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15. By Wookey on 2012-11-22

Add Multi-Arch: foreign meta-data to allow cross-dependencies
(LP: #1081611).

14. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2012-11-12

* New upstream
  Upload to unstable
  Major differences between version 451 and version 456:
  - Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable.
  - Don't quit if syntax errors are found in command line options.
  - Increase sizes of some internal buffers.
  - Fix configure bug with --with-regex=none.
  - Fix crash with "stty rows 0".
* Standards version is 3.9.4

13. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2012-10-15

* New upstream
  Major changes between versions 444 and 451:
  - Add ESC-F command to keep reading data until a pattern is found.
  - Use exit code of LESSOPEN script if LESSOPEN starts with "||".
  - When up/down arrow is used on the command line immediately after
    typing text, the next command starting with that text is found.
  - Add support for GNU regex.
  - Add configure option --with-regex=none and fix compile errors
    when compiling with no regex library.
  - Fix possible crashes caused by malformed LESSOPEN or LESSCLOSE
    variables.
  - Fix bug highlighting text which is discontiguous in the file due
    to backspace processing.
  - Fix bug in displaying status column when scrolling backwards with
    -J and -S in effect.
* Sync to 444-4ubuntu1
  - Revert to gzip compression for the package's data tarball.
* Standards version is 3.9.4
* Configure less with --with-regex=gnu
  Closes: #656694

12. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2012-06-11

Fix typo with CFLAGS in debian/rules
Patch by Simon Ruderich
Closes: #676909

11. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2012-06-09

* Standards version is 3.9.3
* DH compatibility level is 9
* Use hardening options

10. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2012-01-31

* More can also go backwards!
  Add 02-655926-more_can_go_backwards.patch
  Closes: 655926
* Add support for *.xz and *.tar.xz
  Patch by Darren Salt
  Closes: 572228

9. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2011-06-17

* New upstream
  These are the differences between version 443 and version 444:
  - Fix bug in unget handling that can cause strange effects on the
    command line.
  - Remove vestiges of obsolete -l option that can cause a crash.
* Fix debian-rules-missing-recommended-target

8. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2011-04-13

* New upstream. Upload to unstable
  Major changes between "less" versions 436 and 443
  - Change search behavior such that when a search is given an explicit
    pattern, the entire displayed screen is included in the search and
    not just the portion after the target line.
  - Add -A option to change search behavior to the old way: only
    the portion of the screen after the target line is searched.
  - Add %F formatting to prompt strings, replaced by the last component
    of the input file.
  - Control-G while editing a command exits the command.
  - Less now exits with status 2 if control-C is pressed and -K is in effect.
  - Fix "ungetc overflow" when passing long commands via the -p option.
  - Fix bug in using line filtering via the & command
    in combination with -i and -I.
  - Fix bug in handling negative arguments to the -j option.
  - Fix bug in handling %t in prompt strings.
  - Improve handling of long option names.
  - Improve percentage calculation for very large files.
* Debian policy version is 3.9.2

7. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2009-07-29

* New upstream; upload to unstable
  These are the differences between version 429 and version 436:
  - Don't pass "-" to non-pipe LESSOPEN unless it starts with "-".
  - Allow a fraction as the argument to the -# (--shift) option.
  - Fix highlight bug when underlined/overstruck text matches at
    end of line.
  - Fix non-regex searches with ctrl-R.

6. By Anibal Monsalve Salazar on 2009-04-20

Drop 02-178276-empty_file_isnt_binary.patch; closes: #524779