which did not
say why I added it in the first place.. (suspicion: non-idempotent
postinst scripts may need the postrm to clean up after them before being
called again. However, such scripts are broken.)
Closes: #58527 (important bug)
* no changes; Closes: #58495 (I'm not going to add 3 lines of code bloat
to a package in base just to provide a marginally better error message.)
* Added --help to dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #58496
* Added more cautions about passwords to the tutorial.
* Text mode [multi]select elements now display in multiple columns. This is
experimental, and I don't know how it will interact with having support for
descriptions associated with items in the selection list, which is a todo
item.
* Use w3m again to format docs (how'd I lose that?)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:51:44 -0800
debconf (0.2.93) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed minor back problem in debconf's own config script, and some
documentation fixes.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:56:02 -0800
debconf (0.2.92) unstable; urgency=low
* Important fix: don't accidentially delete Dialog/Text.pm from
debconf-tiny.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:16:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.91) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfigure: It turns out that the trick of reading from stdin
until EOF, then reading more later only works if stdin is a tty. When it
was running from apt, that wasn't so, and so it caused dialog to lock up,
in a tight loop, unable to read keypresses from stdin. The fix is
pretty simple; just open /dev/tty and connect STDIN to it after reading
the filelist from apt. Closes: #56518, #57771 (important bugs).
* Disabled dialog exclusion that was added in the last release.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:52:24 -0800
debconf (0.2.90) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not use Getopt::Long, so it will work even on
the base system it is now a part of.
* As a workaround for the dialog lock problem (which seems to be a dialog
bug), never use dialog for the text mode menus. Works around: #56518
(grave), #57771 (important)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:09:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.89) unstable; urgency=low
* Use perl's "base" module throughout the code, cutting 2 lines from each
module. Due to a bug in the module, I had to throw lots of "use"'s back
in, in the case of child modules that had a name that just appeneded to
the name of their parent. I have filed a perlbug about that
(ID 20000212.001). These additions are marked "# perlbug" so I can grep
them back out later.
* Warning: I expect this release is very buggy. But that's why you're
tracking unstable, right?
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:51:48 -0800
debconf (0.2.88) unstable; urgency=low
* Add templates file, config script, postinst, and posrtm to debconf-tiny,
so debconf/priority actually exists. This is necessary so base-config
can change the priority if the boot-floppies were installed in verbose or
quiet mode. This is a critical bugfix, as it fixes a bug that made newly
installed systems unusable.
* Added dpkg-preconfigure to debconf-tiny, since this:
a) lets debconf-tiny use debconf's postinst unchanged
b) is useful in general to have in debconf-tiny
* Several k of bloat. Oh well..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:49:38 -0800
debconf (0.2.87) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected 2 typos, Closes: #57605
* Closes: #57607 -- already fixed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:04:35 -0800
debconf (0.2.86) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a typo I introduced earlier today.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:54:09 -0800
debconf (0.2.85) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed some uninitialized values related to multiselct questions with no
defaults.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:20:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.84) unstable; urgency=low
* Added code to postinst to delete long-obsolete /etc/debconf.cfg
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:41:13 -0800
debconf (0.2.83) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: detect perl confmodules properly, by making my regexp
match case in-sensitively. This fixes a bug that made dpkg-reconfigure
not work at all to reconfigure packages that used ConfModule.pm.
* dpkg-reconfigure: assume all config scripts are confmodules, it would be
pretty weird for one not to be, and this speeds things up a tiny bit.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:37:23 -0800
debconf (0.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
* Installed workaround from Joel Klecker to fix the annoying termcap
warning from Term::Readline. This does not close these bugs, but it does
work around them: #47363, #50286, #50540, #51787, #52052, #53274, #55142,
#56987, and #46270
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:44:26 -0800
debconf (0.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
* Added checks for wrong number of parameters in all command_* subs in
ConfModule.pm. If the check fails, error 20 is returned (syntax error).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:24:27 -0800
debconf (0.2.80) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Adjusted debconf dependancy to perl-5.005, not perl5. As Raphael points
out, just dependong on perl5 does not guarentee Data::Dumper is available.
Raphael thinks this is a critical bug.
* debconf-tiny's dependancy, on the other hand, was already ok.
* Binary and source packages no longer contain CVS backup files,
Closes: #55860
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:44:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.79) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure: Now checks each script before running it
to see if it is a confmodule, if not, runs it as a normal script,
not under the confmodule interface. base-config shows this is necessary,
with its non-confmodule postinst. This change is needed in frozen to
keep base-config working.
* Fixed debconf's oldest bug report, which turned out to be a bug in how
IPC::Open3 was being called. It also turns out this bug is tickeled by
base-config, since it will be reconfiguredd from inittab, so it turned out
to be a critical bug. Closes: #47659
* Documented (again) in dpkg-reconfigure.8 that
"dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf" should be used to
reconfigure debconf. Closes: #55706
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:34:30 -0800
debconf (0.2.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Woops, I forgot to let the CLEAR command be executed in any of the
confmodule libraries!
* base-config needs that command, so this must go to frozen.
* Fixed an undefiend value warning in Element::Dialog::Password
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:14:38 -0800
debconf (0.2.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* debconf proper depends on perl5 (not -base), because some utilities
do use Getopt::Long. debconf-tiny continues to just depend on
perl-5.005-base, because everything in it will work without debconf.
Closes: #55381 (important)
* Added --all option to dpkg-reconfigure, for use by the boot-floppies
inittab.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:11:12 -0800
debconf (0.2.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Re-enabled use of _ and . in template fields. Necessary for localaization.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:09:28 -0800
debconf (0.2.75) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected a bug in noninteractive select elements. Amoung other things,
this bug broke apt-setup in base-config (so it is a critical bug, yada,
yada). I believe this also Closes: #55036
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:38:33 -0800
debconf (0.2.74) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* I guess these changes are necessary to make debconf usable for people
who use locales, so this should _probably_ go into frozen.
* Switched over to using perl's setlocale() function to determine the
current locale. This means that locale aliases work, and that users
who have a locale like 'es_ES.ISO-8859-1' see all the es_ES messages.
* Added one level of locale fallback: for example, it looks for 'es'
messages too in the case above.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jan 2000 02:20:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.73) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Make dpkg-reconfigure work inside a base system that has no Getopt::Long.
This is critical to get into potato, because base-config has to be
dpkg-reconfigure'd on initial reboot to set the root password and so on.
* Really make dialog frontend default. I thought I did this 8 versions
back..
* Medium priority is now default.
* Probably fixed bug #55174, but who knows, I cannot reproduce it anyway.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:20:44 -0800
debconf (0.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
* Renamed dpkg-preconfig to dpkg-preconfigure, for consistency.
Closes: #53893
* Moved dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure to /usr/sbin.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:55:10 -0800
debconf (0.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
* Sped up and simplified language code.
* Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not re-show old questions when running in apt
mode (oops!)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:01:34 -0800
debconf (0.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
* '_' and '.' can now appear in fields names in templates. Necessary for
some localization.. If you use them in a field name, you had better
depend on this version; earlier ones will die if they see such a thing.
* Fixed a logic error that broke debconf if you had LC_ALL or LANG set,
Closes: #54615, #54638, #54655
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:03:31 -0800
debconf (0.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf is not yet internationalized itself, but the data it reads in
from templates now may be.
* Documented what else I need to do toward i18n in the TODO.
* Client::ConfModule detects newline in text it is going to send out,
and warns about them. This after the pain of debugging what a spare \n
can do to the protocol..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:41:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
* Documented DEBCONF_DEBUG, Closes: #54434
* Don't show "none of the above" choice in text frontend's select element.
It is only supposed to be in multiselect elements.
* A few more bug reports that were fixed 2 versions ago should be closed.
Closes: #54459, #54462, #54429, #54393, #54443, #54400
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:33 -0800
debconf (0.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
* When the back button is hit, clear the buffer of all questions.
Fixes some truely confusing behavior.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:55:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed type that was making a sbin file, Closes: #0.2.65
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:34:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
* Add dpkg-reconfigure to debconf-tiny.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:09:33 -0800
debconf (0.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed default frontend (again), back to the dialog frontend. I can't
really make my mind up on this, but my reasoning for using dialog is that
debconf-tiny is going to be used by several packages on a fresh install,
so the user is going to see some debconf dialog stuff right from the
start. Changing to text half-way through is liable to be confusing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:24:55 -0800
debconf (0.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed apt-setup; it is in base-config now.
* Minor README change.
* Now build-depends on sgml-data, to follow the bouncing xml.dcl.
* In fact, I have to change things to use a new name and path for that
file too.
* Really fixed that typo.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:32:15 -0800
debconf (0.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
* Typo fix, Closes: #54205
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:53:14 -0800
debconf (0.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
* When dpkg-preconfig is run from apt, it turns off showing of old
questions. That remains turned off until all preconfiguration is complete.
The effect is that you can now configure debconf to re-show old questions,
and not have to suffer through seeing all the old questions twice. If
you turned off showing of old questions because seeing questions twice was
annoying, you may want to turn it back on now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:51:45 -0800
debconf (0.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
* Client/frontend: the templates filename guessing has been a bit broken
in one case. I've fixed that now, Closes: #53730. Happy GNU year!
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:10:07 -0800
debconf (0.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't use lib. Closes: #53316
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800
debconf (0.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
* Now just depends on perl-5.005-base (of sufficiently recent version),
since that package now contains everything I need. (Closes: #53186)
* Client/frontend: Look for templates in /usr/share/debconf/templates/
as well as the current directory. Useful for stadalone programs that
use debconf.
* Include apt-setup in debconf and debconf-tiny for now, since the base
system needs them available *now*. This is not the right long-term
location, though. Closes: #53187 (Adam, you want to run
"/usr/sbin/apt-setup probe")
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:31:50 -0800
debconf (0.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Tightened up the perl dependancies. I think the previous looser
dependancies might have caused a problem.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:53:22 -0800
debconf (0.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
* Depend on the version of fileutils that supported
--ignore-fail-on-non-empty, Closes: #52746 (should that bug really have
been grave? It could only be triggered if you installed debconf w/o
upgrading to potato fileutils, and then purged it.)
* Despite what the bug report says, the postinst has never ran rmdir.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:53:20 -0800
debconf (0.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
* Added to the tutorial.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:42:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
* In the dialog frontend, do not pass the default password to dialog. This
is a security hole, and besides it's very confusing since dialog doesn't
display the passowrd, and the user might inaverdently append to it.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:09:13 -0800
debconf (0.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
* "Cancel" (or hitting escape) in the dialog frontend is now interpreted
to mean back up a step. Not quite intuitive, but it is the bast thing I
can do with a cancel button, and I need the ability to backup.
Closes: #51887
* Reworked how question values are set. This is now done in FrontEnd::go(),
instead of in each Element's show() method.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:27:49 -0800
debconf (0.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf install now asks if you want to preconfigure packages, and
if you answer no, does not add/removes call to dpkg-preconfig in apt.conf.
* Changed user's guide to match.
* dpkg-reconfigure runs the postrm now. It's also substantially smaller.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:26:26 -0800
debconf (0.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Made noninteractive frontend really silent. Closes: #51952
* Corrected debconf-tiny's conflicts.
* Autoselect can now have loops in the frontends it tries, it is smart
enough to break the loops. This lets the text frontend fallback to the
Dialog frontend. Since that is the only frontend in debconf-tiny,
this is required to make it use the dialog frontend.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:49:16 -0800
debconf (0.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Needs a versioned debhelper dependency.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:57:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
* Build-Depends on docbook-stylesheets, which are needed to make the xml
docs be formatted decently.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:35:41 -0800
debconf (0.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
* Added comment to apt.conf that the line was added by debconf,
Closes: #51720
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:14:56 -0800
debconf (0.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
* Element/Dialog/String.pm: Fixed a thinko that is causing the warning
messages reported in bug #51561.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:45:26 -0800
debconf (0.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed tutorial docs of version command. Clients are not stricly
required to pass a version number into it.
* Removed warning message if a client does not pass in a version,
Closes: #51431
* Added build dependancy info.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:36:51 -0800
debconf (0.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
* Discovered dialog's --separate-output parameter, and use it for
multiselect boxes, since it simplfies parsing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:52:03 -0800
debconf (0.2.44) unstable; urgency=low
* w3m -dump works again, so use it.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:48:20 -0800
debconf (0.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig: modified regexp to work under perl 5.004
(Closes: #50854, #50880)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:36:37 -0800
debconf (0.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
* Improved abbreviation finding algorythm for text select elements.
* Cleaned up the show method of Element::Text::Select.
* Element::Text::MultiSelect can now inherit from Element::Text::Select,
making it much shorter.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:22:09 -0800
debconf (0.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed how text frontend's select element indicates which choice is
default. It can now indicate when numbers are the default. Closes: #50751
* Detect if libterm-readline-*-perl is being used. If so, allow
interactive editing of the default, since that is supported. If not,
display the default as part of the prompt. This makes things more
consistent overall.
* Added 'none of the above' option to [multi]select elements, so if you
don't have libterm-readline-*-perl, you can still override the default
and choose nothing. Unfortunatly, I still don't see a way to do that with
string input elements..
* Since w3m is currently broken, dump pages with lynx for now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:08:55 -0800
debconf (0.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig: Do a basic dependancy check before attempting to
preconfigure a package. If the package depends on a newer version of
debconf than is installed, do not preconfigure. (Closes: #50411, #50236)
Should prevent any further breakages of the type we've seen before.
* doc/tutorial.xml: If you use the multiselect data type, you should depend
on debconf 0.2.26.
* Version.pm: Added, to store the debconf version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:16:16 -0800
debconf (0.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
* When processing what dialog returns after showing a multiselct, there
may be trailing space after the last double quote. Nodified to handle
that, Closes: #50471
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:58:38 -0800
debconf (0.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Client/frontend: be less aggressive when trying to guess a template
filename. Fixes sslwrap purge problem.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:55:59 -0800
debconf (0.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
* I've been persuaded that the Text frontend is the best default for
new installs. This doesn't change the default for people who already
have debconf installed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:12:04 -0800
debconf (0.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Update database files atomically, should fix the isolated empty db files
that have been reported twice now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:47:31 -0800
debconf (0.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed 3 bugs reports that will get filed in the next 36 hours. The
debconf bug betting pool is now open -- how many times will this be
reported now that it's been fixed? :-p
* Specifically, now that ConfModule doesn't send a return code for STOP,
frontends can't try to read such a return code, or they hang.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:04:16 -0800
debconf (0.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf scripts now automatically load their templates when they are
invoked manually, if the .templates file is present in the same directory.
* This makes debconf-loadtemplate basically obsolete, so I have removed it.
* This means there is no need for a special test.pl in the source package.
* And this also means it's now a lot easier to debug config scripts before
putting them in a package. Documented this in the tutorial.
* Feh, I have to keep the debconf-tiny changelog in sync with this one,
or the package version isn't updated. Debhelper is too smart for its
own good. Hacked around it. (If other people have this problem, I can
add a flag to debhelper to handle this better..)
* Documented everywhere that when reconfiguring debconf, --priority=medium
is a good idea. Closes: #50225
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:46:22 -0800
debconf (0.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a debconf-tiny package, which is a very stripped down debconf to be
used on the base system. Debconf itself is 117+k, mainly because of all
the frontends and docs. To make debconf-tiny, I:
- removed all docs
- removed all frontends except dialog and noninteractive
- removed most stuff in /usr/bin
- stripped out all POD docs and regular comments from all perl modules
- All this got the package down to 27k compressed. 14k compressed of that
was this changelog (It's all the fault of long changelog entries like
this one!)
- So, I started a new changelog for debconf-tiny, in which I will record
changes specific to it. debconf-tiny is now 12k.
* Removed /etc from package.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:08:58 -0800
debconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Always returns "mulitselect" as one of it's capabilities now.
This was added because people need a way for their packages, when
preconfigured, to check to see if they have a new enough version of
debconf to ask a multiselect question.
* The better, long term fix is basic dependancy checking in
dpkg-preconfig, and that is now the top of my todo list.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:58:13 -0800
debconf (0.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
* STOP cannot return a success code, since in all likelyhood, the pipe it
would try to write it to is broken. (Closes: #49856, #49946)
* debug messages are now prioritized, DEBCONF_DEBUG can be set to 1 to see
some, 2 for more, etc.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:40:50 -0800
debconf (0.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig now clears it's progress meter when done, like apt
does now.
* Fixed a possible infinite recursion in the text frontend, if you
use it on an absurdly small screen. (It tried to display the title,
had to paginate it, went to display [More], and first decided
to display the title...)
* With doogie's help, simplified Client/confmodule a bit.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:38:11 -0800
debconf (0.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a Debconf user's guide.
* Cleaned up the doc Makefile.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:06:19 -0800
debconf (0.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected Client::ConfModule to return the right thing when one of its
functions is called in scalar context. It was returning the result code
by mistake, now it returns the value, like it is documented to do.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:18:40 -0800
debconf (0.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Added multiselect data type.
* Wrote input elements for this type for all frontends except the Gtk
frontend. The Gtk frontend needs a bit of a redesign before it can
handle this, I think.
* Made dpkg-preconfig properly accept -f and --frontend, Closes: #49920
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:30:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed gtk frontend from list of frontends. If you already have it
selected, you can continue using it, but I'm sick of people filing bugs
on it who didn't bother to read the note that said it had known problems
and should not be used.
* dpkg-reconfigure now doesn't do anything if it's told to reconfigure
packages that lack a config script. This makes it not fail on packages
that don't use debconf, though it is just a no-op with them.
Closes: #48190
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:15:04 -0800
debconf (0.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed the stty error messages, and screen size detection should work
again. For some reason I had to make stty use /dev/tty for stdin, plain
default stdin doesn't work when dpkg-preconfig is being run by apt.
* Change undefined values to '' when starting confmodules, Closes: #49797
* Fixed web frontend to never display empty forms.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:29:53 -0800
debconf (0.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Added sane defaults if stty -a fails. (Closes: a whole slew of bug
reports people will file over the next 2 days. :-P)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:00:16 -0800
debconf (0.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
* The noninteractive frontend now mails notes to root.
* Reworked the mechanism that makes select questions always set
their value when they are INPUT, even if they arn't really displayed,
to be much cleaner: This is now handled by the noninteractive select
element.
* Reworked how Elements are created to use eval, which kills the
duplicated makelement() code in all the FrontEnds.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:10:26 -0800
debconf (0.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
* frontend now works if run from something other than dpkg. Closes: #49449
* Created a new Tty frontend to serve as a base class for Dialog and Text.
It detects screen resizes. Made it the parent of Dialog and Text,
and they now also detect screen resizes. Debconf in a 30x5 xterm is
beautiful!
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:12:38 -0800
debconf (0.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed the text frontend to not lower-case choices in a select list.
(Closes: #49650)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:18:15 -0800
debconf (0.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
* People just don't seem to get it -- NEVER use dh_input in a postinst!
Tightened up the language about that in the tutorial, and repeated my
self in several places in the hope people will read at least one of them.
* Eliminated use of Fcntl, one of the modules that made us depend on perl.
* Deleted the copy of the spec that was local to this document. The
configuration management spec is now available as an xml document, in
Debian CVS. For convenience, debconf includes that document now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:34:02 -0800
debconf (0.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Spelling fixes, Closes: #49587
* Documented on each man page that talks about --frontend, how the
frontend can be permanently changed. Closes: #49537
* Don't crash if told to remove a nonexistant question.
* Rationalized debug and warning message printing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:56:07 -0800
debconf (0.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
* So it is possible to use debconf from the preinst of a package, after
all. Added sundry nasty hacks to make it work. (Also talked with BenC
and Wichert about doing this right in dpkg.)
* When a package is installed for the first time, the config script now
gets "" as its second parameter, as it should.
* ConfModule.pm now just execs a frontend, instead of turning into one. Not
quite as cool, but a lot easier to maintain.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:36:13 -0800
debconf (0.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Made frontend fallback message less scary.
* Split the template data out of the main debconf database and into
templates.db. This reduces the chances of it getting corrupted.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:19:49 -0800
debconf (0.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
* The last changelog lies: it's actually not possible to do any debconf
stuff in a preinst. The templates arn't available then.
* Documented this, until someone comes up with a workaround.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:31:28 -0800
debconf (0.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
* I found that the currently installed version of the package was being
passed to the config script if the package was just installed with dpkg
and not preconfiged. Fixed.
* If a preinst sources confmodule, the config script will be run.
Needed for packages like ssh that need to ask questions before install
time always.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:22:17 -0800
debconf (0.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Patchs from Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@ukai.org> to:
- fix typo that was breaking gtk frontend, Closes: #49074, #49076
- call set_locale so gtk frontend can display text in any language,
Closes: #49075
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:26:45 -0800
debconf (0.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig is now more robust: If a config script fails, it
outputs an error message, but continues so as much as possible of the
install can still complete.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:08:07 -0800
debconf (0.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed spelling error, Closes: #49032, which was filed on base for
unfathomable reasons.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:47:39 -0800
debconf (0.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
* For some reason, jade was inserting ' ' into generated html, which
looks nasty in w3m. Fixed that, and also use w3m to dump html to text
now, so tables are legible.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:55:15 -0800
debconf (0.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Squashed a ConfModule startup warning.
* Removed an implicit apt dependancy.
* _Really_ fixed problem with newline after owner. Tested and retested
this time. Closes: #48450
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:45:54 -0800
debconf (0.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed xml stylesheet to include legalnotice.
* Fixed a stupid error that was making parameters never get passed into
confmodules. Closes: #48824, #48853
* Closes: 47458 (been fixed for a while)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:31:28 -0800
debconf (0.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Select Elements are not shown if they have less than 2 choices. However,
for conistency, even if not shown, the value of the Question they represent
is changed as if they were shown.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:28:40 -0800
debconf (0.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Expanded and fixed up the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule.2pm
man page. Closes: #48809
* Moved that man page to man section 3. Closes: #48810
* Corrected Question->value to return undef if there is no default set.
This Closes: #48829, and is the right thing to do. It does, however,
break slews of debconf code that never expected to get an undef there.
So I dug around and fixed it all, I think.
* Fixed entering of '0' into text box in dialog frontend, which was broken.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:11:44 -0800
debconf (0.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed stupid debugging code. (oops)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 1999 22:38:59 -0700
debconf (0.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Just for Culus, sped up dpkg-preconfig by a factor of 3.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:26:29 -0700
debconf (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy bug again.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:34:30 -0700
debconf (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected debconf upgrade problem. If an old version of debconf
preconfig'd a newer version, the config script failed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 1999 17:15:53 -0700
debconf (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Confmodule.pm fixes I forgot in the last version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:20:46 -0700
debconf (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Now uses version 2.0 of the configuration management protocol.
- All commands in the protocol now return a numerical return code,
optionally followed by a space and a text return code.
* confmodule is a new shell library that handles this by making each
command it provides now return the numerical return code. They continue
to set $RET to the text return code. This means that you now have to
check the return codes of those commands, or the set -e script you are
running them in may exit if they return an error code.
* confmodule.sh is now deprecated, but remains for backwards compatability,
and has special compatability code in it.
* ConfModule.pm handles this by making each of its commands, when called
in list contect, return a list consiting of the numeric return code, and
the string return code. When called in scalar context, it behaves
in a backwards compatable way.
* Deprecated the VISIBLE command. Check to see if INPUT returns 30 instead.
* Deprecated the EXIST command. Check for return code 10 from commands that
try to use the question, instead.
* The GO command no longer returns "back"; instead, it returns 30.
* Documented all this.
* Hey, a state machine is the way to go if you want to support back buttons!
Converted the tutorial to reccommend this, and converted debconf's own
config script into a state machine.
* Used tables in several places in the tutorial where they make sense.
* Split the actual working templates and code out of the tutorial, and put
it in the samples direcotry. It is included inline so it is still
available in the tutorial, but now I can also debug it and make sure it
works..
* Added the noninteractive frontend to the list of choices you get when
configuring debconf.
* If the text frontend fails (this can really happen, if you run debconf
w/o a controlling tty in an autobuilder, say), falls back to the
noninteractive frontend. (Closes: #48644)
* The web frontend now only accepts connections from localhost.
* The web and noninteractive frontends now print out text saying they are
running.
* If a frontend fails, the failure message is always printed, not just in
debug mode.
* Fixed checkboxes in the web frontend so if they are unchecked, this
fact is noted.
* Added debconf-loadtemplate to the .deb.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:04:13 -0700
debconf (0.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy problem.
* Fixed a problem with empty text input fields in the Dialog frontend
setting the value of the question back to default instead of to ''
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:41:41 -0700
debconf (0.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a very important note to the tutorial.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:38:42 -0700
debconf (0.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
* In the dialog frontend, if a prompt is too big to fit on a dialog and
has to be slit up, it will now display just the extended description
in a dialog, and then display a new dialog with the short description
and the actual input element in it. This is intended to reduce confusion
when a user sees a question at the bottom of a dialog and an "Ok"
button beneath it -- that won't happen any more, and I think it's
ok to say this change Closes: #47644
* Reduced the amount of code in Dialog Elments a lot.
* Fixed yet another bug in dialog select box sizing. WIll they never end?
* Dialog select boxes no longer have numbered items. Looks better.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:14:51 -0700
debconf (0.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig: fixed so it chomps the package name, to prevent ugliness
like \n in the owners field. Closes: #48450
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:48:54 -0700
debconf (0.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
* The dialog frontend can now use --passwordbox with both whiptail and
dialog, so I made that change. (Closes: #47196)
* Added a section to the tutorail on adding backup capabilities to config
scripts. (Closes: #47676)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:02:10 -0700
debconf (0.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
* Some work done towards supporting containers.
* Config scripts are now passed the version of the package that is currently
installed when they are run, which is normally the old version of the
package. (Analagous to postinst scripts.)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:35:34 -0700
debconf (0.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed the web frontend to send a HTTP reponse header, patch from
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, Closes: #47937
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:19:43 -0700
debconf (0.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
* s/newbie/politically_correct_language()/eg;
Closes: #47668
* With regards to the second part of that bug report: critical is first on
the list, and always has been, unless you are using the dialog frontend,
where I have to do nasty re-ordering to make the default be first. If
you want, file a seperate (wishlist) bug on this.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:26:34 -0700
debconf (0.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a truely braindead problem in Container.pm, which was breaking
Select Elements a bit. (Closes: #47683)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:14:17 -0700
debconf (0.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed typo in debconf template. (Closes: #47458)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:44:24 -0700
debconf (0.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied patch from Rafael Laboissiere to add an "exists" command.
Be warned that this command is probably only temporary, I am looking
for a better solution. (Closes: #46927)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:52:43 -0700
debconf (0.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
* Slighly better handing of select element in text frontend if it has more
than 26 choices.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:30:13 -0700
debconf (0.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed text fromtend boolean input element to return true if true is
the default. (Closes: #47049)
* Fixed tutorial typo. (Closes: #47050)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:11:24 -0700
debconf (0.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
* Added stylesheet to turn on toc's.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:31:31 -0700
debconf (0.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
* Converted the tutorial and introduction to xml and docbook.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:26:17 -0700
debconf (0.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
* Disabled gdialog support just temporariy.
* Works with the latest dialog in unstable, re-enabled dialog support.
* Dialog select boxes are now indexed starting at 1, not 0.
* Documented a confmodule.sh gotcha in a tew troubleshooting section of
the tutorial.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:36:02 -0700
debconf (0.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
* Guarded postinst code that modifies apt.conf to prevent dup entries.
* Started doing some cleanup of the gtk frontend:
- It no longer flashes the window up on the screen unless it really
has a question to ask this time around.
- Made cancel button work.
It still segfaults on exit though.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:21:35 -0700
debconf (0.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
* Allowed confmodule.sh to be loaded twice. Closes: #46843
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:44:30 -0700
debconf (0.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from rafael@icp.inpg.fr (Rafael Laboissiere) to fix a perl warning,
Closes: #46871
* Another patch from Rafael to fix a mistake in the tutorial. Closes: #46873
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:40:02 -0700
debconf (0.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
* Wrote a perl module dependancy grapher, and include output in the .deb
package. I need to clean up parts of the Element hierarchy. Running this
on all perl modules in /usr/lib/perl is amusing, too, though it needs
some more work to be of general utility. (And I suspect someone has
already written a better one I'm not aware of.)
* Made a new frontend -- the Noninteractive frontend.
* All objects in debconf now derive from a common base class, which saved
a few dozen lines of code at least.
* There is now only one ConfModule object, no more multiple derived
objects per FrontEnd type. To make this work, I had to move the capb
property into the FrontEnd.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Oct 1999 02:52:02 -0700
debconf (0.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
* Reorganized some modules. No user-visible changes.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:20:43 -0700
debconf (0.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
* Gtk frontend can use the newest gtk-perl to test whether opening the
display will work. Closes: #46736
* metaget'ing choices now returns a list. Fixes the other half of #46606.
* Select boxes that consist of one item are not displayed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:21:01 -0700
debconf (0.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected db_text command in confmodule.sh, Closes: #46640
* Corrected typo in confmodule.3 man page, Closes: #46651
* Corrected whiptail window sizing problems, Closes: #46498, #46655
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:21:25 -0700
debconf (0.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed fatal dpkg-reconfig typo.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:45:32 -0700
debconf (0.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
* Debconf config scripts are now called with options. "configure" is
normally passed, "reconfigure" is passed if dpkg-reconfig is
reconfiguring the package. After that, the version of the package is
passed.
* dpkg-reconfigure will only work on packages that are fully installed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:12:56 -0700
debconf (0.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected several errors with how the choices field is accessed.
(Closes: #46606)
* No longer parses the choices field at template load time. This is a
big change and might break stuff -- we'll see.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:26:32 -0700
debconf (0.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a simple little progress report display to dpkg-preconfig so
when apt passes it 200 packages to be upgraded on a 386, it's clear
that something is actually going on.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:04:38 -0700
debconf (0.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
* Quoted a few more bareword hash keys that were causing a perl warning. What
puzzles me is I cannot reproduce the warning at all.. (Closes: #46545)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:18:36 -0700
debconf (0.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
* Doh -- I need to update to use debhelper's debconf support! :-)
* Gdialog only takes --defaultno options at the end. Dialog only takes
than at the beginning. Whiptail takes them either place. Argh. I've
changed to using the end for now, since I don't use dialog at all yet.
* Disambiguated {owners} in Question.pm, Closes: #46347
* Killed EXAMPLES out of the debian package.
* Flipped ordering of short and long descriptions in notes and text in the
dialog frontend; makes more sense this way.
* dpkg-reconfigure aborts if you arn't root.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:31:06 -0700
debconf (0.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
* Yesterday's changes to the choices field broke all select lists -- fixed.
* Added regression tests to TODO, it's clear I need them.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:06:49 -0700
debconf (0.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified the README to refer to the locations of docs in the installed
.deb, rather than the tarball, now that most people are installing debs.
Closes: #46302.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:49:12 -0700
debconf (0.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
* Added the metaget command. I did this mainly to let one get a list of
the owners of a question, though it might have other uses later.
* Substitutions now take effect on the choices field as well as the
description field.
* Put these two changes together and it's now possible to install several
related packages (ispell dictionaries, say), and get a list of what
dictionaries are available when the config scripts run, and only prompt
the user once for which one they want. Added a section to the tutorial
about this.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:52:14 -0700
debconf (0.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed the problems with the purge command, which were really package
name guessing problems and some errors in the new purge code. BenC, it's
ready for you.
* Don't install frontend in /bin (Closes: #46149)
* Fixed a problem with interpretation of the set command. The second
parameter can have spaces in it.
* Added data-dumper dependancy, since some perl's don't include it.
(Closes: #46147)
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Sep 1999 17:17:42 -0700
debconf (0.1.42) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a problem with Client::ConfModule.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:12:32 -0700
debconf (0.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied patch from Peter Vreman <pfv@cooldown.demon.nl> to correct dialog
size guessing code. Did some additional fixes for whiptail.
(Closes: 46060)
* Fixed a really silly formatting bug in FrontEnd::Dialog that was
probably leading to what looked like corrupted displays for some people.
* When breaking a question up over multiple screens with dialog, it makes
sure to always show the short description when it actually prompts for
input. This is a lot less disorienting.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:41:57 -0700
debconf (0.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
* gdialog will soon support --defaultno, added versionsed conflicts
with versions that don't, and support it again.
* ConfModule::new() doesn't take a confmodule to start anymore, I broke
that out into a separate function.
* AutoSelect only starts up the script if it's actually passed once. TRhis
should fix your problem, BenC.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:16:47 -0700
debconf (0.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
* Hm, I know I fixed this before, but the fix seems to have been lost:
Fixed bug in the AutoSelect that was making it *always* try dialog
first, even if something else was picked. (Closes: #46020)
* Dialog has no --defaultno flag, which makes it unusable for debconf.
Oh, so does gdialog. I have submitted a patch for dialog, but for now
I have simply made debconf not accept dialog. If you don't have whiptail,
you get text mode. I also made the --defaultno flag be passed first,
which is how dialog will (eventually) support it. (Closes: #46047)
* Dialog frontend no longer clears the screen when running. Makes it
easier to get at debug messages. (Closes: #46048)
* dpkg-reconfigure was trashing ownerships, fixed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:50:02 -0700
debconf (0.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
* Added password data type. Currently supported by the Text frontend
(though it has problems displaying right in an xterm), the Gtk frontend,
and the Web frontend (though you'd be insane to use it!).
* Fixed a nasty bug in the fallback code.
* Read-protected the debconf db directory.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:13:20 -0700
debconf (0.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a problem if perl failed to configure and dpkg-preconfig then
bombed out on the next apt run, users would have an unusable apt and not
be able to fix their system. Now dpkg-preconfigure detects a broken perl
and exits sanely, allowing apt to continue and fix things.
(Closes: #45927)
* Fixed a dpkg-preconfig type introduced last version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:55:51 -0700
debconf (0.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
* Added fallback frontend support. If the frontend the user selects is not
available, or fails to initialize (say DISPLAY is unset for Gtk), it will
fall back intelligently to another frontend.
* This means debconf doesn't really depend on much at all except perl.
Moved most stuff to suggests.
* The Gtk frontend was dying in a way not catchable by eval (!!) if DISPLAY
was unset; added a fix to that so it falls back instead.
* Removed some dpkg-preconfig spam.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:25:12 -0700
debconf (0.1.35) unstable; urgency=low
* Mappings. What good are they? None, that I could see, so I completely
removed them! This doesn't influence debconf's behavior at all, just
removes many lines of code and makes it all easier to understand.
* Added the concept that each question is owned by one or more packages.
When the number of owners goes to zero, the question is removed.
* Whenever a question is removed, I check to see if the template it used
is no longer used as well. If so, it's also removed.
* What this lets us do is it allows packages to get rid of questions and
templates they created when they are purged. And shared questions are
fully supported and won't go away until the last package that uses them
does.
* Added a "purge" command that accomplishes this easily. (You could of
course always call unregister by hand for each question, but this is
easier.)
* Modifed dpkg-preconfig so all the templates in all the packages that
are being installed are read first, and then all the config scripts are
run.
* The changes above have an intriguing side benefit that offers a fix to a
vexing problem. There is now a field in each question called "owners", that
is a comma and space delimited list of the packages that have registered
ownership. This list is up to date as soon as all the templates are
loaded if apt is used. A set of related packages can all provide the same
template in them; and their config scripts can then look at the owners
field to get the list of all related packages that is/will be installed.
Then they can do things like turn that into a list of choices of window
managers, or ispell dictionaries, etc, and prompt the user to pick one.
This feels only a little hackish, and the only problem with it is that if
they are not installing with apt, the list isn't fully complete until each
and every package has been installed.
* Fixed question default value code so it always inherits from the current
template, whatever that might be.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:52:14 -0700
debconf (0.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed dpkg-reconfigure, which was broken since yesterday.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:48:57 -0700
debconf (0.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed template merge bug. This was making old descriptions show up
even if a new template with changed descriptions was loaded.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:07:03 -0700
debconf (0.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
* Now it properly handles config scripts and postinsts that exit with
a return code, by propigating that return code up to dpkg.
* Killed dpkg-frnotend for good. It's in the Attic now only.
* In the dialog frontend, hitting cancel (or escape, maybe), will now
break out and cancel everything.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:01:00 -0700
debconf (0.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
* Added "visible" command to tell if a question will be displayed.
Very useful for preventing some kinds of loops.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:12:00 -0700
debconf (0.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
* Debhelper now supports debconf, amended turorial to note this.
* More spelling fixes.
* Added doc/namespace.ttx, which explains the variable namespace.
* First upload to unstable.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:28:14 -0700
debconf (0.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> with:
- spelling corrections
- man page enhancements
- better debian/templates text
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:04:50 -0700
debconf (0.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a bug.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:00:55 -0700
debconf (0.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
* Added default title support.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:51:36 -0700
debconf (0.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a config script and templates for debconf itself. It uses
them to configure what frontend to use, etc. /etc/debconf.cfg is no
more.
* Modified Config.pm so it contains functions that return values,
not just hard coded values. The functions now try to pull values out of
the database, and fall back on the defaults. Also, environment
DEBIAN_FRONTEND always works for specifying a frontend now, overriding
all else.
* Changed a myriad of other files that use Config.pm to call the new
functions.
* The Priority module is no longer used to set priority, Config.pm can
handle that now.
* Added showold to Config.pm, you can always see old questions now, if
you like.
* Renamed the entire Line frontend to Text. Line really doesn't make as
much sense. If you're following long in CVS, I also probably broke your
repository again; a clean checkout is reccommended. Sorry.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:56:43 -0700
debconf (0.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
* Modified the dialog frontend. Short descriptions now appear after long,
instead of as dialog titles. The title appears as the dialo title, and
the background title is "Debian Configuration"
* Hm, that actually cleaned up the API a bit, I guess it was the right
thing to do.
* Fixed link.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:48:53 -0700
debconf (0.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
* Added advanced topics section to the tutorial.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:13:51 -0700
debconf (0.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
* Force use of gnu readline perl library. The other one is too bad.
* dpkg-reconfigure allows you to configure it's frontend now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:03:19 -0700
debconf (0.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed a typo in the tutorial, and expanded it some.
* Fixed the apt dependancy, which was on too low a version.
* Depend on whiptail || dialog || gnome-utils so some kind of dialog is
installed always.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:48:12 -0700
debconf (0.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
* All the sigchld counting and handling stuff was making debconf segfault
and making it fragile in various ways. Removed it. Instead, I have
modified update-menus to DTRT, and I depend on that version.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:10:06 -0700
debconf (0.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed Line::Boolean default stuff, last time, I hope.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:18:47 -0700
debconf (0.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
* I had a truely nasty problem: when installing packages using the dialog
frontend, and using dpkg directly, debconf would segfault shortly after
the config script was run. It looks like this was due to reentrancy
problems in my sigchld handler and I think I've squashed it.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:22:48 -0700
debconf (0.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
* Expanded the tutorial, it's now a complete standalone document with
examples. <pant, pant>
* Oops, I never implemented the reset command! Fixed that.
* Oops, there are 2 different reset commands! Renamed one to clear,
contingent on Wichert's approval, and implemented the other as well.
* Removed dpkg-frontend from the binary package. I really don't want
people using it.
* Added pod docs for all Element files. Rather minimal right now.
* Tested the changes to Client::ConfModule; they work, but I have
occasional segfaults if using dialog.
* UI tewak to text boolean element.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:35:45 -0700
debconf (0.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
* Added COPYING file.
* Renamed README to EXAMPLES.
* Wrote a new README that just points to the other files.
* Wrote doc/INTRODUCTION, giving some history of how things
have worked, and why debconf is better.
* Suggests libterm-readline-gnu-perl, which is best for the Line
frontend.
* dpkg-preconfig uses the frontend specified in the conffile now.
* Element::Line::Boolean now uses the correct values as the default.
* FrontEnd::Line now actually displays titles.
* Client::ConfModule should now run the config script like confmodule.sh
does, for transparent installation of debconf packages. Needs testing.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:48:32 -0700
debconf (0.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
* Got rid of the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable entirely. Instead,
/etc/debconf.cfg has a variable in it to specify the default frontend
to use.
* Also added a question priority variable to the config file.
* Oh yeah, the big change is I fixed the postinst hang bug. Or rather,
worked around it. The bug was caused by update-menus forking to
background and waiting, but not closing stdin/out. I worked around by
catching SIGCHLD's and closing the pipes from the other end when the
postinst has existed. I've also contacted Joost.
* This, barring a little bit of docs and a few packages built to use it,
is basically ready to be shown to the world.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:40:15 -0700
debconf (0.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Broke the nasty perl code out of confmodule.sh, it's much cleaner now
(and you don't see a page long perl -e command in ps..)
* I now know exactly what's causing the hang problem -- update-menus!
I still have no clue why.
* Modified Client/frontend so it runs the config script of a package
if the script is available, every time. This is pretty ugly, but it has
a very nice effect: when you dpkg -i a brand new debconfed .deb, the
config script runs as soon as the postinst tries to use debconf, and
this lets you configure it, and then it is installed. So you don't have
to dpkg-preconfig it first. Of course, if you're using apt, it is
preconfiged, and then the config script is run again, redundantly (but
doesn't do anything since it's already run). This is basically the last
workaround needed for dpkg not preconfiguring stuff on it's own -- now
debconf use is completly transparent.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:58:00 -0700
debconf (0.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Don't use dh_link, so it can still build on va.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:08:13 -0700
debconf (0.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
* Gtk::FrontEnd now has the xpm it uses inlined into the file.
* /etc/debconf.cfg now holds configurable debconf settings. Config.pm is
just a link to it now.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:54:53 -0700
debconf (0.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-reconfigure now sets a flag in FrontEnd::Base that makes old
questions be shown as well. This is very nice for reconfiguring stuff..
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:19:21 -0700
debconf (0.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
* Added db_set command to confmodule.sh
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:05:25 -0700
debconf (0.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
* Uh oh. "set" is a shell builtin, so you cannot access the set command
via the shell interface. After talking with Sean, I've decided to just
prefix all the commands in the shell interface with "db_". So dh_set,
db_get, etc. Most packages that use debconf thus need to be changed.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:31:45 -0700
debconf (0.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
* Back after a one month hiatus. I've moved debconf around in my cvs
repository, though the debconf module name should still work.
* Debconf is now FHS compliant.
* Removed some junk from the Makefile I no longer need.
* Added doc/packages-prompt, just a list of some packages that need to be
modified.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:05:01 -0700
debconf (0.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Question->value now returns the default field if value is unset (thanks,
AJ)
* Various minor touchups everywhere.
* Killed slrn sample, this is going into the main slrn package and is
already significently better in there.
* Added Element/Gtk/*, from AJ.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 16:00:44 -0700
debconf (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
* Added beginnings of GTK frontend by AJ.
* Began moving the docs from internals.txt into POD documentation. It was
getting out of sync with the code, this will prevent that. Only Elements
still need to be converted.
* Fixed unset bug in confmodule.sh
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:06:33 -0700
debconf (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
* Patch from AJ that:
- makes Questions inherit properties direct from their associated
Templates. This simplifies a lot of code which no longer needs to
use $question->template->foo.
- implements STOP command in protocol.
- dies on unknown questions instead of failing obscurely later.
- removes bashism
- misc fixes and updates to cvs.config.
- adds template substitution support and the SUBST command.
- makes template parsing work better WRT the extended description and
actually look for dots on thier own lines, not lines starting with dot.
* Minor mods to above patch.
* Documented template substitutions in the draft spec.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:57:58 -0700
debconf (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Got rid of the NOTE and TEXT commands; notes and text are now put on
templates. This breaks any packages already using debconf (again).
* The above change made it clear I needed to reorganize the Elements --
each data type is now a seperate object type. The code is much simpler
now!
* While I was doing that, it became possible to make the base ConfModule
handle command_input in a general way. Much duplicate code removed.
* Modified clients for above changes.
* Modified samples and docs for above changes.
* Made the postrm not fail during error unwind.
* Picky Sean fixes..
* Added support for isdefault flag. Now you only see a question once.
* Added support for the FGET and FSET commands. (untested)
* The mappings file is no more. All questions on a template will now have
mappings made for them. If you need others, use the commands to make them.
* Added a new program, dpkg-reconfigure. Use it to reconfigure an already
installed package.
* Added Client/confmodule.sh. This is very similar to Client::ConfModule
except it's a shell library.
* Changed cvs.config to use confmodule.sh. It's _much_ easier to read now.
* Copyright updates. VA has sponsored and is at least a partial owner of
this code. It's still GPL'd, of course.
* Fixed a bug in the web frontend -- if a page is empty now because all
questions are too low priotity, it just skips it.
* Fixed a nasty template merge bug.
* Added a doc/spec/ directory and put a copy of the metadata section of
the spec in there, converted to html and greatly expanded to match
reality. This is a draft that I want to get accepted as the real spec.
* Changed to using "string" as the data type for text data, had been using
"text". This is a pretty big change, really and breaks all packages that
have been built so far that use debconf. Have to do it to comply with
the spec.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:16:25 -0700
debconf (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig (and test.pl) now load up only the ConfModules and
FrontEnds that will really be used. Faster startup time.
* TODO updates.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:36:53 -0700
debconf (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* dpkg-preconfig now has a --apt option that makes it read debs to
configure on stdin. This is for use with apt of course. (A hacked apt
that can use this exists now.)
* Dialog frontend only clears the screen just before displaying a
non-gdialog dialog box.
* Depend on the version of apt that really works with debconf.
* A postinst and postrm modify /etc/apt/apt.conf to make apt use
dpkg-preconfig to configure packages. (The file's not actually part of
apt, so this is not too evil).
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:41:29 -0700
debconf (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Moved CREDITS to doc/.
* Install internals.txt in .deb.
* doc/maintainer.txt is a guide for maintainers who want to convert
packages to use debconf.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:37:50 -0700
debconf (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Killed the cvs date stuff. Too much bother.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:38:37 -0700
