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24. By Kees Cook on 2010-05-19

* SECURITY UPDATE: integer overflow in strfmon() might lead to arbitrary
  code execution.
  - debian/patches/any/git-strfmon-overflow.dpatch: backport from upstream.
  - CVE-2008-1391
* SECURITY UPDATE: newlines not escaped in /etc/mtab.
  - debian/patches/any/git-mntent-newline-escape.dpatch: upstream fixes.
  - CVE-2010-0296
* SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution from ELF headers (LP: #542197).
  - debian/patches/any/git-fix-dtag-cast.dpatch: upstream fixes.
  - CVE-2010-0830
* debian/patches/any/git-readdir-padding.dpatch: fix readdir padding when
  processing getdents64() in a 32-bit execution environment (LP: #392501).

23. By Adam Conrad on 2006-05-22

debian/patches/submitted-nis-netgrp.dpatch: New file, snagged from
Debian glibc packages, which drops a bogus assert that prevents NIS
users from using bash as a login shell (closes: launchpad.net/25206)

22. By Adam Conrad on 2006-05-19

Reupload to rebuild on sparc, which was previously miscompiled.

21. By Adam Conrad on 2006-05-12

debian/patches/cvs-mash-rlimit-rtprio.dpatch: Mangle the patch to
correctly patch {mips,sparc}/bits/resource.h instead of creating
an unused {mips,sparc}/resource.h, so RLIMIT_NICE works on sparc.

20. By Adam Conrad on 2006-04-12

* debian/debhelper.in/nscd.dirs: Sync with Debian, adding /var/db/nscd
  and /var/run/nscd to the nscd package (closes: launchpad.net/3365)
* debian/debhelper.in/nscd.init: Create /var/run/nscd on boot, for tmpfs
* debian/patches/locale-C.dpatch: Grab changes from Debian to define
  first_weekday as Sunday with the C locale (closes: launchpad.net/36988)
* debian/local/usr_sbin/tzconfig: Make tzconfig's yes/no questions case
  insensitive, so "N" is the same as "n" (closes: launchpad.net/30559)
* debian/rules.d/debhelper.mk: Make params to dh_installinit configurable
* debian/rules: Make nscd's dh_installinit call use "-- defaults 09 91"
* debhelper.in/nscd.postinst: Move nscd's rc?.d symlinks from S20/K20
  to S09/K91, so we start early enough (closes: launchpad.net/30141)

19. By LaMont Jones on 2006-04-06

* Fix regcomp to not trash lock structure. Closes: Malone#38420
  - add debian/patches/cvs-all-regcomp.dpatch
  - update debian/patches/00list
  (Thanks to Randolph Chung for finding the patch.)

18. By Matthias Klose on 2006-03-25

debian/debhelper.in/libc-alt.install: Add gconv-modules, the addition
in debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk is overwritten.

17. By Matthias Klose on 2006-03-25

libc6-i386 (amd64). Fix path of gconv-modules and install gconv-modules.
Ubuntu #34324, #34427.

16. By LaMont Jones on 2006-03-24

* Fix getcwd on machines where PATH_MAX != PAGE_SIZE.
  - Add debian/patches/local-all-getcwd.dpatch.
  - Update debian/patches/00list.

15. By Fabio Massimo Di Nitto on 2006-03-24

* Fix missing memory clobber in Sparc atomics:
  - Add debian/patches/local-sparc-atomics.dpatch.
  - Update debian/patches/00list.
  (Thanks David S. Miller for the patch)