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2. By Ian Jackson on 2006-06-27

New facilities:
* New `cvs-repomove' and `cvs-adjustroot' programs,
      for moving CVS repositories about safely and easily.
* New `random-word' script (no documentation).
* New `xacpi-simple' utility (no documentation).
* New `summer' checksumming program with no manpage.
* Spice and gnuplot scripts `ngspice2genspic', `gnucap2genspec'
  `genspic2gnuplot'.

chiark-backup:
* Pass -P option to df (to make new df not break things).
* Pass -xtmpfs option to df.
* Fix critical driver script lost output bug.
* Fix pipe mode by passing -m600 when creating it.
* Don't mind devices on local filesystems (was failed stat bug).
* New lvm/remount-ro snapshotting feature.
* New `snaprsync' script which is still a work in progress.
* New gtar backup type.
* Use (set) dump label field.
* Say `(C)' in nroff pages rather than `\(c0' (typo for `\(co').
  (Closes: #208299 - Debian bug, thanks to Colin Watson.)
* Move tape.* symlinks for chiark example into chiark directory.
  (Closes: #208300 - Debian bug, thanks to Colin Watson.)

Other fixes and improvements:
* Size for readbuffer/writebuffer may be in k or bytes.
* sync-accounts works properly with groups with - + . in names
* really has -R (chroot) option, and usage message improved.
* Typo in copyright statement in with-lock-ex.1 fixed.
* Mention cvs-* and palm-datebook-reminders in debian/control.
* Make myself (Ian Jackson) the Maintainer.
* Fix manpage titles for palm-datebook-reminders(1) and really(8).

1. By Matthew Vernon on 2003-07-16

New programs and utilities:
* trivsoundd (cprogs, no .deb). Largely untested.
* palm-datebook-reminders (scripts, chiark-scripts.deb)
* really (cprogs, chiark-really.deb)
* with-lock-ex (cprogs, chiark-utils-bin.deb)
* usernice, cvsweb-list, smtpallow. (Source only, not built.)

chiark-named-conf:
* remove warnings by adding complete set of function prototypes
* check foreign zones from delegation by default (-mforeign!*)

chiark-rwbuffer:
* fix writebuffer's progname.

chiark-backup:
* full dumps have tapedesc in TAPEID
* fix reporting of unaccountable filesystems.
* compression support (gz as a style option).
* ntfsimage support.
* Count and display on-tape file numbers.
* Count output blocks for each tape file and in total.
* $nice and $nasty in settings.pl.
* Show mt runes when we execute them.
* A little less clone-and-hack.
* Manpages.

Build system improvements:
* Make manpages non-executable (!) (ie install with INSTALL_SHARE)
* Makefile commonality moved into settings.make.
* readbuffer/writebuffer moved into new cprogs directory.

Debian-specific changes:
* sync-accounts and chiark-named-conf merged into single
  chiark-scripts package.
* Add section and priority fields
* Update to a sensible standards-version
* Correct location of the GPL