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7. By Michael Bienia on 2009-09-01

Rebuild with OCaml 3.11.1 on armel and ia64 (lp: #421087)

6. By Eric Cooper on 2009-06-11

Add Japanese debconf translation (closes: #524624)

5. By Eric Cooper on 2009-03-10

* New upstream version
* Change approx to run under inetd (closes: #517217, #479493)
* Update packaging for OCaml 3.11 (closes: #518727)
* Revert to dropping privileges in gc, update, and import
  (closes: #510761)
* approx-import: use MD5 checksums instead of names and versions
  (closes: #518753, #518763)
* approx-import: print status of each file when importing in verbose mode
  (closes: #518761)

4. By Eric Cooper on 2008-11-19

* New upstream version
* Handle unreadable directories like lost+found more robustly
  (closes: #488115)
* Decompress files in /tmp so gc can be used on a full filesystem
  (closes: #490028)
* Handle multiple blank lines between paragraphs in control files
  (closes: #501628)
* Use "Pragma: no-cache" in case approx is behind a caching proxy
  (closes: #502405)
* Check for correct user and group ID instead of dropping privileges
  in auxiliary programs like gc and update; use "su" in cron jobs
* Create directories when importing files into the cache

3. By Eric Cooper on 2008-05-03

* Allow empty host name in file URLs (closes: #479022)
* Use unique temporary names to avoid race condition
  when opening cache files (closes: #488080)
* Use hint files to avoid (but not eliminate) duplicate downloads
* Remove unnecessary getpeername call in server loop

2. By Eric Cooper on 2006-10-23

* Make sure syslog messages are newline-terminated for syslog-ng
  (closes: #394925)
* Handle tabs as well as spaces in control files (closes: #394062)
* Added "max_rate" configuration variable (closes: #392802)
* Improved description in approx man page of how repository mapping works
* Added XS-Vcs-Svn header to debian/control file

1. By Eric Cooper on 2005-05-07

* Build byte-code version on architectures with no ocamlopt
* Create /var/cache/approx directory in postinst script