Branches for Breezy

Author: Branden Robinson
Revision Date: 2004-12-30 23:20:05 UTC

* Update to new upstream version. (Closes: #193695)
  + Fixes problem where certain window types (often transient dialogs) cause
    VTWM to restart itself. (Closes: #286951)
  + The "VirtualDesktopFont" configuration variable is now documented under
    that name, instead of the incorrect "VirtualFont". (Closes: #201738)
* Resync Debian patches with new version.
  + Fix for gram.y is now upstream.
  + Replace VTWMLIBDIR symbol with VTWMCONFDIR since all we use it for is
    installation of the configuration file. Create a new TWMCONFDIR symbol,
    which we use to locate twm's configration file. If Imake defines
    EtcX11Directory, use a subdirectory of ETCX11DIR for vtwm's
    configuration; otherwise, use a subdirectory of LIBDIR. (This is an
    improved -- and hopefully upstream-tolerable -- version of a patch
    previously applied.)
* Update copyright information:
  + Update URL to new source version and hosting location.
  + Update list of copyright holders, authors and contributors based on
    current version of manual page.
  + Undocument Martin "Joey" Schulze as a Debian package author, as he
    wasn't responsible for *this* packaging (which has been done at least 3
    times from scratch in the past 10 years, most recently by me).
    Acknowledge Joey's previous packaging.
  + Update my copyright notice. I have never signed a written instrument
    assigning my copyright in the packaging desiderata to Software in the
    Public Interest, Inc., so it's probably misleading to claim the
    copyright belongs to them.
* Rewrite package's extended description based on current information from
  upstream.
* Update build-dependencies to depend on real X protocol header and library
  development packages, rather than xlibs-dev, which is a dummy package
  nowadays.
* Update menu item quoting functions in vtwm's menu-method file to align
  them with twm's, which are a little easier to understand.
* Add support for launching other window managers to menu-method file, using
  VTWM's f.startwm function. Add 10 points to vtwm command's alternatives
  priority per Debian Policy section 11.8.4. (Closes: #194158)
* Re-case VTWM's name in its menu entry per upstream usage.
* Use a debian/compat file instead of the DH_COMPAT variable in the rules
  file, per debhelper(7).
* Add "FixManagedVirtualGeometries" and "FixTransientVirtualGeometries" to
  system.vtwmrc-menu file per suggestion from Neil Stewart; this should fix
  various problems with placement of transient and pop-up dialog windows.
  (Closes: #194110, #225945)
* Grab fix to twm's parse.c from XFree86 CVS (revision 1.9, 2001/04/23) that
  fixes line numbers in error messages about the vtwmrc file from being
  double their correct value. (Closes: #201741)
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.6.1; no changes necessary.
* Quote strings in menu file, per Lintian.
* Tidy up the manual page in several respects:
  + Add copyright notice to the manual page itself, copied from the
    copyright information on twm's source files in X11R4, from which VTWM
    was forked.
  + Fix up the .TH directive:
    - Downcase the command name (rendering a command's name in full caps is
      a presentation decision).
    - Change the date to reflect my modifications.
    - Indicate the source as "VTWM 5.4.6b", not "X11R4-6", since this
      manual page is independently maintained by the VTWM hackers.
  + Fix up the NAME section:
    - Remove spurious paragraph break at the beginning of the section.
    - Use \- instead of - to separate the manpage's name and summary and so
      that mkwhatis is less easily confused. (See man(7).)
  + Rename the SYNTAX section to SYNOPSIS. (See man(7).)
  + Use an macros for type face selection in the SYNOPSIS section.
  + Use \- instead of - in the SYNOPSIS section to notate literal dashes
    that the user will type (e.g., when specifying command-line options).
  + Rename the SIGNALS section to ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS (after SUSv3
    manpages).
  + Rename the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section to ENVIRONMENT. (See
    man(7).)
  + Use "an" typeface macros instead of roff \f escapes for font changes
    where practical in the ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS, BUGS, FILES,
    ENVIRONMENT, COPYRIGHT, and SEE ALSO sections.
  + Quote multi-word arguments to the .SH macro in the ASYNCHRONOUS
    EVENTS and AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS sections.
  + Use \(oq and \(cq named characters instead of literal double-quotes
    in the BUGS section.
  + Italicize signal names in the ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS section.
  + Put a newline at the ends of sentences per the GNU Roff info
    documentation.
  + Move the SEE ALSO section to the end of the page.
  + Update COPYRIGHT section based on the information I gathered from
    trawling the source tree.