debconf (1.5.13ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes: - Install Python confmodule for python2.5 as well. * Retry flock() on EINTR. Failing that, print the errno if flock() fails so that we have a better chance of working out why. * Set Maintainer to me for DebianMaintainerField (even though I'm part of the maintenance team upstream ...). -- Colin Watson Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:16:04 +0000 debconf (1.5.13) unstable; urgency=low [ Man pages translations ] - French updated [ Joey Hess ] * Fix kde frontend to "show" noninteractive elements so they can handle setting their values appropriately. Closes: #413509 (except possibly for the strange and unreproducible bits) * Avoid initialising kde until the first question is found that needs to be displayed using it. The Qt module could fail in some ugly ways during destruction if kde stuff was initialised but never used. (See #413509) -- Joey Hess Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:53:58 -0500 debconf (1.5.12) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf Translations ] - Updated Esperanto. Closes: #404588 - Updated Slovenian. Closes: #405581 - Added Malayalam. Closes: #405910 [ Joey Hess ] * Bubulle requested I include a copy of debconf.pot in the source, rather than cleaning it, so here it is. Note that it's not included in svn, to avoid churn. [ Christian Perrier ] * Fix typos in debconf-devel(7) and debconf(7). Closes: #410168, #410169 [ Joey Hess ] * po/Makefile: Smarter detection of no-op changes to po files. -- Joey Hess Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:46:20 -0500 debconf (1.5.11ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Install Python confmodule for python2.5 as well (LP: #80253). -- Colin Watson Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:32:59 +0000 debconf (1.5.11) unstable; urgency=low [ Programs Translations ] - Updated Dutch. Closes: #391311 - Updated Portuguese. Closes: #392703 [ Joey Hess ] * Add need_tty field to frontend objects. dpkg-preconfigure can test this if it fails to reopen /dev/tty, and avoid dying if the frontend doesn't care about the tty, as happens in g-i when preconfiguring using the passthrough frontend. Closes: #401876 -- Joey Hess Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:30:50 -0500 debconf (1.5.10) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Better support for locale aliases. Thanks to Nicolas François for the patch. Closes: #232044 -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:26:50 -0500 debconf (1.5.9) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf Translations ] - Updated Bosnian. Closes: #396654 - Updated Greek - Updated Nepali. - Updated Bulgarian. Closes: #397778 [ Programs Translations ] - Added Bosnian. Closes: #397282 -- Joey Hess Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:35:19 -0500 debconf (1.5.8) unstable; urgency=low * Fix passthrough frontend's handling of noninteractive elements. Instead of duplicating the code in their show method, which varies for some types (select), just call the show method. Closes: #396147 -- Joey Hess Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:57:34 -0500 debconf (1.5.7) unstable; urgency=low [ Programs Translations ] - Updated Chinese (Simplified) - Updated Danish. Closes: #392194 - Updated Dutch. Closes: #392192 - Updated Hebrew. Closes: #391155 - Updated Korean. Closes: #393615 - Updated Kurdish. - Updated Portuguese. - Added Thai. Closes: #394633 - Updated Vietnamese. [ Debconf Translations ] - Updated Albanian - Updated Belarusian - Updated Chinese (Traditional) - Updated Greek. Closes: #392192 - Updated Indonesian. - Added Thai. Closes: #394631 -- Joey Hess Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:32:07 -0400 debconf (1.5.6) unstable; urgency=medium [ Joey Hess ] * Fix names of Kde and Gnome frontends in the frontend selection question. Closes: #389939, #388679, #391650 * Set IFS to a sane value before calling printf, in case the maintainer script does something nasty to it. Closes: #381619 * Dialog backtitle unbranding. Closes: #376116 [ Christian Perrier ] * Correct a grammar error in the french man page translation [ Programs Translations ] - Updated French. - Updated Khmer. Closes: #375064 - Updated Galician. Closes: #391173 - Updated Spanish. - Updated Catalan. - Updated Slovak. - Updated Dzongkha. - Updated Norwegian Bokmal. - Updated Ukrainian - Updated Swedish - Updated Basque - Updated Dutch - Updated Brazilian Portuguese - Updated Hungarian - Updated Finnish - Updated Japanese - Updated Czech - Updated German - Updated Romanian - Updated Turkish - Updated Polish - Updated Italian. Closes: #391559 - Updated Traditional Chinese - Updated Arabic. Closes: #391614 - Updated Russian [ Debconf Translations ] - Updated Dzongkha. Closes: #388016 - Added Nepali. Closes: #374950 -- Joey Hess Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:09:45 -0400 debconf (1.5.5) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf Translations ] - Updated Wolof [ Programs Translations ] - Added Kurdish. Closes: #387811 - Fixed typos in Italian. Closes: #387820 [ Colin Watson ] * debconf-apt-progress: Die if debconf-apt-progress/media-change can't be displayed. * debconf-apt-progress: Avoid falling through to generic progress updating code from media-change handling. * When asking for a Choices-C field in a template, fall back to Choices (etc.); if i18n is disabled then asking for Choices tries Choices-C first. This lets you say "Choices: ${CHOICES-TRANS}" and "Choices-C: ${CHOICES}" to substitute reliably into translated and untranslated templates without having to ensure that ${CHOICES-TRANS} is translated to the same thing in every language. * Make sure that languages whose codes are prefixes of other language codes don't accidentally match those languages. This is mostly significant for C, but could also be a problem once translations for languages with three-letter codes start being widely deployed. -- Joey Hess Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:26:43 -0400 debconf (1.5.4) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Split out Choices in templates. Sorry, translators. * Activate the generation of Russian man pages by po4a, KOI8-R encoded Closes: #385549 * Translations: - Updated French - Added Welsh (from D-I translations) - Added Dzongkha (from D-I translations) [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Updated Catalan debconf translation (Closes: #380344). - Updated Estonian debconf translation (Closes: #380352). - Updated Italian debconf translation. - Updated Simplified Chinese debconf translation. - Updated Tagalog debconf translation. - Updated Norwegian Bokmal debconf translation. - Updated Korean debconf translation (Closes: #380378). - Updated Arabic debconf translation (Closes: #380381). - Updated Danish debconf translation (Closes: #382002). - Updated Hungarian debconf translation. - Updated Malagasi debconf translation. - Updated Russian debconf translation (Closes: #380427). - Updated Slovak debconf translation (Closes: #380432). - Updated Czech debconf translation (Closes: #380437). - Updated Finnish debconf translation (Closes: #380453). - Updated Hebrew debconf translation. - Updated Brazillian Portuguese debconf translation. - Updated Japanese debconf translation (Closes: #380477). - Updated Romanian debconf translation (Closes: #380495). - Updated Latvian debconf translation. - Updated Turkish debconf translation. - Updated Galician debconf translation (Closes: #380592). - Updated Lithuanian debconf translation. - Updated Punjabi debconf translation. - Updated Portuguese debconf translation. - New Khmer debconf translation (Closes: #375064). - New Khmer programs translation (Closes: #375066). - Updated Vietnamese debconf translation (Closes: #382328). - Updated Basque debconf translation (Closes: #382459). - Updated Ukrainian debconf translation (Closes: #382504). - New Dzongkha programs translation (Closes: #382623). - Updated Spanish debconf translation (Closes: #382713). - Updated German debconf translation (Closes: #384370). - Updated Swedish debconf translation (Closes: #386509). [ Joey Hess ] * Add support for media-change in debconf-apt-progress. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:44:33 -0400 debconf (1.5.3) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Translations: - Updated French debconf translation. - Added Dzongkha programs and debconf translation. [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - New Nepali programs translation (Closes: #373725). - Updated Korean debconf translation (Closes: #374152). - Updated Estonian debconf translation (Closes: #374324). - Updated Italian debconf translation (Closes: #374728). - Updated Finnish programs translation. - Updated Hungarian programs translation. - Updated Hindi debconf translation. - New Khmer debconf translation (Closes: #375064). - New Khmer programs translation (Closes: #375066). - Updated Esperanto debconf translation. - Updated Macedonian debconf translation. - Updated Catalan debconf translation (Closes: #376139). - Updated French manpage translation (Closes: #376186). - New Russian manpage translation (Closes: #376748). [ Colin Watson ] * Use printf rather than echo to send commands to debconf, to avoid breaking escaped commands if /bin/sh is dash (closes: #306134). [ Joey Hess ] * Fix amusing lintian warnings about debconf's own templates not meeting best practices for debconf templates. * Removed the following template translations which all had broken translated choices lists, which triggered lintian warnings and broke debhelper: dz ne km I can't fix those languages; feel free to re-add your translation when it's actually fixed. Removed bug closure numbers above for these and contacted translators. * Current version of policy. * Since lintian is being insanely strict about changelog formats now, I had to remove the comment at the end of the stripped down changelog that tells where to get the full changelog. * No longer a need to call dh_python twice, the new version apparently sets things up for both 2.3 and 2.4 with one call. * debhelper v5. -- Joey Hess Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:45:25 -0400 debconf (1.5.2) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Stop the Gnome and Kde frontends from displaying select questions with zero or one choices, or multiselect questions with zero choices; this was broken due to an error in multiple inheritance (thanks, Gary Coady; closes: https://launchpad.net/bugs/42187). [ Joey Hess ] * debconf-get-selections: Don't skip notes or errors, people may want to preseed those. -- Joey Hess Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:26:20 -0400 debconf (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Remove trailing whitespace from some .P requests in man pages, to make po4a happier. * Strip only trailing newlines from replies in the Python confmodule, rather than all leading and trailing whitespace. * Retry readline() in the Python confmodule if it's interrupted by a signal. * Typo fixes in Debconf::Encoding documentation. * Add cloexec keyword argument to Python DebconfCommunicator class, defaulting to False; if True, the file descriptors connected to debconf-communicate will be marked close-on-exec. * Avoid needlessly marking cache db items dirty on addowner if the entry already had that owner. * Add a --no-reload option to dpkg-reconfigure, to allow you to prevent it from reloading templates before running confmodules. This may be useful for performance if you know that the templates database is already correct. * Handle escaped commas ("\,") and escaped spaces ("\ ") in Choices and Value fields in questions, matching cdebconf. I've grepped the archive for backslashes in Choices fields in templates and in db_set and db_subst commands and found nothing that this change would break, while it lets us use more code from d-i in the installed system. [ Joey Hess ] * Stop mailing notes since something like 90% of the use of that data type is abuse anyway. Error messages will still be mailed if necessary. * In the gnome and kde frontends, exit 1 not 0 when cancel is hit. -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 May 2006 19:09:58 -0500 debconf (1.5.0) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Define UTF-8 as the encoding for all passthrough communication (it was previously undefined, causing installer breakage when using non-UTF-8 locales). Now the passthrough frontend recodes everything to UTF-8 when talking to the UI agent, and we recode DATA parameters from UTF-8 to the user's charmap. Closes: #355251 * Note that if you try to exchange non-ASCII text with debconf at the moment using anything but the DATA command, you lose unless you know that the other end is using the same character encoding as you. Retrofitting encoding sanity is hard. * Accept -- as an end-of-options terminator in frontend, even though it doesn't currently take any arguments. Simplifies a corner case in cdebconf compatibility. * Notice and error out on write errors (such as ENOSPC) when saving databases. Should help with a lot of database corruption bugs. Closes: #198297, #247849 (we hope) [ Christian Perrier ] * Rename the Punjabi translation file name from pa_IN to pa to fit a decision taken in -i18n * Man pages translations: - French updated - Complete translator information in addenda [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Arabic updated programs (Closes: #357010). - Arabic updated debconf (Closes: #360584). - Brazilian Portuguese updated debconf (Closes: #357653). - Romanian updated programs (Closes: #361152). - Romanian updated debconf (Closes: #361157). - Indonesian updated programs (Closes: #361185). * Fixed typo in French debconf-devel manpage (Closes: #358525). * Small correction in German programs translation (Closes: #358804). [ Joey Hess ] * Finally applied Danilo Piazzalunga's gnome multiselct usability patch, which turns it into a list of checkboxes. Closes: #294116 * Set maintainer to debconf-devel mailing list, this package is noticably Colin^Wteam maintained now. Closes: #265570 -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:54:06 -0400 debconf (1.4.72) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Expand substitution variables when replying to localised METAGET requests for description, extended_description, or choices. * Add support for an 'escape' capability. If a confmodule sets this using CAPB, then commands it sends to debconf will be processed for backslash escapes (\n is a newline, \ followed by any other character is just that character) and debconf's replies will be backslash-escaped similarly. This allows such things as embedding newlines in substitutions and fetching extended descriptions using METAGET; the use of a capability is required because otherwise this would break compatibility with old confmodules. Closes: #126753 * debconf.py: Avoid leaking a file descriptor from DebconfCommunicate. * Fix truncation of multi-line return values to handle values over two lines long correctly. * Add a debconf-escape program and make the confmodules unescape text automatically in escape mode. At present we don't escape text automatically, but you can use 'debconf-escape -e' yourself if you want an easy way to do that. * Remove *.pyc and *.pyo on clean. [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Hungarian new programs. Closes: #353933 [ Joey Hess ] * Add the same insane kind of fork check for Qt having a working display as we already had for GTK, since both libraries are written by monkeys who think that having a *library* exit(3) is a good idea if there's not a usable display. Sheesh. (On the plus side, the same monkeys have taught users to not care if it takes a 9 ghz machine to run a simple dialog, so who cares if we have to use expensive forking to work around your brain damage.) Closes: #354656, #244972, #246133 [ Christian Perrier and the French team ] * Switch to po4a for man pages translations * Complete update of the French manpages translations -- Colin Watson Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:58:20 +0000 debconf (1.4.71) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Brazilian portuguese updated programs. Closes: #352415 - Bulgarian updated debconf. Closes: #351046 - Catalan updated programs. Closes: #350966 - Danish updated programs. Closes: #352238 - Dutch updated programs. Closes: #351538 - French updated programs. Closes: #351227, #352485 - Hungarian updated debconf. Closes: #352271 - Portuguese updated debconf and programs. - Turkish updated debconf and programs. - Ukrainian updated debconf and programs. Closes: #350680 [ Christian Perrier ] * Translations: - Corrected encoding of Turkish -- Joey Hess Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:11:09 -0500 debconf (1.4.70) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Fix spelling error in French translation [ Colin Watson ] * Add experimental confmodule support for cdebconf, now that the file conflicts between debconf and cdebconf have been removed: set DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF to have /usr/share/debconf/confmodule try to run the cdebconf frontend rather than the debconf frontend. (I expect this not to work smoothly yet; for a start, cdebconf won't have a useful database!) * Only conflict with cdebconf (<< 0.96). [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Baskish updated programs. - Czech updated programs. - Dutch updated debconf. - Finnish updated debconf. - Galician updated programs. - German updated debconf and programs. - Greek updated programs. - Hebrew updated debconf and programs. - Italian updated programs. Closes: #350387 - Japanese updated programs. Closes: #350251 - Latvian updated debconf. - Lithuanian updated debconf. - Norwegian (nb) updated debconf and programs. - Polish updated debconf and programs. - Punjabi updated debconf. - Russian updated programs. Closes: #350159 - Simplified Chinese updated programs. - Slovak updated programs. - Slovenian updated debconf. - Spanish updated debconf and programs. - Swedish updated programs. - Tagalog updated programs. - Traditional Chinese updated programs. - Vietnamese updated debconf and programs. Closes: #350087 -- Colin Watson Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:16:01 +0000 debconf (1.4.69) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Japanese updated debconf and programs. Closes: #348965 - Simplified Chinese updated debconf. Closes: #349600 [ Colin Watson ] * Fix shadowing of 'bool' builtin in debconf.py getBoolean() (found by pychecker). * Add support for templates of type 'error', which are largely treated like notes except that they are displayed no matter what the priority and even if they've previously been seen. For example, this can be used for input validation errors. This is compatible with cdebconf. * Fix crash in kde frontend while handling PROGRESS STOP. -- Colin Watson Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:53:46 +0000 debconf (1.4.68) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Italian updated debconf. Closes: #346114 - Slovak updated debconf and programs. Closes: #346371 - Turkish updated debconf. Closes: #347714 -- Joey Hess Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:37:34 -0500 debconf (1.4.67) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Translations: - Greek updated programs. Closes: #344643 - Tagalog updated debconf. Closes: #344749 - Catalan updated debconf and programs. Closes: #344966 - Czech updated debconf and programs. Closes: #345339 [ Joey Hess ] * debconf.conf(5) typo fix. Closes: #344336 [ Colin Watson ] * Add bash completion file (thanks, Alexandra N. Kossovsky). Closes: #301998 * Fix DebconfCommunicator inheritance. [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Catalan updated programs and debconf. Closes: #344966 -- Colin Watson Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:42:30 +0000 debconf (1.4.66) unstable; urgency=HIGH [ Colin Watson ] * DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE causes all databases from the config file to be opened read-only, including the templates database, partly because it's hard to do otherwise and partly because DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE is used for passthrough applications which want to avoid two debconf instances both opening the same templates database read-write. Unfortunately this breaks if anyone tries to register new templates. As a workaround, stack a throwaway pipe database in front of the configured templates database if DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE is in use. Closes: #343902 * Translations: - Indonesian updated debconf (Closes: #344512). - Greek updated debconf (Closes: #344585). -- Colin Watson Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:46:36 +0000 debconf (1.4.65) unstable; urgency=HIGH * Remove my progress bar check of the last version since it breaks passthrough, especially where the actual progress bar was started by the destination frontend. -- Joey Hess Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:37:19 -0500 debconf (1.4.64) unstable; urgency=HIGH [ Colin Watson ] * debconf-apt-progress: Make sure to start up a debconf frontend properly (including saving/restoring @ARGV) in all modes except --config, not just in the all-in-one mode. Closes: #344159 [ Joey Hess ] * Add a check in the ConfModule to make sure that a progress bar is available before trying to use it. -- Joey Hess Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:16:14 -0500 debconf (1.4.63) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * debconf-apt-progress: Allow --from and --to to be used with --start to change the endpoints of the created progress bar. * Add DebconfCommunicator class to debconf.py to allow speaking the debconf protocol over a debconf-communicate subprocess. Useful for querying the debconf database noninteractively. [ Luk Claes ] * Translations: - Basque updated programs and updated debconf (Closes: #342093). - Russian updated programs translation (Closes: #342771). - Russian updated debconf translation (Closes: #342773). - Galician updated debconf translation (Closes: #343056). - Danish updated debconf translation (Closes: #343431). - Swedish updated debconf translation (Closes: #344059). [ Joey Hess ] * Slightly optimised the postinst script while leaving old transition handling code in it by moving old code into blocks with a single check for really old versions of debconf. [ Christian Perrier ] * Add debconf-updatepo to the clean rule as recommended to always have up-to-date PO files for debconf translations. * Debconf translations: - French updated [ Joey Hess ] * Changes to the Makefile to deal with changed quoting rules for continued strings in new version of make. * Current standards version. * Use commas as separator in the choices list for nb and fa * Split build-depends and -indep. -- Joey Hess Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:30:31 -0500 debconf (1.4.62) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Add debconf-apt-progress, as discussed on debian-boot@, to install packages using debconf to display a progress bar. Requires apt 0.6.41. * Fix DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE to work properly when given a database name from debconf.conf. [ Joey Hess ] * Remove newline removal code from perl mangling in Makefile. * Reword debconf-apt-progress/preparing template since it might be used for removals too. -- Joey Hess Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:51:54 -0500 debconf (1.4.61) unstable; urgency=low * The default debconf priority changes from medium to high in this release. This is consistent with the default pririty used already for fresh installs by d-i, and with the definitions of debconf priorities -- high priority questions have no reasonable default answer so should be displayed, while medium priority questions do have a default and can be skipped easily. Please do not use this change as an excuse to inflate priorities of questions! -- Joey Hess Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:07:08 -0500 debconf (1.4.60) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Programs translations: - Swedish updated. Closes: #338607, #339832. - Tagalog updated. Closes: #338611. [ Christian Perrier ] * Programs translations: - French updated. [ Joey Hess ] * Improve message diplayed if kde frontend cannot start due to missing Qt. Closes: #341315 -- Joey Hess Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:14:16 -0500 debconf (1.4.59) unstable; urgency=low [ Christian Perrier ] * Remove the obsolete entries from the Ukrainian translation of debconf. Closes: #325413 * Fix some typos in debconf-devel(7). Closes: #335035 [ Joey Hess ] * Fix variables in man page example. Patch from Jérémy Bobbio. Closes: #326134 * debconf-get-selections: Include a comment with available choices for select and multiselect questions. * Don't compress demo templates file. Closes: #336477 [ Colin Watson ] * Add progress indicator to dpkg-preconfigure if we're running in apt mode and there are more than 30 packages (arbitrarily selected) to preconfigure. We'll make more calls to apt-extracttemplates as a result, but the progress indicator only ticks once every 30 packages so it shouldn't be too bad. * Fix typo in debconf-show(1). Closes: #326739 * Mention in debconf(1) that debconf(7) is in the debconf-doc package. Closes: #308888 * Look at the output of 'lsb_release -is' (falling back to 'debian' if /etc/debian_version is present) to figure out which logo to display in the Gnome frontend. * Install python confmodule for both python2.3 and python2.4 (since /usr/lib/site-python doesn't work properly yet). [ Luk Claes ] * Programs translations: - Russian updated. Closes: #332880 - Swedish updated. Closes: #333811 * Debconf translations: - Romanian updated. Closes: #333199 - Portuguese updated. Closes: #332934 -- Colin Watson Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:59:30 -0500 debconf (1.4.58) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * debconf-set-selections: support wrapping of long lines with "\". [ Christian Perrier ] * Rewrite the debconf/priority short description to have the same wording than cdebconf Translations merged from cdebconf translations (languages not yet supported in debconf added with translations from cdebconf) -- Joey Hess Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:09:51 -0400 debconf (1.4.57) unstable; urgency=low * Run puic in LC_ALL to fix build failure in French locale in August. Closes: #322122 -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:22:25 -0400 debconf (1.4.56) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Debconf translations: - Arabic added (thanks Mohammed Adnène Trojette). Closes: #320762 [ Colin Watson ] * Force dialog progress bars to the full available screen width right from the start, to avoid the box flashing as longer info messages are added. Matches cdebconf. * Fix zero-arg case of passthrough's title method to return the title rather than emptying it. * The approach used by progress bars of saving the title when a progress bar starts and restoring it when it stops doesn't work if somebody sets the title when a progress bar is up. Instead, remember the last title that was explicitly requested and restore that on progress stop. * If DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC is set to a file that exists, use it in preference to the system debconf.conf files. Closes: #299216 * Never send STOP through the passthrough interface. One of the uses for passthrough is putting a progress bar in front of base-config's package installation, and that previously sent a STOP after every package, which shut down the debconf instance running the progress bar. Frontends shut themselves down anyway when their input goes away, so the STOP was unnecessary. * Allow setting the pipe driver's outfd to 'none' to throw the database away on shutdown. Helps with #312072. -- Colin Watson Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:55:12 +0100 debconf (1.4.55) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * confmodule: avoid using non-XSI local variables; instead use a nasty temporary IFS setting hack and _db_local_ namespace. Closes: #242011 [ Colin Watson ] * Fix error message on uninitialised template database. * Add DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE environment variable with the same syntax as DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE and DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK, which bypasses all the normal databases (thus avoiding locking them). Useful for local testing or for running two concurrent debconf instances. * Start a new, bigger dialog instance when updating a progress bar with info text that won't fit into the current instance. * Start/restart dialog progress bars at the correct percentage. * Fix showdialog return values. -- Colin Watson Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:04:55 +0100 debconf (1.4.54) unstable; urgency=low * Make dialog progress bars interruptible: if a question needs to be asked while a progress bar is up, we tear down the progress bar and restore it afterwards where we left off. The gnome frontend is still broken in this situation, although at least kde and readline work fine. -- Colin Watson Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:20:20 +0100 debconf (1.4.53) unstable; urgency=low [ Luk Claes ] * Manpage translations: - Updated French confmodule manpage. Closes: #318410 [ Sylvain Ferriol ] * add Test::Debconf::DbDriver::CommonTest::test_shutdown to verify sync of data between cache and file on shutdown. * add Test::Debconf::DbDriver::CommonTest::test_shutdown to verify sync of data between cache and ldap on shutdown. * add unit tests to validate debconf_copydb. * add Test::CopyDBTest::test_201431. Closes: #201431 * modify debconf.schema because extendedDescription attribute has an inappropriate matching rule => slapd (2.2.23-8) failed * set the type of the template in Template::new because if we don't use Template::load, it do not appear in template instance * call Cache::shutdown in LDAP::shutdown to synchronize data between cache and ldap. [ Joey Hess ] * Add Kamion to the uploaders. * debconf-get-selections: Use new d-i logfile path for --installer mode. [ Colin Watson ] * Fix template -C handling to avoid clobbering $field for later requests for the same template. * debconf-get-selections: Tolerate both old and new d-i logfile paths. * Implement the DATA command, so that debconf can act as a UI agent communicating with another instance of debconf running the passthrough frontend. * Add myself to debian/copyright for progress bar support. -- Colin Watson Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:19:41 +0100 debconf (1.4.52) unstable; urgency=low * Colin Watson: - Lower-case the field name passed to METAGET, since the template database stores fields that way. - If a template name ending in -C is requested (e.g. via METAGET), return the untranslated template regardless of the locale. - Strip off DOS line endings in debconf-set-selections. - Autoflush stdout in debconf-communicate so that stdout can be a pipe. - Clean up stray newlines in DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debconf-communicate output. - Add read and write keyword arguments to debconf.py:Debconf.__init__(), to allow using this module with a debconf-communicate subprocess rather than having to re-exec the current process inside a frontend. * Debconf translations: - Vietnamese added. Closes: #313509 * Programs translations: - Romanian updated. Closes: #303804 -- Colin Watson Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:00:57 +0100 debconf (1.4.51) unstable; urgency=low * Colin Watson - Fix spelling of "unknown" in copied database items with no owners. - Pass SETTITLE straight through the passthrough frontend (with accompanying DATA) rather than turning it into TITLE. Closes: #292989 * Joey Hess - Patch from mfz to allow dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive to work consistently with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive and with common sense, by testing for forced_frontend. Closes: #312550 * Programs translations: - French spellchecked -- Joey Hess Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:03:01 -0400 debconf (1.4.50) unstable; urgency=low * Colin Watson - Generate po/debconf.pot in sorted order by source filename, rather than having it be in whatever order find(1) happens to produce. - Implement INFO command from cdebconf, to display an out-of-band informative message. Closes: #304332 - Revert stdin/stdout inversion from debconf 1.1.30; that caused the dialog child process to read from stdout and write to stdin (which miraculously happened to work, at least for terminals). Instead, avoid the perl warning from #155682 by restoring stdin first after the open3 call. - Add progress bar support, using the cdebconf PROGRESS protocol. The editor and web frontend implementations are stubs. - Correct location of standalone template files in debconf-devel(7) (should be /usr/share/debconf/templates/progname.templates). - Extend passthrough protocol slightly to send SUBST commands for any substitution variables that are set for each question. - Translate select/multiselect defaults to the current locale when sending them to a passthrough UI agent, and translate the value returned by the UI agent back to C. * Joey Hess - debconf man page update. Closes: #309698 * Christian Perrier - Man pages typos corrected. Closes: #309010, #309011, #309013 * Programs translations - Italian updated. Closes: #310288 -- Colin Watson Sat, 28 May 2005 21:08:59 +0100 debconf (1.4.49) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf translation updates: - Italian. Closes: #304908 * Fix an enxironment variable name in debconf(7). Closes: #305260 * Document in the debconf-set-selections man page that debconf-get-selections is in debconf-utils. Closes: #305262 * Fix typo in Debconf/Template.pm : s/speerated/separated Unfuzzy translations Closes: #307165 * Program translation updates: - Italian. - French, directly received from l10n team - Danish. Closes: #305994 - Vietnamese. Closes: #307067 -- Joey Hess Wed, 4 May 2005 19:24:09 -0400 debconf (1.4.48) unstable; urgency=low * Joey Hess - Apply patch from Denis Barbier to translate --help output. See #167177 - Make debconf-set-selections not fail if it encounters an unknown question type. - Overload the type field in preseed files; if it's "seen" then instead set the seen flag; this allows for preseeding that only changes a default value but still leaves the question unseen. - This obsoletes the --unseen flag in debconf-set-selections, but I've left it in and working for now since things probably already use it. * Christian Perrier - Man page typo fixs. Closes: #302746, #302749, #302747, #302748, #302752 * Program translation updates: - Slovak. Closes: #302509 - Spanish. Closes: #302528 - Traditional Chinese. Closes: #302532 - Hebrew - Brazilian Portuguese. Closes: #302539 - Japanese. Closes: #302552 - Dutch. Closes: #302580 - Ukrainian. Closes: #302595 - Turkish. Closes: #302596 - Basque. Closes: #302616 - Simplified Chinese: Closes: #302636 - Czech: Closes: #302679 - Portuguese: Closes: #302691 - Greek: Closes: #302850 - Tagalog: Closes: #303172 - Romanian: Closes: #303804 -- Christian Perrier Sat, 9 Apr 2005 07:55:27 +0200 debconf (1.4.47) unstable; urgency=low * Since python confmodule checks only to see if DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND exists, dpkg-reconfigure needs to delete it, not unset it. Closes: #302004 * Translations: - Galician updated. Closes: #296470 - Spanish updated. Closes: #301126 -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:19:37 -0500 debconf (1.4.46) unstable; urgency=low * Translations: - Greek updated. Closes: #293912 - Polish updated. Closes: #295378 - Traditional Chinese added. Closes: #294892 - Tagalog updated (programs) and added (debconf). Closes: #296050 -- Joey Hess Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:39:21 -0500 debconf (1.4.45) unstable; urgency=low * Fix bad use of gettext from previous patch. In fact, debug statements are not intended to be translated, so revert that part of it. Closes: #293675 -- Joey Hess Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:14:08 -0500 debconf (1.4.44) unstable; urgency=low * Fix a rogue quotation mark intorduced in the translatable string patch in the previous version. Closes: #293666 (and approximatly 2e5 other bugs that will be filed before dinstall tomorrow). -- Joey Hess Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:39:04 -0500 debconf (1.4.43) unstable; urgency=low * Christian Perrier - Mark more strings as translatable. Closes: #225463 * Colin Watson - The passthrough frontend sets the value of visible questions by getting the value from the UI agent, but it didn't set the value of invisible questions as the confmodule expects it to. It now sets the value of invisible questions in the same way as the noninteractive frontend. * Joey Hess - In dpkg-reconfigure man page, note that -a works as --all. Closes: #292416 * Translations: - French updated - Italian updated. Closes: #291797 - Simplified Chinese updated. Closes: #291799 - Dutch updated. Closes: #291805 - Russian updated. Closes: #291806 - Czech updated. Closes: #291810 - Portuguese updated. Closes: #291837 - Ukrainian updated. Closes: #291861 - Catalan updated. Closes: #291868 - Norwegian Nynorsk updated. Closes: #291882 - Spanish updated. Closes: #291885 - Hebrew updated. Closes: #291906 - Japanese updated. Closes: #291924 - Danish updated. Closes: #291988 - Finnish updated. Closes: #292051 - Indonesian updated. Closes: #291948 - Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #291980 - Slovak updated. Closes: #291947 - Swedish updated. Closes: #292036 - Basque updated. - Romanian updated. Closes: #292306 - Korean updated (but still incomplete) - Tagalog added. Closes: #292608 - Arabic added (from Arabeyes CVS) -- Joey Hess Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:29:10 -0500 debconf (1.4.42) unstable; urgency=low * Fix bug in man page example script. Closes: #286335 * Add --unseen flag to debconf-set-selections. Closes: #286318 * Fix typo in man page example. Closes: #285099 * Patch from mdz to improve the passthrough frontend: - Use DEBCONF_READFD and DEBCONF_WRITEFD for passthrough communication if DEBCONF_PIPE is not set to a socket. - Change passthrough protocl for INPUT command so it is the same as in the debconf protocol, and pass the type of the question in a "DATA type" command. - Fix passing of extended descriptions in DATA. Note they're newline escaped. - Pass choices for multiselect questions. - Now usable with cdebconf as the client on the other side of the passthrough channel. -- Joey Hess Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:01:58 -0500 debconf (1.4.41) unstable; urgency=low * Translations: - Finnish updated (programs). Closes: #280709 - Romanian added (programs). Closes: #283209 -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:22:42 -0500 debconf (1.4.40) unstable; urgency=low * Joey Hess - Force PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 in confmodule, confmodule.sh, debconf.py, and Debconf::Client::ConfModule to avoid bad behavior of the dynamic linker when Text::Iconv is loaded but its symbols have not really been resolved. This caused debconf to be killed with a relocation error in certian upgrades from woody involving packages that use debconf in their preinst. Closes: #278417 Thanks to Andrew Suffield and Branden Robinson for analysis. - Add check in frontend and debug message if PERL_DL_NONLAZY is not set to 1 when it's run from a preinst, in case I missed other entry points. * Colin Watson - Set the seen flag on questions asked in the noninteractive frontend if DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN is set to true. This allows debootstrap to behave better (partly fixes #238301). * Translations: - Indonesian added (programs). Closes: #275981 - Traditional Chinese renamed from zh_TW.Big5.po to zh_TW.po (Christian Perrier) - Simplified Chinese added (programs). Closes: #277470 - Slovak translation added (programs and debconf). Closes: #279299 -- Joey Hess Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:20:39 -0500 debconf (1.4.39) unstable; urgency=low * Joey Hess - Avoid a warning message in DbDriver::Copy that's triggered by d-i debconf preseeding. Closes: #275122 * Translations: - Spanish updated (programs). Closes: #274148 - Hebrew added (both). Closes: #274381 - Italian added (programs) and updated (debconf). Closes: #274582, #274584 - Norwegian Nynorsk added (programs). Closes: #275081 - Polish updated (debconf). Closes: #275815 -- Joey Hess Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:16:57 -0400 debconf (1.4.38) unstable; urgency=low * Joey Hess - Tightended the versioned conflicts/replaces on debconf-utils in debconf-i18n. Closes: #273970 * Translations: - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (programs). Closes: #273941 -- Christian Perrier Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:11:00 +0200 debconf (1.4.37) unstable; urgency=low * Translations: - Correct errors in Greek translation by Konstantinos Margaritis - Italian debconf update. Closes: #272521 - Czech debconf update. Closes: #273522 - Russian translation updates. Closes: #272723 - Dutch translation added. Closes: #272535 - Portuguese translation added. Closes: #273227 * Spelling error in "man page" of debconf-show fixed. Closes: #272541 -- Joey Hess Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:14:59 -0400 debconf (1.4.36) unstable; urgency=low * Joey Hess - Used wrong regexp in last version. * Translations: - Updated French translation (programs and debconf) Closes: #242935, #264152, #271373, #255657 - Updated/added Ukrainian translations (programs and debconf) Closes: #270088 - Polish debconf translation updated Closes: #271398 - Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation checked Closes: #271412 - Correct trivial errors to Russian and Polish translations headers -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:09:14 -0400 debconf (1.4.35) unstable; urgency=low * Fix debconf-get-selections to not choke on files with comments followed by nothing. * Allow multiple spaces between all values except the last one in preseed files. -- Joey Hess Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:30:42 -0400 debconf (1.4.34) unstable; urgency=low * Skip questions with no known type also in debconf-get-selections. -- Joey Hess Wed, 1 Sep 2004 01:25:20 -0400 debconf (1.4.33) unstable; urgency=low * Skip title questions in debconf-get-selections along with the notes, text, and errors previously skipped. * Add titles to the list of known types in debconf-set-selections, just in case. -- Joey Hess Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:42:50 -0400 debconf (1.4.32) unstable; urgency=low * Hack in an --installer parameter in debconf-get-selections so the d-i manual can document a sane way to generate d-i preseeding files. * Add the question's short description as a comment in debconf-get-selections output, and skip notes, text, and errors. -- Joey Hess Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:46:03 +0100 debconf (1.4.31) unstable; urgency=low * Improve the man page with state machine improvements and better back out handling from Bruce Perens. * Minor Danish po file update. Closes: #262131 * Patch from David Schweikert to let dpkg-reconfigure use the noninteractive frontend if forced to do so. Closes: #263398 * Patch from Julien Louis to add translations of debconf-communicate and debconf-set-selections to debconf-i18n. Closes: #264140 * Ran recode latin1..utf-8 debian/changelog. Closes: #214563 * Add Tukish po file translation from Recai Oktas. Closes: #264713 * Japanese po file update from kmuto. Closes: #265984 -- Joey Hess Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:11:33 +0100 debconf (1.4.30) unstable; urgency=low * Fix and update German translation. Thanks, Michael Piefel. Closes: #260572 * Update Basque templates translation. Thanks, Piarres Beobide Egaña. Closes: #260678 -- Joey Hess Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:41:35 -0400 debconf (1.4.29) unstable; urgency=low * Force two spare lines to be available for select and multiselect lists in the dialog frontend. Closes: #255652 -- Joey Hess Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:16:31 -0400 debconf (1.4.28) unstable; urgency=low * Typo fixes in debconf-devel.7. Closes: #253341 * Put back the PREVIOUS_MODULE stuff, at least console-data "uses" it, although it does nothing, is undocumented, etc. -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:28:25 -0400 debconf (1.4.27) unstable; urgency=low * Change the shell confmodule to not construct functions on the fly. The new code is smaller, a bit faster, and simpler, but the important thing is that it does not clobber $@. The old version messed up $@ if parameters contained spaces. * Removed the never completed PREVIOUS_MODULE stuff from the shell, perl, and python confmodules. -- Joey Hess Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:14:31 -0400 debconf (1.4.26) unstable; urgency=low * Add Basqe translation by Piarres Beobide Egaña. Closes: #247321 * German translation update. Closes: #251731 * Catalan translation update. Closes: #251786 * Remove soi-unsightly trailing blanks in debconf-show output. Closes: #252482 -- Joey Hess Tue, 4 May 2004 14:35:50 -0400 debconf (1.4.25) unstable; urgency=low * Overload Template object's stringification, so metaget of a question's template field returns the name of the template. Closes: #244089 -- Joey Hess Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:50:09 -0400 debconf (1.4.24) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryako to make the dialog frontend use a utf-aware width function when calculating dialog sizes. Closes: #245688 -- Joey Hess Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:15:52 -0400 debconf (1.4.22) unstable; urgency=low * Update po/ja.po. Closes: #241786 * Fix frontend capitalisation warning. Closes: #242277 * Wording tweak in dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #242917 * Update po/da.po. Closes: #243202 -- Joey Hess Fri, 2 Apr 2004 19:01:02 -0500 debconf (1.4.21) unstable; urgency=low * Remove old stuff for cvs repo in README. Closes: #241252 * Improve handling of bad priorities, and documentation. Closes: #241292 -- Joey Hess Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:29:43 -0500 debconf (1.4.20) unstable; urgency=low * Update Ukrainian po file. Closes: #241044 * Fix more encoding problems with the gnome frontend introduced by the last patch. Closes: #240898 * In the KDE frontend, don't show the window until there is a question to ask. Closes: #239109 -- Joey Hess Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:04:56 -0500 debconf (1.4.19) unstable; urgency=low * Fix Gnome frontend's display of select and multiselect questions and notes to use more of the available space. Closes: #229009 Thanks to Mark Howard for this patch. * Use tooltips to display the help texts for questions in the Gnome frontend. Closes: #240299 (Mark Howard). The Help bttons are still left in the UI for now. * Updated Greek po file from Konstantinos Margaritis. Closes: #240641 * French po update from Julien Louis. Closes: #240648 -- Joey Hess Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:41:16 -0500 debconf (1.4.18) unstable; urgency=low * Removed all sigils. Closes: #223020, #182239, #239916 -- Joey Hess Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:01:40 -0500 debconf (1.4.17) unstable; urgency=low * Added Turkish po file translation from Recai Oktas. Closes: #239141 -- Joey Hess Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:29:51 -0500 debconf (1.4.16) unstable; urgency=medium * Dialog and whiptail differ in their handling of --nocancel with --defaultno. Never use the two options together. Closes: #236943 * Bump the urgency, this bug can cause bad things to happen and needs to be fixed in testing. -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:59:28 -0500 debconf (1.4.14) unstable; urgency=low * Fix call to to_Unicode in KDE String element. Closes: #236574 -- Joey Hess Sun, 7 Mar 2004 13:13:00 -0900 debconf (1.4.13) unstable; urgency=low * Fix display on non-latin symbols in the KDE frontend. Closes: #235837 (Thanks, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov) * Added Chinese po files. Closes: #235950 (thanks, Carlos Liu) -- Joey Hess Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:36:18 -0500 debconf (1.4.12) unstable; urgency=low * Updated French manpages from Julien Louis, includes new debconf-{get,set}-selections translations. Closes: #235690 -- Joey Hess Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:31:51 -0500 debconf (1.4.11) unstable; urgency=low * Updated Spanish templates translation. Closes: #232662 * Fix dialog frontend's handling of user entering nothing in an inputbox, in this case whiptail's output FD is eof, and care must be taken to not return undef. Closes: #233618, #226963, #227732 -- Joey Hess Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:35:36 -0500 debconf (1.4.10) unstable; urgency=low * Use treeview for gnome multiselect lists (kov). Closes: #232090 -- Joey Hess Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:33:40 -0500 debconf (1.4.9) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Sylvain Ferriol: - allow empty calues in LDAP DbDriver - change debconf.schema to support slapd 2.1.x. Closes: #215878 - adds a test suite for DbDrivers. Thanks, Sylvain! * Work around perl bug #231619 by unnecessarily using fields in DirTree.pm. Closes: #227013 * Patch from Eugeniy Meshcheryakov to fix display of messages in KOI8 locales using the GNOME frontend. Closes: #231302 * Re-introduce debconf-get-selections and debconf-set-selections. The former goes in debconf-utils, the latter in debconf so it can be used for preseeding during new installs. * Patch example in debconf-devle(7) to deal with variables that the admin removed from the config file, but when turned back on via a dpkg-reconfigure. Thanks, Daniel Kobras. * Update Polish translation. Closes: #230869 * New Ukrainian translation by Eugeniy Meshcheryako. Closes: #230964 * Update French translation. Closes: #231496 * Update Dutch translation, sorry that took so long. Closes: #227884 -- Joey Hess Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:08:43 -0500 debconf (1.4.8) unstable; urgency=low * Remove padding whitespace from the end of lines in select questions in the teletype frontend. * Explicitly waitpid on dialog in the dialog frontend, to work around some kind of perl / linux 2.6 behavior change with plain wait. Closes: #228987 * New Czech translation by Miroslav Kure. Closes: #230600 * Updated Danish translation. Closes: #230618 (non-templates) -- Joey Hess Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:08:08 -0500 debconf (1.4.7) unstable; urgency=low * Fix debian/po/fi.po. -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:17:33 -0500 debconf (1.4.6) unstable; urgency=low * Updated de.po from Leonard Michlmayr. * Gustavo Noronha Silva: - work around encoding problems when using UTF-8 locales and Gnome frontend. Closes: #226896 - use a scrooled window instead of a vscrollbar so that looong texts will fit better. - addbutton now accepts mnemonics, good for usability! * Fix misc formatting and tab damange. * pt_BR update from Gustavo Noronha Silva. * Updated debian/po/ja.po from Kenshi Muto. Closes: #227462 * Updated debian/po/da.po from Morten Brix Pedersen. Closes: #227617 -- Joey Hess Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:05:55 -0500 debconf (1.4.5) unstable; urgency=low * Updated Finnish translation. Closes: #226900 -- Joey Hess Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:36:52 -0500 debconf (1.4.4) unstable; urgency=low * Add a Greek translation by Konstantinos Margaritis. Closes: #226834 * Updated the French translation. Closes: #226226 -- Joey Hess Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:02:02 -0500 debconf (1.4.3) unstable; urgency=low * Port of the gnome frontend to GNOME2 libs: * Debconf/Frontend/Gnome.pm, Debconf/Element/Gnome.pm, Debconf/Element/Gnome/*.pm: - fixed debian logo exibition * Makefile, debian-logo.png, debian-logo.xpm: - use a png instead of a xpm to have a cuter interface =P * Above changes from Gustavo Noronha Silva. Closes: #225503 * Fix broken fallback from noninteractive frontend in dpkg-reconfgure. Closes: #226205 -- Joey Hess Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:49:21 -0500 debconf (1.4.2) unstable; urgency=low * Deal better with hostname -f during debootstrap. -- Joey Hess Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:36:48 -0500 debconf (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Denis Barbier to fix return values from select and multiselect in the KDE frontend to take localisation into account. Closes: #225504 -- Joey Hess Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:16:38 -0500 debconf (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low * Add an exerimental KDE frontend, contributed by Peter Rockai. Closes: #224040 * Generate Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/WizardUi.pm in Makefile using puic, so build-depend on libqt-perl. * Added basic pod docs for the Kde frontend, though it could stand improvements. * Fix code formatting to match the rest of debconf. * Use frontend debug facility instead of developer. * Remove some dead code and useless init methods that just call super. * Split modules into their own files where appropriate; better handling of libqt-perl less systems with Kde frontend selected. * Suggest libqt-perl. -- Joey Hess Sun, 28 Dec 2003 19:03:46 -0500 debconf (1.3.22) unstable; urgency=medium * When the teletype frontend is processing the answer to a boolean question, accept English answers even if the locale is set to some other language, as the question may not yet be translated. Closes: #220472 * Remove cruft that acted as if "" was a default value in Teletpye Boolean. Closes: #210671 * debconf-copydb, DbDriver/Copy: deal better with input dbs that have no Owners fields, such as cdebconf templates dbs. Assume that the owner is "unknown" in this case. * Add support for the SETTITLE command to better handle translated titles. Closes: #172218, #213184 * Drop ucfirst of package name in default title. * Make Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule deprecation warning go to stderr, not log. * Conflict with versions of whiptail before --default-item was added. * Use --default-item in dialog frontend, instead of the nasty menu reordering. Yay! * Move debconf-communicate from debconf-utils to debconf, it is needed by base-config 2.0. * Urgency medium to help the new base-config get into testing quickly. * Dialog frontend set values to "" or defaults when the user hit cancel or escape and capb backup was not enabled. Instead, in this case do not change any values. -- Joey Hess Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:05:22 -0500 debconf (1.3.21) unstable; urgency=low * Fix multiselect elements in non-C locales. Closes: #221410 Thanks to Kenshi Muto and Akira TAGOH for the debugging. * Numerous typo and consistency fixes in man pages by Yann Dirson. Closes: #221670 -- Joey Hess Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:49:43 -0500 debconf (1.3.20) unstable; urgency=low * The locations of debconf-get-selectons and debconf-set-selections are swapped. The former should move to debconf, while the latter moves to debconf-utils. Since dpkg is broken and doesn't allow me to move them at all, I have removed both of them from the binary packages for now. Closes: #218648, #218698, #218712, #218661, #218685, #218683, #218658 Closes: #218667, #218646, #218676, #218644 (Well, I hope that's all!) -- Joey Hess Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:42:52 -0500 debconf (1.3.19) unstable; urgency=low * Added debconf-get-selections and debconf-set-selections, based loosely on work by Petter Reinholdtsen. Closes: #214617 -- Joey Hess Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:12:10 -0500 debconf (1.3.18) unstable; urgency=low * Various man page fixes (Closes: #217170). * Add translated debconf-devel.fr.7, and update Debconf::Client::ConfModule and debconf translations. All from Julien Louis. Closes: #217536 -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:52:13 -0400 debconf (1.3.17) unstable; urgency=low * Sort list of owners in Question.pm before returning it. The changes to hash randomization in perl 5.8.1 made the order random otherwise, which breaks owners = choices style comparisons. It was also possible before that if a db was moved to a different dbdriver backend, the order would change. Closes: #217088 -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:14:18 -0400 debconf (1.3.16) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from Fabian Franz to add support for Xdialog to the dialog frontend, removing the old gdialog cruft. * Fix some indentation from Xdialog patch. * Set selectspacer for Xdialog. * Remove undocumented DEBCONF_FORCE_GDIALOG variable, add DEBCONF_FORCE_XDIALOG. * Document DEBCONF_FORCE_XDIALOG. * Patch from Denis Barbier to fix handling of locales containing a @. Closes: #215345 * Danish update Morten Brix Pedersen. Closes: #216531 -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:56:38 -0400 debconf (1.3.15) unstable; urgency=low * Spanish update. Closes: #212401 * Russian update. Closes: #214364 -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:01:00 -0400 debconf (1.3.14) unstable; urgency=low * Move from build-depends-indep to build-depends, to match current policy. * Updated Japanese template po file from Kenshi Muto. Closes: #210374 * Removed the outdated debconf tutorial which was aimed at converting pre-debconf packages to debconf. Use debconf-devel(7) for all your debconf development needs. * Got rid of all the xml stuff, trimmed build deps down. * Lots of other doc reference updates. * Removed the pre 0.9 downgrade warning from prerm. * Removed the debconf.cfg removal code from postinst. -- Joey Hess Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:18:16 -0400 debconf (1.3.13) unstable; urgency=low * pt_BR template po update. Closes: # 207963 * French po file update. Closes: #208365 -- Joey Hess Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:24:53 -0400 debconf (1.3.12) unstable; urgency=low * Update Spanish templates. Closes: #206803 * Fix name of dpkg-preconfigure in its help output. Closes: #206892 -- Joey Hess Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:48:21 -0400 debconf (1.3.11) unstable; urgency=low * Removed the showold question, and all showold support except what's necessary for dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #129666, #184142 -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:28:56 -0400 debconf (1.3.10) unstable; urgency=low * Dutch templates po file translaton. Closes: #204916 -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:47:43 -0400 debconf (1.3.9) unstable; urgency=low * French man page updates from Julien Louis. Closes: #204745 * Move dh_python to python2.3 module directory. Closes: #206165 -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:15:25 -0400 debconf (1.3.8) unstable; urgency=low * Make the LDAP driver not crash debconf if it is not Required and it fails to connect. Closes: #203780 * Added perl to Suggests line since perl and/or perl-modules are needed by eg, the readline frontend. Also added note to man page. Closes: #203766 -- Joey Hess Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:12:29 -0400 debconf (1.3.7) unstable; urgency=low * Updated French translaton by Christian Perrier. Closes: #203101 * debconf-i18n conflicts/replaces older debconf-utils, which used to have the translated copydb manpages. Closes: #203619 -- Joey Hess Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:38:25 -0400 debconf (1.3.6) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a typo. -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:54 -0400 debconf (1.3.5) unstable; urgency=low * Improved wording of error message while parsing config file. Closes: #184991 * debconf-copydb: Include --owner-pattern option in the synopsis and usage. Closes: #201680 -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:58:02 -0400 debconf (1.3.4) unstable; urgency=low * readline and teletype frontends do not display default in brackets, and do not special case empty string as the default. It's more important that the user be able to enter an empty string reliably. Default values are still provided if Term::Readline::Gnu is installed. Closes: #183970 -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:03:19 +0200 debconf (1.3.3) unstable; urgency=low * FORCE_DIALOG is now renamed to DEBCONF_FORCE_DIALOG, and documented. Also, it now simply sets the preference; if dialog is not installed debconf will use whiptail with this variable set. -- Joey Hess Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:16:09 +0200 debconf (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=low * The "free meals all week" release. * Do the debconf-utils doc dir transition in its postinst, not preinst. Closes: #201018, #201024, #201019, #201018, #201017 -- Joey Hess Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:18:35 +0200 debconf (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=low * The "Amaya says I can't eat until I fix a RC bug" release. * Updated ja.po. Closes: #200764 * Fix debconf-utils preinst to not try to remove the old directory on a fresh install. Closes: #200941 * debconf-i18n needs to Replaces debconf, as it takes over files from the old version. * First DebConf^3 upload. -- Joey Hess Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:12:03 +0200 debconf (1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf will now use Tomohiro KUBOTA's Text::WrapI18N module for line folding, thus supporting proper display of: - multibyte encodings such as UTF-8, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, GB2312, and Big5, - combining characters and fullwidth characters which occupy zero and two columns on screen, and - languages which don't use whitespace between words (Chinese and Japanese) and mixture of such languages and other languages. * Debconf also makes use of Tomohiro's Text::CharWidth module for character counting. * Known bugs: - Line-folding of prompt line in readline frontend is not aware of multibyte encodings nor combining/fullwidth characters (Bug#195678). - For dialog frontend, "dialog" package should not be used because it doesn't yet support multibyte encodings nor combining/fullwidth characters (Bug#195674). (Dickey is working on it.) * The above is made possible thanks to the work of Tomohiro KUBOTA . * Extended Deconf::Encoding module to provide wrap, $cols, and width. It loads Tomohiro's modules if available, and falls back Text::Wrap and length if not. * Reorganized the i18n support, so all necessary packages are installed by default (Closes: #196475, #173647), and so it can easily be removed (saving 500k) for those who don't need it and lack disk space. Introduced debconf-i18n and debconf-english packages. * Link debconf-utils doc dir to debconf's, since it depends on it anyway. With transition preinst script. Saves 60k. * debconf-english and debconf-i18n are linked also. * debconf-show: Act on all packages named on command line. Closes: #198036 * debconf.fr.7 update. Closes: #198096 * debian/po/fr.po update * SCHEIDLER Balazs provided a patch to make the passthrough frontend skip hidden elements. Closes: #198503 -- Joey Hess Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:53:20 -0400 debconf (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low * Make the conflict with whiptail-utf8 versioned (to the last version before it was removed) since whiptail provides it. Closes: #197863 -- Joey Hess Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:01:37 -0400 debconf (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low * Follow up with a Spanish template update, also from Carlos. Closes: #196786 -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:03:28 -0400 debconf (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low * Spanish translation update from Carlos Valdivia Yagüe. Closes: #196672 -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:44:13 -0400 debconf (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low * Conflict with whiptail-utf8 until it gets --output-fd support. Closes: #195818 -- Joey Hess Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:35:38 -0400 debconf (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low * Conflict with whiptail versions before 0.51.4-7, which adds --output-fd support. * Turn on output-fd support for whiptail. * Wrap priority question better on narrow terminals. Closes: #195485 * Make Net::LDAP use LDAPv3 since that's the default provided by slapd now. Closes: #195673 -- Joey Hess Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:31:15 -0400 debconf (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low * Conflict with dialogs older than 0.9b-20020814-1, which added --output-fd. * Add support to dialog frontend for using the --output-fd switch when using dialog, to separate error messages and output. Closes: #194331 However, whiptail does not yet implement --output-fd, so you can still screw your system up using whiptail and a bad TERM setting. This is whiptail bug #55182. * Updated Japanese translation. Closes: #193747 * Updated French translation. Closes: #194525 -- Joey Hess Wed, 28 May 2003 11:50:49 -0400 debconf (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low * 822 formatter: Support values beginning with whitepace. (See #189026) -- Joey Hess Mon, 5 May 2003 15:51:32 -0400 debconf (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low * Several French translation updates from Julien Louis. Closes: #189448 -- Joey Hess Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:43:38 -0400 debconf (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low * Don't need PATH munging for dh_installdebconf since po-debconf is used now. Closes: #185913 -- Joey Hess Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:07:00 -0800 debconf (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low * Updated pt_BR template po file again. Closes: #184950 * typo, Closes: #185587 -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:21:34 -0800 debconf (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low * Updated pt_BR template po file. Closes: #183301 * Complete de and da translations downloaded from DDTP. (NB, some have trailing whitespace fuzzyness issues.) * debconf-mergetemplates: Split field and lang non-greedily on field, to properly split eg, fr.iso-8859-1. Patch from Dennis. * Patch from Roderich Schupp: - PackageDir needs to manually remove files on shutdown, calling inherited remove method fails as the items are not in the cache anymore. This only shows up if using PackageDir for both config and templates. - Fix typo in Directory::remove which kept it from removing "-old" backup files. - Make PackageDir::shutdown Call endfile on format. Closes: #182725 -- Joey Hess Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:46:54 -0500 debconf (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low * Use ! not ^ in confmodule character class. Closes: #183032 -- Joey Hess Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:32:23 -0500 debconf (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low * Now provides the debconf-2.0 virtual package. Note that 2.0 is the debconf protocol version, not the package version. Packages that depend on debconf should begin to migrate over to the new virtual package, as it will eventually let cdebconf be used as an alternate. (However, I will wait for this to get into testing before changing dh_installdebconf's generated dependencies, to avoid blocking too much from testing.) * No longer provides debconf-tiny. -- Joey Hess Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:06:18 -0500 debconf (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=low * confmodule: split on only one whitespace. Closes: #182287 -- Joey Hess Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:40:20 -0500 debconf (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low * Update for debconf-show.fr.1 and confmodule.fr.3. * debconf-getlang and debconf-mergetemplate now print deprecation warnings. * Set $Text::Wrap::break = qr/\n|\s(?=\S)/ Closes: #159653 -- Joey Hess Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:23:16 -0500 debconf (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low * Debugf message when skipping 1 or 0 select select question. Closes: #181620 -- Joey Hess Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:28:57 -0500 debconf (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low * With a name like POSIX_ME_HARDER, what do you expect? Turned it off in dialog frontend. Closes: #178746 -- Joey Hess Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:23:56 -0500 debconf (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low * To find .debconfrc, look up the home directory of the current user with getpwuid, instead of trusting $HOME, which is untrustworthy thanks to programs like sudo. Closes: #181288 * Sylvain Ferriol enhanced debconf-show so it can list debconf databases, owners of questions, and so it can be limited to list only owners or questions in a given database. -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:20:17 -0500 debconf (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low * French man page updates from Julien Louis. * Updated Russian po files from Serge Winitzki. Closes: #180891 (corrected po/ru.po broken quote and added missing \n) -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:29:11 -0500 debconf (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low * LDAP DbDriver: If bind to server fails, throw an error (that can be downgraded to a warning by making the DbDriver non-required), instead of calling a method of an undefined value. Closes: #175989 * Applied Denis Barbier's LANGUAGE env variable support patch. Closes: #172704 -- Joey Hess Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:15:14 -0500 debconf (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low * Updated pt_BR.po from Andre Luis Lopes, Closes: #177224 -- Joey Hess Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:49:51 -0500 debconf (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-copydb: Fixed -c parsing for passwords with colons in them, etc. Closes: #173796 -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:33:41 -0500 debconf (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low * Build-depend on python for dh_python. Closes: #172839 -- Joey Hess Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:30:59 -0500 debconf (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low * Added --default-priority to dpkg-reconfigure. -- Joey Hess Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:28:33 -0500 debconf (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=low * Added a python binding for debconf written by moshez. If you use it, you must take care of making your package depend on python; debconf itself does not. It only works with python 2.2. -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:13:35 -0500 debconf (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low * Updated da.po. Closes: #171890 * Force unset POSIXLY_CORRECT in dialog frontend; whiptail cannot use sleect list params after -- (the only truely safe way to pass them) if this variable is set. Closes: #170646 * Fixed a typo in debconf-devel man page. Closes: #172152 -- Joey Hess Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:01:43 -0500 debconf (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low * Mention text data-type in deconf-devel(7). #168761 * Updated French man pages. -- Joey Hess Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:05:53 -0500 debconf (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed up templates and po/output. Closes: #167600 * Patch from Roderich Schupp fixes double lock issue with PackageDir DbDriver. -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:11:25 -0500 debconf (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low * Reworded debconf/priority template. Closes: #60541 * Updated zh_TW.Big5.po. -- Joey Hess Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:27:08 -0500 debconf (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low * Fix debconf/helper confusion in debconf-devel(7). Closes: #166585 * Don't let readline frontend be used with Term::ReadLine::GNU and emacs shell buffers, as those two don't get along. See bug #166987 -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:49:53 -0500 debconf (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low * Include topmost 100 changelog entries now in the hope that I will rarely release debconf 100 times between entries into testing. I'm still leery of bloating the base system with 50k of ancient changelog. Closes: #165399 * Added debconf.conf.fr.5. -- Joey Hess Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:44:05 -0400 debconf (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low * Ongoing French manpage translations. * Italian template update. Closes: #164807 -- Joey Hess Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:24:19 -0400 debconf (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low * Added DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC environment variable, which reportbug can set to make it ignore ~/.debconfrc when gathering debconf information. -- Joey Hess Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:39:58 -0400 debconf (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: run prerm script. Should be safe. * Doc update Closes: #162978 * Use po-debconf for debconf package's own template translations. * debconf-getlang and debconf-mergetemplate are deprecated in favour of po-debconf. * Added docs to debconf-devel(7) about using po-debconf. * Remove old translation section from tutorual. * Remove bts-script. -- Joey Hess Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:33:30 -0400 debconf (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low * Updated ja.po. Closes: #162268 * Updated ca.po. -- Joey Hess Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:12:09 -0400 debconf (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed name of french debconf-getlang(1) translation file so it will be put into the binary package. Closes: #161879 * Similar for debconf-copydb and debconf.1. Closes: #161878 -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:35:05 -0400 debconf (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low * Turn on binmode on output to avoid encoding re-conversion. -- Joey Hess Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:17:16 -0400 debconf (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low * Experiment in signing a deb for the archive failed: apt-ftparchive and all apt deb parsing are horribly screwed. -- Joey Hess Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:39:09 -0400 debconf (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low * Typo, Closes: #161518 * dpkg-reconfigure: Don't imply that a package is broken if it is not installed. Closes: #161528 -- Joey Hess Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:38:24 -0400 debconf (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low * Removed fileutils dep. Debconf's postinst has changed a lot and it is not needed. Closes: #161421 -- Joey Hess Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:12:41 -0400 debconf (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Hmm, I wasn't aware that perl ran use's inside eval {} blocks at compile time. Use quotes instead. Closes: #161308, #161273 * Updated ja.po from Junichi Uekawa. -- Joey Hess Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:26:08 -0400 debconf (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low * Added support for encoding specification in translated templates. Use field names of the form "Field-ll_LL.charset". Example: Description-de_DE.UTF-8 * The reccommended encoding of all debconf templates files is UTF-8. Whenever it is possible, do not use other encodings. The possibility to support non-UTF-8 encodings is provided just in case. * Prefer a field matching the user's charset and language. If one is not found, look for one matching the user's language, and use iconv to convert to their charset. * Suggest libtext-iconv-perl, without which the above will not work. * This is all experimental, untested, and undocumented. * Closes: #148490 -- Joey Hess Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:22:02 -0400 debconf (1.1.33) unstable; urgency=low * Add question when loading a template if the question is gone and the template still claims to own it. This should never happen unless you have a disk crash or bad kernel hang when using debconf, but enough people experience it to waste too much of my time. This is more robust. Closes: #151406, #160960 * Update fr.po * Fixed typos in debconf.conf. * fix_db.pl: Loop only 10 times. Closes: #153775 -- Joey Hess Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:03:47 -0400 debconf (1.1.32) unstable; urgency=low * Added back Polish template translation. Closes: #160183 * Fixed bad use of gettext in gnome hostname thing. Closes: #160209 * Updated Polish po file. Closes: #160210 -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:36:08 -0400 debconf (1.1.31) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed undefined sigil problem with [More] prompt. -- Joey Hess Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:02:21 -0400 debconf (1.1.30) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed stdin/stdout inversion in call to open3 in dialog frontend. Closes: #155682 -- Joey Hess Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:05:31 -0400 debconf (1.1.29) unstable; urgency=low * Allow stacked dbdrivers with readonly databases on top. * Patch from Michel Dänzer to put the hostname in the gnome window title. Closes: #141235 -- Joey Hess Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:24:55 -0400 debconf (1.1.28) unstable; urgency=low * Man page type fixes and translations from Philippe Batailler and Julien Louis. -- Joey Hess Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:49:11 -0400 debconf (1.1.27) unstable; urgency=low * Minor templates fixes by Denis Barbier. Closes: #158189 -- Joey Hess Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:16:53 -0400 debconf (1.1.26) unstable; urgency=low * Typo, Closes: #157885 -- Joey Hess Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:35:59 -0400 debconf (1.1.25) unstable; urgency=low * Added several translated French man pages from Julien Louis. -- Joey Hess Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:41:34 -0400 debconf (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low * Be forgiving of leading/trailing whitespace in lines of debconf.conf. Closes: #157010 -- Joey Hess Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:59:00 -0400 debconf (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low * Typos. Closes: #155547, #155572 * debconf-devel(7) example conffile premision preservation pathch Closes: #157134 -- Joey Hess Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:55:46 -0400 debconf (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low * Added DEBCONF_DB_OVERRIDE and DEBCONF_DB_FALLBACK environment variables that are very useful for feeding databases to remote hosts for unattended ad-hoc mass upgrades. Based on a patch by Sam Vilain. -- Joey Hess Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:49:36 -0400 debconf (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low * Deal better with empty or soly-comments config files. -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:22:12 -0400 debconf (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected references to /usr/doc in man page. Closes: #154571 -- Joey Hess Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:44:16 -0400 debconf (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from "Devin Carraway" to debconf-mergetemplate outputs what part is fuzzy. Closes: #154109 * Used said output to quickly fix up debconf's two fuzzy template items. Very nice! * Allow regular user to run dpkg-reconfigure --help. Closes: #153916 -- Joey Hess Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:08:51 -0400 debconf (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low * Don't override default die; that makes catching dialog frontend failure to run in an eval when TERM is unset fail. * Detect multiline protocol errors and warn, and work around. * Updated debconf.conf.5 pt_BR translation. * Make dialog frontend refuse to run with TERM=unknown. Closes: #153122 -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:04:08 -0400 debconf (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed bug in PackageDir exists when called on nonexistant items that were part of an existing package. * Directory DbDriver is pure virtual now; I had to move exists and iterator out of it, and it is fairly useless by itself. * Seems that LDAP has no end of quoting problems, and Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃ¥ker sent in a patch to update more of them (changes the schema again amoung other things). Closes: #152477 * Stop leaking priority fields into the config database. -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:38:55 -0400 debconf (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed up iterator for PackageDir DbDriver. PackageDir still has problems with a few edge conditions. -- Joey Hess Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:58:45 -0400 debconf (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=low * The "no, DebConf 2 is over there" release. * Added a new dbdriver called "PackageDir" that stores items for each package in separate files (shared items go in their own file) in a subdirectory. This is a tradeoff between the load speed of DirTree and the manageability and smaller size of the flat file that has been the default so far. Locality of reference is reasonable when debconf is used on a per-package basis, as in debian. This dbdriver is planned to superceed File as the default once it's gotten some testing. If you want to test this, edit your debconf.conf to define new databases of this type into it, use debconf-copydb to copy your existing databases into the new ones, and then make the new ones be used by default. * Applied a patch from ilmari@ping.uio.no (Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃ¥ker) to the LDAP dbdriver to change fields to IA5 text, skipping empty fields. Closes: #139779 * Made more vocal about use of capitalized frontend names, which are deprecated. Fixed the couple of places in the debconf tree that still used the old style. * Note that debconf.conf(5) pt_BR translation is outdated. * Make Directory (and not just DirTree) dbdriver refuse to accept names with .. in them. * Added support for backup files to Directory, and thus to DirTree as well, and defaulted it to on. * Modified cache load methods to call a cacheadd method to add items back to cache; this allows a load method to actually load up related items when asked for one item. * Doc updates. -- Joey Hess Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:18:33 -0400 debconf (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low * moved debconf.8 and debconf-devel.8 to section 7, and updated all references. Closes: #150594 -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:09:07 -0400 debconf (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low * Redesigned sigil classes a trifle, and added sigils to dialog frontend. Using the boring punctuation ones by default there. -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:41:53 -0400 debconf (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low * Added priority sigils to the readline frontend. If you don't like the smileys, put Smileys: false in debconf.conf. To disable sigils entirely, use Sigils: false. I will implement smiley customization for $25. (Ads in a changlog -- you saw it here first :-P) Besides looking cute, the intent here is to make it obvious what priority a question is being asked at, to help combat priority inflation. Varying types of sigils will be added to the other frontends as well. * Made the examples in debconf.conf have some acuaintance with reality. Closes: #150078 * A patch from Sam Vilain to debconf.8 documents ways of using debconf in clusters and large installations. Closes: #150206, I guess. -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:23:20 -0400 debconf (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed warnings if a question was displayed, then unregistered, then debconf tries to set its seen flag. Triggered by packages that ask a question and then purge in their postrm. -- Joey Hess Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:17:58 -0400 debconf (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed nasty uninitalized values from DirTree driver. -- Joey Hess Wed, 29 May 2002 12:27:58 -0400 debconf (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low * French po update from Martin Quinson . -- Joey Hess Tue, 28 May 2002 10:20:27 -0400 debconf (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low * Have Debconf::Log override die and print a stack trace. * Denis Barbier sent in a nice patch to clean up gettext strings. Thanks! -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 May 2002 22:18:13 -0400 debconf (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure now sets DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 before running postinst scripts. A postinst with an expensive operation to avoid at reconfiguration time can look at this. This is a hack and we will eventually transition to passing "reconfigure" to postinst scripts; postinst scripts that use debconf are encouraged to begin accepting such a parameter already. -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 May 2002 14:27:32 -0400 debconf (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed transition_db.pl to pass the new extra type argiments to Question->new and Template->new. Thanks to the help of Pre and Cliph on irc. Closes: #147932 * Don't run all the db mangling code in the whole postinst on fresh installs. -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 May 2002 12:53:57 -0400 debconf (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed something to do with propigation of template types through database stack driver into accept method when setting up a brand-new template with; clearly broken at version 1.1.0. Looks like I recoded it properly but forgot to delete the old code. Closes: #147576, #147684, #147620 -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 May 2002 02:28:48 -0400 debconf (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low * Tighthened up the version number in the dbeconf-utils conflicts. Closes: #147490 -- Joey Hess Sun, 19 May 2002 22:12:38 -0400 debconf (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low * Push 1.1 branch into unstable from experimental. -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 May 2002 21:06:29 -0400 debconf (1.1.2) experimental; urgency=low * Really fixed apt.conf.d file. -- Joey Hess Thu, 2 May 2002 21:03:07 -0400 debconf (1.1.1) experimental; urgency=low * debconf-mergetemplate will now only drop old templates if it is passed a --drop-old-templates parameter. The old waqy broke base-config's build, and might break anytime someone calls the program by hand in a weird way. I will turn this parameter on in dh_installdebconf though. Closes: #145436 * Updated french po file. * Tomohiro KUBOTA sent in a new Japanese templates file. * Fixed apt.conf.d file. -- Joey Hess Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:24:29 -0400 debconf (1.1.0) experimental; urgency=low * NOT targeted at woody. * debconf-mergetemplate now drops out of date translations by default. The --outdated flag allows for the old behavior of keeping them. Closes: #131173 * Added a "debconf" program, which runs a given program inside debconf without all the nasty hackiness that auto-debconf invocation entails. The future hope is that dpkg becomes smart enough to run postinst scripts that use debconf by means of this program. Closes: #75578, #119338 This means a conflict with cdebconf. * This command is the best way to debug debconf-using scripts, you can run a command like debconf sh -x my-script. Documented that, Closes: #84864 * And the debconf command has a --showold option. I added a DEBCONF_SHOWOLD variable for good measure. Closes: #130072 * Split the configdb into two files, a password database and a database for all else. This allows normal users to query the debconf db for items that are not passwords, which should be generally useful. The immediate application is a bug report plugin that includes debconf-show output.. * The configdb split will happen automatically on systems with an unmodified debconf.conf. Admins of systems with a modified debconf.conf will need to do it manually, if it is done at all. * I had to move debconf-copydb into the main debconf package, since it is used to do the db split. * Make failure to open a database cause the init method to abort, even if the db is not required. Cuts down on ugly messages. * Fixed accept method to look up the real template of a question instead of assuming that there will be a template by the same name as the question. * I had to add a third parameter to Debconf::Question->new to make accept/rejecttype really work right. And similar to all the addowner methods. And fixed a typo that had prevented it from working at all. * Added a DEBCONF_NOWARNINGS environment variable. Amoung other things this can be used to turn off the frontend fallback messages. Closes: #103288 * Have debconf-show open the db readonly, so it will not contend for locks. * Put debconf-show in /usr/bin/. * Turned on comment stripping of some more files. * Now supports escaped substitution variables in templates, do it like "\${foo}", and "${foo}" will be displayed. Closes: #122818 * Made the dialog frontend smarter about exceedingly wide select and multiselect choices. Closes: #129224 * Using upper-case in the value of DEBIAN_FRONTEND is deprecated, and debconf now warns when it detects this if DEBCONF_DEBUG is set to developer. Closes: #131800 * Do not skip displaying multiselect questions that have only one choice; the user still needs to choose between one and none. Closes: #139489 * Don't load Getopt::Long unless there are options to process in Debconf::Config. * A multiselect question, once displayed, gets its value set to the selected choices, in the same order as those choices appear in its Choices field. Previously, the order had been undefined. Closes: #129768, #135961 * Warn when an unknown field is found in a template. Closes: #131227 * Stronger reccommendation of libterm-readline-gnu-perl in documentation. Closes: #136284 * Settled on one email address. * Some s/Syntax:/Usage:/ * Patch from Manuel Estrada Sainz to let debconf-copydb filter by owner. Closes: #136488 * Uses debhelper v4. -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:54:03 -0400 debconf (1.0.33) unstable; urgency=low * Made fix_db.pl more robust in the face of really screwed up db's. * Updated debconf schema using OID numbers allocated under enterprise.Debian.package.debconf by Wichert. * Fixed ancient program name in old tutorual. Closes: #141904 * Fixed some typos and crazy man escapage in debconf.devel(8), Closes: #140991 -- Joey Hess Sun, 31 Mar 2002 13:27:43 -0500 debconf (1.0.32) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a bug in the Stack driver's iterator, needed by FAI. Thanks to Joerg Lehmann for the patch. * Typo and spelling corrections (did not change verbiage to verbage however; I do not intend that connotation). Closes: #131807 * Added --force to dpkg-reconfigure. * Fixed typo in debconf.conf. Closes: #140085 -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:27:18 -0500 debconf (1.0.31) unstable; urgency=low * Versioned conflicts with debconf-tiny, see #137019 * Corrected some wording in the German translation. Closes: #137005 * Removed translated default fields in the Russian template (don't do that, folks). -- Joey Hess Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:54:40 -0500 debconf (1.0.30) unstable; urgency=low * Matthew Palmer contributed a LDAP backend database for debconf. This will open up all kinds of new possiilities for using debconf in a cluster, etc. It is currently experimental, and will not be used unless you enable it; so there is no chance this new code will impact the freeze. * Wrote debconf-devel(8) man page, which attempts to be a complete reference for developing packages that use debconf. Read it. * Fixed the doc-base name of the debconf tutorial. * Minor change to debconf-mergetemplate man page synopsis. * Refuse to use the dialog frontend if the screen is too small, it'll fall back to the text frontend which will work on screens down to about 2 lines of 20 characters each. Closes: #132972 * Fixed typo, Closes: #134161 * Patch from Denis Barbier to make debconf-getlang work better with ll_LL form languages. Closes: #134307 * Display choices for boolean questions in the editor frontend, Closes: #135078 * Improved the section in the tutorial on translations. Patch from Denis Barbier. Closes: #96836 * Added a new Russian template from Ilgiz Kalmetev, Closes: #135839 -- Joey Hess Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:37:19 -0500 debconf (1.0.26) unstable; urgency=low * Removed uninitialized value warning in Teletype frontend. Actually, this was a bug that did not let it display only one column on choices when necessary; triggered by quake2-data. * Incuded a short README.Debian for debconf-utils, Closes: #129541 * Made the README point to all the main docs for users and developers. Closes: #129545 * Deregister SIGPIPE handler after confmodule finishes, so it is not called after the object is gone. Closes: #129463 * Chomp whitespace at the end of field continuation lines; this fixes a bug that caused some indented lines to be accidentially wrapped up to the previous line. * Stop using funky grave quotes in this package's templates. * Updated Spanish template. Closes: #128838 * Updated Catalan. * Added German po file, updated templates. * Killed the following overly-outdated translated templates: pl, ru, zh_CN, zh_TW, nl, ja, it. * fi and gl have one fuzzy translation each, and all the rest are fine. * Corrected incorrect indents in a number of translated templates, sigh. * debconf(8) tweak, Closes: #130348 -- Joey Hess Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:30:25 -0500 debconf (1.0.25) unstable; urgency=medium * The "bite the bullet" release. * Enhanced fix_db.pl to detect and deal with every debconf db corruption scenario that has been reported to me. Run it on upgrade from versions prior to this one. I suspect that all instances of inconsistent and corrupt debconf db's are due to past bugs in debconf and especially the transition from the crufty old data::dumper db, and the "fix" for the missing template problem, plus possibly some unclean shutdown problems. So fix them all now, and either the problems go away for good or I prove my theories wrong if they pop back up later. * Closes: #128707, #128265, #99786 -- Joey Hess Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:25:06 -0500 debconf (1.0.24) unstable; urgency=low * Reverted the $Text::Wrap::break change from the last version, as that was making Text::Wrap eliminate multiple \n's, which leads to display problems. Closes: #128034 -- Joey Hess Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:59:58 -0500 debconf (1.0.23) unstable; urgency=low * Delete vanishing extended descriptions when merging templates. Closes: #126239 * Set $Text::Wrap::break=q/\s+/ everywhere I use Text::Wrap, see bug #126202 * zh_TW.Big5.po update -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:13:39 -0500 debconf (1.0.22) unstable; urgency=HIGH * I've had a number of reports of truncated templates files (that make debconf crash later). Some if not all are related to system hangs while an upgrade is in progress. Since debconf is already very careful to do updates atomically, nearly the only safety feature left is to sync files after writing them, which I have now done for all db file writes. My hypothesis is that the atomicity was being thwarted by disk caching. Closes: #122891, #112921, #122825, #112921 (??) * Directory DbDriver was unlocking the db too early, fixed. * ConfModule: on startup(), automatically CLEAR. Closes: #122176 * Fixed crash if a question is INPUT, UNREGISTERed, and then we GO. Closes: #120303 * Updated fr.po from Martin Quinson * Also a patch from Martin to make 'make check' in po output stats. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:10:12 -0500 debconf (1.0.21) unstable; urgency=high * High urgency upload to get this into testing before the freeze, as it fixes a bug that can cripple upgrades from stable. * Conflict with whiptail << 0.50.17-7, as some version between that one and the 0.50-7 in stable changes something that is required to make the fix I put in for values starting with dashes work. Closes: #122182 * Added a number of Brazilian Portuguese man pages. Closes: #122011, #122012, #122017, #122018, #122019, #122026, #122028 Closes: #122027, #121982, #122001 * Updated Swedish translation. -- Joey Hess Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:55:23 -0500 debconf (1.0.20) unstable; urgency=low * Documented that debconf-getlang runs descriptions through a word-wrapper. Closes: #97049 * When parsing a template description, if there is a " \n", don't turn that into " " when collapsing newlines, and instead go with just a single space. * From Federico Di Gregorio , a patch to the Gtk frontend that makes it more usable with packages with a large multiselect widget, or with lots of concurent questions. The main change is that the window now scrolls. Closes: #113801 * Federico also sent a patch that moves widgets in the gtk frontend around for better cosmetics. * Added a debconf.8 man page translated to pt_BR by Andre Luis Lopes , Closes: #121155 -- Joey Hess Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:47:23 -0500 debconf (1.0.19) unstable; urgency=low * Updated pt_BR debconf translation thanks to Gustavo Noronha Silva and #debian-br. Closes: #119029 * Added several pointers to the debconf specification. Closes: #119340 * Minor spelling corrections to man page. Closes: #119843 -- Joey Hess Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:46:41 -0500 debconf (1.0.18) unstable; urgency=low * Another French update. * Danish translation by Morten Brix Pedersen * frontend: don't glob unnecessarily, Closes: #117077 * Michel Dänzer figured out how to turn off the gnome session manager warnings. Closes: #116087 * Turns out that the gnome frontend ARGV stomping was not being backed out if gtk failed to init due to a bad DISPLAY. Fixed that, which probably Closes: #118513 -- Joey Hess Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:01:51 -0400 debconf (1.0.17) unstable; urgency=low * Reworded the 'not preconfiguring' method, since it seems to confuse people. * Updated French translation, except for the above change. -- Joey Hess Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:27:50 -0400 debconf (1.0.16) unstable; urgency=low * Typo, Closes: #116275 * Added dashsep support for password and text elements in the dialog frontend. Closes: #116642 -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:39:52 -0400 debconf (1.0.15) unstable; urgency=low * Frontend::Gnome: erase @ARGV before calling Gnome->init, since that blasted subroutine parses @ARGV, and throws untrappable exceptions if it sees an argument it doesn't know about. This makes tzsetup -y work with the gnome frontend. * Appled patch to japanese templates to work around the multibyte "word" wrapping bug. Closes: #115314 -- Joey Hess Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:15:54 -0400 debconf (1.0.13) unstable; urgency=medium * Fixed inverted test added in last version. Aargh. This mistake means that any package with doubly-indented debconf descriptions built with debconf 1.0.12 needs to be rebuilt, or the description will look nasty. * Dialog frontend fixups: - changed the spacer value for dialog to 0, instead of 4, which seems ok and fixes some bad displays, like 1 line tall select lists. -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:50:05 -0400 debconf (1.0.12) unstable; urgency=low * Modified the template parser just a bit, to not add a blank line before any template data if a template's extended description began with a doubly-indented line. Closes: #114708 -- Joey Hess Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:30:10 -0400 debconf (1.0.11) unstable; urgency=low * Whoops, I forgot that Frontend::makeelement could be used as a class method! This release fixes the scary, harmless, warning messages. -- Joey Hess Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:46:47 -0400 debconf (1.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium * The "did someone mention a freeze?" release. * Added 'Teletype' frontend, which should work on any teletype, no matter how primative (yeah, even the ones with paper in them, or the one on the s/390, or what you get when you ssh -T). * Renamed the Text frontend to Readline, which better reflects what it's all about. Of course, it's now derived from Teletype. And of course I did this in a way that won't break anything that still tries to use a frontend called Text.. * Added the elementtype field to FrontEnd, which lets closely related frontends share elements without a lot of trouble; Readline uses this. * Fixed a bug in the dialog frontend that made it display the same infobox multiple times sometimes (with very short screens). * Renamed Tty to ScreenSize to release confusion, and removed the Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:11:54 -0400 debconf (1.0.03) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected multiselect text frontend help line to make sense in terse mode. This involved removing any mention of numbers or letters. Closes: #113416, #113414 * Quick and dirty gnome multiselect scrolling patch from Federico Di Gregorio . Still looking for a better fix. -- Joey Hess Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:03:21 -0400 debconf (1.0.02) unstable; urgency=low * Removed overoptimization in File DbDriver that made it not unlock the file if the db was saved and there were no changes to save. This was breaking dpkg-reconfgigure of non-debconf packages. Closes: #113140 * Implemented savedb menthod in the Directory driver (just unlocks the database), which is needed to make dpkg-reconfigure of non-debconfiscated stuff work. * Renamed savedb to shutdown, which more clearly indicates what that method is supposed to do. * pt_BR updates. Closes: #112336 -- Joey Hess Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:15:13 -0400 debconf (1.0.01) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfigure: deal with horrendous numbers of packages Closes: #110894 * Make SIGWINCH handler deal with being called in the middle of global destuction (not as bad as it sounds..). Closes: #111149 * Minor French update, Finnish update Closes: #110897, and Galician update. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:49:35 -0400 debconf (1.0.00) unstable; urgency=low * Let's call it 1.0, folks! * This leaves the following big things for later: - a better confmodule interface that doesn't eat stdin/out - container template types - select list with explainations - a textual replacement for the dialog frontend that is just as easy to use, and sucks less - better developer's documentation - regression tests - everything else in the TODO file * I mention a dialog frontend replacement that does not suck. The slang frontend was intended to be just that, but it is a failure, with big problems like unscrollable extended descriptions, UI clunkiness, etc. Nobody wants to fix these issues, and so the best thing to do is remove it, before a lot of people begin to use it. Closes: #66170, #81344, #96302, #74722, #77085, #101643 * Removing the slang frontend also involved: - getting rid of debconf/helpvisible, which was only used by it - modifiying the debconf/frontend's template description, thus making all the translatione be out of date again, right as I release 1.0. Bleh. I was able to clean up the french template, but all the other translations of that template were too out of date to live, so I removed it from them. I am accepting updated translations, and I would love to get a 1.1 release out with fully up-to-date translations of everything. - doc updates - libterm-stool-perl will be removed, so removed relations to it - ensuring an upgrade path, if not a very clean one, for people who had it set to use the slang frontend. You'll get dialog now, and just ignore that nasty set of perl errors you get while upgrading to this version, I can't do anything about it w/o some nasty hacking. * Jordi Mallach quickly updated the Spanish translaton and added Catalan as well. * Allow notes to be saved from the gnome frontend even if they have already been seen. Closes: #110510 -- Joey Hess Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:37:27 -0400 debconf (0.9.97) unstable; urgency=low * French update from Martin Quinson . -- Joey Hess Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:19:36 -0400 debconf (0.9.96) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed note mailed message so it doesn't hardcode where it is mailed to. Closes: #108287 * Updated the zh_TW.Big5 translation. -- Joey Hess Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:33:19 -0400 debconf (0.9.95) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed an overloaded field problem in the Backup DbDriver. * Fixed the InFd field of the Pipe DbDriver so it actually works, and it may now be set to "none" to stop it from reading a db on startup. This allows use of stuff like this, to get a partial debconf db dump, which developers may find useful when getting info on bugs: debconf-copydb configdb out -c Name:out -c Driver:Pipe \ -c InFd:none --pattern='^slrn/' -- Joey Hess Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:17:09 -0400 debconf (0.9.94) unstable; urgency=low * New logo from Jared Johnson , quite nice too. -- Joey Hess Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:32:04 -0400 debconf (0.9.93) unstable; urgency=low * Complete zh_TW.Big5 translation from "Hin-lik Hung, Shell" * html2text fixed, revert workaround -- Joey Hess Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:13:44 -0400 debconf (0.9.92) unstable; urgency=low * Worked around html2text bug (broken stdin handling) to make tutorial.txt not be empty. -- Joey Hess Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:34:17 -0400 debconf (0.9.91) unstable; urgency=low * Added debian logo for gnome frontend. It looks like crap, but at least the frontend runs now. Anyone want to come up with a version of the debian logo that looks good on a blue background (or come up with a new color scheme for this frontend -- if you know how to make a gnome driud use some color other than white for the foreground title color ), is the right size (64x64 I think), and doesn't eat 200+ colors? * Other gnome frontend fixups: - Fixed help dialog; run_and_close doesn't work, so first run and then close. - Gnome elements are now responsible for packing in the label and help buttons. This makes it cleaner for text and notes to not include help buttons, and it lets booleans not pack in a label. Instead, the checkbox itself has the text of the question after it, which is much nicer. Also, text type questions are displayed as unadorned labels, which is the Right Thing. - Make the overall window title be "Debconf", while the druid title varies. - Fixed multiselect questions so the defaults are auto-selected. - Removed sigsegv handler thing. It seems to not be needed any more? -- Joey Hess Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:34:23 -0400 debconf (0.9.90) unstable; urgency=low * Merged in Progeny's gnome frontend. * Lots of code changes to this frontend, to bring it current from debconf 0.3, fix tab damage, not break perl object abstractions, add some docs, remove dead code, and so forth. Mostly untested, probably quite a few bugs introduced here, but they'll just affect this frontend, so I don't feel _too_ bad about slipping it in so near to freeze. * In the gnome (well, gtk) sucks department, why does the thing throw an untrappable exception if the DISPLAY can't be connected to? Myopic. I added a nasty hack to fork an entire process that just checks to see if gnome is going to make debconf blow up when init'ed, or if it'll work. -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:09:26 -0400 debconf (0.9.81) unstable; urgency=low * Made frontend fallback messages less likely to generate FRNBs (Frequently-Reported Non-Bugs). -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:02:56 -0400 debconf (0.9.80) unstable; urgency=medium * Looks like new shared templates have been ignored ever since 0.9.10! Symtoms that installed a second package that shared a template with an already installed first did not add the second owner to the list of owners. It's possible that this was also responsible for sporadic reports of db corruption; the question that should belong to a template going away when the only recorded other owner was purged. * Added a call in the postinst to a program to clean up after this problem. -- Joey Hess Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:11:44 -0400 debconf (0.9.79) unstable; urgency=low * Cute, debconf was ignoring fsets of seen of questions that were asked previously in the same session. Overagressive caching. Closes: #104490 -- Joey Hess Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:28:52 -0400 debconf (0.9.78) unstable; urgency=low * Allow for spaces and options in $EDITOR. Closes: #104445 -- Joey Hess Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:27:23 -0400 debconf (0.9.77) unstable; urgency=low * Expanded debconf.8 to include most of the text of the debconf user's guide, and removed the user's guide. Added some additional docs to the man page. * Register the debconf tutorial with doc-base. Closes: #103973 * No longer shipping the introduction, though it's still in the source for historical interest. -- Joey Hess Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:31:22 -0400 debconf (0.9.76) unstable; urgency=low * Don't use double dashes for dialog, though they are needed for whiptail. Gag. Closes: #103867 -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:08:22 -0400 debconf (0.9.75) unstable; urgency=low * Put back debconf/helpvisible question, and made the slang frontend toggle it again. This makes changes to the slang frontend help visiable status made by hitting the button persistant again. * In terse mode, default help to not visible no matter what the helpvisible setting. * Closes: #103621 -- Joey Hess Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:33:45 -0400 debconf (0.9.74) unstable; urgency=low * Introducing terse mode. You know what you're doing, and so you're using the text frontend (of course!) as you do a remote upgrade from rexx over a 30 hop, 95% packet loss link to another continent. Every byte hurts. You don't need all those touchy-feely verbose help screens. Terse mode is for you. (Well, for me anyway. Damn this wireless link.) # dpkg-reconfigure debconf --terse What interface should be used for configuring packages? Text Ignore questions with a priority less than.. low Show all old questions again and again? no * Added DEBCONF_TERSE variable. * Added terse support to text frontend. * Renamed debconf/helpvisible to debconf/terse. * Terse can be configured in debconfrc and with --terse too. * Finally tracked down the mysterious text frontend title printing bug -- it happened if nothing was displayed, but a note was mailed. * Updated korean translation from Eungkyu Song Closes: #103260 * Added brazillian portuguese po file from Gustavo Noronha Silva , Closes: #103253 -- Joey Hess Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:22:15 -0400 debconf (0.9.73) unstable; urgency=low * Added debconf-show, which displays all questinos belonging to a package, their values, and indicates if they have been seen or not, all in a compact format handy for bug reports. Now why didn't I think of this before? * To keep the bit scales balanced, removed an unused template. -- Joey Hess Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:22:15 -0400 debconf (0.9.72) unstable; urgency=low * Dropped libterm-stool-perl down to a suggests. -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:29:48 -0400 debconf (0.9.71) unstable; urgency=HIGH * No changes. Testing has debconf 0.9.41, which breaks under perl 5.6.1. 5.6.1 just went into testing. This needs to go in ASAP. * aj, if you see this, this is your cue to slam this package into testing without any delay at all. -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:16:26 -0400 debconf (0.9.70) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed pod2man silly man page header issue. Closes: #101766 -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:11:16 -0400 debconf (0.9.69) unstable; urgency=low * Fix doc link, Closes: #101114 -- Joey Hess Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:37:32 -0400 debconf (0.9.68) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the last known bug in the text frontend, cleaned up TODO. -- Joey Hess Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:00:15 -0400 debconf (0.9.67) unstable; urgency=low * Let's make the templates cache mode 644. There's nothing sentative in there. (Modified the debconf.conf file.) * Convert Mode field to octal on the fly to precent confusion. * Spell checked debconf.conf.5. Along the way, I discovered that a field name in the debconf db was mispelled. So, "Extention" should really be "Extension". Update your debconf.conf. Since this is not used in the stock config file, and I've never seen it used, I did just rename the field, breaking backwards compatability. -- Joey Hess Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:27:52 -0400 debconf (0.9.66) unstable; urgency=low * Prevent Editor::Note's from feeding undef values into the db, Closes: #100776 -- Joey Hess Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:37:14 -0400 debconf (0.9.65) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed unsupported command message to include the syntax error code. * Also, include full line in the error message, may make debugging easier. -- Joey Hess Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:41:13 -0400 debconf (0.9.64) unstable; urgency=low * Updated the user's guide frontend section. -- Joey Hess Mon, 11 Jun 2001 00:04:57 -0400 debconf (0.9.63) unstable; urgency=low * Man page section fixes, Closes: #100076 * Noted in description of shell library that yes, the protocol commands are lower-cased (it already explained about the db_ prefixing). Closes: #100276 * Text frontend UI changes: select and multiselect lists no longer have lettered choices. Instead, it uses numbers, and any unique anchored substring of a choice is understood, too. The old system was great, except when it sucked. This should scale more evenly. * Added full completion to the text frontend! Now it really is the best frontend, for sure.. * French po file update from Martin Quinson . * Fixed an obscure bug that made the REGISTER command fail if the owner was set to "" (or any other perlwise-false string). -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:53:43 -0400 debconf (0.9.62) unstable; urgency=low * Updated Korean translation (templates, not po file) from Eungkyu Song , Closes: #99034 -- Joey Hess Mon, 28 May 2001 13:35:28 -0400 debconf (0.9.61) unstable; urgency=low * Added some space after prompts in text frontend, which seems to visually set off each new question more clearly. * Made the text frontend's long-broken shutdown() method work, to always ensure you have hit enter at a prompt if a message is printed out as the last part of a debconf run. After trying that out for a bit, I found I hated it, so I removed the method. * Put a blank line between short description and long description for notes. * In template parsing, don't add leading spaces before new paragraphs. (This was manifesting as an ugly one-space indent on paragraphs 2 and on, in the text frontend.) -- Joey Hess Sun, 27 May 2001 20:03:47 -0400 debconf (0.9.60) unstable; urgency=low * Make dpkg-preconfigure read all of its input in --apt mode, even if it cannot preconfigure, so apt doesn't think it failed. However, this will only work in normal operation, and things might break in exceptional circumstances. I think this is a bug in apt. -- Joey Hess Sun, 27 May 2001 15:22:16 -0400 debconf (0.9.59) unstable; urgency=low * Now that perl-base has Getopt::Long, I can get rid of the handrolled option parsing code in most every debconf utility, saving quite some LOC's. Even better, I was able to set up some global options for many utilities, so -f, --frontend, -p, and --priority are standard. And all the programs handle -h and --help too. More global options will likely follow. * Fixed dpkg-reconfigure --all. -- Joey Hess Tue, 22 May 2001 17:36:50 -0400 debconf (0.9.58) unstable; urgency=low * Modified Template->clearall() to actually remove fields, rather than just setting them to ''. The old behavior broke badly if a localized Choices field was "cleared" -- debconf would then refuse to display that question in that locale, since there were no choices to choose from. Closes: #95487 * To make that fix possible, I had to add yet another function to the DbDriver interface, removefield(). -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 May 2001 18:39:23 -0400 debconf (0.9.57) unstable; urgency=low * Removed all the lvalue stuff. Not used (I hope!), breaks under perl 5.6.1. -- Joey Hess Mon, 14 May 2001 23:53:20 -0400 debconf (0.9.56) unstable; urgency=low * The POSIX_ME_HARDER release. * confmodule: more shell fun and games. Should now deal with spaces at the end of protocol lines. I will not go into the gory details, but it is *disgusting*. Closes: #91229 (RC) * ConfModule.pm: support a tab as the delimiter between numeric and textual return codes. -- Joey Hess Mon, 14 May 2001 16:39:22 -0400 debconf (0.9.55) unstable; urgency=low * A typo in debconf-getlang was making it incorrectly mark some things as fuzzy. Fumitoshi UKAI pointed out the fix, Closes: #97475 * Some Spanish updates by Carlos Valdivia Yagüe. -- Joey Hess Mon, 14 May 2001 15:17:31 -0400 debconf (0.9.54) unstable; urgency=low * Modified extended description parsing to not stick a space at the end of every paragraph, Closes: #97002 * Made template parsing less strict, allowing there to be no space after the colon. You should not do that though, except perhaps if the field value is blank. Closes: #97060 -- Joey Hess Thu, 10 May 2001 21:14:18 -0400 debconf (0.9.53) unstable; urgency=low * In the dialog frontend, add a -- before the items in a select or multiselect list when running dialog. This allows the items to start with dashes.. -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 May 2001 15:25:51 -0400 debconf (0.9.52) unstable; urgency=low * Dialog is the default frontend for new installs again, since slang still need work, and cannot work on the base system anyway. Closes: #96381 * DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL can be used to change where debconf mails notes and stuff to, overriding whatever is in the config file. Note that it may be set to "" to disable mails. Closes: #95956 -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 May 2001 21:36:50 -0400 debconf (0.9.51) unstable; urgency=low * Changed to converting html with html2text, which does better than links. -- Joey Hess Mon, 7 May 2001 21:02:54 -0400 debconf (0.9.50) unstable; urgency=low * Remove /var/lib/debconf on upgrade. Nothing uses it anymore, and it contains some large old database files, and on most systems, a large amount of cruft (temporary files, editor backup files, backups of the db, sockets, the list goes on and on). * Expunged all remaining traces of the directory from debconf and its documentation. -- Joey Hess Mon, 7 May 2001 18:59:09 -0400 debconf (0.9.41) unstable; urgency=low * Correcgted bashism in docs, Closes: #96139 -- Joey Hess Thu, 3 May 2001 15:34:06 -0400 debconf (0.9.40) unstable; urgency=high * Fixed a bug in dpkg-reconfigure that made reconfiguring base-config fail half way through because of db lock contention problems. Db->save was not causing the db to shut down all the way, because %DbDriver::drivers still had a reference to it. That should be a WeakRef, but WeakRef's arn't available in base, so I had to solve it differently: I redefined savedb() to also close the db, dropping all locks. Closes: #95449 (The high urgency is because this breaks new installs of woody..) * Also fixed dpkg-reconfigure to re-load the db properly after all this (typo). * Fixed an overoptimization in the Text Dialog input Element that caused it to default inconsistently to yes or no the first time, and y or n thereafter. -- Joey Hess Wed, 2 May 2001 14:50:57 -0400 debconf (0.9.39) unstable; urgency=low * Changed the debug and log stuff in debconf.conf and removed log-to. This will break any debconf.conf files which used that stuff, but I'm proably the only one. The new scheme is more realistic -- you can have debconf always log a given thing, while turning on debugging of other things temporarily on the fly. -- Joey Hess Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:04:51 -0400 debconf (0.9.38) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-doc moved to section doc, Closes: #94840 -- Joey Hess Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:28:35 -0400 debconf (0.9.37) unstable; urgency=low * The "timezone bingo" release. * Made syslog logging work with syslogd in its default configuration, which only listens to the unix domain socket, not inet. * If any of the syslog stuff fails, catch the exception and don't log anything (think single user mode). I thought about falling back to stderr logging, but if you log to syslog you probably don't want the log info scrawled accross the console during routine single user mode upgrades. -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:57:06 -0500 debconf (0.9.36) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed variable expansion problem if a variable existed twice in the same line. It was caused by $2 getting clobbered. Closes: #94395 -- Joey Hess Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:01:01 -0700 debconf (0.9.35) unstable; urgency=low * Closes: #93493 -- Joey Hess Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:37:21 -0700 debconf (0.9.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed undefined values with log_to. -- Joey Hess Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:54:25 -0700 debconf (0.9.33) unstable; urgency=low * Updated to important priority since some important priority stuff uses it. -- Joey Hess Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:45:07 -0700 debconf (0.9.32) unstable; urgency=low * The config file can have a Debug: line that is the same as always setting DEBCONF_DEBUG. The config file can also be used to redirect debug output to the syslog. -- Joey Hess Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:10:21 -0700 debconf (0.9.31) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-mergetemplates: ignore locale settings, as they should not take effect for this program. Closes: #91860 -- Joey Hess Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:43:44 -0800 debconf (0.9.30) unstable; urgency=low * Jacobo Tarrio contributed a Galician translation, bringing the number of languages supported up to 15. -- Joey Hess Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:49:15 -0800 debconf (0.9.29) unstable; urgency=low * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by "Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)" , Closes: #90864 -- Joey Hess Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:49:51 -0800 debconf (0.9.28) unstable; urgency=high * The "bugger testing" release. * Uploaded with high urgency because I am SICK AND TIRED of getting 2 bugs a day from people who have downgraded to the ancient debconf in testing and broken their systems, the 2 other bugs a day from people who panic at the sight of a perl -w message, and the 3 or 4 messages a day on -user from people who are experiencing other, tangential problems. -- Joey Hess Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:20:53 -0800 debconf (0.9.27) unstable; urgency=low * Moved config file reading into Debconf::Config. This let me easily add support for configuring more things in the config file. You can specify a frontend or a priority in there with more to come soon. * Config file can also be used to set Admin-Email, which defaults to root, but can redirect mail to anyone. Also, this can be used to turn off mail entirely. Closes: #70677 * Made dpkg-preconfigure print usage if called incorrectly, instead of a screen of crazed messages. * Tightened up protocol parsing. -- Joey Hess Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:06:09 -0800 debconf (0.9.26) unstable; urgency=low * Completed and updated Finnish translation by Jaakko Kangasharju * Added code in the postinst to delete any files that inexplicably linger in /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/, since since files break the current debconf badly. I don't know why two people have reported files there; it's either user error or some crazy dpkg bug. Closes: #89471 * Check to make sure a template has owners besides just existing before returning it in Template->new. This should not be necessary, but it fixes a problem with the templates db sometimes having templates that lack any owners. I hypothesize that the problem was caused by one of the early 0.9x releases, but I cannot reproduce it, so this will have to do for a workaround. Closes: #89155 -- Joey Hess Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:26:11 -0800 debconf (0.9.25) unstable; urgency=low * Branden is able to trigger the most obscure cases. :-) Fixed a bug where a question was unregistered and removed, then the confmodule tried to access the question again in the same run, and Debconf::Question has