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9. By Ian Jackson on 2013-11-29

New utilities:
* xduplic-copier. Closes:#727223.
* git-cache-proxy.

New features:
* random-word: -F<n> option for using only first <n> lines of source file.

Bugfixes:
* Make xbatmon-simple tolerate the lack of "type" in power supply uevent
  fields, by guessing the type from the presence or absence of "present"
  (which appears for batteries) and "online" (which appears for mains).
  Closes: #689134.

Documentation improvements:
* really: Add "danger!" warning to usage message description of -R.
* really: Document -R option in the manpage. Closes:#693354.
* really: Document need to be in the "root" group as well. (This is
  better than removing the restriction, because it would be dangerous to
  relax this security barrier in existing deployments.) Closes:#693356.
* watershed; Provide -h and --help options. Closes:#659989.

Build and portability fixes:
* cprogs: Saner build runes when extra libs or objs needed.
* cprogs: Honour CMDLINE_CFLAGS, CMDLINE_CPPFLAGS, CMDLINE_LDFLAGS.
* debian/rules: use dpkg-buildflags and pass to Makefile.
* cprogs/Makefile: clean deletes $PROGRAMS
* random-word: Some perl-mode emacs formatting glitch workarounds.
* random-word: use strict; -w.
* cprogs/usr-local-src-misc-Makefile: Remove ancient cruft file.

8. By Ian Jackson on 2012-06-10

* Rename `xacpi-simple' to `xbatmon-simple':
  - rename source file
  - change program name in Makefiles, .gitignore, rules, etc.
  - change program's idea of its own name for usage message
  - look for X resources under both old ane new names
  - provide a compatibility symlink (using dh_link)

7. By Ian Jackson on 2012-06-07

xacpi-simple improvements:
* Better parsing of boolean -debug option.
* Support -into, -iconic and -withdrawn options.

Packaging fix:
* debian/rules clean removes various sv-* and dh log files.

6. By Ian Jackson on 2012-06-06

Bugfixes to programs:
* xacpi-simple updated:
  - Now works with recent kernels by reading /sys/class/power_supply
    (so is now misnamed, since that may or may not come from acpi).
    Closes: #635242.
  - Copes both with batteries which report charge/current and ones which
    report energy/power.
  - Copes with batteries which are not full, charging or discharging
    (eg, if the system is on a/c but battery charging is suppressed).
  - Shows red when time remaining is less than 5 minutes (configurable)
    rather than trying to use "alarm" value from /sys/class/power_supply
    (which is not very predictable or reliable).
  - Option -debug produces some debugging output.
  - In the code, rename pix_... variables to be named after the meaning
    rather than the default colour.
* chiark-backup's /etc/chiark-backup/snap/nosnap is now more careful
  about rm vs. rmdir of its link/mountpoint/whatever.

Documentation and description improvements:
* watershed now installs its head doc comment in
  /usr/share/doc/chiark-utils-bin/watershed.txt.
  This is apropos of #659989 but is of course not a proper fix.
* Mention rcopy-repeatedly in the Description.

User-visible packaging improvements:
* chiark-backup Suggests chiark-utils-bin, not the nonexistent
  chiark-cprogs (for `summer').

Other packaging and source code improvements:
* Provide build-arch and build-indep debian/rules targets.
* Fix the type of a callback function passed to scandir, to expect
  struct dirent**'s rather than void*'s.
* Add -Wno-pointer-sign to gcc warning options.
* Add ${misc:Depends} to Depends: lines. Causes no change to the .debs.
* Switch to git. Move .cvsignores to .gitignore, etc.
* Update my email address.

5. By gregor herrmann on 2009-12-05

* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fix "file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/chiark- backup/snap/nosnap"
  by adding /etc/chiark-backup/snap/nosnap to debian/chiark-
  backup/conffiles (closes: #553560).

4. By Magnus Holmgren on 2009-09-02

* Non-maintainer upload.
* change build dependency from libnettle-dev to nettle-dev
  (Closes: #543123).

3. By Ian Jackson on 2008-08-27

chiark-named-conf:
* Remove obsolete +nodebug option from calls to dig;
  required for BIND9 compatibility. Thanks to Ross Younger.
* Foreign zones work properly using the configuration
  prevailing at the end of the config file.
* Warn if user specifies a zone with the trailing `.'.

Other:
* hexterm: Declare and document the dependency of hexterm on tcl8.4.
* chiark-backup: remove snap-mount properly whether it's a dir or a leaf
  node (such as a symlink).

2. By Ian Jackson on 2006-10-02

New script `hexterm', `terminal emulator' for binary data,
display/entry in ASCII and hex.

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