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66. By Balint Reczey on 2012-04-11

* New upstream release 1.6.7
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.7.html

65. By Balint Reczey on 2012-03-28

* New upstream release 1.6.6
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.6.html
  - security fixes (Closes: #666058):
    - The ANSI A dissector could dereference a NULL pointer and crash
    - The IEEE 802.11 dissector could go into an infinite loop
    - The pcap and pcap-ng file parsers could crash trying to read ERF data
    - The MP2T dissector could try to allocate too much memory and crash
* depend on automake instead of automake1.9
* update watch file to watch bzip2 compressed archives

64. By Balint Reczey on 2012-01-15

* clarify when set-user-id bit is set for dumpcap in README.Debian
  (Closes: #649350)
* add notes about capturing USB frames to README.Debian
* package and use SVG icon for Wireshark (Closes: #661759)

63. By Balint Reczey on 2012-01-12

* New upstream release 1.6.5
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.5.html
  - security fixes:
    - Laurent Butti discovered that Wireshark failed to properly check
      record sizes for many packet capture file formats.
      (No assigned CVE number.)
    - Wireshark could dereference a NULL pointer and crash.
      (No assigned CVE number.)
    - The RLC dissector could overflow a buffer.
      (No assigned CVE number.)
* build architecture dependent and independent packages separately
* [Debconf translation updates]
  - Indonesian (Mahyuddin Susanto). (Closes: #653938)

62. By Balint Reczey on 2011-11-19

* New upstream release 1.6.4
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.4.html
* remove Joost Yervante Damad from uploaders as he has resigned
  Thank you Joost for taking care of Wireshark packages for many years!

61. By Balint Reczey on 2011-11-01

* New upstream release 1.6.3
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.3.html
  - security fixes:
    - The CSN.1 dissector could crash
      (No assigned CVE number.)
    - Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered
      that the Infiniband dissector could dereference a NULL pointer.
      (No assigned CVE number.)
    - Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a
      buffer overflow in the ERF file reader. (No assigned CVE number.)
  - bump library versions
* add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules
* [Debconf translation updates]
  - Slovak (Slavko). (Closes: #647082)

60. By Balint Reczey on 2011-09-18

* New upstream release 1.6.2
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.2.html
  - security fixes
    - A large loop in the OpenSafety dissector could cause a crash.
      (CVE-2011-3484)
    - A malformed IKE packet could consume excessive resources.
      (CVE-2011-3266)
    - A malformed capture file could result in an invalid root tvbuff and
      cause a crash. (CVE-2011-3483 )
    - Wireshark could run arbitrary Lua scripts. (CVE-2011-3360)
    - The CSN.1 dissector could crash. (CVE-2011-3482)
  - don't show subversion revision in window title (Closes: #635116)

59. By Balint Reczey on 2011-07-19

* New upstream release 1.6.1
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.1.html
  - security fixes
     - The Lucent/Ascend file parser was susceptible to an infinite loop
       (CVE-2011-2597)
     - The ANSI MAP dissector was susceptible to an infinite loop
       (No assigned CVE number.)
* use linux-any wildcard for architecture-specific dependencies
  (Closes: #634671)

58. By Balint Reczey on 2011-07-10

* [Debconf translation updates]
  - Korean (si-cheol KO). (Closes: #630951)
* show a hint to read README.Debian when showing the warning about
  running Wireshark as root
  Thanks to Evan Huus for the suggestion.
* don't ship .la files for plugins, it keeps lintian happy
* migrate to dh_python2 from dh_pysupport
* use dh_prep instead of obsoleted dh_clean -k in debian/rules

57. By Balint Reczey on 2011-06-07

* New upstream release 1.6.0
  - release notes:
    http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.0.html
  - Decode protocols selectively using tshark -O (Closes: #179309)
  - Support opening files larger than 2GB on all platforms
    (Closes: #539287)
  - Bump library versions (Closes: #627146)
* depend on omniidl instead of omniidl4 transitional package
* [Debconf translation updates]
  - Dutch (Jeroen Schot). (Closes: #626145)
  - Hungarian (Balint Reczey).
* start shipping libwireshark1, libwiretap1 and libwsutil1 instead of
  libwireshark0, libwiretap0 and libwsutil0, respectively
* drop 05_bump_so_versions.patch as upstream started library versioning