doc-base (0.10.9) unstable; urgency=medium [ Ondřej Nový ] * d/control: Set Vcs-* to salsa.debian.org [ Robert Luberda ] * Switch to using debhelper v12. * Fix typos in doc-base manual (closes: #902833). Thanks to Paul Hardy. * common.xsl: Restore TOC section depth (closes: #912055). Thanks to Collin Watson. * common.mk: make it possible to install without root privileges, and set 'Rules-Requires-Root' to 'no' in debian/control. * Standards-Version: 4.4.0. -- Robert Luberda Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:17:24 +0200 doc-base (0.10.8) unstable; urgency=medium * Switch documentation format from DocBook SGML to DocBook XML (closes: #871520). * Scrollkeeper.pm: specify 'file://' protocol in identifier tag of oml files (closes: #860348). * Bump debhelper's compat to 11. * debian/control: + Replace khelpcenter4 with khelpcenter in Suggests field (closes: #886535); + Switch Vcs-Git to https, and Vcs-Browser to cgit; + Standards-Version: 4.1.3 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:43:11 +0100 doc-base (0.10.7) unstable; urgency=medium * Build depend on opensp and use onsgmls instead of nsgmls to fix FTBFS (closes: #812671). * Set UTC date when generating docs and pass the `-n' option to gzip to get reproducible results (closes: #794793). * Add Swedish translation (closes: #794597). * Switch debian/copyright to the DEP-5 format. * Drop unused lintian override for /u/s/doc-base/data directory. * debian/control: + Use https for Vcs-Browser field; + Standards-Version: 3.9.6 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:52:09 +0100 doc-base (0.10.6) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix `Possible precedence issue with control flow operator' warning (closes: #758311). * Fix a typo in install-docs. * Standards-Version: 3.9.5 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:14:57 +0200 doc-base (0.10.5) unstable; urgency=low * Switch triggers to interest-noawait. * Fix typo in doc/doc-base.sgml (closes: #707344). * Fix `registation' typo (closes: #701738, LP: #1132781). * Scrollkeeper.pm: Fix mime-type of compressed files (closes: #483140). * Add lintian override for /u/s/doc-base/data directory. * Standards-Version: 3.9.4 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Tue, 14 May 2013 23:04:01 +0200 doc-base (0.10.4) unstable; urgency=low * Add Japanese translations (closes: #675048). * Standards-Version: 3.9.3. * Bump debhpelper's compat level to 9. -- Robert Luberda Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:46:18 +0200 doc-base (0.10.3) unstable; urgency=low * debian/postinst: set PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 not to fail when perl is being upgraded (closes: #648937). * install-docs.in: + show verbose warning message when doc-base is not fully functional; + drop the force-reregister file also when install-docs -C is called. * debian/control: Fix Vcs-Browser field. -- Robert Luberda Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:19:09 +0100 doc-base (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low * DocBaseFile.pm: Ignore temporary/backup files in both /usr/share/doc-base and /etc/doc-base/documents (closes: #623169). * Update German translations (closes: #624345). * Update French translations (closes: #627284). * debian/control: + Add VCS fields; + Standards-Version: 3.9.2 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:40:55 +0200 doc-base (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low * DocBaseFile.pm, InstallDocs.pm: + while getting changed files, don't schedule not yet registered files for removal; + if some documents cannot be registered and verbose messages are turned off, inform the user how to get the more detailed reasons of the errors. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:48:55 +0100 doc-base (0.10.0) unstable; urgency=low * Applied a bit modified patch from Martin Pitt @ Ubuntu to remove dependency on perl (closes: #602919): + Scrollkeeper.pm: provide our own local dirname() function and use it instead of File::Basename; + InstallDocs.pm: use the `rm -r' and 'mkdir -p' programs instead of File::Path; + debian/rules: run dh_perl with '-d' to avoid perl dependency. * Switch internal databases format from MLDBM to YAML and provide better error recovery from database corruption: + DB.pm: use YAML::Tiny module for storing our internal databases; + Util.pm: introduce Fatal() function and differentiate exit codes by type of error; + make the Fatal() function call + debian/control: switch dependency on libmdlbm-perl to libyaml-tiny-perl; + debian/postinst: try to recover for yaml files corruption by deleting them and re-spawning install-docs. * Translations handling: + patch from David Prévot not to assume word ordering in translated strings (closes: #606475); + patch from Chris Leick to fix plurals in the strings (closes: #521384); + English messages cleanups; + mark more doc-base messages as translatable; + Update Polish translation of binary. * doc-base.sgml: + prepend a top-level section name section names to make it more visible that sections' components are separated by slash (closes: #578331); + add the `Network/Remote Access' section (closes: #555161); + the Network section has two levels, not three (closes: #615488). * Don't create scrollkeeper files when rarian-compat is not installed (closes: #419745) + debian/triggers: interest on /usr/share/doc/rarian-compat to be notified of installs/removals of rarian-compat * DocBaseFile.pm: fix `no valid Format found' check. * Scrollkeeper.pm: avoid `unsuccessful stat on file contains new line' warnings given by perl (closes: #607498, #614330). * Ubuntu bugs handling: + install-docs.in: check if the Pod::Usage module is available before using it (LP: #431270, #510976); + this version gets rid of MLDBM and provides a better handling of databases corruption, to prevent `read error' bugs (LP: #695319, #675069, #672364, #668856, #652102, #621345); + debian/prerm: downgrade the `cannot find install-docs on path' error to a warning to make it possible to remove doc-base when install-docs is not available for some reason (LP: #391464); + the `/usr/share/doc-base/data/doc-base.map' file is provided in the package, it must have been deleted either manually or by filesystem error (LP: #660345, #646629); + close bugs that are duplicates of Debian bug#501874, fixed in 0.8.18 (LP: #247718, #249160, #250252, #314996, #327101, #327104). * debian/rules: switch to the tiny format from debhelper and add support for build-arch and build-indep targets. * debian/control: + sort dependency fields with wrap-and-sort from the ubuntu-dev-tools package; + drop versioned conflicts with old versions of dwww and dhelp; + drop versioned dependency on dpkg; + Standards-Version: 3.9.1. * Bump debhelper compat mode to 8. * Set source format to `3.0 (native)'. * Fix spelling typos found by lintian. * Remove ancient stuff from preinst. * Re-register all docs when upgrading to this version. -- Robert Luberda Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:04:51 +0100 doc-base (0.9.5) unstable; urgency=low * Add a `Typesetting' top-level section for software used to typesetting text and graphics from structured input files (closes: #486144).. * Map the unofficial `Tex' section into `Typesetting'; re-register all documents. * Fix package description and dependencies (closes: #550086). -- Robert Luberda Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:26:27 +0200 doc-base (0.9.4) unstable; urgency=low * Add Spanish translations (closes: #539706, #539707). * doc-base.sgml: update, mention triggers (closes: #542038). * install-docs.in: fix a typo in pod documentation. * rules: use dh_lintian instead for installing a override file. * Standards-Version: 3.8.3 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:15:33 +0200 doc-base (0.9.3) unstable; urgency=low * Fix grammar in German translation (closes: #527054). * Update French translation (closes: #527562). -- Robert Luberda Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:00:12 +0200 doc-base (0.9.2) unstable; urgency=low * Add missing spaces into pod documentation (closes: #520238). * Fix typo in scrollkeeper.map (closes: #524153). * po/pod/po4a.cfg: use [po_directory], instead of [po4a_langs] * debian/control: + bump po4a build-dependency to 0.35 for the above feature; + Standards-Version: 3.8.1 (no changes). * New translations: + French (closes: #524358); + German (closes: #522033, #521833). * Add linitian overrides for `useless-call-to-installdocs'. * copyright: refer to the GPL-2 common-lincenses file (lintian). -- Robert Luberda Sun, 03 May 2009 07:50:19 +0200 doc-base (0.9.1) unstable; urgency=low * Upload to unstable. * Merge changes from 0.8.20. * install-docs.in: update section reference of dwww man page. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:32:09 +0100 doc-base (0.9.0) experimental; urgency=low * Extend scrollkeeper.map (closes: #497272). Many thanks to Deng Xiyue for the patch. * Add NLS support for doc-base script and man pages (closes: #479011). * Add Polish translation of the script and man pages. * DocBaseFile.pm: insert into files.db also existing files that don't contain valid document it. * Reorganise source tree: + clean & improve build system; + move doc-base.sgml to doc subdir; + set debhelper compat level to 7. * debian/rules: use dh_prep instead of `dh_clean -k' (lintian) * Add po4a to build-dependencies. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:14:02 +0100 doc-base (0.8.20) unstable; urgency=low * debian/postinst: Use `find -print0 | xargs -0' to handle spaces in old list/status file names (closes: #512390). -- Robert Luberda Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:01:10 +0100 doc-base (0.8.19) unstable; urgency=low * While checking for changed files, remove from our database files that no longer exists and were never registered because of errors. * Fix warning messages for checks that are done after checked file is closed (e.g. section check). -- Robert Luberda Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:25:08 +0100 doc-base (0.8.18) unstable; urgency=medium * install-docs.in: include $opt_rootdir in used vars not to fail when Perl is in unusable state (closes: #501874). In such a case install-docs should try to recover on next invocation (see entry for version 0.8.4) -- Robert Luberda Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:34:09 +0100 doc-base (0.8.17) unstable; urgency=low * doc-base.map: add a few self-mappings to prevent install-docs from incorrectly changing case of characters in sections like Help/HOWTO (without such a mapping the section name is turned into Help/Howto). * postinst: re-register all docs for the above change to be propagated. * DocBaseFile.pm: ignore dpkg temporary files while iterating through /usr/share/doc-base dir contents. * Document.pm: remove doc-base file entry from files.db database even if the relevant document is not registered. * Scrollkeeper.pm: fix dates in generated omf files. * Standards-Version: 3.8.0 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:19:02 +0100 doc-base (0.8.16) unstable; urgency=medium * install-docs.in: Import Debian::DocBase::Utils (closes: #481121). -- Robert Luberda Wed, 14 May 2008 00:55:34 +0200 doc-base (0.8.15) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix the `--check' option which got broken in 0.8.12. -- Robert Luberda Tue, 13 May 2008 21:42:08 +0200 doc-base (0.8.14) unstable; urgency=low * Upload to unstable. * Move `Registering with...' messages from InstallDocs.pm to {Dhelp,Dwww,Scrollkeeper}.pm. -- Robert Luberda Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:26:31 +0200 doc-base (0.8.13) experimental; urgency=low * Remove dpkg-triggers call from prerm and always register changed files in postinst. * InstallDocs.pm: + change behaviour of `-R' option to unregister doc-base files by removal of our databases. This could be useful if database gets damaged; + get Document-Id of removed doc-base files from files.db; + show nicer statistics about install-docs actions. * DocBaseFile.pm: remove PARSE_* variables. * doc-base.sgml: minor update, fix typos. * install-docs.in: don't print debugging info about skipping install-docs run. * control: bump conflict with dwww. * Merge changes from 0.8.10.1. -- Robert Luberda Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:46:50 +0200 doc-base (0.8.12) experimental; urgency=low * Enhance doc-base dpkg's triggers support. Instead of simply re-registering all available files, install-docs, when triggered, will find out names of removed, changed or added /u/s/doc-base/* files and take appropriate action on them. * Change format of internal database of registered documents from plain text files to DBM files (managed with GDBM_File and MLDBM): + add new DB.pm module to provide access to database; + move contents of old *.status files to new status.db; + save timestamps and document-ids of registered /u/s/doc-base/* files in a new files.db database; + the timestamps will be saved even for broken doc-base files, that cannot be properly registered; + make necessary changes in our other *.pm to support the new databases. * install-docs.in: + add new --install-changed option, which compares contents of the files.db database with contents of /u/s/doc-base dir and registers only changed files; use this option for processing trigger in postinst; + new --dump-db option for debugging our databases; + update POD docs. * InstallDocs.pm: print some additional messages to give clue what is actually being done. * DocBaseFile.pm, Document.pm: refactor function names. * debian/control: add dependency on libmldbm-perl and build-dependency on libmldbm-perl and libperl-uuid. * debian/preinst: remove old plain text databases, call dpkg-trigger. * debian/postinst: don't process triggers until our databases exist. -- Robert Luberda Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:07:06 +0200 doc-base (0.8.11) experimental; urgency=low * Make use of the new dpkg triggers feature: + provide debian/triggers file; + change postinst to reinstall all docs on trigger activation; + install-docs is now no-op if called from other packages' installation or removal scripts; + remove obsolete (created by doc-base << 0.8.7) dhelp/scrollkeeper files in preinst rather than in postinst. * Document.pm: remove a perl warning issued on removal doc-base files that have been already deleted. * Scrollkeeper.pm: switch from scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid to UUID.pm. * Dwww.pm: call dwww-build-menu directly (without update-menus). * debian/control: + add dependency on dpkg (>= 1.14.17) and libperl-uuid; + move scrollkeeper from Depends to Suggests field. * doc-base.sgml: + add OCaml as an example sub-section of Programming (closes: #472501); + add TODO entry related to triggers support. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:46:13 +0100 doc-base (0.8.10.1) unstable; urgency=high * DocBaseFile.pm: workaround Perl crash by decreasing maximum length of line that is checked for non-UTF-8 chars (closes: #477512). -- Robert Luberda Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:26:54 +0200 doc-base (0.8.10) unstable; urgency=low * doc-base.sgml: + define real section hierarchy (closes: #109431), strongly based on the menu one with a few doc-base specific sections added; + doc-base files should be UTF-8 encoded. + review TODO list. * DocBaseFile.pm: + try to recode files to UTF-8 at install time, + warn on unknown doc-base sections. * Utils.pm: Remove latin1 encoding support from HTMLEncode. * While reregistering all documents run `dhelp_parse -r' to avoid index++ runs. * Build with debhelper v6. -- Robert Luberda Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:59:05 +0100 doc-base (0.8.9) unstable; urgency=low * Fix typos in doc-base.map (closes: #460505). * Update sections in scrollkeeper.map. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:36:37 +0100 doc-base (0.8.8) unstable; urgency=low * Remove /var/lib/doc-base on package removal (closes: #454069). * Strip Apps and Applications prefixes from Section field values. * Enable dhelp registration, conflicts with dhelp << 0.6.5. * Standards-Version: 3.7.3 (no changes). -- Robert Luberda Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:22:11 +0100 doc-base (0.8.7) unstable; urgency=low * Introduce /var/lib/doc-base/documents and dynamic generation of files there in doc-base control file format. Interfaces like dhelp, dwww, or doc-central should use that dir instead of /usr/share/doc. * Add support for merging control files to allow multiple binary packages provide the same documentation but in different formats. * Try to standardise values of the Section: field. * Add /etc/doc-base/documents in order to made it possible to register local documents with doc-base (closes: #213847). * Dhelp.pm: + don't generate .dhelp files, since dhelp 0.6 no longer supports them. + add a code to register/unregister doc-base control files with dhelp, but not enable it yet. * postinst: Remove all already generated .dhelp files and re-register installed documentation files. * Documentation update. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:18:25 +0100 doc-base (0.8.6) unstable; urgency=low * Rewrite Dhelp.pm to improve performance and minimise number dhelp_parse calls, which after its reimplementation in Ruby started to be extremely slow (it took `install-docs -I' ages to finish). Now, dhelp_parse will be called at most two times in each install-docs invocation. * Use 3-args open(), and also quote fields' values in our status file in order not to fail on control files containing spaces (closes: #444889). * Implement more checks of doc-base files, like unknown fields, duplicated fields, fields in wrong sections (closes: #423120). Turn them into warnings, since if they are errors, too many packages will fail to install. * Document.pm: try to minimise number of write_status_file() calls. * Ignore SIGINT and some other signals while doing critical operations. * Scrollkeeper.pm: scrollkeeper doesn't like `&' character (see bug#429847), replace it with `(and)'. * More code refactoring, but still not finished: use prototypes, fix typos, standardise messages, etc. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:00:37 +0100 doc-base (0.8.5) unstable; urgency=low * DocBaseFile.pm: don't die() on invalid doc-base files (closes: #425686). * Fix a typo in Dhelp.pm. * Document the Author field (closes: #427794). -- Robert Luberda Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:47:07 +0200 doc-base (0.8.4) unstable; urgency=low * Split install-docs into modules to make the code more manageable. * Try to avoid bugs like #278495: if our modules can't be loaded when (de)registering documentation files, create special flag file and re-register all the documents after install-docs is usable again. * Add support for (de)registering multiple documents in one install-docs invocation (closes: #114692). * Add --check/-c option to install-docs (closes: #35895), also add --rootdir option. * Remove `Registered-to-XXX' statuses, remove *.list files, deprecate the -L/--listfiles option. Names of the generated files are now keep in the status file in `Scrollkeeper-omf-files' and `Dhelp-files' fields. * Change semantics of -r/--remove option: its arguments should be the names of previously installed doc-base files, and not the documents IDs. Still support the old semantics for backward compatibility. * Introduce -I/--install-all, -R/--remove-all, -d/--debug, -h/--help options. * Change the build system, create Makefile and let it do all the work. * doc-base.sgml: + Update output of --status, remove reference to --listfiles. + Add chapter about checking syntax of control files. + Update syntax of --remove option. * Dhelp support: + Pass a list of all registered files to dhelp (closes: #128493). + Create dhelp files only in top-level documentation dirs (i.e. /usr/share/doc/$package instead of /u/s/d/$package/something). According to dhelp's documentation this is the right thing to do. Also this should avoid problems with symlinks like #21678. + Add a special `x-doc-base-id' tag to generated dhelp files to make it possible to distinguish items in the dhelp files. When installing new documents existing files are no longer overwritten (closes: #204195), but on the other hand on documents removal the dhelp files may not be removed, which possibly reintroduces bugs like #59850. + Don't call dhelp_parse {-d,-a} on files that weren't changed. * Scrollkeeper support: + Fix broken non-empty directories check. + Save generated series id in `Scrollkeeper-sid' status field and use it for following registrations of the same document. + Call scrollkeeper-update only once in each invocation of install-docs. * Dwww support: + skip running update-menus if dwww package doesn't seem to be installed. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 06 May 2007 15:22:38 +0200 doc-base (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low * prerm: Oops, the first letter from the `else' word went somehow missing (closes: #419045). -- Robert Luberda Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:40:06 +0200 doc-base (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low * install-docs: yet another typo fixed. -- Robert Luberda Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:40:07 +0200 doc-base (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a typo that caused broken omf files being generated in some cases (closes: #418861). -- Robert Luberda Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:49:39 +0200 doc-base (0.8.0) unstable; urgency=low * Merge the scrollkeeper stuff from Ubuntu 0.7.21ubuntu2 (closes: #418412) with the following changes: + set omf dir to /var/lib/doc-base/omf and make it link from /usr/share/omf/doc-base; + try to register more formats in addition to html, both khelpcenter and yelp can handle them via external applications. Thanks to Sam Morris for the suggestion; + suggest yelp | khelpcenter as scrollkeeper browsers; + don't run scrollkeeper-update if --no-update-menus was passed to install-docs. * Improve the doc-base manual: + enhance the document layout, add some cross references; + remove the paragraph about automatic conversions between formats, it's not true, and won't be soon (unless someone provides me patch for this); + put an example of PDF and other supported formats (closes: #409121); + clarify allowable shell glob patterns (closes: #392587); + mention that the registered files should be located under /usr/share/doc hierarchy (closes: #333648); + review the TODO list, add some items I'd like to implement shortly. * postinst/postrm scripts: + do proper quoting of file names (closes: #395824); + reinstall_docs removes installed docs before re-registering them; + make the handling docs code from postrm match the postinst code; * install-docs: + `missing Index field for Info format' is an error now, not warning; + if glob() returns only one file, check for its existence. glob() seems to simply return its argument if it doesn't contain any meta-characters; + skip any doc-base files that contain Version: field, for future changes; + ignore `two many arguments' error for `-i' and `-r' options; * Move debhelper to Build-Depends (lintian) * Remove one useless lintian override and add two new ones ;) * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.2. -- Robert Luberda Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:41:28 +0200 doc-base (0.7.23) unstable; urgency=low * Oops, the previous change caused dhelp warnings about trying to create its .dhelp files in nonexistent directories. Fixed that. -- Robert Luberda Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:19:59 +0200 doc-base (0.7.22) unstable; urgency=medium * Show warnings about nonexistent files only when in verbose mode (closes: #409186, #366250). -- Robert Luberda Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:53:26 +0200 doc-base (0.7.21) unstable; urgency=low * doc-base.sgml: + bless a few documentation formats: PDF, PostScript, Info, and DVI, which are already often used in the doc-base files + the `Index' field is required for the Info format. * install-docs: + support the above mentioned formats + warn if info format lacks the `Index' field. * install-docs: Some fixes for dhelp support: + when registering the doc files, don't remove the old .dhelp file until it's actually read and parsed. This partially fixes Bug#204195 (the full fix would probably require not removing .dhelp files when doc-base documents are unregistered) + don't HTML-encode entries already read from .dhelp file + made 'howto' and 'faq' section names uppercase. * debian/postinst: Re-register all the doc-base files. -- Robert Luberda Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:48:08 +0200 doc-base (0.7.20) unstable; urgency=low * doc-base.sgml: + document common practice that value of `Files' field is a space separated list of filenames or glob patterns + also explicitly document the meaning of lines starting with two or more spaces + add the missing word (closes: #289448) * install-docs: + encode HTML special characters when generating the .dhelp files (closes: #114877) + correctly handle the verbatim text and blank line for the .dhelp files + warn if files referred by the doc-base files does not exist. * debian/postinst: Re-register all the doc-base files because of the above install-docs changes. * Remove ancient stuff from postinst & prerm scripts, remove preinst entirely. * Use `which' instead of`command -v' in the scripts (closes: #292967). * debian/copyright: update. * debian/control: suggest doc-central as an alternative to dhelp or dwww. * Ack NMU (closes: #278495). -- Robert Luberda Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:26:47 +0200 doc-base (0.7.19) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer (closes: #358436). * debian/*: Switch build-system do debhelper v5. * debian/postinst: Reorder arguments to invocation of find(1) command (closes: #309516). -- Robert Luberda Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:58:06 +0200 doc-base (0.7.18-0.1) unstable; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload. * High-urgency upload for sarge-targetted RC bugfix * Fix install-docs to not require perl's File::Basename, so that it works even when perl is unconfigured. Thanks to Colin Watson for the patch. Closes: #278495. -- Steve Langasek Thu, 12 May 2005 17:25:15 -0700 doc-base (0.7.18) unstable; urgency=low * postinst: don't die if /usr/lib/menu doesn't exist; closes: #186707 -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:14:52 -0500 doc-base (0.7.17) unstable; urgency=low * new dwww changes: no longer produce files under /usr/lib/menu; obsoletes and closes: #153242; conflict with dwww < 1.9.0 * on upgrade, remove the files /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-* * postinst should use stderr, not stdout * rewrite the description/synopsis * policy compliance updated to 3.5.9, no changes required * preinst: don't babble about removing dhelp files unless they are really there; let dhelp_parse_fsstnd fail if it wants to -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:28:15 -0500 doc-base (0.7.16) unstable; urgency=low * fix a /usr/doc problem in preinst; closes: #183491 -- Adam Di Carlo Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:53:18 -0500 doc-base (0.7.15) unstable; urgency=low * attempting to flush the easy bugs before the major rewrite... * don't set /usr/doc symlink, in fact, remove it in preinst if it is there * add #DEBHELPER# areas in maintainer scripts (thanks, linda) * postinst: don't variablize /usr/bin/update-menus, it confuses lintian * install lintian overrides for: doc-base: maintainer-script-does-not-check-for-existence-of-installdocs postinst doc-base: preinst-calls-installdocs * docs: update (c) date; s/command -v/which/; closes: #169115 * install-docs: strip trailing space in fields that we read; closes: #86040 and part of #60981 * install-docs: improve the error message when we fail writing a dhelp file; closes: #111620 * Section is now a required field, otherwise, we create invalid menu files; closes: #112450 * doc-base.sgml: document document and format fields, indicating which fields are required; closes: #63822, #151945 * install-docs: POD documentation improvements * postinst: don't create /usr/doc symlink -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:17:55 -0500 doc-base (0.7.14) unstable; urgency=low * fix a bug introduced in last version, thanks to bug hunting by David Kimdon; closes: #171202 * dhelp registration was busted in 0.7.13, so if we're upgrading from that version, take the time to re-register all docreg files -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:30:05 -0500 doc-base (0.7.13) unstable; urgency=low * documentation corrections and updates from Chris Tillman; closes: #130054 * add --no-update-menus switch for more efficient bulk invocation, and rewrite postinst to use that, so we end up calling update-menus only once; closes: #114886 * postinst: don't re-register all doc-base files if they don't need re-registering * install-docs: less cryptic arg processing warnings * if you want to re-register all doc-base files, just purge and install the package; closes: #97009 * remove old FSSTD stuff in documentation; closes: #146226 * remove old FSSTD stuff in dhelp support; closes: #127985 -- Adam Di Carlo Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:25:40 -0500 doc-base (0.7.12) unstable; urgency=low * deal with problems when locale is UTF-8, patch from Drew Parsons closes: #158624, #163188, #165312 * embarrassing: doc-base's own doc-base file was a bit wrong closes: #137514 * slight postinst message change * note: many more changes coming; I'm just trying to close any easy and gratuitous bugs here while I'm working on the redesign -- Adam Di Carlo Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:36:24 -0500 doc-base (0.7.11) unstable; urgency=low * incorporate NMU (closes: #111703, #114657) * strengthen the wording of the prerm case -- for people getting dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `directory': Directory not empty due to old .dhelp files, please read section 2.4 (closes: #59850) * some other minor updates in the documentation * debian/control: upgrade to standards version to 3.5.6, no changes needed - Note that the stipulation that programs cannot reference files in /usr/share/doc [13.3] is not honoured because that is required by dhelp; complaints about that should be directed towards dhelp. -- Adam Di Carlo Sun, 21 Oct 2001 01:38:04 -0400 doc-base (0.7.10.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. * Quote control file names for regexps (closes: #111703). -- Colin Watson Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:06:59 +0100 doc-base (0.7.10) unstable; urgency=low * clarify wording when unregistering documentation * postrm works better when it's actually installed into the deb, duh really closes: #101252 -- Adam Di Carlo Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:11:12 -0400 doc-base (0.7.9) unstable; urgency=low * process doc-base files present already at configure time closes: #39006 * conversely, remove all our files (nicely) at remove time, and purge /var/lib/doc-base at purge time closes: #101252 * get our perl depends right, using dh_perl (required build-depends on debhelper) closes: #67171 * fix a minor usr/doc vs usr/share/doc problem in the man page closes: #81126 * fix for new license location in copyright file * in the documentation, we weren't noting the date properly based on the Debian changelogs * fixed a while ago: closes: #62230 -- Adam Di Carlo Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:56:07 -0400 doc-base (0.7.8) frozen unstable; urgency=low * small changes for bugfixing, no new features, should go in potato * install-docs: if open of control file fails, look for file in /usr/share/doc-base/ (closes: Bug#53555) * update to Policy standards 3.1.1 -- added Build-Depends-Indep (closes: Bug#53261) * tweak preinst wording as it removes old .dhelp files (closes: Bug#47010) * doc-base.sgml: use version.ent for dynamic versioning (shipped too); SGML aesthetics and tagging -- Adam Di Carlo Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:07:16 -0500 doc-base (0.7.7) unstable; urgency=low * really update Policy standards to 3.0.1 * dhelp now has a different program, dhelp_parse_fsstnd, to deal with /usr/doc vs /usr/share/doc, so use it * debian/control: conflict with dhelp (<< 0.3.14) * prerm, postinst: implement tech committee solution on /usr/doc symlink -- Adam Di Carlo Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:34:11 -0400 doc-base (0.7.6) unstable; urgency=low * add perl5 depends (closes: Bug#44623) -- Adam Di Carlo Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:37:01 -0400 doc-base (0.7.5) unstable; urgency=low * update Policy standards to 3.0.1 * debian/rules: move documentation area back to /usr/doc for now; clean is a bit cleaner * maintainer scripts: simplify a bit; call 'install-docs -r' from preinst for upgrade from 0.7.4 (dir move) to avoid the dpkg warning (closes Bug#41785, #41161, #41326) * install-docs: prior to installing new docreg file, remove any already installed dhelp files -- this will help with the /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition, although it won't suppress the dpkg warning, since 'install-docs -i' runs *after* the warning * doc-base.sgml: talk about how to avoid the dpkg warning about 'Directory not empty' due to .dhelp file left around during upgrade; the solution in short is to run 'install-docs -r' during 'upgrade' in prerm -- Adam Di Carlo Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:32:55 -0400 doc-base (0.7.4) unstable; urgency=low * install-docs: skip dhelp when directory != /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc (closes Bug#32034) * changes for Policy 3.0.0 (no /usr/doc compat symlinks) * debian/control: removed perl-base dependency -- it's required! (thanks to Raphael Hertzog) -- Adam Di Carlo Sat, 10 Jul 1999 21:45:41 -0400 doc-base (0.7.3) unstable; urgency=low * doc-base.sgml: fix typo (closes Bug#35986) * install-docs: only warn about unknown formats if verbose ('-v') is in effect (closes Bug#33509, Bug#35947, and hopefully quells the recent outcry on debian-devel) * debian/rules: debiandoc2text now has a default extension of .txt, which is better anyway, so use that -- Adam Di Carlo Thu, 13 May 1999 01:25:06 -0400 doc-base (0.7.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * maintainer name change * debian/rules: more robust way to interact with changelog, which is what I use on all my other packages * install-docs: fix some glitches in the POD output * doc-base.sgml: minor typo in documentation fixed (closes Bug#26530) * debian/control: suggests 'dwww | dhelp', without which the package currently isn't much good (closes Bug#31302) * no code changes -- Adam Di Carlo Sat, 2 Jan 1999 04:38:30 -0500 doc-base (0.7.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low (HIGH if you have problems with quotes in document registration files) * depend on recent Perl (closes Bug#21816) * set umask explictly, so all files are -rw-r--r-- (closes Bug#22275) * quote quotes for dwww-menu files (closes grave Bug#22990) -- Adam P. Harris Mon, 1 Jun 1998 01:49:50 -0400 doc-base (0.7.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low * maintainer scripts: one of the shell function used '-', which was renamed to '_'; shell for maintainer scripts set back to /bin/sh * doc-base.sgml: update the FSF address * copyright: list myself as maintainer * bump standards version to 2.4.1.0 (checked) * add digit to version number: 0.7.x will be for hamm maintenance (branched); probably 0.8 will be for our documentation drafts including information on the Debian Document Hierarchy, the new docreg file format documentation and system, and other documents; 0.9 will probalby contain our implementations of these new infrastructures for slink; and eventually it'll all be a done deal and we'll hit 1.0. -- Adam P. Harris Sun, 3 May 1998 09:05:23 -0400 doc-base (0.6) frozen unstable; urgency=low * change shell on maintainer scripts to bash, since that seems to cope with the shell functions better (closes Bug#21359, and undoubtedly more reports to come until this makes it into the archive) -- Adam P. Harris Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:54:36 -0400 doc-base (0.5) frozen unstable; urgency=low * fix minor problems with the new install-docs-man document id, the document id was misnamed install-doc-man * improve the maintainer scripts immensely, trying to minimize removal, since it's not necessary to remove a document id when replacing it * doc-base.sgml: update TODO list -- Adam P. Harris Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:17:06 -0400 doc-base (0.4) frozen unstable; urgency=low * much better dhelp support: be sure to run 'dhelp_parse -d' before altering a .dhelp file, multiple s in one .dhelp file, and very good parsing of existing .dhelp files in case more than one document-id is adding a files in the same directory (closes Bug#18808, Bug#20038, Bug#20529) * we now will modify even foreign .dhelp files * lowercase sections for dhelp (only), and remove leading 'Apps/', which is a workaround until we have a real, policy-specified and thought-out documentation hierarchy (closes Bug#20862) * register install-docs man page, html version * moved Section for our own documentation from Apps/Programming to Debian -- Adam P. Harris Thu, 16 Apr 1998 06:27:08 -0400 doc-base (0.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low * add manual page for install-docs * debian/rules: clarifications and cleanup * added frozen to distribution ("oopsie" on last version) * install-docs is idempotent for --remove, that is, if you try to remove a docid which is already removed, it exits with a warning, but not a non-zero exit status (closes Bug#19875, I think) -- Adam P. Harris Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:36:00 -0400 doc-base (0.2) unstable; urgency=low * new maintainer * clarify how to call install-docs in documentation (closes Bug#20530) * practice what I preach in maintainer scripts * debian/rules: call dpkg-gencontrol with -isp * copyright: update FSF address * actively fixing rest of bugs and lack of man page, patience please -- Adam P. Harris Mon, 6 Apr 1998 07:31:21 -0400 doc-base (0.1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial Release. * Only supports registering documents to the online documentation systems dwww and dhelp for now. -- Christian Schwarz Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:38:45 +0100