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22. By Andreas Tille on 2009-05-18

* Split wnb gui to separate package to not have the extra
  tcl/tk dependency on plain wordnet package
  Closes: #525674
* debian/control: wordnet: Depends wordnet-gui | artha
* debian/wordnet.dirs: removed because unused
* Debhelper version 7

21. By Andreas Tille on 2009-04-07

* Fix usage of init scripts debian/dict-wn.{postinst,prerm}
  Closes: #522916
* debian/patches/*: Add comments to all patches (and refresh patches)
* debian/control: ${misc:Depends} for all packages
  - Standards-Version: 3.8.1 (no changes needed)
  - Do not duplicte Section field for wordnet, wordnet-grind, dict-wn
  - No dupllicated short descriptions
  - Added libxft-dev to Build-Depends

20. By Andreas Tille on 2008-09-08

Fix part of oCERT patch that breaks 'wordnet test -synsn'
(Thanks to Rob Holland <email address hidden> who did the patch and
fixed the problem quickly)
Closes: #497649

19. By Stefan Lesicnik on 2008-09-11

* SECURITY UPDATE: Stack overflows fed via the command line, environment
  variables or WordNet library calls can result in arbitrary code
  execution. (Closes LP: #267067)
* 51_overflows.patch:
  - ocert patch to address additional potential security exploits.
* 51_overflows_memcpy.patch:
  - Fix part of oCERT patch that breaks 'wordnet test -synsn'.
* References
  http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html
  CVE-2008-2149

18. By Andreas Tille on 2008-06-18

* Group maintenance by Debian Science Team
* Added myself as Uploaders
* DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
* Vcs fields
* Wrapper for wnb
  Closes: #484568
* Standards-Version: 3.8.0 (no changes needed)

17. By Andreas Tille on 2008-05-15

* Fix CVE-2008-2149: buffer overflows by limiting the length
  of the string in sprintf format string
  Closes: #481186
  Please note: The WordNet code contains several other occurences
  of potentially exploitable functions like strcpy()/strcat()/...
  and so even if there are no known exploits the code needs a
  full security audit.
* Mentioned the potential security issues in README.Debian

16. By Andreas Tille on 2008-05-08

* Fix loop issue when look up the hypernyms of "inhibit". Thanks to
  Ben Haskell <email address hidden> who provided the patch.
  Closes: #478803
* Switched from dpatch to quilt
* Make use of dh_lintian (which required debhelper >= 6.0.7)
* More fixes for man pages
* debian/wordnet-sense-index.README.debian: Explain issues that
  might be ralated to building WordNet database from source via grind
  regarding sense index

15. By Andreas Tille on 2008-05-03

* Build-Depends: tcl/tk8.5-dev (instead of tcl/tk8.4-dev)
* debian/patches/01_tcltk8.5.dpatch: Change upstream source build
  stuff to use tcl/tk8.5 instead of tcl/tk8.4
* debian/rules: s/8\.4/8\.5/g
* Added Build-Depends: libxss-dev
* Make sure you can build twice in a row (unpatch and manual deleting
  Makefiles in doc)

14. By Andreas Tille on 2008-02-12

* New patch for wordnet_structures (Thanks to
  Sebastian Hagen <email address hidden>)
* Standards-Version 3.7.3 (no changes needed)
* Removed Homepage tags from long descriptions
* Provides: dictd-dictionary
  Closes: #466220

13. By Andreas Tille on 2007-11-07

* Fixed watch file (Thanks to Cyril Brulebois
  <email address hidden>)
  Closes: #449736
* Fix WordNet version number in dict package
* Fixed NAME sections of several man pages
* Moved menu to Applications/Text
* debian/control: Changed XCBS-Url to Homepage