debconf (1.5.70) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * When using whiptail, trim select/multiselect items to fit if necessary (closes: #478281). [ Manpages translations ] * French (Jean-Philippe MENGUAL; closes: #916598). [ Programs translations ] * French (Baptiste Jammet; closes: #918939). -- Colin Watson Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:02:24 +0000 debconf (1.5.69) unstable; urgency=medium [ Manpages translations ] * German. [ Programs translations ] * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert; closes: #874287). [ Colin Watson ] * Remove the Qt frontend (formerly Kde), as qt4-perl is on its way out (closes: #629405). -- Colin Watson Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:42:35 +0100 debconf (1.5.68) unstable; urgency=medium [ Modestas Vainius ] * Rename current Kde frontend to Qt. * Add Debian/{FrontEnd,Element}/Qt* to debian/copyright. * Add new Kde frontend that is driven by debconf-kde-helper (and requires package of the same name). libqtcore4-perl and libqtgui4-perl packages are no longer necessary and can be safely removed. (Closes: #631769) -- Colin Watson Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:00:56 +0100 debconf (1.5.67) unstable; urgency=medium [ Translations ] * Russian (Yuri Kozlov; closes: #898134). [ Colin Watson ] * Chase Vcs-Git redirection (thanks, Raphaël Hertzog). * Adjust IFS handling in confmodule to work around #901185. -- Colin Watson Tue, 12 Jun 2018 06:16:03 +0100 debconf (1.5.66) unstable; urgency=medium [ Programs translations ] * French (Baptiste Jammet; closes: #887754). [ Colin Watson ] * Move VCS to salsa.debian.org. * Mark debconf-doc Multi-Arch: foreign. * Port the Gnome frontend to GTK+ 3 (closes: #883442, LP: #1736618). -- Colin Watson Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:50:20 +0000 debconf (1.5.65) unstable; urgency=medium * Declare Breaks on update-notifier-common (<< 3.187~) for the move of debconf.py to separate binary packages (thanks, Steve Langasek; closes: #881574). -- Colin Watson Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:26:13 +0000 debconf (1.5.64) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Split debconf.py out to new python-debconf and python3-debconf binary packages (closes: #709198). * debconf.py: Allow the Debconf class to be used as a context manager (closes: #877096). * Simplify creation of documentation directory symlinks using "dh_installdocs --link-doc". [ Programs translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). [ Debconf translations ] * Albanian (Eva Vranici). -- Colin Watson Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:52:50 +0100 debconf (1.5.63) unstable; urgency=medium * "Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts" from 1.5.62 was too intrusive due to changing Debconf::ConfModule, and broke some existing maintainer scripts that e.g. ran ucf with relative paths. Instead, just chdir to / before running maintainer scripts in dpkg-reconfigure and chdir back afterwards (closes: #608648). * In the Gnome frontend, hide the cancel button, and prompt for confirmation when the close button is pressed (closes: #501767). Original idea by Michael Vogt with an amendment by Joey Hess; some code by Martin Pitt. -- Colin Watson Wed, 12 Jul 2017 02:23:47 +0100 debconf (1.5.62) unstable; urgency=medium * Upgrade to debhelper v9 and dh-exec. * Make debconf provide python-debconf and python3-debconf, in preparation for splitting those out to separate binary packages (see #709198). * dpkg-preconfigure: Don't write "Extracting templates from packages:" progress output if stderr is not a terminal (closes: #701818). * Change directory to / before executing maintainer scripts (closes: #608648). * Install to $Config{vendorlib} rather than hardcoding /usr/share/perl5. * Upgrade to copyright-format 1.0. * Policy version 4.0.0. -- Colin Watson Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:38:14 +0100 debconf (1.5.61) unstable; urgency=medium [ Niko Tyni ] * Use File::Temp instead of the deprecated POSIX::tmpnam() in Debconf::TmpFile (closes: #863071). -- Colin Watson Sun, 21 May 2017 18:08:30 +0100 debconf (1.5.60) unstable; urgency=medium [ Christian Perrier ] * French manpages translation. Thanks to Baptiste Jammet. Closes: #849394 -- Colin Watson Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:58:59 +0000 debconf (1.5.59) unstable; urgency=medium * Use HTTPS for Vcs-* URLs, and link to cgit rather than gitweb. * Set source format to 3.0 (native). * frontend: Load templates when we're being run from any maintainer script, not just preinst/postinst (closes: #817083). -- Colin Watson Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:59:28 +0000 debconf (1.5.58) unstable; urgency=medium * Don't update po/debconf.pot unless doing so changes something other than the POT-Creation-Date header. The basic approach here is from gettext, though implemented a bit more simply since we can assume perl. * Show choices for teletype/readline boolean questions (closes: #802840). * Move bash completion file to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/. -- Colin Watson Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:27:10 +0000 debconf (1.5.57) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * Drop alternative Suggests on gnome-utils (closes: #792219). It hasn't existed since squeeze, it dropped gdialog in 2003, and debconf only supported gdialog for about three weeks in 1999 anyway. * Escape braces in regexes to avoid deprecation warning with Perl 5.22 (closes: #786705). * When creating a new template and finding that it already exists in the database, ensure that a question of the same name exists too (closes: #518322, #779920). [ Jérémy Bobbio ] * Use UTC when running xgettext for build reproducibility. Closes: #783255 [ Debconf translations ] * Brazilian Portuguese (Adriano Rafael Gomes). Closes: #785464 -- Colin Watson Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:33:36 +0100 debconf (1.5.56) unstable; urgency=medium [ Helmut Grohne ] * Tighten dependency on debconf for packages sharing their /usr/share/doc to comply with Debian policy 12.3 (closes: #779420). [ Colin Watson ] * Make Debconf::DbDriver::File stop trying to mkdir the empty string if configured with a path that does not contain a slash (closes: #682959). -- Colin Watson Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:54:33 +0000 debconf (1.5.55) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload [ Programs translations ] * Dutch updated. Closes: #771731 * Spanish updated. Closes: #771847 * Indonesian updated * Catalan updated * Japanese updated. Closes: #771886 * Basque updated. Closes: #771899 * Romanian updated. Closes: #772065 * Bulgarian updated. Closes: #772077 * Polish updated * Swedish updated * Esperanto updated * Portuguese updated. Closes: #772582 * Turkish updated. Closes: #772813 * Brazilian Portuguese updated. Closes: #773076 * Thai updated. Closes: #772967 -- Christian Perrier Sun, 14 Dec 2014 08:43:06 +0100 debconf (1.5.54) unstable; urgency=medium * Team upload [ Colin Watson ] * Update Vcs-* to current canonical URLs. [ Manpages translations ] * Portuguese updated. Closes: #756178 [ Programs translations ] * Czech updated. Closes: #764054 * Russian updated. Closes: #765914 * Slovenian updated. Closes: #766199 * Fix typo in Hungarian translation. Closes: #770803 -- Christian Perrier Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:06:08 +0100 debconf (1.5.53) unstable; urgency=low [ Apollon Oikonomopoulos ] * Teletype: page only if screen has more than two rows Closes: #745504 [ Programs translations ] * German. * French (Christian Perrier). * Danish (Joe Hansen). Closes: #732167 -- Joey Hess Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:03:26 -0400 debconf (1.5.52) unstable; urgency=low [Joey Hess] * Remove dpkg-reconfigure -a, which existed only to accumulate bug reports about bugs in other packages. Closes: #721329, #664825, #558262, #617618, #707987 * Fix bad uses of length @array. Closes: #723841 [ Programs translations ] * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #718188 [ Manpages translations ] * French updated. Closes: #697458 * German updated. -- Joey Hess Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:15:51 -0400 debconf (1.5.51) unstable; urgency=low * Fix warning when /var/cache/debconf is missing. Closes: #709928 * debconf-set-selections: Do not change the default template value when overriding the value of existing questions. Closes: #711693 -- Joey Hess Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:26:46 -0400 debconf (1.5.50) unstable; urgency=low * KDE frontend: Work around multiple bugs in the perl code generated by puic4. The frontend works again. Closes: #702210 * doc/Makefile: Avoid adding duplicated =encoding to pod files. Closes: #704866 * Avoid find -perm +mode breakage caused by findutils 4.5.11, by instead using -perm /mode. Thanks, Oron Peled -- Joey Hess Sat, 04 May 2013 23:45:04 -0400 debconf (1.5.49) unstable; urgency=low * frontend: Don't set title in the maintainer script case when the action is “triggered”. This totally confuses the Debian Installer (“Configuring man-db” instead of “Configuring grub-pc”, notably). Closes: #679327 -- Cyril Brulebois Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:02:36 +0100 debconf (1.5.48) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: Fix incorrect scoping of control_path that broke handling of multiple packages (closes: #690755, LP: #1076322). -- Colin Watson Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:31:38 +0000 debconf (1.5.47) unstable; urgency=low [ Manpages translations ] * German updated. [ Joey Hess ] * GTK frontend: Do additional probing in child process to catch cases where trying to use GTK will cause an otherwise uncatchable crash. Closes: #690776 Thanks, James Hunt * debconf-devel.7: Mention that CAPB capabilities are separated with spaces. Closes: #694626 [ Colin Watson ] * dpkg-reconfigure: Fix trigger processing to cope properly if some of the triggered packages use debconf (closes: #686071). -- Colin Watson Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:18:46 +0000 debconf (1.5.46) unstable; urgency=low [ Manpages translations ] * Put the Danish translation of manpages from #664901 in the right place (and also convert its encoding that was broken by a BTS bug) * Activate Danish translation of manpages by adding the needed addenda Closes: #664901 [ Programs translations ] * Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #683191 * Fix typo in the french translation of debconf-show(1) LP: #1025045 * Polish (Marcin Owsiany). Closes: #683207 * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #683223 * Bengali PO file header fixed * Esperanto updated (Felipe Castro). * Indonesian updated (Andika Triwidada). * Simplified Chinese updated (Xingyou Chen). * Bulgarian updated (Damyan Ivanov). Closes: #683245 * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #683306 * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #683341 * French (Steve Petruzzello). * Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #683527 * Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #683548 * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #683585 * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #683615 * Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen). Closes: #683967 * Catalan (Jordi Mallach). * Vietnamese (Nguyễn Vũ Hưng). * Arabic (Ossama Khayat). * Hebrew (Lior Kaplan). [ David Prévot ] * Make sure to keep the previous strings while updating PO files. -- Colin Watson Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:17:14 +0100 debconf (1.5.45) unstable; urgency=low [ Programs translations ] * German updated. [ Colin Watson ] * dpkg-reconfigure: Fix dpkg-query parsing when detecting which triggers are pending (LP: #1018884). -- Colin Watson Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:57:38 +0100 debconf (1.5.44) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf translations ] * Vietnamese (Hai Lang) * Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs). Closes: #674707 * Lithuanian (Rimas Kudelis). Closes: #675699 * Welsh (Daffyd Tomos). [ Joey Hess ] * File DbDriver: Get actual filename, following symlinks. This makes it possible to switch back and forth between debconf and cdebconf. Thanks, Regis Boudin -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:03:42 -0400 debconf (1.5.43) unstable; urgency=low [ Programs translations ] * Danish updated. Closes: #664901 [ Debconf translations ] * Uyghur (Sahran). Closes: #627013 * Serbian Latin (Janos Guljas). Closes: #600143 [ Colin Watson ] * Make debconf.py Python 3-compatible directly, which only requires dropping pre-2.6 support (2.6 was in squeeze), and drop the separate debconf3.py implementation. The previous Python 3 implementation expected read and write to be binary files, while this expects them to be text files. Technically this is an interface break, but since 'import debconf; debconf.Debconf()' was failing (since sys.stdin and sys.stdout are text files), I claim that nobody was using this until now anyway. -- Colin Watson Sun, 06 May 2012 18:57:59 +0100 debconf (1.5.42) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * File DbDriver now creates the directory for the file if it is missing. (All other DbDrivers that write files already did this.) Closes: #636621 [ Emmet Hikory ] * Display error messages in noninteractive frontend (Closes: #367497) [ Debconf translations ] * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #657264 [ Manpages translations ] * German updated. * Portugese updated (Américo Monteiro). * Spanish updated. Closes: #636241 * Sinhala; (Danishka Navin). Closes: #641106 * Russian updated. Closes: #656110 [ Programs translations ] * Norwegian Bokmål updated. Closes: #654798 [ Joey Hess ] * Add a belt-and-suspenders test that Text::CharWidth::mblen is not returning bogus values, before using Text::WrapI18n. See #641957 * Avoid an uninitialized value warning when a blank line is received from the client. Closes: #651642 [ Colin Watson ] * Remove all hardcoded executable paths, using a new Debconf::Path module. [ Raphaël Hertzog ] * Set environment variables expected by maintainer scripts. Closes: #560317 * Do not hardcode the path of maintainer scripts, in order to support the multiarch layout. [ Colin Watson ] * Process any newly pending triggers after running maintainer scripts. -- Colin Watson Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:08:49 +0000 debconf (1.5.41) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Make sure __pycache__ is removed on clean (from local python3 tests). [ Joey Hess ] * Fix IFS sanitization. Really fixes #381619. * dpkg-reconfigure, dpkg-preconfigure: Call cdebconf versions if the DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF variable is set. (Regis Boudin) -- Joey Hess Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:35:06 +0200 debconf (1.5.40) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Updated Russian man page translation. Closes: #625935 * Updated Galician translation of program po file. Closes: #626475 * Add back documenation for the kde frontend. [ Martin Pitt ] * Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm: Port from Gnome2::Druid to Gtk2::Assistant. Original patch by Jani Monoses, thanks! (Closes: #542175, LP: #415038) * Debconf/Element/Gnome/Select.pm: Drop unused Gnome2 import. * debian/control: Change libgnome2-perl suggestion to libgtk2-perl accordingly. [ Colin Watson ] * Fix Gnome frontend to honour backup capability again, and make backup page handling work properly. * Version libgtk2-perl Suggests to match the upstream version where Gtk2::Assistant was introduced. * Convert from deprecated Gtk2::Combo to Gtk2::ComboBox. * Make sure you can't press Forward on a progress bar in the Gnome frontend. * debconf.py: Drop popen2 compatibility code. subprocess has been available since Python 2.4, which is old enough that it was dropped from squeeze. * Build for all currently supported Python 2 versions (closes: #584844, #626706). * Convert to dh_python2 (closes: #603965, #616786). * Add Python 3 support. * Perl gets a bit confused by Debconf::Config and Debconf::Priority using each other, and objects to bareword use of priority_list in Debconf::Config if you do 'use strict; use Debconf::Priority' before Debconf::Config is loaded. Work around this. Thanks to James Hunt for pointing this out. -- Colin Watson Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:50:23 +0100 debconf (1.5.39) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Moved to a git repository. Updated control file fields. * Removed debconf-english dummy package, and dropped debconf-i18n to a Recommends. Debootstrap will still install debconf-i18n as it is priority Required. * debconf-set-selections: Fix comment handling to match description. In particular, continued lines that start with a "#" are not comments. And, comments only occur at the start of a line (possibly with some whitespace before). Closes: #589519 * Updated Danish translation of program po file. Closes: #624645 [ Steve Langasek ] * Mark debconf Multi-Arch: foreign to indicate that it satisfies the dependencies of packages from other than the native arch. Closes: #614197 -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:21:12 -0400 debconf (1.5.38) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Correctly handle disabling the backup capability in a confmodule after it was previously enabled. [ Christian Perrier ] * Fix encoding in Spanish translation. Closes: #607688 * Fix encoding in Hebrew debconf translation. [ Joey Hess ] * Update copyright file to use DEP5 syntax, and expand with some historical data. -- Joey Hess Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:46:27 -0400 debconf (1.5.37) unstable; urgency=low [ Manpages translation ] * Spanish added (huge thanks to Omar Campagne). Closes: #599401 * French completed (Christian Perrier). [ Debconf translations ] * Icelandic (Sveinn í Felli). * Serbian (Janos Guljas). Closes: #600142 * Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #600626 * Dutch (Eric Spreen). Closes: #603953 * Greek (Emmanuel Galatoulas). Closes: #604451 * Dzongkha (dawa pemo). Closes: #604458 [ Helge Kreutzmann ] * Fix (mostly) typos. Thanks Florian Rehnisch for noticing. Addresses: #518395. Also unfuzzy all translations as far as possible. * Update German translation where unfuzzing was not enough (actually a no-op as Florian already translated appropriately). -- Colin Watson Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:11:22 +0000 debconf (1.5.36) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf translation updates ] * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #592176 * Icelandic added (Sveinn í Felli). * Telugu (Arjuna Rao Chavala). Closes: #593095 * Arabic (Ossama Khayat). Closes: #595453 * Danish (Joe Hansen). Closes: #595439 * Turkish (Recai Oktas). * Malayalam (Saji Nediyanchath). * Hindi (Kumar Appaiah). * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #595469 * Korean (Changwoo Ryu). Closes: #595517 * Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto). Closes: #596197 * Lithuanian (Kęstutis Biliūnas). Closes: #596204 * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #596508 * Persian (Behrad Eslamifar). Closes: #590697 [ Programs translation updates ] * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #592178 -- Colin Watson Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:27:50 +0100 debconf (1.5.35) unstable; urgency=low [ Sune Vuorela ] * Resurrect the Kde frontend, ported to libqt4-perl. -- Colin Watson Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:20:05 +0100 debconf (1.5.34) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf translation updates ] * Bosnian (Armin Beširović). * Kazakh added (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov). Closes: #589006 * Belarusian (Viktar Siarheichyk). Closes: #591668 [ Colin Watson ] * Use 'dh $@ --options' rather than 'dh --options $@', for forward-compatibility with debhelper v8. * Handle ll[_CC]@modifier as a locale name. Closes: #591633 -- Colin Watson Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:53:52 +0100 debconf (1.5.33) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf translation updates ] * Tamil added. Closes: #578280 * Irish added. Closes: #578281 * Romanian (Eddy Petrișor). Closes: #582556 * Khmer (Khoem Sokhem). * Traditional Chinese (Tetralet). Closes: #587194 * Galician (Jorge Barreiro). Closes: #587795 * Croatian (Josip Rodin). [ Manpages translation updates ] * Portuguese added. Closes: #588652 [ Programs translation updates ] * Portuguese. Closes: #577586 * Slovenian added. Closes: #585115 * Traditional Chinese (Tetralet). Closes: #587195 * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #587806 [ Joey Hess ] * Fix new initialized value warning from perl 5.12. Closes: #578849 [ Colin Watson ] * Remove carriage return characters from Swedish programs translation. In some cases these were in the middle of a line, breaking the format for strict parsers. -- Colin Watson Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:10:04 +0100 debconf (1.5.32) unstable; urgency=low * File: Avoid using filetest to test if database can be written to, as that is not in perl-base. Instead, try to open database for read+write, and if it fails, open readonly without locking. Closes: #577632 -- Joey Hess Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:53:46 -0400 debconf (1.5.31) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Squash chomp warning in Debconf::FrontEnd::Teletype on EOF or error. * Test database writability more carefully to avoid breaking use of debconf under fakeroot. Closes: #577299 [ Joey Hess ] * Fix uninitialized value warning if debconf -f is not followed by another parameter. Closes: #575870 [ Programs translation updates ] * Simplified Chinese (soyi). -- Colin Watson Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:05:07 +0100 debconf (1.5.30) unstable; urgency=low * Don't open file databases read-write if the database is read-only, or if the file isn't writable (e.g. running debconf as non-root). Closes: #575070 -- Colin Watson Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:18:00 +0000 debconf (1.5.29) unstable; urgency=low [ Programs translation update ] * Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov). Closes: #558085 * German (Helge Kreutzmann) * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #569254 * Hebrew (Lior Kaplan). * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #573057 * Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen). Closes: #573053 * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #573122 * Polish (Marcin Owsiany). Closes: #573124 * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #573195 * Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #573984 * Asturian (Marcos). * Dutch (Frans Pop). * Swedish (Daniel Nylander). * Khmer (Khoem Sokhem). * Bengali (Md. Rezwan Shahid). * Indonesian (Parlin Imanuel). * Catalan (Guillem Jover). * Esperanto (Felipe Castro). * Traditional Chinese (Kan-Ru Chen). [ Manpage translation updates ] * French (Florentin Duneau). Closes: #573867 * German (Helge Kreutzmann) * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #556275, #573202 [ Debconf translations ] * Bengali (Sadia Afroz). * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #559500 * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #558659 * Swedish (Martin Bagge). Closes: #551945 * Simplified Chinese (苏运强). * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #568368 * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #568976 * Gujarati (Kartik Mistry). Closes: #571680 * Slovenian (Vanja Cvelbar). Closes: #570345 [ Joey Hess ] * debconf-devel(7): Note why SETTITLE is generally used rather than TITLE. Closes: #560323 (Thanks, Frans Pop) * DbDriver::File: Open file read-write so exclusive flock locking can be done portably. Fixes issue on Solaris. (Thanks, James Lee) Closes: #563577 * Prevent dialog from escaping "\n" to a liternal newline in the text it displays by doing some tricky things with UTF-8 zero-width characters. Closes: #566954 (Thanks, Ben Hutchings) [ Colin Watson ] * Build for Python 2.6. Closes: #574759 [ Joey Hess ] * Clean up use of POSIX perl module, which exports a large amount of stuff by default. Closes: #574573 -- Colin Watson Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:51:30 +0000 debconf (1.5.28) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Put debconf-i18n in Section: localization, to match overrides. * Remove unused subcommand parameter from Debconf::FrontEnd::Passthrough::progress_data(). * Override Lintian warning about debconf's postrm not calling db_purge; debconf itself is a special case here. * Declare "Media change" string as needing translation. (apt gives us translated messages for substitution into the extended description here, but not for the short description.) * Remove unused 'use I18N::Langinfo' from Debconf::Element::Gnome (LP: #387112). * Upgrade to debhelper v7. In the process, convert to python-central with DH_PYCENTRAL=nomove (since we need our modules to be usable even when debconf is unconfigured; at the moment, the effect of this use of python-central is only to add a Python-Versions control field). [ Christian Perrier ] * Add translation of "-a" in "man dpkg-reconfigure". Patch by Simon Paillard. * Suggest reporting bugs related to French translations in the French l10n mailing list. Patch by Simon Paillard. * French debconf translation update [ Joey Hess ] * document --terse in relevant man pages and show --no-reload in dpkg-reconfigure usage. Closes: #548994 * German man page addendum fixed. Closes: #546789 * Dropped the KDE frontend. libqt-perl is uninstallable, and work on the new qt4 perl bindings and a new KDE frontend based on them is not ready. If the KDE frontend is specified, debconf will now attempt to fall back to the Gnome frontend, or failing that, to dialog. Closes: #522580 * Enable set -e in debconf-utils postinst. [ Programs translation updates ] * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #551379 [ Debconf translation updates ] * Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales). * Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov). * Finnish (Tapio Lehtonen). * Czech (Miroslav Kure). * Esperanto (Felipe Castro). * Simplified Chinese (Carlos Z.F. Liu). * Slovak (Ivan Masár). * German (Holger Wansing). * Bengali (Md. Rezwan Shahid). * Basque (Piarres Beobide). * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). -- Joey Hess Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:14:23 -0400 debconf (1.5.27) unstable; urgency=low * Fix Plural-Forms header in Tagalog translation. * debconf-apt-progress: If we didn't start the debconf frontend ourselves, then it's unlikely that the passthrough child will be able to start debconf normally, so tell it to use a pipe database in that case and rely on passthrough to save answers (LP: #337306). * debconf-apt-progress: DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND is always set here at some point, even if only on the second run after starting debconf, so we need to invert our handling of the check for whether we started the debconf frontend ourselves (LP: #347648). * Minor GET optimisation: fetch the question value only once rather than twice. * debconf-apt-progress: If we get cancelled very early on before managing to start the process we're controlling, make sure that we don't carry on and start it anyway, and that we still return 30. * debconf-apt-progress: Handle cancellation right at the end. We don't have a process to kill at this point, but we should at least return the correct exit code. [ Manpages translations ] * Completed german man page translation. Closes: #518396 * Completed French man page translation. Closes: #520787 [ Debconf translations ] * Added Asturian. Closes: #518977 * Added Bengali [ Programs translations ] * Added Asturian. Closes: #518977 * Added Bengali -- Colin Watson Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:50 +0100 debconf (1.5.26) unstable; urgency=low * Use 'key not in dict' rather than 'not dict.has_key(key)' in debconf.py; dict.has_key is deprecated in Python 2.6. * debconf-apt-progress: Don't send STOP if we didn't start the debconf frontend ourselves; in that case the application calling us should arrange to stop itself. * debconf.py: Use subprocess rather than popen2 if it's available. popen2 is deprecated in Python 2.6. -- Colin Watson Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:33:57 +0000 debconf (1.5.25) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * debconf-devel(7): Fix state machine example to handle case where user backs out of first question. [ Colin Watson ] * Support overriding frontend's package name determination (used to set the owner) using the DEBCONF_PACKAGE environment variable. Useful for applications driving debconf other than by way of package installation. * Refer to po-debconf(7) rather than its README (thanks, James R. Van Zandt). Closes: #505392 * Refer to debconf-show(1) from dpkg-reconfigure(8) for those who just want to see the current configuration. Closes: #506070 * Only use -C fields when explicitly disabling internationalisation within debconf (or when DEBCONF_C_VALUES=true), not merely when in the C locale. Based on a patch by Frans Pop, for which thanks! Closes: #476873 * Force fallback to the default template if we encounter 'en' in the locale list and no language-specific template for English was found,since English text is usually found in a plain field rather than something like Choices-en.UTF-8. This allows you to override other locale variables for a different language with LANGUAGE=en. Thanks again to Frans Pop. Closes: #496631 [ Manpages translations ] * Completed german man page translation. [ Debconf translations ] * Corrections in german translation with apologies for forgetting this bug report. Closes: #462302 -- Colin Watson Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:04:02 +0000 debconf (1.5.24) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * debconf(7): Clarify reason for libterm-readline-gnu-perl being recommended for users of readline frontend. Closes: #497357 [ Manpages translations ] * Updated german man page translation. Closes: #492370 * German proofread by Helge Kreutzmann. Copyright fixed to include Florian Rehnisch * Corrected French manpages translation wrt "interactive". Closes: #496555 [ Debconf translations ] * Hindi updated. * Greek updated. Closes: #498580 [ Programs translations ] * Hindi updated. * Greek updated. Closes: #498577 [ Joey Hess ] * debconf.7: Remove whitespace in manrefs. Closes: #498446 [ Colin Watson ] * Fall back to untranslated fields if asking explicitly for any nonexistent translated field, not just Choices-C. For example, asking for Choices-en.UTF-8 should fall back to Choices if Choices-en.UTF-8 doesn't exist. LP: #271652 * Remove some dead code in Debconf::Template::AUTOLOAD. * Add an AUTHOR section to debconf-escape(1) to make the German po4a translations work better. * Add missing =back to debconf-apt-progress(1)'s OPTIONS section. * Use =head1 in German POD addendum, not =HEAD1. Together with switching output to UTF-8 (below), this fixes various problems with German manual page output. Closes: #492368 * Recode all manual pages to UTF-8 and re-enable Russian manual page generation, now that pod2man has a --utf8 option. Requires perl (>= 5.10.0-16) as bug #500210 broke the Russian pages. Closes: #485756 -- Colin Watson Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:07:17 +0100 debconf (1.5.23) unstable; urgency=low [ Manpages Translations ] * Russian updated. Closes: #482288 * French updated. * German added. Closes: #486869 [ Debconf translations ] * Macedonian. Closes: #485993 * Romanian. Closes: #488530 * Korean. Closes: #491515 [ Programs translations ] * Catalan. Closes: #486714 * Romanian. Closes: #488530 * Korean. Closes: #491515 [ Joey Hess ] * Typo. Closes: #486870 * Disable Russian man pages until the encoding issue affecting them can be fixed. -- Joey Hess Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:49 -0400 debconf (1.5.22) unstable; urgency=low * Improve LDAP KeyByKey option by setting the LDAP search base to the exact key that is requested. Patch from Davor Ocelic. * Initial support for storing templates database in LDAP. (i18n not supported). Patch from Davor Ocelic. Closes: #477531 [ Manpages Translations ] * Russian updated. Closes: #462780 [ Debconf Translations ] * Bulgarian updated. * Polish updated. Closes: #478041 [ Programs Translations ] * Bulgarian added. Closes: #478431 -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 May 2008 19:36:48 -0400 debconf (1.5.21) unstable; urgency=low * Fix method call in LDAP dbdriver. Closes: #475545 -- Joey Hess Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:55:08 -0400 debconf (1.5.20) unstable; urgency=low * Use signal names rather than numbers in debconf-apt-progress. * Fix use of 'next' rather than 'return' in debconf-apt-progress handle_status. -- Colin Watson Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:38:28 +0000 debconf (1.5.19) unstable; urgency=low * Add a hack to the teletype frontend to allow typing "q" at a "[More]" prompt and break out of the 'pager'. Useful when ucf's diff turns out to be many many pages in length. There's no UI indication that "q" works here, but it's the same as in other pagers like less. * Add (experimental, nonstandard) implementation of the X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE protocol command. Should be compatible with cdebconf's. Closes: #427091 -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:59:34 -0500 debconf (1.5.18) unstable; urgency=low [ Søren Hansen ] * debconf-apt-progress sometimes gets captured by buggy daemons, causing tasksel to hang because $debconf_command_eof never becomes true. STATUS_READ should be the last fd to close, so checking $status_eof is sufficient (LP: #141601). [ Joey Hess ] * debconf(1): Document that this command is rarely used. Closes: #457598 * Add missing newlines to some error messages. Closes: #457609 -- Colin Watson Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:08:27 +0000 debconf (1.5.17) unstable; urgency=low * Partial support for cancelable progress bars. While the dialog frontend cannot support them due to limitations in whiptail(1) and dialog(1), and I haven't implemented support in frontends like gnome or kde, the confmodule does now check to see if the frontend's progress bar methods return nonzero, and will pass that nonzero status along to the caller. * Implemented support for cancelable progress bars in the passthrough frontend. * debconf-apt-progress: Check for the progress bar being canceled, and if this happens, try to kill the apt process. Users of debconf-apt-progress that want a cancelable progress bar can thus just set the progresscancel capb before calling it and everything should work. Of course, this should only be done when the apt operation being run is one that can be cleanly killed. * debconf-apt-progress: Notice if the child exited abnormally, and exit nonzero. * Avoid setting a default title of "Configuring " when starting up the frontend if no package name could be determined. * Fix the passthrough frontend to not clear the capb on startup. * debconf-apt-progress: Add --dlwaypoint option. -- Joey Hess Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:57:15 -0500 debconf (1.5.16) unstable; urgency=low * Drop python 2.3. Closes: #447864 * debconf-apt-progress: Add --no-progress option intended to be used by apt-install in d-i. -- Joey Hess Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:01:13 -0400 debconf (1.5.15) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Add manual page description for debconf-set-selections. Closes: #435954 * Ignore AttributeError in the Python DebconfCommunicator destructor, so that you don't get a confusing exception message if you give the wrong number of arguments to the constructor. * Don't use dh_python's postinst fragment (and copy its prerm fragment by hand). debconf is too important to fail because some random python module wouldn't compile. Closes: #225384, #293820 [ Debconf Translations ] * Nepali updated. Closes: #435388 [ Programs Translations ] * Nepali added. Closes: #435389 [ Joey Hess ] * Applied Davor Ocelic's patch adding a keybykey option to the LDAP DbDriver. Closes: #440857 (Note that it currently has some minor uninitialised value warnings.) * TERM isn't set if run from synaptic, avoid uninitialised value in Readline frontend. Closes: #307568 -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:26:20 -0400 debconf (1.5.14) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Retry flock() on EINTR. Failing that, print the errno if flock() fails so that we have a better chance of working out why. * Install Python confmodule for python2.5 as well. * Add confmodule bindings for the DATA command. * Somebody looking at confmodule(3) probably actually wants debconf-devel(7). Add a reference in SEE ALSO. * Make sure that apt status commands and debconf protocol commands under debconf-apt-progress are properly interleaved. Closes: #425397 [ Debconf Translations ] * Marathi added. Closes: #416805 * Basque updated. Closes: #418897 [ Programs Translations ] * Marathi added. Closes: #416805 * Punjabi added. Closes: #427327 * Basque updated. Closes: #418902 * Esperanto added. Closes: #428275 [ Joey Hess ] * Increase selectspacer to 13 for dialog. May be needed due to changes in new versions of dialog. * Update url to web site in README. [ Trent Buck ] * Fix bash_completion syntax. Closes: #425676 -- Colin Watson Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:58:39 +0100 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 (1.5.11) 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 Mannsåker 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 Mannsåker) 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 a question object by that name cached, so it used it, and the results were ugly. The fix is simple: when a question is unregistered, remove the object from the cache. Closes: #89262 -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:24:08 -0800 debconf (0.9.24) unstable; urgency=low * Changed how I disable echo in password prompts in the text frontend. For all readline libraries except ReadLine::Perl, I just use stty -echo. That doesn't work for ReadLine::Perl, so I had to read the line myself in that case. What a PITA. Closes: #89324 * Fixed dialog frontend to display cancel button when backing up is enabled. Closes: #89364 -- Joey Hess Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:18:56 -0500 debconf (0.9.23) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfigure: fixed problem with it trying to run an unlinked config file if there was a template parse error (triggered by tgif). -- Joey Hess Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:11:04 -0800 debconf (0.9.22) unstable; urgency=low * Added Debug driver and simplified some other debug output. * Added Pipe db driver. If Craig really wants, he can use this to do exactly what he was complaining that debconf could not do. I think, though, that there are really better ways of accomplishing the same thing. * Added versioning to some 'use base'es, to detect people who have an old base.pm floating around somewhere. See bug #89050 -- Joey Hess Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:24:37 -0800 debconf (0.9.21) unstable; urgency=low * Simplified the functions generated by /usr/share/debconf/confmodule by using read -r a b instead of doing the set -- split thing. * Sanitize IFS in there, so things like cvs's config script that mangle it will not produce unexpected results. Closes: #88830 -- Joey Hess Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:59:22 -0800 debconf (0.9.20) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed stacks so shadowing actually works and non-topmost items can be seen (stupid thinko). Also improved debug output. I now have some satellite systems that are successfully using a master debconf db for defaults, with local modifications stored locally (using icky nfs as the transport though), so stacks are useful, but still experimental. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:03:22 -0800 debconf (0.9.19) unstable; urgency=low * Made Db.pm read /usr/share/debconf/debconf.conf if no other config file is found, so it will have sensible defaults in two situations: 1) user decides to delete file in /etc 2) upgrade from pre-conffile version, and debconf is asked to do something before it is configured Closes: #88840 -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:25:28 -0800 debconf (0.9.18) unstable; urgency=low * Renamed Copy driver to Backup, and renamed its fields too -- if you have used it already, take note! * Some internal restructuring of db driver classes. * Added debconf-copydb, the all-singing all dancing db conversion, excerpting, and copying tool, to debconf-utils. * Backups of File db's can be turned off. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:15:51 -0800 debconf (0.9.17) unstable; urgency=low * Made dpkg-preconfigure drop a user-level debug item including the name of the package and its version as the package is preconfigured. Closes: #88855 -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:08:30 -0800 debconf (0.9.16) unstable; urgency=low * Updated transition_db.pl to fix skipping of items with no owner. Closes: #88820 * Documented in the user's guide that it needs apt-utils 0.5 or above for preconfiguration (really later, since that is currently broken in apt..) Closes: #88705 * Made apt-extracttemplates be less scary if apt-utils is not installed. We really need a better solution here, I think.. * Updated french translation from Martin Quinson -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:19:05 -0800 debconf (0.9.15) unstable; urgency=low * Made the File DbDriver keep a backup file in -old, and greatly increased the robustness of its writes. Closes: #88804 * Increased the robustness of the writes done by the directory driver too, though it doesn't keep backups. * For general backup purposes, introduced a new metadriver called Copy, which does all reads and writes to one driver, while sending a copy of all writes to another driver. -- Joey Hess Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:56:32 -0800 debconf (0.9.14) unstable; urgency=low * Resetting the value of a question that had no default stuffed an undef into the cache dbdriver, which made the 822 formatter warn of uninitialized values. Fixed by making template field accesses always return a defined value, even if the field isn't present. Closes: #88751 * Fixed some exporter problems. * Removed bogus preconfig template item (again..). * Moved dirty flag out into its own hash, so items in the cache can be marked dirty and removed at the same time. This should really fix unregistration of items. I had been meaning to do this last week, but it seems I forgot. * Actually enabled the optimization of not saving flatfile db if no changes were made, and made it not save deleted items. -- Joey Hess Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:26:58 -0800 debconf (0.9.13) unstable; urgency=low * Modified the transition script to detect corrupt old databases that have some questions with undefined templates. Those are just skipped, and it prints out a warning. I've only had one report of this problem so far. Closes: #88731 * Strip the transition script. -- Joey Hess Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:38:59 -0800 debconf (0.9.12) unstable; urgency=low * I think the haikus are over. :-) * Renamed apt.conf.d file to 70debconf. -- Joey Hess Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:04:40 -0800 debconf (0.9.11) unstable; urgency=low * Workaround a bug that showed up in fresh installs or ancient upgrades. Closes: #88682, #88676 The fix is simple: just don't abort if it fails to unregister. -- Joey Hess Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:06:15 -0800 debconf (0.9.10) unstable; urgency=low * Though I waited long -- twelve days -- I must upload now. (And thus, miss testing.) * The long overdue backend database is here: the missing quarter. Closes: #50437 And so the version approaches 1.0 -- joy! Though more work awaits. * Db setup lore is in debconf.conf(5) in debconf-doc. You'll find it's layered; quite a flexible design (many thanks, Wichert). Users can setup their own debconf db's or use the global one. (If, that is, they choose to use the DirTree driver for the global store.) Closes: #81574 * To make this work, though, debconf must conflict with old cdebconf versions. The ones that themselves used /etc/debconf.conf as their config file. * And I had to write some transition code, too (bleagh), to reformat stuff. This should work better than past conversions, I hope. Still needs testing, though. So, it won't delete the old database files yet, 'till I'm sure that's safe. Anyhow, reports of trouble in past upgrades are now obsolete. Closes: #80940, #88256 (Report new bugs though, if you must. I don't mind (much). Just don't send dups, please.) * All of debconf's code does sane temp file opens now: no more cruft in var. * The interface to debconf-communicate has utterly changed. * I updated the Dutch translation (or rather, some Dutch guy did -- thanks). Closes: #87493 Other translations are probably outdated after these changes. Come to think of it, the Dutch one may be too; it's a week or two old. * Debconf must always be usable, so I made it pre-dep on perl. * The new db code fixes a db reload bug in -reconfigure. Closes: #85873 * Some bugs are fixed in the preconfigure program by this upload too: Overfiend, it makes two passes now, so scary shared templates will work. * Besides these changes, some mods to support the new apt slipped in somehow: apt.conf.d is used rather than munging apt.conf by hand. * I gladly removed apt-extracttemplates: moved to apt-utils. Preconfiguring requires that package now be installed, to work. A Reccommends is present in debconf, but, , apt will ignore it. So you might have to install apt-utils by hand to get it working. On the plus side, though -- porters everywhere rejoice -- debconf is arch all! So maybe it'll get into testing one day, not many weeks hence. * And I think that's all the changes of note in this release of debconf. I'll stop sitting here in the dark counting fingers, and zinc off to bed. -- Joey Hess Mon, 5 Mar 2001 02:36:31 -0800 debconf (0.5.64) unstable; urgency=low * Updated to new perl policy. -- Joey Hess Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:16:02 -0800 debconf (0.5.63) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-communicate now accepts piped input, or you can just run it and talk with debconf on the fly over stdin. * use debhelper v3. -- Joey Hess Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:36:33 -0800 debconf (0.5.62) unstable; urgency=low * Fix compilation with apt 0.4. Closes: #86417 -- Joey Hess Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:58:13 -0800 debconf (0.5.61) unstable; urgency=low * Removed outdated test of $@ from element creation code. -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:24:10 -0800 debconf (0.5.60) unstable; urgency=low * Dutch templates file from "Thomas J. Zeeman" , Closes: #85549 * Added code to support foolish downgrades to really old and crufty versions of debconf. Closes: #85124 -- Joey Hess Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:49:52 -0800 debconf (0.5.59) unstable; urgency=low * Added half a Finnish translation (the templates half), by Jaakko Kangasharju , Closes: #85199 * More unremarkable changes here and there. -- Joey Hess Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:49:07 -0800 debconf (0.5.58) unstable; urgency=low * Italian template update. -- Joey Hess Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:38:29 -0800 debconf (0.5.57) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected an off-by-one in FSET arg checking, Closes: #84792 -- Joey Hess Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:04:11 -0800 debconf (0.5.56) unstable; urgency=low * Another french po file update. -- Joey Hess Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:18:16 -0800 debconf (0.5.55) unstable; urgency=low * Updated Franch translation from Martin Quinson * debconf-getlang now preserves fuzzy translations accross multiple runs, if a new translation is not put in. I also had to rename the -OLD fields to -fuzzy. -- Joey Hess Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:39:25 -0800 debconf (0.5.54) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a couple of memory leaks that the absurd bug in magicfilter exposes. Closes: #84211 -- Joey Hess Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:18:46 -0800 debconf (0.5.53) unstable; urgency=low * Updated the Swedish translation. * Made debconf-getlang more or less ignore whitespace as a factor in fuzzy translations. * Now you have to list the files to look at in stats mode too, seems hardcoding the lookup wasn't such a good idea. * Removed the -q flag, just use --stats instead. * Added Korean translation from Eungkyu Song -- Joey Hess Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:19:11 -0800 debconf (0.5.52) unstable; urgency=low * Now that policy includes the debconf spec, I have removed the spec from this source tree and debconf-doc. Since the version in policy is canoical, I have removed the spec from cvs too. It will remain in the Attic for historical purposes. I do still include a copy of the priority table so it can go in the user's guide, and debconf-doc now suggests debian-policy. -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:46:35 -0800 debconf (0.5.51) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-getlang supports detection of fuzzy translations now, and can display translation stats for a package too. See man page. * Added dialog frontend back to template description for now. Closes: #83670 -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:01:07 -0800 debconf (0.5.50) unstable; urgency=low * Changes to do with -ll_LL field localizations. These should actually work now. * Suddenly I have to hardcode the docbook xml version in DOCTYPE. Very strange. -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:17:48 -0800 debconf (0.5.49) unstable; urgency=low * Clean up after bogus foo/bar template I accidentially released. * Added German template translation by Michael Bramer , Closes: #82914 -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:07:07 -0800 debconf (0.5.48) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected overrides disparities. -- Joey Hess Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:36:05 -0800 debconf (0.5.47) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfigure: Split on any whitespace, Closes: #82579 * po/Makefile is now smart about msgmerge just updating datestamps, and doesn't let such trivial changes be checked into cvs. -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:28:24 -0800 debconf (0.5.46) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfigure: don't split on apt-extractemplates output on ' ', use \s -- Joey Hess Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:08:27 -0800 debconf (0.5.45) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed type that broke slang note elements, Closes: #81869 -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:33:55 -0800 debconf (0.5.44) unstable; urgency=low * Modified slang frontend to not instantiate Term::Stool widgets until the GO command. This allows for thinge like: db_set foo yes; db_input priority foo || db_set foo no * All other frontends should already handle this just fine. -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:38:22 -0800 debconf (0.5.43) unstable; urgency=low * Modified shell confmodule to use read -r, so if \ characters are read in, it will not interpret them. That was causing mangled password entry problems in base-config, Closes: #77920. It could also cause random hangs if the data was just right.. -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:43:21 -0800 debconf (0.5.42) unstable; urgency=low * apt-extracttemplates null pointer checking, Closes: #77787 -- Joey Hess Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:57:38 -0800 debconf (0.5.41) unstable; urgency=low * Modified a few places in the tutorial to refer to essential packages, not the base system. Closes: #81350 -- Joey Hess Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:06:02 -0800 debconf (0.5.40) unstable; urgency=low * Build-depends perl-5.6-base, Closes: #81328 -- Joey Hess Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:39:24 -0800 debconf (0.5.39) unstable; urgency=low * To keep debconf out of testing for nother two weeks, I fixed a bug involving truncation of excessively-long short descriptions in the slang frontend. Closes: #80163 -- Joey Hess Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:04:39 -0800 debconf (0.5.38) unstable; urgency=low * I guess perl is fixed now, so I can remove the bogus dependancy. Thanks, bod! -- Joey Hess Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:39:59 -0800 debconf (0.5.37) unstable; urgency=low * Aw hell, that won't work; too many things still depend on old versions of perl. -- Joey Hess Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:48:07 -0800 debconf (0.5.36) unstable; urgency=low * The "I didn't get a fixed perl for $MAJOR_WINTER_HOLIDAY" release. * Conflicts with every perl-*-base package before perl-5.6-base, because perl's alternatives system has been known to make /usr/bin/perl point at some old version of perl, even though debconf depends on 5.6, which breaks things pretty badly. -- Joey Hess Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:28:04 -0800 debconf (0.5.35) unstable; urgency=low * Both dialog and whiptail now support --nocancel, which the dialog frontend will use now if a cancel button is not appropriate. Closes: #67419 * Reluctantly brought back a *temoporary* dependancy on perl-5.6 until it gets it act in order. Closes: #79571 (Debian *cannot* be released while debconf has this bogus dependancy.) -- Joey Hess Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:00:59 -0800 debconf (0.5.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed umask-related build problem, Closes: #78453 -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:41:56 -0800 debconf (0.5.33) unstable; urgency=low * Removed screen refresh forcing in the slang frontend, it makes it look like crap and if someone writes to the screen, that is their problem, not mine. * Corrected recently introduced resizing bug in slang frontend. -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:42:52 -0800 debconf (0.5.32) unstable; urgency=low * Removed bogus perl-5.6 dependancy, now that perl is fixed. * Now that base.pm is in perl-5.6-base, I no longer need to do hackery in my Makefile to avoid using that module. Got rid of it, and versioned dep on perl-5.6-base. -- Joey Hess Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:07:46 -0800 debconf (0.5.31) unstable; urgency=low * Put README.translators in debconf-doc. * Finally broke in and implemented multiselect support for the slang frontend. Closes: #65782, #67242, #67340, #71095, #78571 * That was harer than it seems, I had to change Slang Elements to hold groups of widgets, and support that everywhere. I also found it best to move all the wiget positioning code into Elements from the frontend. -- Joey Hess Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:51:53 -0800 debconf (0.5.30) unstable; urgency=low * Modified tutorial, Closes: #78537 -- Joey Hess Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:24:07 -0800 debconf (0.5.29) unstable; urgency=low * Two chinese translations of the templates file (zh_CN, zh_TW), from zw@debian.org -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:34:51 -0800 debconf (0.5.28) unstable; urgency=low * Removed test from dpkg-reconfigure for .config script. The test shouldn't be necessary; postinst scripts _should_ be idempotent. -- Joey Hess Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:53:29 -0800 debconf (0.5.27) unstable; urgency=low * If debconf is run without a controling tty.. - TERM will not be defined. This breaks the dialog frontend (which is broken pretty badly by the lack of a tty too ;-), so detect lack of TERM and refuse to use that frontend. - Same for slang frontend. - Lack of a controlling tty messes with the Text frontend, though it still half-way works in some circumstances. I've made its parent, the Tty frontend, detect this and bail. - That also affected the Editor frontend (which could perhaps work in this situation, but only if you use an X based editor, and tough luck then). ... so in conculsion, if you do this, you'll probably get the Noninteractive frontend. Woe on you if you're upgrading ssh and it clobbers PermitRootLogin. :-( * Tagged all frontend fallback messages for i18n. -- Joey Hess Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:26:38 -0800 debconf (0.5.26) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected uninitialized value leading to looping bahavior in text frontend, Closes: 77923 -- Joey Hess Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:37:21 -0800 debconf (0.5.25) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: Wait until after loading db before doing frontend fix up. Closes: #77847 -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:54:19 -0800 debconf (0.5.24) unstable; urgency=low * Typo. -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:23:56 -0800 debconf (0.5.23) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed noninteractive note element to not let the shell get its grubby little hands on unvalidated input, which was making it puke. Closes: #77589 and a whole raft of other bugs filed against X which we will be merging to it. Special thanks to Ingo Saitz for providing many debug logs, and the person I've forgot who should delete my debug account from their box now. -- Joey Hess Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:22:09 -0800 debconf (0.5.22) unstable; urgency=low * Temporarily depends on perl-5.6 until perl-5.6-base is fixed so POSIX.pm works without the former package installed. Grrre. Closes: #77399, #77397 (really perl's bugs, but it has enough open on this issue already). -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:27:56 -0800 debconf (0.5.21) unstable; urgency=low * The stuff the postinst adds to apt.conf now doesn't return a error code and make the apt run fail even if peices of the system like perl are broken, as they are now for so many people. I had held off on this change for a long time, but enough is enough. * Also some not-yet-ready copletion stuff in the text frontend. -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:22:26 -0800 debconf (0.5.20) unstable; urgency=low * The text frontend now supports backing up! It's now probably the most usable of all debconf frontends, if you're comfortable at the command line. Give it a try! (Tab completion is on the horizon, too.) * A pretty painful reorganization of how all Elements return and validate values -- at least it's consistent now. * Probability I broke something this time: 76.51% -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:55:05 -0800 debconf (0.5.01) unstable; urgency=low * Added something to the help to make select widgets more obvious. * Fixed sizing of select widgets. -- Joey Hess Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:19:05 -0800 debconf (0.5.00) unstable; urgency=low * Modified all the frontends to deal with this scenario: A config scripts asks questions a, b, and c. a and c are asked at priorities that make them visible, b is not. The user gets to c, and backs up. Previously, debconf would loop back to b, skip it again, and return the user to c. Now it is smart enough to go back to a once b is skipped. * Changed how debconf keeps track of what questions have been seen before. Now it tracks this info on a per confmodule basis, and when a confmodule terminates, sets the "seen" flag on (almost) all questions that were displayed. Questions that are shown multiple times during the same confmodule run will indeed appear multiple times[1]. This makes supporting backing up trivial; it means that people have no excuse to play around with the isdefault flag anymore, which they almost always got wrong anyway; and it renames that flag to the much clearer "seen". * It is possible that this change breaks confmodules that expect to be able to display the same question twice with impunity. * NOTE NOTE NOTE if you use this new behavior, make sure to depend on debconf (>= 0.5)! * The isdefault flag will continue to work, it is just mapped to the inverse of the "seen" flag now, and deprecated. * All the frontends were reworked to various degrees to make this work, and I got rid of a fair bit of redundant code too. * Modified debconf's own config script to use these features and sure enough, it looks quite clean and simple now. * Updated all docs. * Added nasty code to transition from the isdefault flag to the new flag. * Fixed backup in dialog frontend, 255 == -1 * Just to make life more interesting, I made debconf depend on perl 5.6; which allows me to remove all my crud working around bugs in perl 5.005, and lets me use lots of nifty 5.6-specific features, but not, sadly, lvalues. * Probability of all this breaking something: 99.99% . [1] Unless they are to be displayed in the same block. -- Joey Hess Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:07:19 -0800 debconf (0.4.11) unstable; urgency=low * Swedish translation from peter karlsson -- Joey Hess Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:42:51 -0800 debconf (0.4.10) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected man page location, Closes: #76747 -- Joey Hess Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:28:16 -0800 debconf (0.4.09) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected italian choices list to include translation of "critical". I don't see any problems in the other translations. (No, there is no automated check yet.) Closes: #75312 * Slang frontend now forces a refresh each time. It pains me to do this, but it prevents screen corruption if something is output in between. Closes: #72891 * Wrote a debconf.8 man page, Closes: #58287 It's very tiny right now; I'd sorta like to convert the docbook userguide.xml and use it as the man page, but I cannot figure out docbook2man. Help! * Closes: #76273, this bug is only in a not really released version. * Randolph updated apt-extracttemplates to build with the new apt. I have converted that to use ifdefs so it should build with both. * Added a hostname to the mails sent out by the noninteractive frontend, as admins may have multiple hosts configured to sent mail with the same hostname. Closes: #76653 Also reformatted the messages some for clarity and conciseness. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:58:53 -0800 debconf (0.4.08) unstable; urgency=low * Randolph updated apt-extracttemplates to use the new libapt. -- Joey Hess Sat, 4 Nov 2000 20:42:07 -0800 debconf (0.4.07) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a subtle bug in the slang frontend. This bug made noninteractive elements not be "shown" ever, so they didn't send mail. It also made noninteractive select elements get "" shoved into them whenever they were INPUT, which messed up some things like progeny's postfix package. -- Joey Hess Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:30:21 -0800 debconf (0.4.06) unstable; urgency=low * Added a check to the metaget command to make sure the requested field exists. -- Joey Hess Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:47:47 -0700 debconf (0.4.05) unstable; urgency=low * Ignore any number of leading and trailing newlines around templates, since the spec doesn't really say There Must Be Only One, and it can be useful to have more. Closes: #75420 -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:32:09 -0700 debconf (0.4.04) unstable; urgency=low * confmodule: Properly quote arguments to frontend, just in case. Closes: #74827 * debconf-loadtemplates was totally hosed. It forgot to load the db up, and so it wiped it all out when it saved it! Fixed, Closes: #74826 * Added basic syntax checking and usage to debconf-getlang (and debconf-loadtemplate too). Closes: #74825 -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:41 -0700 debconf (0.4.03) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a typo in the preinst. Closes: #75318, #66484, #75322, #75328, #75339, #75341, #75319, #75367, #75399 (and probably a bunch more, but they're merged anyway). Actually tested this time, and it actually works. * Patch from bod to wrapper. -- Joey Hess Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:15:25 -0700 debconf (0.4.02) unstable; urgency=low * Bod rewrite the ConfModule wrapper. Now should handle errors properly. -- Joey Hess Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:51:46 -0700 debconf (0.4.01) unstable; urgency=low * Moved over to a hopefully more robust check in the preinst to see if the database needs to be converted, after receiving two reports that the current check is not always firing. Closes: #75240 * Patch from Martin Quinson to po/Makefile, adding stuff for translators. It automatically merges the new debconf.pot with .po files, and outputs stats on how up-to-date the translation is. * Seems that the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule stub from bod isn't good enough. :-( The problem is code that calls stuff like Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule::title directly. Ugh. Added an AUTOLOAD with a nasty eval to deal with this. Closes: #75239 * Fixed an uninitialized value if a boolean item has no default. Bleagh. -- Joey Hess Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:24:03 -0700 debconf (0.4.00) unstable; urgency=low * Removed recursive build-dependancy on debconf-utils. There were two ways to do this, the quick hack way and the move lots of directories in cvs way. I took the latter. * While I was reorganizing *EVERYTHING*, I renamed all the perl modules, what was Debian::DebConf::foo is now Debconf::foo. Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule is now just Debconf::ConfModule, but a stub module exists in the old location for backwards compatability (thanks, bod). * If you use the new module, you should depend on this version of Debconf! * This hacking also required some ugly ugly hacking of the debconf database. Debconf needs a real database. :-( * I guess this means the filename in all the .po files are wrong, bug since those filenames are in comments, the .po files should continue to work, right? * debconf-utils now depends on debconf >= 0.4, so it will continue to work. * Needless to say, this was a massive PITA all around. I've NEVER going to do this again, so I hope I got it right. * For a short while, I considered using MakeMaker. That is, until I noticed MakeMaker had no way of marking scripts for install into /usr/sbin, and after not one but two perl gods advised me using it for anything more cpmplex than a simple library package was not a good idea. People have asked me to use MakeMaker in the past, and it's just not going to happen unless you send me a very nice patch. -- Joey Hess Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:35:41 -0700 debconf (0.3.83) unstable; urgency=low * Removed CVS dirs that snuck into the binary debs. -- Joey Hess Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:37:40 -0400 debconf (0.3.82) unstable; urgency=low * French templates and po file from Martin Quinson (shrug ;-) * Added some useful info to Template parse exceptions. -- Joey Hess Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:43:54 -0400 debconf (0.3.81) unstable; urgency=low * Added Spanish templates file from Enrique Zanardi . -- Joey Hess Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:45:28 -0700 debconf (0.3.80) unstable; urgency=low * Japanese now fully up to date thanks to Keita Maehara Closes: #72697 -- Joey Hess Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:56:48 -0700 debconf (0.3.79) unstable; urgency=low * Copyright change: debconf is now licensed under the terms of the BSD copyright, minus the advertising clause. I have contacted all contributors and they agree with this license change. This also changes the license of the Configuration Management spec. The sole exception to this change is some libapt code in Client/preconfigure that is part of the /usr/lib/debconf/apt-extracttemplates binary. That code remains under the GPL, as it is part of libapt. It will hopefully be moved back into libapt one day. apt-extracttemplates is not necessary for the proper functioning of debconf; it is just a binary used in an optimization. * Motivations for this change were various. I want programs to be able to use debconf even if they are not licensed under the GPL, and it could be argued debconf serves as a library (with varying degrees of correctness depending which part you were talking about). I would like debconf to be available to others, including the BSD community, some of whom I know are looking at issues that could possibly be solved by debconf. * Several reogranaizations for this. Deleted doc/COPYING. Added a README. Included the text of the copyright into debian/copyright, since it is a slightly modified BSD license (minus point 3). Modified numerous files for the new copyright. Removed Client/preconfigure/README, and included the text that was in it (expended) indo debian/copyright. Added doc/COPYING to Client/preconfigure/ (how many copies of the GPL do _you_ have in your cvs repository? ;-) Caused debian/copyright to be linked to doc/COPYRIGHT in the source tarball. -- Joey Hess Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:02:59 -0700 debconf (0.3.78) unstable; urgency=low * Let's just say that you really don't want to install version 0.3.77. I'll probably get oh, 15 bug reports on this one. :-( -- Joey Hess Tue, 26 Sep 2000 16:06:52 -0700 debconf (0.3.77) unstable; urgency=low * Updated templates.ja from Keita Maehara . Still out of date, though. Closes: #71937 -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:30:57 -0700 debconf (0.3.76) unstable; urgency=low * Whoops, let's not install cvs .#* files into the binary package or generate POD docs for them, shall we? -- Joey Hess Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:57:17 -0700 debconf (0.3.75) unstable; urgency=low * Reworded and reformatted some of Debconf's questions. Translations: not yet up to date. -- Joey Hess Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:27:12 -0700 debconf (0.3.74) unstable; urgency=low * Sometimes you put in something to be helpful, and it comes back to bite you in a major way. Say you add some code to /usr/share/debconf/confmodule to allow broken postinst scripts that use debconf to still echo stuff to stdout and not have it go to debconf. Then you find that this hack makes legitimate code that uses the confmodule and uses the perl ConfModule library nested inside, not work. So your choices are to add a further hack to the perl ConfModule, or end all these hacks and do things cleanly. Unfortunatly, several packages have come to depend on the hack. What do you do? * Well I chickened out and hacked Client::ConfModule. But I have added an entry to the TODO, and if you have a broken debconf-using package, expect a bug report soon. * Some copyright file cleanups. -- Joey Hess Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:35:58 -0700 debconf (0.3.73) unstable; urgency=low * My night for stupid debconf bugs. It turns out that the string element in the dialog frontend was causinng the default from the template to be used if the a text input line was returned empty. Now "" is returned as it should be. I know one package bitten by this is cvs, in its repository directory selection question. -- Joey Hess Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:27:20 -0700 debconf (0.3.72) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a really stupid typo in the editor and text frontends that made them ignore the width of the screen. -- Joey Hess Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:08:22 -0700 debconf (0.3.70) unstable; urgency=low * Don't strip Client::ConfModule of pod docs. * Build depends on a links that support -dump. Don't know when this was added, so I'll just build-depend on the current version. -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:30:04 -0700 debconf (0.3.69) unstable; urgency=low * Questions w/o extended descriptions are a bad thing. The tutorial now speaks more strogly about this. * Added Spanish translation thanks to Enrique Zanardi . Only the .po file so far, not templates. -- Joey Hess Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:15:47 -0700 debconf (0.3.68) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected a title refresh bug in the slang frontend, Closes: #70693 * Other minor fixes. -- Joey Hess Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:34:53 -0700 debconf (0.3.67) unstable; urgency=low * Spelling corrections from Sean, who should ispell the xml next time. * Killed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #70508 (This one is tickled only by nasty packages like sslwrap that provide no extended descriptions to their questions. Evil.) * Fixed a debconf corrupted database crash. This is, I think, just another bit of fallout from the very old debconf db corruption problem (see changelog entry 0.3.19). Closes: #69781, #69582 -- Joey Hess Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:48:48 -0700 debconf (0.3.66) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected the wrapping-of-bulleted-lists issue. It is now possible to have bulletted lists or other preformatted text in a templates file just like you would in a normal debian control file -- 2 space indent. Closes: #65518 * This was too easy. Silly me. -- Joey Hess Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:17:54 -0700 debconf (0.3.65) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed preconfiguring -- since version 0.3.60, it has unnecessarily skipped preconfiguring of all packages that Depend: on debconf w/o a version. Silly thinko.. -- Joey Hess Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:27:05 -0700 debconf (0.3.64) unstable; urgency=low * Switched to using links to convert html to text, since it a) handles tables ok b) doesn't omit link references * Long-overdue fix to the specification -- added the list of commands to it -- they were removed when it was converted to xml. -- Joey Hess Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:06:39 -0700 debconf (0.3.63) unstable; urgency=low * Make a nice non-scary message if Term::Stool is not installed and one tries to use the slang frontend. For some reason, normal perl cannot load lib messages seem to be scaring users to death. Closes: #68557 * Fixed doc dir symlink, Closes: #68558 -- Joey Hess Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:24:22 -0700 debconf (0.3.62) unstable; urgency=low * Reworked rules file, since this package now has arch-indep and -dep parts. Split build dependancies along those lines. Closes: #68461 * Removed obsolete Version.pm (Randolph's code does the checking now). -- Joey Hess Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:20:21 -0700 debconf (0.3.61) unstable; urgency=low * Passthrough fix. s/carp/croak/ -- Joey Hess Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:23:25 -0700 debconf (0.3.60) unstable; urgency=low * So we (culus, tausq, joeyh) did some benchmarking, and figured out how to speed up dpkg-preconfigure by about 3x. It turns out most of the existing overhead was in calls to dpkg-deb, which is slow, and in all the forking necessary to do said calls, which is also slow. So we moved the initial package scanning out into a C++ program which links to apt code and is quite fast. (Sadly, it's also quite big, and has bloated debconf by 30k and made it arch-dependent.) Anyway, I guess it's worth it to save a few seconds. * Some internal code reogranizations and function renames and stuff, to make things more flexable. * New Passthrough "frontend" to allow third-party GUI operation, by Randolph Chung. This is currently somewhat experimental. * Frontend fallback is now based on per-starting-frontend lists -- ie, slang can fallback to dialog while dialog falls back to slang, without an infinite loop being created. Closes: #68337 * Capabilities fix: There was a problem if, eg, debconf and then cvs were configured. Debconf supports BACKUP, cvs does not, but the frontends were not informed of the change. Now they are, and the slang frontend properly dims out the back button in this situation. -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:03:09 -0700 debconf (0.3.53) unstable; urgency=low * Cleanups to the xml docs to use "question" consistently. * Fixed stupid tab expansion problem. It's really Text::Wraps' fault; bug filed. -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:56:49 -0700 debconf (0.3.52) unstable; urgency=low * Since jade generates the ugliest html I have ever seen, I'm now using tidy to clean that up and indent it properly. -- Joey Hess Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:43:48 -0700 debconf (0.3.51) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed some undefined value warnings, Closes: 67029 -- Joey Hess Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:59:27 -0700 debconf (0.3.50) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed FrontEnd::makeelement to not crash if a question has no associated template. This should never happen, but a very old version of debconf left behind databases with that problem. The fix is trivial: just use $question->type instead of $question->template->type. This has the exact same effect, with the side effect of catching undef'd templates and not crashing. It goes on to not make an element in that case, which is reasonable. -- Joey Hess Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:50:46 -0700 debconf (0.3.49) unstable; urgency=low * s/dpkg-getlang/debconf-getlang/ # Closes: #65918 * Typo fix, Closes: #65919 * More debug code added for bug #66484. * Added italian translation of templates file (po still needs to be translated), from Eugenia Franzoni -- Joey Hess Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:50:35 -0700 debconf (0.3.48) unstable; urgency=low * Added debug code to help track down bug #66484. -- Joey Hess Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:24:53 -0700 debconf (0.3.47) unstable; urgency=low * Added Japanese translation from Akira YOSHIYAMA -- Joey Hess Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:54:40 -0700 debconf (0.3.46) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed documentation of isdefault flag, which needs to be renamed. Cf, Bug #64374. -- Joey Hess Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:05:27 -0700 debconf (0.3.45) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected a bua in how text multiselect elements parsed input: A 2-diget number would be incorrectly split into 2 numbers. Closes: #66195 -- Joey Hess Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:38:36 -0700 debconf (0.3.44) unstable; urgency=low * Russian translation update. -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:56:54 -0700 debconf (0.3.43) unstable; urgency=low * Don't let the dialog frontend run with with TERM=dumb either. -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:33:57 -0700 debconf (0.3.42) unstable; urgency=low * Running debconf's dialog frontend inside an emacs shell buffer is a VERY bad idea. Dialog/whiptail tend to exit immediatly with an error message. Said error goes to stderr. Unfortunatly, the design of dialog/whiptail is such that you _read_ stderr to get the user's reply, and a return code of 1 is also not unusual. Thus, random garbage about emacs not being a suitable terminal gets fed into the debconf database. Yich. To prevent this nestiness, the dialog frontend will now refuse to run in an emacs shell buffer. -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:06:12 -0700 debconf (0.3.41) unstable; urgency=low * Some Polish translation fix of which I am ignorant. -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:10:43 -0700 debconf (0.3.40) unstable; urgency=low * Updated Polish translation. * Fixed perl 5.6 specific error message. -- Joey Hess Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:25:56 -0700 debconf (0.3.39) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed slang hide/show help button to be wide enough for the currentl localization. Closes: #64752 -- Joey Hess Fri, 26 May 2000 15:52:33 -0700 debconf (0.3.38) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a minor bug in frontend -- notice when a template file has been successfully loaded, and don't keep trying to find it. * Applied the same fix to multiselect elements that I applied to select elements in the last version. I think using internationalized debconf should work pretty well now. * The editor frontend now asks that you separate chocies in multiselect questions with spaces and commas, so it will work if the choices contain spaces. -- Joey Hess Thu, 25 May 2000 13:19:43 -0700 debconf (0.3.37) unstable; urgency=low * Added Russian translation, by Michael Sobolev * Added French translation, by Vincent Renardias * Now that I have real localizations to work with, I can find some related problems. - Fixed all select elements to translate back to C locale whatever is input into them. They had been storing it internally in the language that was being used, and passing those localized values to the config scripts that used them, which didn't exactly work very well.. - Similarly, translate the default value, which is in the C locale, to the current locale before using it to prompt the user. * Made frontend fallback even more robust, mainly to deal with the results of the above mentioned select element nastiness. * Element::Editor::Select had the wrong parent; this is corrected. * Added a newline at the end of the files the editor frontend generates, since vim likes to see one there. * Failure to make an input element has been upgraded to be a warning message, instead of the debug message it was before. This should not happen in normal use, if it does, I want to know. (Of course, the slang frontend still has no multiselct elements, maybe this will remind me to fix that sometime..) * Fixed a nasty infinite recusion error in the web frontend, which actually works now. * Reworked the debconf debug mechanism. It now uses symbolic names for various types of debug messages, and DEBCONF_DEBUG specifies which types are shown. See the User's Guide for details. * Some reorganizations to the Tutorial; split out some big sections into entities to aid maintenance. Moved namespace.txt into the tutorial as an Appendix. -- Joey Hess Wed, 24 May 2000 14:05:37 -0700 debconf (0.3.36) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo that broken the web frontend (#64474) -- Joey Hess Sun, 21 May 2000 20:36:51 -0700 debconf (0.3.35) unstable; urgency=low * Updated and completed the Polish l10n thanks to Marcin Owsiany . * Now build depends on the latest debhelper to automatically merge translated templates files. * Corrected stupid mistake I made when I added sprintf() calls. Now new Polish translation is fully functional. -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 May 2000 14:21:49 -0700 debconf (0.3.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed minor bug in Template stringification. -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 May 2000 12:43:56 -0700 debconf (0.3.33) unstable; urgency=low * Note to self: test before uploading -- Joey Hess Mon, 15 May 2000 22:09:35 -0700 debconf (0.3.32) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a minor bug in debconf-getlang to do with when Default needs to be translated. -- Joey Hess Mon, 15 May 2000 16:34:48 -0700 debconf (0.3.31) unstable; urgency=low * Jazzed up the Template class. It can now load in templates files and instantiate whole sets of templates on the fly. This is good because that code used to be in ConfigDb, which is the part of debconf that will probably go away eventually. * Templates can also strignify themselves now, which recreates a templates file entry. And there is a class method for stringifying a whole list of objects, which can recreate a whole templates file. * The above new functionality lets me use the Template class for something new: management of translated templates files. Added some new utilities to help with splitting and merging templates files for translation. The idea for these utilities came from Michael Sobolev . Thanks, Michael! * Added mentions of these utilities to the tutorial. * Broke off all the small and non-essential utilities into a new debconf-utils package. Developers and extreme power users may want it, others will not. * All the programs in debconf-utils now have names starting with "debconf-". This means dpkg-debconf has been renmaed (again) to debconf-communicate, and dpkg-loadtemplate has been renamed to debconf-loadtemplate. I hope these are the last name changes. * Used sprintf in all gettext() calls that have a parameter. This may have messed up the polish translation though. -- Joey Hess Thu, 11 May 2000 14:31:14 -0700 debconf (0.3.30) unstable; urgency=low * gettextized the entire source tree, so it can now be translated. I used Locale::gettext for this, but since it is not in base, I have arranged for debconf to continue working if it is not found (just using the C locale). * Added polish translation from Marcin Owsiany . -- Joey Hess Mon, 8 May 2000 17:05:56 -0700 debconf (0.3.24) unstable; urgency=low * Prompted priority to standard, since lynx depends on it. Closes: #63346 -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 May 2000 18:26:53 -0700 debconf (0.3.23) unstable; urgency=low * Don't use the 'lib' module in Client/frontend. Closes: #62629 * Dpkg-preconfigure in apt mode bails if it is asked to scan just one package. Thete's no benefit to preconfiguration if you're just doing one, because apt is just going to install it immediatly anyway. This optimizes for the "apt-get install foo" case. -- Joey Hess Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:00:15 -0700 debconf (0.3.22) unstable; urgency=low * Catch undefined value returned if a package that is not installed is preconfigured, and use '' instead. This clears up the undefined value warning people have been seeing for months. Closes: #55498, #57792, #62263, #53657 * Fixed for a while: Closes: #48816 -- Joey Hess Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:40:48 -0700 debconf (0.3.21) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected bug in slang frontend -- if the last item in a dropdown select box was default, it was not highlighted as such correctly. Closes: #62021 -- Joey Hess Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:14:37 -0700 debconf (0.3.20) unstable; urgency=low * debconf-doc conflicts with older versions of debconf that contained the manpages. Closes: #62030 -- Joey Hess Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:34:14 -0700 debconf (0.3.19) unstable; urgency=low * Added crazy new frontend: it just makes a pseudo-config file, and pops up your favorite editor on it. * Killed question w/o template debug code, I'm reasonably sure the problem is just happenning to people who had a very old version of debconf, and that the problem is being corrected properly. Closes: #62004, #61970, #61947 * Added debug code to try to track down the uninitialized value in confmodule startup/open2 bug. * Fixed a bug in the 'use base' expander that was causing multiple inheritance to turn into syntax errors. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:06:42 -0700 debconf (0.3.18) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure detects if your default frontend is Noninteractive, and uses Slang instead so you actually get to reconfigure the package. Closes: #57614 -- Joey Hess Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:32:26 -0700 debconf (0.3.17) unstable; urgency=low * And this is an upload with the -doc package turned back on. Maybe one day a ftp admin will be kind enough to approve that new package.. -- Joey Hess Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:08:50 -0700 debconf (0.3.16) unstable; urgency=low * This is a quick build w/o the -doc package, to allow debconf to get quickly through incoming without waiting for manual approval (I have some important bugs fixed in the many versions below that are stuck in Incoming.) -- Joey Hess Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:00:44 -0700 debconf (0.3.15) unstable; urgency=low * Don't crash if a question has no associated template. That should never happen, but I have one report of it happening. I suspect that some rather old version of debconf caused the problem. It's also possible that deleting the templates.db file might cause similar problems. I've made debconf ask for bug reports in this case, so I can gather more data. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:18:33 -0700 debconf (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low * Tightended up regexp that pareses Template: lines, so spaces are not allowed in the name of a template. As a side effect, this just ignores trailing space on all fields in a templates file. I hope this has no bad side effects.. -- Joey Hess Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:37:37 -0700 debconf (0.3.13) unstable; urgency=low * Minor doc updates. * Fixed syntax error in Client::ConfModule, Closes: #61535 -- Joey Hess Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:22:31 -0800 debconf (0.3.12) unstable; urgency=low * Used exported sub names in a few places I missed before. * Renamed AutoSelect::frontend and AutoSelect::confmodule to make_frontend and make_confmodule, and allow them to be exported too. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:53:55 -0800 debconf (0.3.11) unstable; urgency=low * Added dpkg-debconf. This is a program that lets you send commands to debconf directly from the command line. Will probably be quite useful for debugging purposes. (We used to have something like this a long, long time ago, but I like this new design better.) -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:26:19 -0800 debconf (0.3.10) unstable; urgency=low * Added dpkg-loadtemplate, a simple program that loads templates into the debconf database. This is *not* intended to be used by debian packages, but can be useful for debugging purposes and for pre-seeding the database before installing a package. * Moved all external manpages for perl programs into POD format. * Updated all pod docs to fix formatting problems. * debconf-tiny is no more. Instead, we now have debconf and debconf-doc. This makes debconf proper be nearly as small as debconf-tiny used to be and gets rid of the set of problems associated with debconf-tiny. * This huge and unmanageable changelog is 20k compressed. To make debconf a reasonable size, I am only including the last 5 changelog entries in debconf; the rest go in -doc. * Several modules are now Exporters, and I use that where possible to reduce code size. * Strip all pod docs out of modules in binary package. Ugly, but saves a great deal of space. * Killed off the gtk frontend. The code has been rotting, and it just needs to be rewritten. * Changed the AutoSelect fallbacks around, most frontends now fall back to Slang. * Text frontend no longer always prompts for a Enter press at the end of a run. * Moved some doc files into doc/ in the source package. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:57:54 -0800 debconf (0.3.01) unstable; urgency=low * AUTOLOAD function now creates field accessor functions on the fly. Slight speedup. * s/property/field/g -- Joey Hess Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:42:28 -0800 debconf (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low * New custom slang frontend. Give it a try! * * warning * * This frontend does not yet support multiselect list boxes. So you might not see a very few questions that packages may ask if you use this frontend. * Build-depend on w3m, Closes: #60815 * Added links in confmodule man page, Closes: #60780 * Ignore backups if the client does not support them. * If asked to present the same question twice in a single block, skips the second occurrance. * Fairly large reorganization of code throughout debconf, and more internal module documentation. -- Joey Hess Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:36:32 -0800 debconf (0.2.107) unstable; urgency=low * Made noninteractive select elements smarter. If the value is set, but is set to something not on the list, disregard it and pick the first element from the list. This is actually an important bugfix; it's been causing problems with apt-setup in base-config, making http.us.debian.org be incorrectly picked as the default when users try to set up apt to use a country that just has one mirror on file. * Closes #60160 (important) -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:30:52 -0800 debconf (0.2.106) unstable; urgency=low * Added DEBIAN_PRIORITY for consitency. * Text frontend now prompts you to hit return if text has been displayed w/o a prompt. This is to prevent said text from running off the screen during a dpkg run. To make this work, I had to add a shutdown method to frontends, to be called before a frontend is destroyed. * Denastified the object property references all over. I just hope I didn't remove any direct accesses that were meant to be there (often a good way to introduce infinite loops, so use this version with care..) * Optimized the Text frontend's handling of resize events. * Fixed a compile error in the specification, and actually installs the spec's gif. -- Joey Hess Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:44:30 -0800 debconf (0.2.105) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed noninteractive note element to not mark the item as seen if /usr/bin/mail doesn't exist. (Oops) -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:13:40 -0800 debconf (0.2.104) unstable; urgency=low * Use fully-qualified path for dpkg-preconfigure in apt.conf, Closes: #58469 -- Joey Hess Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:36:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.103) unstable; urgency=low * Removed quite obsolete exim samples. I don't want to maintain samples anymore past those needed by the tutorial and a regression test script. There is quite enough real debconf code out there. -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:10:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.102) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected three ways badly written packages could make dpkg-preconfigure die: - They could try to ask questions that didn't exist. - They could try to ask questions using garbage priority values. - They could have garbage template files that lack required fields. All three are now handled sanely, and debconf even tells the client what stupid thing it has done in the first 2 cases. To make that work, I made FrontEnd::add much simpler, and moved a lot of the failure-prone code into Confmodule::command_input, and did some other reorganizations. * Checked and I don't think any more cases like this exist in debconf. * While I was at it, I shut up messages about failing to make noninteractive elements in debug 2 mode. A common FAQ causer. * Added a Debian.bugtemplate file, in an attempt to get people to report bugs that are actually useful. This is used by newer reportbug packages. -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:08:03 -0800 debconf (0.2.101) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed another stupid typo, that messed up text select and multiselect elements sometimes. -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:15:33 -0800 debconf (0.2.100) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a stupid typo introduced last version. -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:34:26 -0800 debconf (0.2.99) unstable; urgency=low * Added --unseen-only switch to dpkg-reconfigure. This makes it only ask questions that have not been asked before. Closes: #59260 -- Joey Hess Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:30:21 -0800 debconf (0.2.98) unstable; urgency=low * When debconf or debconf-tiny is purged, the database is not deleted if debconf or debconf-tiny is still installed. Closes: #59029 -- Joey Hess Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:19:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.97) unstable; urgency=low * word-wrap all text that is mailed at 75 columns, Closes: #58911 -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:09:43 -0800 debconf (0.2.96) unstable; urgency=low * Catch SIGPIPEs from confmodules and handle them. Closes: #58847, #58818 -- Joey Hess Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:34:29 -0800 debconf (0.2.95) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: Now forces priority to low when reconfiguring packages. People have often complained that it should do this, so it does now. Added a swtich to disable this behavior, which should be used by eg, the boot floppies when it reconfigures base-config. Also, re-wrote the switch parsing to match how it's done in dpkg-preconfigure. * Removed lots of extortions to use -plow from docs. * Bother. base.pm is not in perl-base. Added nasty code to fix this when building debconf-tiny. -- Joey Hess Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:59:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.94) unstable; urgency=low * Copyright and url updates. * dpkg-reconfigure: don't run the postrm of the package. Doing so breaks things when for example, the package uses dpkg-divert and tries to remove diversions in the postrm. This cannot be an isolated problem either. This reverses the change made in version 0.2.52, which did not say why I added it in the first place.. (suspicion: non-idempotent postinst scripts may need the postrm to clean up after them before being called again. However, such scripts are broken.) Closes: #58527 (important bug) * no changes; Closes: #58495 (I'm not going to add 3 lines of code bloat to a package in base just to provide a marginally better error message.) * Added --help to dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure. Closes: #58496 * Added more cautions about passwords to the tutorial. * Text mode [multi]select elements now display in multiple columns. This is experimental, and I don't know how it will interact with having support for descriptions associated with items in the selection list, which is a todo item. * Use w3m again to format docs (how'd I lose that?) -- Joey Hess Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:51:44 -0800 debconf (0.2.93) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed minor back problem in debconf's own config script, and some documentation fixes. -- Joey Hess Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:56:02 -0800 debconf (0.2.92) unstable; urgency=low * Important fix: don't accidentially delete Dialog/Text.pm from debconf-tiny. -- Joey Hess Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:16:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.91) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfigure: It turns out that the trick of reading from stdin until EOF, then reading more later only works if stdin is a tty. When it was running from apt, that wasn't so, and so it caused dialog to lock up, in a tight loop, unable to read keypresses from stdin. The fix is pretty simple; just open /dev/tty and connect STDIN to it after reading the filelist from apt. Closes: #56518, #57771 (important bugs). * Disabled dialog exclusion that was added in the last release. -- Joey Hess Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:52:24 -0800 debconf (0.2.90) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not use Getopt::Long, so it will work even on the base system it is now a part of. * As a workaround for the dialog lock problem (which seems to be a dialog bug), never use dialog for the text mode menus. Works around: #56518 (grave), #57771 (important) -- Joey Hess Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:09:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.89) unstable; urgency=low * Use perl's "base" module throughout the code, cutting 2 lines from each module. Due to a bug in the module, I had to throw lots of "use"'s back in, in the case of child modules that had a name that just appeneded to the name of their parent. I have filed a perlbug about that (ID 20000212.001). These additions are marked "# perlbug" so I can grep them back out later. * Warning: I expect this release is very buggy. But that's why you're tracking unstable, right? -- Joey Hess Sat, 12 Feb 2000 01:51:48 -0800 debconf (0.2.88) unstable; urgency=low * Add templates file, config script, postinst, and posrtm to debconf-tiny, so debconf/priority actually exists. This is necessary so base-config can change the priority if the boot-floppies were installed in verbose or quiet mode. This is a critical bugfix, as it fixes a bug that made newly installed systems unusable. * Added dpkg-preconfigure to debconf-tiny, since this: a) lets debconf-tiny use debconf's postinst unchanged b) is useful in general to have in debconf-tiny * Several k of bloat. Oh well.. -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:49:38 -0800 debconf (0.2.87) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected 2 typos, Closes: #57605 * Closes: #57607 -- already fixed. -- Joey Hess Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:04:35 -0800 debconf (0.2.86) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a typo I introduced earlier today. -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:54:09 -0800 debconf (0.2.85) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed some uninitialized values related to multiselct questions with no defaults. -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:20:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.84) unstable; urgency=low * Added code to postinst to delete long-obsolete /etc/debconf.cfg -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:41:13 -0800 debconf (0.2.83) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: detect perl confmodules properly, by making my regexp match case in-sensitively. This fixes a bug that made dpkg-reconfigure not work at all to reconfigure packages that used ConfModule.pm. * dpkg-reconfigure: assume all config scripts are confmodules, it would be pretty weird for one not to be, and this speeds things up a tiny bit. -- Joey Hess Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:37:23 -0800 debconf (0.2.82) unstable; urgency=low * Installed workaround from Joel Klecker to fix the annoying termcap warning from Term::Readline. This does not close these bugs, but it does work around them: #47363, #50286, #50540, #51787, #52052, #53274, #55142, #56987, and #46270 -- Joey Hess Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:44:26 -0800 debconf (0.2.81) unstable; urgency=low * Added checks for wrong number of parameters in all command_* subs in ConfModule.pm. If the check fails, error 20 is returned (syntax error). -- Joey Hess Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:24:27 -0800 debconf (0.2.80) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Adjusted debconf dependancy to perl-5.005, not perl5. As Raphael points out, just dependong on perl5 does not guarentee Data::Dumper is available. Raphael thinks this is a critical bug. * debconf-tiny's dependancy, on the other hand, was already ok. * Binary and source packages no longer contain CVS backup files, Closes: #55860 -- Joey Hess Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:44:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.79) frozen unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure: Now checks each script before running it to see if it is a confmodule, if not, runs it as a normal script, not under the confmodule interface. base-config shows this is necessary, with its non-confmodule postinst. This change is needed in frozen to keep base-config working. * Fixed debconf's oldest bug report, which turned out to be a bug in how IPC::Open3 was being called. It also turns out this bug is tickeled by base-config, since it will be reconfiguredd from inittab, so it turned out to be a critical bug. Closes: #47659 * Documented (again) in dpkg-reconfigure.8 that "dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf" should be used to reconfigure debconf. Closes: #55706 -- Joey Hess Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:34:30 -0800 debconf (0.2.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Woops, I forgot to let the CLEAR command be executed in any of the confmodule libraries! * base-config needs that command, so this must go to frozen. * Fixed an undefiend value warning in Element::Dialog::Password -- Joey Hess Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:14:38 -0800 debconf (0.2.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low * debconf proper depends on perl5 (not -base), because some utilities do use Getopt::Long. debconf-tiny continues to just depend on perl-5.005-base, because everything in it will work without debconf. Closes: #55381 (important) * Added --all option to dpkg-reconfigure, for use by the boot-floppies inittab. -- Joey Hess Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:11:12 -0800 debconf (0.2.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Re-enabled use of _ and . in template fields. Necessary for localaization. -- Joey Hess Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:09:28 -0800 debconf (0.2.75) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Corrected a bug in noninteractive select elements. Amoung other things, this bug broke apt-setup in base-config (so it is a critical bug, yada, yada). I believe this also Closes: #55036 -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:38:33 -0800 debconf (0.2.74) frozen unstable; urgency=low * I guess these changes are necessary to make debconf usable for people who use locales, so this should _probably_ go into frozen. * Switched over to using perl's setlocale() function to determine the current locale. This means that locale aliases work, and that users who have a locale like 'es_ES.ISO-8859-1' see all the es_ES messages. * Added one level of locale fallback: for example, it looks for 'es' messages too in the case above. -- Joey Hess Sat, 15 Jan 2000 02:20:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.73) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Make dpkg-reconfigure work inside a base system that has no Getopt::Long. This is critical to get into potato, because base-config has to be dpkg-reconfigure'd on initial reboot to set the root password and so on. * Really make dialog frontend default. I thought I did this 8 versions back.. * Medium priority is now default. * Probably fixed bug #55174, but who knows, I cannot reproduce it anyway. -- Joey Hess Fri, 14 Jan 2000 20:20:44 -0800 debconf (0.2.72) unstable; urgency=low * Renamed dpkg-preconfig to dpkg-preconfigure, for consistency. Closes: #53893 * Moved dpkg-preconfigure and dpkg-reconfigure to /usr/sbin. -- Joey Hess Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:55:10 -0800 debconf (0.2.71) unstable; urgency=low * Sped up and simplified language code. * Fixed dpkg-preconfigure to not re-show old questions when running in apt mode (oops!) -- Joey Hess Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:01:34 -0800 debconf (0.2.70) unstable; urgency=low * '_' and '.' can now appear in fields names in templates. Necessary for some localization.. If you use them in a field name, you had better depend on this version; earlier ones will die if they see such a thing. * Fixed a logic error that broke debconf if you had LC_ALL or LANG set, Closes: #54615, #54638, #54655 -- Joey Hess Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:03:31 -0800 debconf (0.2.69) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf is not yet internationalized itself, but the data it reads in from templates now may be. * Documented what else I need to do toward i18n in the TODO. * Client::ConfModule detects newline in text it is going to send out, and warns about them. This after the pain of debugging what a spare \n can do to the protocol.. -- Joey Hess Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:41:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.68) unstable; urgency=low * Documented DEBCONF_DEBUG, Closes: #54434 * Don't show "none of the above" choice in text frontend's select element. It is only supposed to be in multiselect elements. * A few more bug reports that were fixed 2 versions ago should be closed. Closes: #54459, #54462, #54429, #54393, #54443, #54400 -- Joey Hess Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:33 -0800 debconf (0.2.67) unstable; urgency=low * When the back button is hit, clear the buffer of all questions. Fixes some truely confusing behavior. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:55:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.66) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed type that was making a sbin file, Closes: #0.2.65 -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:34:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.65) unstable; urgency=low * Add dpkg-reconfigure to debconf-tiny. -- Joey Hess Fri, 7 Jan 2000 01:09:33 -0800 debconf (0.2.64) unstable; urgency=low * Changed default frontend (again), back to the dialog frontend. I can't really make my mind up on this, but my reasoning for using dialog is that debconf-tiny is going to be used by several packages on a fresh install, so the user is going to see some debconf dialog stuff right from the start. Changing to text half-way through is liable to be confusing. -- Joey Hess Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:24:55 -0800 debconf (0.2.63) unstable; urgency=low * Removed apt-setup; it is in base-config now. * Minor README change. * Now build-depends on sgml-data, to follow the bouncing xml.dcl. * In fact, I have to change things to use a new name and path for that file too. * Really fixed that typo. -- Joey Hess Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:32:15 -0800 debconf (0.2.62) unstable; urgency=low * Typo fix, Closes: #54205 -- Joey Hess Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:53:14 -0800 debconf (0.2.61) unstable; urgency=low * When dpkg-preconfig is run from apt, it turns off showing of old questions. That remains turned off until all preconfiguration is complete. The effect is that you can now configure debconf to re-show old questions, and not have to suffer through seeing all the old questions twice. If you turned off showing of old questions because seeing questions twice was annoying, you may want to turn it back on now. -- Joey Hess Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:51:45 -0800 debconf (0.2.60) unstable; urgency=low * Client/frontend: the templates filename guessing has been a bit broken in one case. I've fixed that now, Closes: #53730. Happy GNU year! -- Joey Hess Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:10:07 -0800 debconf (0.2.59) unstable; urgency=low * Don't use lib. Closes: #53316 -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800 debconf (0.2.58) unstable; urgency=low * Now just depends on perl-5.005-base (of sufficiently recent version), since that package now contains everything I need. (Closes: #53186) * Client/frontend: Look for templates in /usr/share/debconf/templates/ as well as the current directory. Useful for stadalone programs that use debconf. * Include apt-setup in debconf and debconf-tiny for now, since the base system needs them available *now*. This is not the right long-term location, though. Closes: #53187 (Adam, you want to run "/usr/sbin/apt-setup probe") -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:31:50 -0800 debconf (0.2.57) unstable; urgency=low * Tightened up the perl dependancies. I think the previous looser dependancies might have caused a problem. -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:53:22 -0800 debconf (0.2.56) unstable; urgency=low * Depend on the version of fileutils that supported --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, Closes: #52746 (should that bug really have been grave? It could only be triggered if you installed debconf w/o upgrading to potato fileutils, and then purged it.) * Despite what the bug report says, the postinst has never ran rmdir. -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:53:20 -0800 debconf (0.2.55) unstable; urgency=low * Added to the tutorial. -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:42:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.54) unstable; urgency=low * In the dialog frontend, do not pass the default password to dialog. This is a security hole, and besides it's very confusing since dialog doesn't display the passowrd, and the user might inaverdently append to it. -- Joey Hess Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:09:13 -0800 debconf (0.2.53) unstable; urgency=low * "Cancel" (or hitting escape) in the dialog frontend is now interpreted to mean back up a step. Not quite intuitive, but it is the bast thing I can do with a cancel button, and I need the ability to backup. Closes: #51887 * Reworked how question values are set. This is now done in FrontEnd::go(), instead of in each Element's show() method. -- Joey Hess Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:27:49 -0800 debconf (0.2.52) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf install now asks if you want to preconfigure packages, and if you answer no, does not add/removes call to dpkg-preconfig in apt.conf. * Changed user's guide to match. * dpkg-reconfigure runs the postrm now. It's also substantially smaller. -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:26:26 -0800 debconf (0.2.51) unstable; urgency=low * Made noninteractive frontend really silent. Closes: #51952 * Corrected debconf-tiny's conflicts. * Autoselect can now have loops in the frontends it tries, it is smart enough to break the loops. This lets the text frontend fallback to the Dialog frontend. Since that is the only frontend in debconf-tiny, this is required to make it use the dialog frontend. -- Joey Hess Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:49:16 -0800 debconf (0.2.50) unstable; urgency=low * Needs a versioned debhelper dependency. -- Joey Hess Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:57:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.49) unstable; urgency=low * Build-Depends on docbook-stylesheets, which are needed to make the xml docs be formatted decently. -- Joey Hess Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:35:41 -0800 debconf (0.2.48) unstable; urgency=low * Added comment to apt.conf that the line was added by debconf, Closes: #51720 -- Joey Hess Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:14:56 -0800 debconf (0.2.47) unstable; urgency=low * Element/Dialog/String.pm: Fixed a thinko that is causing the warning messages reported in bug #51561. -- Joey Hess Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:45:26 -0800 debconf (0.2.46) unstable; urgency=low * Changed tutorial docs of version command. Clients are not stricly required to pass a version number into it. * Removed warning message if a client does not pass in a version, Closes: #51431 * Added build dependancy info. -- Joey Hess Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:36:51 -0800 debconf (0.2.45) unstable; urgency=low * Discovered dialog's --separate-output parameter, and use it for multiselect boxes, since it simplfies parsing. -- Joey Hess Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:52:03 -0800 debconf (0.2.44) unstable; urgency=low * w3m -dump works again, so use it. -- Joey Hess Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:48:20 -0800 debconf (0.2.43) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig: modified regexp to work under perl 5.004 (Closes: #50854, #50880) -- Joey Hess Sun, 21 Nov 1999 13:36:37 -0800 debconf (0.2.42) unstable; urgency=low * Improved abbreviation finding algorythm for text select elements. * Cleaned up the show method of Element::Text::Select. * Element::Text::MultiSelect can now inherit from Element::Text::Select, making it much shorter. -- Joey Hess Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:22:09 -0800 debconf (0.2.41) unstable; urgency=low * Changed how text frontend's select element indicates which choice is default. It can now indicate when numbers are the default. Closes: #50751 * Detect if libterm-readline-*-perl is being used. If so, allow interactive editing of the default, since that is supported. If not, display the default as part of the prompt. This makes things more consistent overall. * Added 'none of the above' option to [multi]select elements, so if you don't have libterm-readline-*-perl, you can still override the default and choose nothing. Unfortunatly, I still don't see a way to do that with string input elements.. * Since w3m is currently broken, dump pages with lynx for now. -- Joey Hess Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:08:55 -0800 debconf (0.2.40) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig: Do a basic dependancy check before attempting to preconfigure a package. If the package depends on a newer version of debconf than is installed, do not preconfigure. (Closes: #50411, #50236) Should prevent any further breakages of the type we've seen before. * doc/tutorial.xml: If you use the multiselect data type, you should depend on debconf 0.2.26. * Version.pm: Added, to store the debconf version. -- Joey Hess Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:16:16 -0800 debconf (0.2.38) unstable; urgency=low * When processing what dialog returns after showing a multiselct, there may be trailing space after the last double quote. Nodified to handle that, Closes: #50471 -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:58:38 -0800 debconf (0.2.37) unstable; urgency=low * Client/frontend: be less aggressive when trying to guess a template filename. Fixes sslwrap purge problem. -- Joey Hess Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:55:59 -0800 debconf (0.2.36) unstable; urgency=low * I've been persuaded that the Text frontend is the best default for new installs. This doesn't change the default for people who already have debconf installed. -- Joey Hess Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:12:04 -0800 debconf (0.2.35) unstable; urgency=low * Update database files atomically, should fix the isolated empty db files that have been reported twice now. -- Joey Hess Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:47:31 -0800 debconf (0.2.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed 3 bugs reports that will get filed in the next 36 hours. The debconf bug betting pool is now open -- how many times will this be reported now that it's been fixed? :-p * Specifically, now that ConfModule doesn't send a return code for STOP, frontends can't try to read such a return code, or they hang. -- Joey Hess Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:04:16 -0800 debconf (0.2.33) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf scripts now automatically load their templates when they are invoked manually, if the .templates file is present in the same directory. * This makes debconf-loadtemplate basically obsolete, so I have removed it. * This means there is no need for a special test.pl in the source package. * And this also means it's now a lot easier to debug config scripts before putting them in a package. Documented this in the tutorial. * Feh, I have to keep the debconf-tiny changelog in sync with this one, or the package version isn't updated. Debhelper is too smart for its own good. Hacked around it. (If other people have this problem, I can add a flag to debhelper to handle this better..) * Documented everywhere that when reconfiguring debconf, --priority=medium is a good idea. Closes: #50225 -- Joey Hess Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:46:22 -0800 debconf (0.2.32) unstable; urgency=low * Added a debconf-tiny package, which is a very stripped down debconf to be used on the base system. Debconf itself is 117+k, mainly because of all the frontends and docs. To make debconf-tiny, I: - removed all docs - removed all frontends except dialog and noninteractive - removed most stuff in /usr/bin - stripped out all POD docs and regular comments from all perl modules - All this got the package down to 27k compressed. 14k compressed of that was this changelog (It's all the fault of long changelog entries like this one!) - So, I started a new changelog for debconf-tiny, in which I will record changes specific to it. debconf-tiny is now 12k. * Removed /etc from package. -- Joey Hess Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:08:58 -0800 debconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=low * Always returns "mulitselect" as one of it's capabilities now. This was added because people need a way for their packages, when preconfigured, to check to see if they have a new enough version of debconf to ask a multiselect question. * The better, long term fix is basic dependancy checking in dpkg-preconfig, and that is now the top of my todo list. -- Joey Hess Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:58:13 -0800 debconf (0.2.30) unstable; urgency=low * STOP cannot return a success code, since in all likelyhood, the pipe it would try to write it to is broken. (Closes: #49856, #49946) * debug messages are now prioritized, DEBCONF_DEBUG can be set to 1 to see some, 2 for more, etc. -- Joey Hess Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:40:50 -0800 debconf (0.2.29) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig now clears it's progress meter when done, like apt does now. * Fixed a possible infinite recursion in the text frontend, if you use it on an absurdly small screen. (It tried to display the title, had to paginate it, went to display [More], and first decided to display the title...) * With doogie's help, simplified Client/confmodule a bit. -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:38:11 -0800 debconf (0.2.28) unstable; urgency=low * Added a Debconf user's guide. * Cleaned up the doc Makefile. -- Joey Hess Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:06:19 -0800 debconf (0.2.27) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected Client::ConfModule to return the right thing when one of its functions is called in scalar context. It was returning the result code by mistake, now it returns the value, like it is documented to do. -- Joey Hess Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:18:40 -0800 debconf (0.2.26) unstable; urgency=low * Added multiselect data type. * Wrote input elements for this type for all frontends except the Gtk frontend. The Gtk frontend needs a bit of a redesign before it can handle this, I think. * Made dpkg-preconfig properly accept -f and --frontend, Closes: #49920 -- Joey Hess Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:30:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.25) unstable; urgency=low * Removed gtk frontend from list of frontends. If you already have it selected, you can continue using it, but I'm sick of people filing bugs on it who didn't bother to read the note that said it had known problems and should not be used. * dpkg-reconfigure now doesn't do anything if it's told to reconfigure packages that lack a config script. This makes it not fail on packages that don't use debconf, though it is just a no-op with them. Closes: #48190 -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:15:04 -0800 debconf (0.2.24) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the stty error messages, and screen size detection should work again. For some reason I had to make stty use /dev/tty for stdin, plain default stdin doesn't work when dpkg-preconfig is being run by apt. * Change undefined values to '' when starting confmodules, Closes: #49797 * Fixed web frontend to never display empty forms. -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:29:53 -0800 debconf (0.2.23) unstable; urgency=low * Added sane defaults if stty -a fails. (Closes: a whole slew of bug reports people will file over the next 2 days. :-P) -- Joey Hess Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:00:16 -0800 debconf (0.2.22) unstable; urgency=low * The noninteractive frontend now mails notes to root. * Reworked the mechanism that makes select questions always set their value when they are INPUT, even if they arn't really displayed, to be much cleaner: This is now handled by the noninteractive select element. * Reworked how Elements are created to use eval, which kills the duplicated makelement() code in all the FrontEnds. -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:10:26 -0800 debconf (0.2.21) unstable; urgency=low * frontend now works if run from something other than dpkg. Closes: #49449 * Created a new Tty frontend to serve as a base class for Dialog and Text. It detects screen resizes. Made it the parent of Dialog and Text, and they now also detect screen resizes. Debconf in a 30x5 xterm is beautiful! -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:12:38 -0800 debconf (0.2.20) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the text frontend to not lower-case choices in a select list. (Closes: #49650) -- Joey Hess Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:18:15 -0800 debconf (0.2.19) unstable; urgency=low * People just don't seem to get it -- NEVER use dh_input in a postinst! Tightened up the language about that in the tutorial, and repeated my self in several places in the hope people will read at least one of them. * Eliminated use of Fcntl, one of the modules that made us depend on perl. * Deleted the copy of the spec that was local to this document. The configuration management spec is now available as an xml document, in Debian CVS. For convenience, debconf includes that document now. -- Joey Hess Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:34:02 -0800 debconf (0.2.18) unstable; urgency=low * Spelling fixes, Closes: #49587 * Documented on each man page that talks about --frontend, how the frontend can be permanently changed. Closes: #49537 * Don't crash if told to remove a nonexistant question. * Rationalized debug and warning message printing. -- Joey Hess Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:56:07 -0800 debconf (0.2.17) unstable; urgency=low * So it is possible to use debconf from the preinst of a package, after all. Added sundry nasty hacks to make it work. (Also talked with BenC and Wichert about doing this right in dpkg.) * When a package is installed for the first time, the config script now gets "" as its second parameter, as it should. * ConfModule.pm now just execs a frontend, instead of turning into one. Not quite as cool, but a lot easier to maintain. -- Joey Hess Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:36:13 -0800 debconf (0.2.16) unstable; urgency=low * Made frontend fallback message less scary. * Split the template data out of the main debconf database and into templates.db. This reduces the chances of it getting corrupted. -- Joey Hess Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:19:49 -0800 debconf (0.2.15) unstable; urgency=low * The last changelog lies: it's actually not possible to do any debconf stuff in a preinst. The templates arn't available then. * Documented this, until someone comes up with a workaround. -- Joey Hess Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:31:28 -0800 debconf (0.2.14) unstable; urgency=low * I found that the currently installed version of the package was being passed to the config script if the package was just installed with dpkg and not preconfiged. Fixed. * If a preinst sources confmodule, the config script will be run. Needed for packages like ssh that need to ask questions before install time always. -- Joey Hess Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:22:17 -0800 debconf (0.2.13) unstable; urgency=low * Patchs from Fumitoshi UKAI to: - fix typo that was breaking gtk frontend, Closes: #49074, #49076 - call set_locale so gtk frontend can display text in any language, Closes: #49075 -- Joey Hess Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:26:45 -0800 debconf (0.2.12) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig is now more robust: If a config script fails, it outputs an error message, but continues so as much as possible of the install can still complete. -- Joey Hess Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:08:07 -0800 debconf (0.2.11) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed spelling error, Closes: #49032, which was filed on base for unfathomable reasons. -- Joey Hess Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:47:39 -0800 debconf (0.2.10) unstable; urgency=low * For some reason, jade was inserting ' ' into generated html, which looks nasty in w3m. Fixed that, and also use w3m to dump html to text now, so tables are legible. -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:55:15 -0800 debconf (0.2.9) unstable; urgency=low * Squashed a ConfModule startup warning. * Removed an implicit apt dependancy. * _Really_ fixed problem with newline after owner. Tested and retested this time. Closes: #48450 -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:45:54 -0800 debconf (0.2.8) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed xml stylesheet to include legalnotice. * Fixed a stupid error that was making parameters never get passed into confmodules. Closes: #48824, #48853 * Closes: 47458 (been fixed for a while) -- Joey Hess Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:31:28 -0800 debconf (0.2.7) unstable; urgency=low * Select Elements are not shown if they have less than 2 choices. However, for conistency, even if not shown, the value of the Question they represent is changed as if they were shown. -- Joey Hess Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:28:40 -0800 debconf (0.2.6) unstable; urgency=low * Expanded and fixed up the Debian::DebConf::Client::ConfModule.2pm man page. Closes: #48809 * Moved that man page to man section 3. Closes: #48810 * Corrected Question->value to return undef if there is no default set. This Closes: #48829, and is the right thing to do. It does, however, break slews of debconf code that never expected to get an undef there. So I dug around and fixed it all, I think. * Fixed entering of '0' into text box in dialog frontend, which was broken. -- Joey Hess Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:11:44 -0800 debconf (0.2.5) unstable; urgency=low * Removed stupid debugging code. (oops) -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Oct 1999 22:38:59 -0700 debconf (0.2.4) unstable; urgency=low * Just for Culus, sped up dpkg-preconfig by a factor of 3. -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:26:29 -0700 debconf (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy bug again. -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Oct 1999 18:34:30 -0700 debconf (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected debconf upgrade problem. If an old version of debconf preconfig'd a newer version, the config script failed. -- Joey Hess Sat, 30 Oct 1999 17:15:53 -0700 debconf (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Confmodule.pm fixes I forgot in the last version. -- Joey Hess Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:20:46 -0700 debconf (0.2.0) unstable; urgency=low * Now uses version 2.0 of the configuration management protocol. - All commands in the protocol now return a numerical return code, optionally followed by a space and a text return code. * confmodule is a new shell library that handles this by making each command it provides now return the numerical return code. They continue to set $RET to the text return code. This means that you now have to check the return codes of those commands, or the set -e script you are running them in may exit if they return an error code. * confmodule.sh is now deprecated, but remains for backwards compatability, and has special compatability code in it. * ConfModule.pm handles this by making each of its commands, when called in list contect, return a list consiting of the numeric return code, and the string return code. When called in scalar context, it behaves in a backwards compatable way. * Deprecated the VISIBLE command. Check to see if INPUT returns 30 instead. * Deprecated the EXIST command. Check for return code 10 from commands that try to use the question, instead. * The GO command no longer returns "back"; instead, it returns 30. * Documented all this. * Hey, a state machine is the way to go if you want to support back buttons! Converted the tutorial to reccommend this, and converted debconf's own config script into a state machine. * Used tables in several places in the tutorial where they make sense. * Split the actual working templates and code out of the tutorial, and put it in the samples direcotry. It is included inline so it is still available in the tutorial, but now I can also debug it and make sure it works.. * Added the noninteractive frontend to the list of choices you get when configuring debconf. * If the text frontend fails (this can really happen, if you run debconf w/o a controlling tty in an autobuilder, say), falls back to the noninteractive frontend. (Closes: #48644) * The web frontend now only accepts connections from localhost. * The web and noninteractive frontends now print out text saying they are running. * If a frontend fails, the failure message is always printed, not just in debug mode. * Fixed checkboxes in the web frontend so if they are unchecked, this fact is noted. * Added debconf-loadtemplate to the .deb. -- Joey Hess Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:04:13 -0700 debconf (0.1.75) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy problem. * Fixed a problem with empty text input fields in the Dialog frontend setting the value of the question back to default instead of to '' -- Joey Hess Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:41:41 -0700 debconf (0.1.74) unstable; urgency=low * Added a very important note to the tutorial. -- Joey Hess Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:38:42 -0700 debconf (0.1.73) unstable; urgency=low * In the dialog frontend, if a prompt is too big to fit on a dialog and has to be slit up, it will now display just the extended description in a dialog, and then display a new dialog with the short description and the actual input element in it. This is intended to reduce confusion when a user sees a question at the bottom of a dialog and an "Ok" button beneath it -- that won't happen any more, and I think it's ok to say this change Closes: #47644 * Reduced the amount of code in Dialog Elments a lot. * Fixed yet another bug in dialog select box sizing. WIll they never end? * Dialog select boxes no longer have numbered items. Looks better. -- Joey Hess Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:14:51 -0700 debconf (0.1.72) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig: fixed so it chomps the package name, to prevent ugliness like \n in the owners field. Closes: #48450 -- Joey Hess Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:48:54 -0700 debconf (0.1.71) unstable; urgency=low * The dialog frontend can now use --passwordbox with both whiptail and dialog, so I made that change. (Closes: #47196) * Added a section to the tutorail on adding backup capabilities to config scripts. (Closes: #47676) -- Joey Hess Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:02:10 -0700 debconf (0.1.70) unstable; urgency=low * Some work done towards supporting containers. * Config scripts are now passed the version of the package that is currently installed when they are run, which is normally the old version of the package. (Analagous to postinst scripts.) -- Joey Hess Wed, 13 Oct 1999 06:35:34 -0700 debconf (0.1.69) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the web frontend to send a HTTP reponse header, patch from Fumitoshi UKAI , Closes: #47937 -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:19:43 -0700 debconf (0.1.68) unstable; urgency=low * s/newbie/politically_correct_language()/eg; Closes: #47668 * With regards to the second part of that bug report: critical is first on the list, and always has been, unless you are using the dialog frontend, where I have to do nasty re-ordering to make the default be first. If you want, file a seperate (wishlist) bug on this. -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:26:34 -0700 debconf (0.1.67) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a truely braindead problem in Container.pm, which was breaking Select Elements a bit. (Closes: #47683) -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:14:17 -0700 debconf (0.1.66) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo in debconf template. (Closes: #47458) -- Joey Hess Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:44:24 -0700 debconf (0.1.65) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch from Rafael Laboissiere to add an "exists" command. Be warned that this command is probably only temporary, I am looking for a better solution. (Closes: #46927) -- Joey Hess Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:52:43 -0700 debconf (0.1.64) unstable; urgency=low * Slighly better handing of select element in text frontend if it has more than 26 choices. -- Joey Hess Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:30:13 -0700 debconf (0.1.63) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed text fromtend boolean input element to return true if true is the default. (Closes: #47049) * Fixed tutorial typo. (Closes: #47050) -- Joey Hess Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:11:24 -0700 debconf (0.1.62) unstable; urgency=low * Added stylesheet to turn on toc's. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:31:31 -0700 debconf (0.1.61) unstable; urgency=low * Converted the tutorial and introduction to xml and docbook. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:26:17 -0700 debconf (0.1.60) unstable; urgency=low * Disabled gdialog support just temporariy. * Works with the latest dialog in unstable, re-enabled dialog support. * Dialog select boxes are now indexed starting at 1, not 0. * Documented a confmodule.sh gotcha in a tew troubleshooting section of the tutorial. -- Joey Hess Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:36:02 -0700 debconf (0.1.59) unstable; urgency=low * Guarded postinst code that modifies apt.conf to prevent dup entries. * Started doing some cleanup of the gtk frontend: - It no longer flashes the window up on the screen unless it really has a question to ask this time around. - Made cancel button work. It still segfaults on exit though. -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:21:35 -0700 debconf (0.1.58) unstable; urgency=low * Allowed confmodule.sh to be loaded twice. Closes: #46843 -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:44:30 -0700 debconf (0.1.57) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from rafael@icp.inpg.fr (Rafael Laboissiere) to fix a perl warning, Closes: #46871 * Another patch from Rafael to fix a mistake in the tutorial. Closes: #46873 -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:40:02 -0700 debconf (0.1.56) unstable; urgency=low * Wrote a perl module dependancy grapher, and include output in the .deb package. I need to clean up parts of the Element hierarchy. Running this on all perl modules in /usr/lib/perl is amusing, too, though it needs some more work to be of general utility. (And I suspect someone has already written a better one I'm not aware of.) * Made a new frontend -- the Noninteractive frontend. * All objects in debconf now derive from a common base class, which saved a few dozen lines of code at least. * There is now only one ConfModule object, no more multiple derived objects per FrontEnd type. To make this work, I had to move the capb property into the FrontEnd. -- Joey Hess Thu, 7 Oct 1999 02:52:02 -0700 debconf (0.1.55) unstable; urgency=low * Reorganized some modules. No user-visible changes. -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:20:43 -0700 debconf (0.1.54) unstable; urgency=low * Gtk frontend can use the newest gtk-perl to test whether opening the display will work. Closes: #46736 * metaget'ing choices now returns a list. Fixes the other half of #46606. * Select boxes that consist of one item are not displayed. -- Joey Hess Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:21:01 -0700 debconf (0.1.53) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected db_text command in confmodule.sh, Closes: #46640 * Corrected typo in confmodule.3 man page, Closes: #46651 * Corrected whiptail window sizing problems, Closes: #46498, #46655 -- Joey Hess Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:21:25 -0700 debconf (0.1.52) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed fatal dpkg-reconfig typo. -- Joey Hess Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:45:32 -0700 debconf (0.1.51) unstable; urgency=low * Debconf config scripts are now called with options. "configure" is normally passed, "reconfigure" is passed if dpkg-reconfig is reconfiguring the package. After that, the version of the package is passed. * dpkg-reconfigure will only work on packages that are fully installed. -- Joey Hess Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:12:56 -0700 debconf (0.1.50) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected several errors with how the choices field is accessed. (Closes: #46606) * No longer parses the choices field at template load time. This is a big change and might break stuff -- we'll see. -- Joey Hess Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:26:32 -0700 debconf (0.1.49) unstable; urgency=low * Added a simple little progress report display to dpkg-preconfig so when apt passes it 200 packages to be upgraded on a 386, it's clear that something is actually going on. -- Joey Hess Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:04:38 -0700 debconf (0.1.48) unstable; urgency=low * Quoted a few more bareword hash keys that were causing a perl warning. What puzzles me is I cannot reproduce the warning at all.. (Closes: #46545) -- Joey Hess Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:18:36 -0700 debconf (0.1.47) unstable; urgency=low * Doh -- I need to update to use debhelper's debconf support! :-) * Gdialog only takes --defaultno options at the end. Dialog only takes than at the beginning. Whiptail takes them either place. Argh. I've changed to using the end for now, since I don't use dialog at all yet. * Disambiguated {owners} in Question.pm, Closes: #46347 * Killed EXAMPLES out of the debian package. * Flipped ordering of short and long descriptions in notes and text in the dialog frontend; makes more sense this way. * dpkg-reconfigure aborts if you arn't root. -- Joey Hess Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:31:06 -0700 debconf (0.1.46) unstable; urgency=low * Yesterday's changes to the choices field broke all select lists -- fixed. * Added regression tests to TODO, it's clear I need them. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:06:49 -0700 debconf (0.1.45) unstable; urgency=low * Modified the README to refer to the locations of docs in the installed .deb, rather than the tarball, now that most people are installing debs. Closes: #46302. -- Joey Hess Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:49:12 -0700 debconf (0.1.44) unstable; urgency=low * Added the metaget command. I did this mainly to let one get a list of the owners of a question, though it might have other uses later. * Substitutions now take effect on the choices field as well as the description field. * Put these two changes together and it's now possible to install several related packages (ispell dictionaries, say), and get a list of what dictionaries are available when the config scripts run, and only prompt the user once for which one they want. Added a section to the tutorial about this. -- Joey Hess Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:52:14 -0700 debconf (0.1.43) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed the problems with the purge command, which were really package name guessing problems and some errors in the new purge code. BenC, it's ready for you. * Don't install frontend in /bin (Closes: #46149) * Fixed a problem with interpretation of the set command. The second parameter can have spaces in it. * Added data-dumper dependancy, since some perl's don't include it. (Closes: #46147) -- Joey Hess Mon, 28 Sep 1999 17:17:42 -0700 debconf (0.1.42) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a problem with Client::ConfModule. -- Joey Hess Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:12:32 -0700 debconf (0.1.41) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch from Peter Vreman to correct dialog size guessing code. Did some additional fixes for whiptail. (Closes: 46060) * Fixed a really silly formatting bug in FrontEnd::Dialog that was probably leading to what looked like corrupted displays for some people. * When breaking a question up over multiple screens with dialog, it makes sure to always show the short description when it actually prompts for input. This is a lot less disorienting. -- Joey Hess Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:41:57 -0700 debconf (0.1.40) unstable; urgency=low * gdialog will soon support --defaultno, added versionsed conflicts with versions that don't, and support it again. * ConfModule::new() doesn't take a confmodule to start anymore, I broke that out into a separate function. * AutoSelect only starts up the script if it's actually passed once. TRhis should fix your problem, BenC. -- Joey Hess Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:16:47 -0700 debconf (0.1.39) unstable; urgency=low * Hm, I know I fixed this before, but the fix seems to have been lost: Fixed bug in the AutoSelect that was making it *always* try dialog first, even if something else was picked. (Closes: #46020) * Dialog has no --defaultno flag, which makes it unusable for debconf. Oh, so does gdialog. I have submitted a patch for dialog, but for now I have simply made debconf not accept dialog. If you don't have whiptail, you get text mode. I also made the --defaultno flag be passed first, which is how dialog will (eventually) support it. (Closes: #46047) * Dialog frontend no longer clears the screen when running. Makes it easier to get at debug messages. (Closes: #46048) * dpkg-reconfigure was trashing ownerships, fixed. -- Joey Hess Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:50:02 -0700 debconf (0.1.38) unstable; urgency=low * Added password data type. Currently supported by the Text frontend (though it has problems displaying right in an xterm), the Gtk frontend, and the Web frontend (though you'd be insane to use it!). * Fixed a nasty bug in the fallback code. * Read-protected the debconf db directory. -- Joey Hess Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:13:20 -0700 debconf (0.1.37) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a problem if perl failed to configure and dpkg-preconfig then bombed out on the next apt run, users would have an unusable apt and not be able to fix their system. Now dpkg-preconfigure detects a broken perl and exits sanely, allowing apt to continue and fix things. (Closes: #45927) * Fixed a dpkg-preconfig type introduced last version. -- Joey Hess Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:55:51 -0700 debconf (0.1.36) unstable; urgency=low * Added fallback frontend support. If the frontend the user selects is not available, or fails to initialize (say DISPLAY is unset for Gtk), it will fall back intelligently to another frontend. * This means debconf doesn't really depend on much at all except perl. Moved most stuff to suggests. * The Gtk frontend was dying in a way not catchable by eval (!!) if DISPLAY was unset; added a fix to that so it falls back instead. * Removed some dpkg-preconfig spam. -- Joey Hess Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:25:12 -0700 debconf (0.1.35) unstable; urgency=low * Mappings. What good are they? None, that I could see, so I completely removed them! This doesn't influence debconf's behavior at all, just removes many lines of code and makes it all easier to understand. * Added the concept that each question is owned by one or more packages. When the number of owners goes to zero, the question is removed. * Whenever a question is removed, I check to see if the template it used is no longer used as well. If so, it's also removed. * What this lets us do is it allows packages to get rid of questions and templates they created when they are purged. And shared questions are fully supported and won't go away until the last package that uses them does. * Added a "purge" command that accomplishes this easily. (You could of course always call unregister by hand for each question, but this is easier.) * Modifed dpkg-preconfig so all the templates in all the packages that are being installed are read first, and then all the config scripts are run. * The changes above have an intriguing side benefit that offers a fix to a vexing problem. There is now a field in each question called "owners", that is a comma and space delimited list of the packages that have registered ownership. This list is up to date as soon as all the templates are loaded if apt is used. A set of related packages can all provide the same template in them; and their config scripts can then look at the owners field to get the list of all related packages that is/will be installed. Then they can do things like turn that into a list of choices of window managers, or ispell dictionaries, etc, and prompt the user to pick one. This feels only a little hackish, and the only problem with it is that if they are not installing with apt, the list isn't fully complete until each and every package has been installed. * Fixed question default value code so it always inherits from the current template, whatever that might be. -- Joey Hess Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:52:14 -0700 debconf (0.1.34) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed dpkg-reconfigure, which was broken since yesterday. -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:48:57 -0700 debconf (0.1.33) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed template merge bug. This was making old descriptions show up even if a new template with changed descriptions was loaded. -- Joey Hess Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:07:03 -0700 debconf (0.1.32) unstable; urgency=low * Now it properly handles config scripts and postinsts that exit with a return code, by propigating that return code up to dpkg. * Killed dpkg-frnotend for good. It's in the Attic now only. * In the dialog frontend, hitting cancel (or escape, maybe), will now break out and cancel everything. -- Joey Hess Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:01:00 -0700 debconf (0.1.31) unstable; urgency=low * Added "visible" command to tell if a question will be displayed. Very useful for preventing some kinds of loops. -- Joey Hess Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:12:00 -0700 debconf (0.1.30) unstable; urgency=low * Debhelper now supports debconf, amended turorial to note this. * More spelling fixes. * Added doc/namespace.ttx, which explains the variable namespace. * First upload to unstable. -- Joey Hess Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:28:14 -0700 debconf (0.1.29) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from James R. Van Zandt with: - spelling corrections - man page enhancements - better debian/templates text -- Joey Hess Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:04:50 -0700 debconf (0.1.28) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a bug. -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:00:55 -0700 debconf (0.1.27) unstable; urgency=low * Added default title support. -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:51:36 -0700 debconf (0.1.26) unstable; urgency=low * Added a config script and templates for debconf itself. It uses them to configure what frontend to use, etc. /etc/debconf.cfg is no more. * Modified Config.pm so it contains functions that return values, not just hard coded values. The functions now try to pull values out of the database, and fall back on the defaults. Also, environment DEBIAN_FRONTEND always works for specifying a frontend now, overriding all else. * Changed a myriad of other files that use Config.pm to call the new functions. * The Priority module is no longer used to set priority, Config.pm can handle that now. * Added showold to Config.pm, you can always see old questions now, if you like. * Renamed the entire Line frontend to Text. Line really doesn't make as much sense. If you're following long in CVS, I also probably broke your repository again; a clean checkout is reccommended. Sorry. -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 Sep 1999 12:56:43 -0700 debconf (0.1.25) unstable; urgency=low * Modified the dialog frontend. Short descriptions now appear after long, instead of as dialog titles. The title appears as the dialo title, and the background title is "Debian Configuration" * Hm, that actually cleaned up the API a bit, I guess it was the right thing to do. * Fixed link. -- Joey Hess Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:48:53 -0700 debconf (0.1.24) unstable; urgency=low * Added advanced topics section to the tutorial. -- Joey Hess Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:13:51 -0700 debconf (0.1.23) unstable; urgency=low * Force use of gnu readline perl library. The other one is too bad. * dpkg-reconfigure allows you to configure it's frontend now. -- Joey Hess Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:03:19 -0700 debconf (0.1.22) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed a typo in the tutorial, and expanded it some. * Fixed the apt dependancy, which was on too low a version. * Depend on whiptail || dialog || gnome-utils so some kind of dialog is installed always. -- Joey Hess Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:48:12 -0700 debconf (0.1.21) unstable; urgency=low * All the sigchld counting and handling stuff was making debconf segfault and making it fragile in various ways. Removed it. Instead, I have modified update-menus to DTRT, and I depend on that version. -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:10:06 -0700 debconf (0.1.20) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed Line::Boolean default stuff, last time, I hope. -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:18:47 -0700 debconf (0.1.19) unstable; urgency=low * I had a truely nasty problem: when installing packages using the dialog frontend, and using dpkg directly, debconf would segfault shortly after the config script was run. It looks like this was due to reentrancy problems in my sigchld handler and I think I've squashed it. -- Joey Hess Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:22:48 -0700 debconf (0.1.18) unstable; urgency=low * Expanded the tutorial, it's now a complete standalone document with examples. * Oops, I never implemented the reset command! Fixed that. * Oops, there are 2 different reset commands! Renamed one to clear, contingent on Wichert's approval, and implemented the other as well. * Removed dpkg-frontend from the binary package. I really don't want people using it. * Added pod docs for all Element files. Rather minimal right now. * Tested the changes to Client::ConfModule; they work, but I have occasional segfaults if using dialog. * UI tewak to text boolean element. -- Joey Hess Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:35:45 -0700 debconf (0.1.17) unstable; urgency=low * Added COPYING file. * Renamed README to EXAMPLES. * Wrote a new README that just points to the other files. * Wrote doc/INTRODUCTION, giving some history of how things have worked, and why debconf is better. * Suggests libterm-readline-gnu-perl, which is best for the Line frontend. * dpkg-preconfig uses the frontend specified in the conffile now. * Element::Line::Boolean now uses the correct values as the default. * FrontEnd::Line now actually displays titles. * Client::ConfModule should now run the config script like confmodule.sh does, for transparent installation of debconf packages. Needs testing. -- Joey Hess Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:48:32 -0700 debconf (0.1.16) unstable; urgency=low * Got rid of the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable entirely. Instead, /etc/debconf.cfg has a variable in it to specify the default frontend to use. * Also added a question priority variable to the config file. * Oh yeah, the big change is I fixed the postinst hang bug. Or rather, worked around it. The bug was caused by update-menus forking to background and waiting, but not closing stdin/out. I worked around by catching SIGCHLD's and closing the pipes from the other end when the postinst has existed. I've also contacted Joost. * This, barring a little bit of docs and a few packages built to use it, is basically ready to be shown to the world. -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:40:15 -0700 debconf (0.1.15) unstable; urgency=low * Broke the nasty perl code out of confmodule.sh, it's much cleaner now (and you don't see a page long perl -e command in ps..) * I now know exactly what's causing the hang problem -- update-menus! I still have no clue why. * Modified Client/frontend so it runs the config script of a package if the script is available, every time. This is pretty ugly, but it has a very nice effect: when you dpkg -i a brand new debconfed .deb, the config script runs as soon as the postinst tries to use debconf, and this lets you configure it, and then it is installed. So you don't have to dpkg-preconfig it first. Of course, if you're using apt, it is preconfiged, and then the config script is run again, redundantly (but doesn't do anything since it's already run). This is basically the last workaround needed for dpkg not preconfiguring stuff on it's own -- now debconf use is completly transparent. -- Joey Hess Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:58:00 -0700 debconf (0.1.14) unstable; urgency=low * Don't use dh_link, so it can still build on va. -- Joey Hess Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:08:13 -0700 debconf (0.1.13) unstable; urgency=low * Gtk::FrontEnd now has the xpm it uses inlined into the file. * /etc/debconf.cfg now holds configurable debconf settings. Config.pm is just a link to it now. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:54:53 -0700 debconf (0.1.12) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-reconfigure now sets a flag in FrontEnd::Base that makes old questions be shown as well. This is very nice for reconfiguring stuff.. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:19:21 -0700 debconf (0.1.11) unstable; urgency=low * Added db_set command to confmodule.sh -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:05:25 -0700 debconf (0.1.10) unstable; urgency=low * Uh oh. "set" is a shell builtin, so you cannot access the set command via the shell interface. After talking with Sean, I've decided to just prefix all the commands in the shell interface with "db_". So dh_set, db_get, etc. Most packages that use debconf thus need to be changed. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:31:45 -0700 debconf (0.1.9) unstable; urgency=low * Back after a one month hiatus. I've moved debconf around in my cvs repository, though the debconf module name should still work. * Debconf is now FHS compliant. * Removed some junk from the Makefile I no longer need. * Added doc/packages-prompt, just a list of some packages that need to be modified. -- Joey Hess Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:05:01 -0700 debconf (0.1.8) unstable; urgency=low * Question->value now returns the default field if value is unset (thanks, AJ) * Various minor touchups everywhere. * Killed slrn sample, this is going into the main slrn package and is already significently better in there. * Added Element/Gtk/*, from AJ. -- Joey Hess Sun, 8 Aug 1999 16:00:44 -0700 debconf (0.1.7) unstable; urgency=low * Added beginnings of GTK frontend by AJ. * Began moving the docs from internals.txt into POD documentation. It was getting out of sync with the code, this will prevent that. Only Elements still need to be converted. * Fixed unset bug in confmodule.sh -- Joey Hess Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:06:33 -0700 debconf (0.1.6) unstable; urgency=low * Patch from AJ that: - makes Questions inherit properties direct from their associated Templates. This simplifies a lot of code which no longer needs to use $question->template->foo. - implements STOP command in protocol. - dies on unknown questions instead of failing obscurely later. - removes bashism - misc fixes and updates to cvs.config. - adds template substitution support and the SUBST command. - makes template parsing work better WRT the extended description and actually look for dots on thier own lines, not lines starting with dot. * Minor mods to above patch. * Documented template substitutions in the draft spec. -- Joey Hess Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:57:58 -0700 debconf (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low * Got rid of the NOTE and TEXT commands; notes and text are now put on templates. This breaks any packages already using debconf (again). * The above change made it clear I needed to reorganize the Elements -- each data type is now a seperate object type. The code is much simpler now! * While I was doing that, it became possible to make the base ConfModule handle command_input in a general way. Much duplicate code removed. * Modified clients for above changes. * Modified samples and docs for above changes. * Made the postrm not fail during error unwind. * Picky Sean fixes.. * Added support for isdefault flag. Now you only see a question once. * Added support for the FGET and FSET commands. (untested) * The mappings file is no more. All questions on a template will now have mappings made for them. If you need others, use the commands to make them. * Added a new program, dpkg-reconfigure. Use it to reconfigure an already installed package. * Added Client/confmodule.sh. This is very similar to Client::ConfModule except it's a shell library. * Changed cvs.config to use confmodule.sh. It's _much_ easier to read now. * Copyright updates. VA has sponsored and is at least a partial owner of this code. It's still GPL'd, of course. * Fixed a bug in the web frontend -- if a page is empty now because all questions are too low priotity, it just skips it. * Fixed a nasty template merge bug. * Added a doc/spec/ directory and put a copy of the metadata section of the spec in there, converted to html and greatly expanded to match reality. This is a draft that I want to get accepted as the real spec. * Changed to using "string" as the data type for text data, had been using "text". This is a pretty big change, really and breaks all packages that have been built so far that use debconf. Have to do it to comply with the spec. -- Joey Hess Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:16:25 -0700 debconf (0.1.3) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig (and test.pl) now load up only the ConfModules and FrontEnds that will really be used. Faster startup time. * TODO updates. -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:36:53 -0700 debconf (0.1.2) unstable; urgency=low * dpkg-preconfig now has a --apt option that makes it read debs to configure on stdin. This is for use with apt of course. (A hacked apt that can use this exists now.) * Dialog frontend only clears the screen just before displaying a non-gdialog dialog box. * Depend on the version of apt that really works with debconf. * A postinst and postrm modify /etc/apt/apt.conf to make apt use dpkg-preconfig to configure packages. (The file's not actually part of apt, so this is not too evil). -- Joey Hess Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:41:29 -0700 debconf (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low * Moved CREDITS to doc/. * Install internals.txt in .deb. * doc/maintainer.txt is a guide for maintainers who want to convert packages to use debconf. -- Joey Hess Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:37:50 -0700 debconf (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low * Killed the cvs date stuff. Too much bother. -- Joey Hess Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:38:37 -0700