Branches for Hardy

Author: Peter Samuelson
Revision Date: 2006-02-28 02:01:16 UTC

* New maintainer. (Closes: #350835)
* Acknowledge NMU. (Closes: #201852, #218443, #237963, #251547)
* Add file COPYING, the GNU GPL v2, to top level of source tree.
* Update both build-time and runtime use of debhelper to v4.
  (Closes: #320619)
* debian/copyright, debian/rules: cleanups
* debian/control:
  - standards version 3.6.2 (no changes needed)
  - rewrite description
  - drop 'perl5' alternative dependency; the perl5 package disappeared
    about 3 release cycles ago
* template/debian/copyright: update FSF address.
* template/debian/control.in: edit description, set maintainer to
  root@localhost, update standards version, add correct debhelper
  Build-Depends
* template/debian/rules: streamline somewhat.
* equivs-build: support Replaces: field. (Closes: #118526)
* equivs-build, template/debian/README.Debian.in:
  use "@" instead of the ISO-8859-1 section symbol for the variable
  escapes, to make life slightly easier for users of other charsets.
  - equivs-build.pod: update (and fix) the documentation for this
* equivs-build: allow comments in control file.
  - template.ctl: comment out most of the entries, to save the user some
    time in common cases. Also mention that packages lists are all
    comma-separated.
* equivs-build: Lots of code cleanups. Highlights:
  - Use File::Temp::tempdir. This removes the dir upon normal exit. On
    abend, tell the user where it is so she can examine and remove it.
  - Print usage message to STDERR, not STDOUT
  - Actually bother to close all the files we open
  - die with "\n". I doubt users care about source code line numbers.
  - 3-arg open(), multi-arg system(), and in general try to look less
    like Perl 4
  - Delete outdated or useless comments, commented-out code, unneeded
    variables, and redundant integrity checks
  - Eliminate most use of global variables
  The net effect is to shrink the file by about 20%.