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Changelog surfraw (2.3.0-0.2)

2018

surfraw (2.3.0-0.2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Revert incorrect update of maintainer email (Closes: #913469)

surfraw (2.3.0-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Change watch file to download GPG signature
   * Update to debhelper from compat 6 to 11. It solved
     issue with autoconf -- build system, as present in release
     archive, expects aclocal-1.15, while sid provides aclocal-1.16.
     Debhelper-11 regenerates autotools build system automatically.
   * Add missing dependency on bin:sensible-utils. It is needed, since
     in default configuration /etc/xdb/surfraw/conf refers to
     'sensible-browser'
   * Update standards version to 4.2.1 (no changes needed)
   * Fix spelling error in debian/copyright
   * Set Rules-Requires-Root field to 'no' in debian/control
   * Update Vcs-* and Homepage links in debian/control
   * Clean-up debian/copyright
   * Fix whitespace errors in debian/changelog and debian/control
   * Use secure url when referring to copyright format
   * Install examples, provided by upstream
   * Fix email of mailing list in Maintainer field
   * Reduce redundancy in debian/control, using S: variable substitution
   * Remove 'postrm' maintainer script. It attempted to remove
     /etc/surfraw_elvi.list script, that is not present in current version.
 
   [ Jason Ryan ]
   * New upstream version (Closes: #856106)
   * Select Perl version at buildtime (Mark Meyer)
   * Remove lynx-cur (Closes: #882286)
   * Packages the https elvi (Closes: #856108)

2013

surfraw (2.2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version
     + yandex: Fix bashism (Closes: #690615).
     + rae: Fix URL (Closes: #680138).
   * Standards-Version: 3.9.5 (no changes).
   * update debian/copyright.
   * switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
   * update Vcs-Browser fields.

2011

surfraw (2.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version
     + SURFRAW_graphical_remote defaults to off, as chromium
       doesn't support '-remote openURL()' (Closes: #628683).
   * Move opensearch elvi to main surfraw package.
     It now has an optional mode that uses a redirector
     if the dependencies are not installed.
   * debian/rules:
     + hardcode AWK as awk (Closes: #608967).
     + use dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k.
     + add build-arch and build-indep targets.
   * debian/control:
     + Build-Depends: bump debhelper dependency to (>= 7).
     + Standards-Version: 3.9.2.
     + surfraw-extra: convert Conflicts: to Breaks:.
     + surfraw:
       * Breaks: surfraw-extra (<= 2.2.7-1)
         as we have taken over /usr/lib/surfraw/opensearch.
       * Recommends: surfraw-extra: add version of (>> 2.2.7-1).
       * Tweak Description.
   * debian/source/format: explicitly specify 1.0 source format.

2010

surfraw (2.2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
     + fixed imdb elvi (Closes: #577263).
   * Standards-Version: 3.8.4 (no changes).
   * Add ${misc:Depends} to dependencies.

2009

surfraw (2.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
     + Only use first matching bookmark (Closes: #530786).
     + Fix debsec (patch from Moritz Muehlenhoff) (Closes: #550741).
   * Remove Moritz from Uploaders (per #550741), thanks for your work!.
   * debian/rules: call dh_installexamples to install examples/ dir.
   * debian/control:
     + update vcs- fields to point to new git repo.
     + Standards-Version: 3.8.3 (No changes).
     + add Recommends: curl | wget | libwww-perl for -o.
     + Remove Conflicts/Replaces: surfaw, this transition was complete
       many releases ago.

surfraw (2.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Removed Thomas Smith from Uploaders (Closes: #519378).
     Thanks for your work!.
   * Updated my email address in Uploaders.
   * Fixed VCS-Browser URL (Closes: #528299).
   * Removed DM-Upload-Allowed header.
   * Standards-Version: 3.8.1 (no changes).

surfraw (2.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * postrm: add 'set -e'.
   * debian/copyright:
     + Update copyright years to include 2009.
     + point to right GPL link (NB only the file 'missing' is GPLed, most
       of the package is PD).

2008

surfraw (2.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
     + Now defaults to graphical mode, see surfraw(1) for how to change it back.
   * Change default text browser to www-browser and default
     graphical browser to sensible-browser.

surfraw (2.2.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Backport slinuxdoc fix from 2.2.3 prerelease.

surfraw (2.2.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * google: fix bashism and quote more variable expansions (Closes: #489902).
     Thanks to Philip Armstrong and John Briggs.
   * Reformat debian/copyright to keep lintian happy.

surfraw (2.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version:
     + fix url escaping (Closes: #487430).
     + surfraw-update-path: fix csh support (Closes: #484871).
   * Recommends: Drop w3m-ssl (folded into w3m) and
     lynx-cur (not in lenny) (Closes: #471359).
   * surfraw-extra: improve long description (Closes: #471321).
   * Standards-Version: 3.8.0 (no changes).
   * Remove linda override.
   * Add watch file.

surfraw (2.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remove my old email address from Uploaders.

surfraw (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     + bashisms removed (Closes: #465361, #468139).
   * debian/rules: move .deb building to binary-indep: target.
   * debian/compat: bump to 6.
   * debian/control:
     + DM-Upload-Allowed: yes merged from Debian-only 2.1.7-1 (see below).
       Dropped XS- prefix, no longer needed.
     + Recommends: add elinks | elinks-lite to existing browser alternatives.
     + Uploaders: update my email address.
     + Standards-Version: 3.7.3 (no changes).
     + Build-Depends: Bump debhelper version to >= 6.
     + Vcs-Cvs/Vcs-Browser: remove XS- prefix and -d workaround.
     + Homepage: added.
   * debian/changelog: merged Moritz's debian-only 2.1.7 release changelog.
   * debian/linda.overrides: remove exec-not-elf-or-script tag now file(1)
     is fixed.
   * debian/copyright: update, use machine-interpretable format.

2007

surfraw (2.2.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * Actual first new upstream release.
     See changelog.gz for upstream changes, like a normal package.
   * debian/rules: Use $(CURDIR) instead of `pwd`.
   * debian/copyright: updated copyright dates.

surfraw (2.1.8-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * First proper upstream release of the surfraw-devel
     version. After this release non-debian changes will be logged
     in the upstream changelog.gz.
   * Split off opensearch into new package: surfraw-extra
     as it has a huge dependency tree that not everyone will want
     to install.
   * Fixed "sr -options bookmark" (excessive quoting).
   * New elvi:
     + archpkg - search Arch Linux packages. Thanks to Simon Ernst.
     + port - look up a TCP/UDP port on seifried.org/security/ports.
   * Fixed elvi
     + debbugs: fixed help formatting.
     + debcontents - new options
   * Fixed tests:
     + austlii - (since when does a legal db not contain "tort"?).
     + deblists - -security-announce not indexed (#440347), so we search for
       WNPP posts on -devel.
     + debpackages.
     + sunsolve - added cookie to accept license.
     + w3html - validator will not validate itself.
   * runtests (see test/README):
     + Added cookie support.
     + Added support for skipping tests with SKIP.
     + Abort if libwww-perl not installed.
     + Documented changes in test/README.
   * Makefile.am: removed debian/ files from EXTRA_DIST, they should
     be in the debian patch not the main tarball.
   * Bumped debhelper compat level to 5.
   * Really updated to automake-1.10.
   * Updated AUTHORS, NEWS, README, HACKING, ChangeLog, NEWS.Debian.

surfraw (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add "XS-DM-Upload-Allowed: yes", so that Ian can upload further
     updates on his own.

surfraw (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * New elvi:
     + codesearch  - search google code search.
     + debwiki     - search wiki.debian.org and women.debian.org/wiki.
     + lastfm      - search last.fm.
     + musicbrainz - search musicbrainz.org.
     + opensearch  - search sites that provide an OpenSearch description:
       -  Install helper scripts opensearch-discover and
          opensearch-genquery to /usr/bin.
       -  Add Dependencies on libwww-opensearch-perl, libwww-perl
          and libhtml-parser-perl.
       -  Makefile.am: replaced explicit rule for surfraw-update-path.1
          with a static pattern rule for making man pages from perl scripts.
   * Fixed elvi:
     + amazon      - fixed example usage.
     + cia         - switched to https.
     + cite        - fixed URL and options.
     + debpackages - updated ubuntu distro names.
     + debcontents - updated ubuntu distro names.
     + freebsd     - fixed help formatting.
     + netbsd      - fixed mailing list searches.
     + openbsd     - fixed PR search URL.
     + slinuxdoc   - fixed URLs.
     + sundocs     - fixed URLs.
     + woffle      - updated URLs to match woffle 2.9a.
   * Removed elvi: jake - site shut down January 2007.
   * Implemented test suite - 'make test' or see test/README.
   * Fixed make distcheck.
   * Updated to automake 1.10.
   * debian/rules: stopped ignoring return code of 'make distclean'.
   * Updated Copyright dates to 2007.
   * Add Vcs-Cvs and Vcs-Browser fields to debian/control.

2006

surfraw (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added myself to Uploaders.
   * Ack not-really-NMU (Closes: #354737).
   * Applied bash completion fixes, thanks to Justin B. Rye (Closes: #361668).
   * wikipedia: disable requoting; use Go rather than Search.
   * Fixes to ixquick elvi, thanks to Aparna Jaitly.
   * debpackages/debcontents: new options + ubuntu support with -u.
   * New elvi: scholar - search google scholar.
   * New elvi: discogs, thanks to Patroklos Argyroudis.
   * Thanks to James Rowe for the following patches:
     + Move W to /usr/lib/surfraw (see
       http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58955).
     + New elvi: genpkg for Gentoo package search.
     + Generate elvi list on demand and eliminate surfraw_elvi.list
     + Make elvidir configurable.
     + Make sysconfdir configurable.
     + Fix 'make dist' and 'make distcheck'.
     + Remove unused browser checks.
     + Drop AC_CANONICAL_HOST - not needed.
   * New global option: -p / -print: just print search url.
   * Remove config.guess and config.sub - not needed.
   * Remove config.{guess,sub} updating logic from debian/rules.
   * postrm: remove /etc/surfraw_elvi.list if it exists.
   * Convert debhelper Build-Depends-Indep: to Build-Depends:.
   * Standards-Version: 3.7.2 (No changes).
   * Updated Copyright dates to 2006.
   * Added linda override exec-not-elf-or-script for /usr/bin/surfraw
     due to erroneous file(1) output (See: #369977).
   * Tweak HACKING appendix 1 to remove need to build surfraw_elvi.list.

surfraw (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>:
     + changed elvi:
       - debsec: fix tabbing (Closes: #354737).
       - debbugs: updated search options.
     + new elvi:
       - ixquick (Thanks to Aparna Jaitly).
       - ctan.
       - fsfdir.
       - gutenberg.
       - wayback.
     + Makefile.include: changed sed invocation to work with
       both old and new make(1).
     + debian/rules install: removed spurious mkdir.
     + removed debian/{prerm,postinst}.
     + Switched to debhelper compat level 4.
     + HACKING: corrected appendix 1.

surfraw (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=high

   * Urgency high, as it renders surfraw uninstallable
   * Really, really remove debconfage (Closes: #354263)

surfraw (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

    * Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>:
      + Fix FTBFS due to make changes (Patch by Matt Kraai) (Closes: 353314)
      + Fix zsh completion for yubnub (Patch by Micah Anderson) (Closes: #341872)
      + Remove debian/po to prevent further translations in vain. Sorry for the
        wasted work on the Swedish translation, Daniel Nylander!
        (Closes: #338149, #336687)
      + Changed maintainer address to "Debian surfraw maintainers", added
        Christian, Thomas and myself to uploaders
      + New elvis: debsec (for the Debian security tracker)

2005

surfraw (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>:
     + Removed debconf information about new elvi structure, now that
       Sarge has been released with it. Moved it to README.Debian.
       (Closes: #313852, #312979, #319841, #319842)
     + New elvis: yubnub (by Iain D Broadfoot) (Closes: #315188)
     + Removed unused SURFRAW_p0rn option (Closes: #324166)
     + Bumped standards version (no changes required)
     + Change to a native package, most of the elvis are now more or less
       Debian specific anyway

surfraw (2.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Ian Beckwith <ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>:
     + New elvi: dmoz, w3html, w3link, w3css, w3rdf.
     + New elvi: rae (by Ruben Pollan <meskio@terra.es>).
     + surfraw.IN:w3_url_escape: escaped `(' and `)'.
     + Fixed elvi (Thanks to Justin B. Rye):
         - sunsolve  (Closes: #289502).
         - altavista (Closes: #289503).
     + deblists: Updated list of debian mailing lists.
     + currency: Now a proper elvis.
     + Added appendix 2 to HACKING on preparing a release.
   * Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>:
     + Switch rhymes search from Lycos to Rhymezone (by Justin B Rye)
       (Closes: #289498)
     + Fix BBC News search (by Justin B Rye) (Closes: #289499)
     + New elvi by by Justin B Rye (Closes: #290032)
       - cia      Search for CIA documents
       - deblogs  Debian changelogs
       - etym     Search for word origins
       - foldoc   Free online dictionary of computing
     + New cve elvis for CAN assignment searches
     + Rewrite debian/copyright properly

2004

surfraw (2.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied Brian Mcdonald's workaround for bash bug (Closes: #269982)

surfraw (2.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Several patches from Justin B Rye:
     + Add bash completion (Closes: #240629)
     + Add some missing elvis in surfraw_elvi.list (Closes: #241079)
     + Don't set DISPLAY when in text-only mode (Closes: #235251)
     + Correctly test for text-mode in w3_browse_url()
     + Readability improvements
     + Use argv[0] instead of computing it through basename
   * Removed elvi:
     + sharereactor: has been closed down
   * Added French debconf template by Christian Perrier (Closes: #236088)
   * Added German debconf template by Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #253800)
   * New elvi: debpts.
   * man page hyphenation fixes.
   * debian/control:
     + Dropped optional last part of Standards-Version.
     + Changed lynx to lynx-cur in Recommends to avoid confusing apt.
     + Added po-debconf to Build-Depends-Indep.
   * debian/rules clean:
     + enabled config.{guess,sub} update.
     + remove templates.merged.
   * HACKING: updated Appendix 1.
   * surfraw.conf.in: set SURFRAW_graphical_browser to x-www-browser (Closes: #256201)

surfraw (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Moved elvi to /usr/lib/surfraw (Closes: #230276)
   * Updated docs for new elvi location
   * Changed man page section for all elvi to 1sr (Closes: #230056)
   * Fixed surfraw help text (Closes: #230109)
   * Added man page links for pgpkeys, ebay and sharereactor
   * Added linda override (and surfraw.dirs) for usr-lib-in-arch-all
   * Added debhelper tokens to prerm/postinst
     (they were in released 2.0-1 but not CVS)
   * Rewrote man page surfraw.1.in, added man page elvi.1sr.in
     Both go via autoconf.
   * Removed old debian/surfraw.1
   * Updated debian/surfraw.links to point elvi to elvi.1sr.gz
   * Updated AUTHORS to hopefully include every contributor, ever.
   * Changed a few "def"s to "defyn"s in surfraw.conf.in
   * Updated README with text from new man page.
   * Added "Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 The Surfraw-Devel Team
     <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>" to the list of copyright holders.
   * Fixed quoting so   sr google foo "bar baz" qux   works
   * Makefile.am: Added missing files to EXTRA_DIST
   * Added a debconf note (only visible if upgrading from 2.0-1)
     explaining the elvi have moved again.
   * configure.in: changed to new AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE format,
     specified minimum automake version 1.7
   * updated surfraw.lsm with new URLs
   * deleted debian/rules.save (old rules backup)
   * Removed elvi:
     + britannica: gone subscription-only
     + swhois: all whois sites I can find have anti-harvester features
 	  that stop us using them (Closes: #231939).
   * Fixed elvi:
     + wikipedia - added missing quotes (could've sworn I did this already)
     + cnn - updated url
     + translate - corrected docs
   * Moved debian/surfraw.links to links.IN in top dir, now uses autoconf
     and is not debian-specific
   * Makefile.am: Added install-data-hook to create links
   * configure.in, elvi/Makefile.in: fixed ELVIDIR quoting
   * Added elvi/surfraw_elvi to CLEANFILES & removed it from cvs, as it is
     generated on build.
   * Disabled ifs quoting in elvi that don't like it:
     freedb, happypenguin, jake, rhyme, scaleplus, sharereactor
     thesaurus, webster, deblists.
   * Added note to HACKING explaining how to disable ifs quoting
   * Synced NAMESPACE branch with HEAD
     Please use the main HEAD branch from now on.
   * links.IN: made links relative
   * Converted debconf to po-debconf
   * Eliminated templates.IN, as it confused po-debconf
   * Deautoconfiscated the debian directory, as only templates went through
     autoconf

2003

surfraw (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Ack NMUs. (Closes: #200164, #201229, #209155, #113148, #119357, #131661)
   * ..and..   (Closes: #149584, #156466, #141243, #154304, #164206, #141242)
   * Moved elvi to /usr/bin/surfraw-elvi. (Closes: #209155, #192869, #201175)
   * Provided surfraw-update-path to put new dir in path.
   * Added sr as alias to surfraw.
   * Added bookmark support and /etc/surfraw.bookmarks.
   * New elvi: alioth, rfc, scpan, deblists. (Closes: #134498)
     plus leodict and happypenguin by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #217799)
     and wikipedia, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #223953)
     and ebay, pgpkeys and sharereactor, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff
   * Fixed elvi: altavista, debcontents, excite, jake, scaleplus,
     slinuxdoc, sundocs, swhois, translate.
   * amazon: fixed test (Closes: #163903) and -country, removed tag-id stuff.
   * debcontents: changed options to SURFRAW_debcontents_*.
   * sourceforge: added -type and -exact options.
   * webster: added -t (thesaurus) option.
   * debbugs: added options.
   * Removed elvi: appwatch, ftpsearch, ftpfind, raging (sites defunct).
   * Updated Standards-Version to 3.6.1.0
   * surfraw.in:
     - Applied Brian Nelson's "-remote openURL" patch (Closes: #165967).
     - Fixed browser selection (Closes: #118314).
   * google -l/-lucky support (Closes: #127078, #128544).
   * Added deja patch from Christian Garbs (Closes: #149600).
   * debian/rules: changed to use DESTDIR.
   * Closing non-bugs:
     - Complaint about correct behaviour (Closes: #173714).
     - Adds functionality already present in debcontents (Closes: #144080).
     - Obsoleted by sensible-browser (imho) (Closes: #155423).

surfraw (1.0.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Force default browser to sensible-browser (Closes: #119357)
     - This supercedes NMU changes (Closes: #200164, #201229, #149584)
     - Change default browser in manpage (Closes: #113148)
   * Rename stranslate back to translate (Closes: #141243)
   * Make woffle not look for /usr/local/bin/surfraw (Closes: #156466)
   * Add lynx to Recommends (Closes: #141242)
   * Make surfraw lintian-clean
     - Remove '(s)' from copyright
     - Remove /etc conffile entries
   * Kevin Kreamer <kkreamer@etherhogz.org> did this work.

surfraw (1.0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * The first "collaborative" release :)
   * Easy bugs first
     - fix type in README (Closes: #154304)
     - s/README/README.gz/ in manpage (Closes: #164206)
   * Added elvi for imdb, cddb, freedb and bbcnews written by Ian Beckwith.
   * changed "Author(s)" to "Author" in debian/copyright
   * removed debian/conffiles to prevent debhelper being so incredibly
     "helpful" as to inlude conffiles twice

2002

surfraw (1.0.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * New debian/rules with DH_COMPAT=3 too
   * Elvi: linuxdoc renamed to slinuxdoc
           translate renamed to stranslate
   * Removed unuseful scripts in debian directory
   * Removed emacs settings in changelog

2001

surfraw (1.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release, surfraw becomes public domain
   * Support "--" option to end all options (Closes:#113429)
   * Added elvi for Debian bugs search (Closes:#70109)
   * Fixed typo (Closes:#100431)
   * Removed elvi: ircsearch, newscientist (Closes:#113004,#80099)

2000

surfraw (1.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * linuxdoc renamed to linuxdoc.surfraw (Closes: #78994)
   * surfraw-translate renamed to translate.surfraw

surfraw (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * New and patched elvi (Closes:#70110)

surfraw (0.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial Release.