debram (0.6.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Aggregated the changes in experimental versions 0.6.4a through d
    for official release to unstable (see those changelog entries).
  * Observed here that although further bugfixes are not impossible,
    neither are they expected; and that barring an urgent need,
    debram 0.6.5 is expected to the the last debram.
  * Offered admins the following counsel.
    - Sarge stable admins should install the binaries debram 0.6.4
      (distributed with sarge) and debram-data 0.6.5.
    - Sarge stable admins may build and install their own local
      debram 0.6.5 binaries.  This works fine; the source is already
      properly backported.  However, building one's own debram 0.6.5
      binary is unnecessary.  If unsure, follow the advice in the
      previous point.
    - Etch testing and sid unstable admins should install debram 0.6.5
      and debram-data 0.6.5.  They should also probably install debtags.
    - Although etch includes debram, most etch stable admins probably do
      not need it.  Instead, they can and should install debram's
      improved replacement debtags.
    - Etch+1 admins (and sid admins in the era following etch's release)
      do not need debram and, unless they have some unusual historical
      interest, should not install it.
  * Observed here that debram, useful for sarge users, is less useful
    post-sarge and is planned to be removed from Debian after etch's
    release.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.4d) experimental; urgency=low

  * Observed here that this experimental release is a candidate for
    0.6.5 release to sid three days to three weeks from today, if no
    further bugs emerge in the meantime.
  * Updated the FSF's postal address in debian/copyright.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.4c) experimental; urgency=low

  * Observed here that this experimental release is a candidate for
    0.6.5 release to sid three days to three weeks from today, if no
    further bugs emerge in the meantime.
  * Rebuilt debram.txt from the concatenated Packages files included
    with the official Debian 3.1r0a i386 CD set.  (The concatenated CD
    Packages files are substantially similar to the FTP Packages file.
    With respect to one or two packages of optional or extra Priority,
    however, the CDs and FTP seem to disagree on the exact package
    Priority.  Why?  Don't know.  Haven't investigated.  The difference
    admittedly does not amount to much.  Anyway, this debram build
    follows the CDs.)
  * Slightly modified maint.txt and helper/new-debram-body to handle
    correctly the concatenated CD Packages file.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.4b) experimental; urgency=low

  * Taking advantage of the helpful fact that sarge was now stable,
    reviewed the ramification top to bottom, correcting two or three
    hundred misramifications.  Observed that this was meant to be the
    last such general review.
  * Subdivided the 1740 and 9150 rams.
  * Added a few new cross-references between rams.
  * Added a new BUILDING text file, setting forth some notes relevant to
    users who want to build their own debram packages.
  * Added a new helper/RelSteps text file, outlining the steps the
    author typically takes in preparing a new debram release.
  * Added a minor iconv(3)-like capability to helper/new-debram-body.
  * Slightly corrected maint.txt.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Thu,  4 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.4a) experimental; urgency=low

  * Observed here that this is the first issue after sarge's release.
    Noted that the debram-data package issued here is fully compatible
    with sarge's debram (0.6.4) package, and that it is expected (and
    supported and recommended) that many sarge debram users will upgrade
    debram-data but not debram.
  * Observed here that the significance of this experimental issue and
    of the forthcoming 0.6.5 issue is that, unlike the 0.6.4 issue
    actually shipped with sarge, these later issues fully cover sarge.
    (The final sarge package list became available only just before
    sarge's release, by which time of course it was too late to update
    debram-data in sarge.  This was expected and planned.  Thus this
    issue, and the forthcoming 0.6.5.)
  * Updated the ramification data to cover all binary packages in sarge
    stable main i386.
  * Added a few new cross-references between rams.  Clarified the title
    of ram 8141.  Corrected a handful of package misramifications.
  * Edited the manpage significantly, reflecting the circumstances
    prevailing after sarge's stable release.  Among other changes,
    - deleted the "Updating the Library Data" section;
    - revised the "Bugs" section; and
    - added a notice that the -c option does not work well on terminals
      with white backgrounds.
  * Extended the Document History appropriately at debram.txt's foot.
  * Deleted one now unneeded helper script.  Slightly improved one or
    two of the others.
  * To avoid confusion for sarge users upgrading debram-data,
    refrained from updating the maintainer's e-mail address here
    to <thb@debian.org> (the maintainer is an official Debian Developer
    as of this issue).
  * Updated maint.txt to include all sarge package maintainers.
  * Observed here that the source is fully buildable on a sarge stable
    system, without any backporting modification.  Undertook to maintain
    such clean backportability for all 0.6.x issues.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Prepared this upload pursuant to
    - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/04/msg00003.html
    - http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/04/msg00029.html
    - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/04/msg00161.html
    and the discussion threads descending therefrom.  Expected this
    issue to be the final issue before sarge's release.
  * Updated the ramification data to reflect sarge as of this date.
  * Excepting a handful of packages at their maintainers' request,
    purged data for packages not in sarge.
  * Updated maint.txt.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Sat,  2 Apr 2005 21:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated the ramification data to reflect sarge as of this date.
  * Updated maint.txt.
  * Added some minor new development helper scripts, including
    helper/update-ver and helper/update-date.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Wed,  9 Feb 2005 21:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.2a) experimental; urgency=low

  * Added automatic locale support (with Maciej Dems).

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Thu,  3 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated the ramification data to reflect sarge as of this date.
  * Updated maint.txt.
  * Implemented debram(1)'s -u option to support utf-8 I/O.
    (Maciej Dems' good advice is acknowledged in this.)
  * Implemented debram(1)'s -. option.
  * Extended the manpage's list of library-data download sites.
  * Uncluttered debram(1)'s --help list somewhat by hiding a few
    rarely-used options (the manpage still documents them).

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated the ramification data to reflect sarge as of this date.
  * Updated maint.txt.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Fri,  3 Dec 2004 21:00:00 +0000

debram (0.6.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Included the new sarge debram.txt, with sarge packages ramified per
    the new sarge ramification plan.
  * Because debram.txt now presents current data, removed
    the "Priority: extra" from debian/control, reverting
    to "Priority: optional".
  * Reformed the binary packages' Descriptions.  In particular, gave
    debram-data its own distinct Description and removed the
    now-obsolete woody disclaimer.
  * Updated the manpage to cover the new sarge data issue.
  * Sorted team-maintained packages to the head of each ram,
    except "Tm QA" packages, which are sorted to the foot.
  * Updated debian/README.
  * Updated and extended the development helper scripts.
  * At last understanding Colin Watson's suggestion of three months ago,
    fixed the various development helper scripts to use FindBin to
    locate Perl modules and other files relative to the helper/
    directory.
  * Updated maint.txt.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon,  8 Nov 2004 21:00:00 +0000

debram (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reprioritized the list of sites from which users can download future
    debram data.
  * Applied Gustavo Franco's manpage patch, correcting the reference in
    the Files section from /usr/lib/debram/ to /usr/share/debram/
    (closes: #276577).
  * Updated and shortened the manpage's Bugs section.
  * Added appropriate acknowledgements to the manpage's Author section.
  * Revised the manpage in several other minor respects.
  * Relaxed the source's Build-Dependency on debhelper, making the same
    debram source equally buildable on woody, sarge and sid platforms.
  * Added the new helper scripts check-maint-addr and check-ram-titles;
    added the new -tmT options to the helper script new-debram-body;
    fixed the helper script buff-expand, stopping it from touching the
    revision timestamps of files it does not alter; edited other
    helpers in minor ways.
  * Updated maint.txt.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Credited Martin Pitt here for discovering the need for the
    following five changes.
  * In the debram-data binary, moved debram.txt from
    /usr/share/doc/debram-data/ to /usr/share/debram-data/,
    to comply with Policy sect 12.3 (closes: #272422).
  * In the debram binary, symlinked the platform-
    independent `debram.txt.gz' from /usr/share/debram/ rather
    than /usr/lib/debram/, to comply with FHS sect 4.7.
  * Removed unneeded empty maintainer scripts (debhelper creates
    suitable default maintainer scripts automatically).
  * To comply with Policy sect 10.1, altered `Makefile' and debian/rules
    - always to compile with debugging symbols (except during a
      local, non-packaging build), stripping unwanted symbols after
      compilation; and
    - to respect "noopt" in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
  * Removed superfluous "configure" target from debian/rules.
  * Because data files have moved (see above), controlled debram-data
    to Conflict against old debram (<< 0.5.1).  (Future debram-data are
    to be compatible with any debram (>= 0.5.1).  If an incomptatible
    debram-data emerged, it would be versioned at least 0.7.)
  * Slightly simplified the binary package interdependencies per
    Giacomo Catenazzi's advice.
  * To avoid abusing the present "urgency=high" upload, deferred
    further, non-urgent changes.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:30:00 +0000

debram (0.5.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Undertook not to change the format of `debram.txt' in 0.5.x or
    0.6.x, thus enabling users (per Giacomo Catenazzi's suggestion)
    later to install new `debram-data' packages or even just to load new
    `debram.txt' files without upgrading the `debram' package.  For this
    reason, incremented the minor version number to 0.5.
  * Planned to number the upcoming complete sarge ramification 0.6, to
    distinguish it from the present 0.5 which lacks complete sarge
    coverage.
  * Because the debram binary package no longer depends on a specific
    version of debram-data, gave debram its own copies of the copyright
    and changelog.gz files.  (Refer to Policy sects 12.5 and 12.7.)
  * Restricted the package license to GPL version 2, rather than GPL
    version 2 or later, thus withdrawing from the FSF its unique
    privilege to extend the license.
  * Implemented debram(1)'s -t option.
  * Added to the man page instructions on finding and installing the
    complete sarge ramification data, when they become available.
  * Extended the man page's Quick Start section.  Also, had the man page
    refer contributors to debtags-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org rather
    than to Thaddeus.  Edited and updated the page in a few other minor
    ways.
  * Merged into debian/rules Giacomo Catenazzi's patch to clean stray
    build stamps.
  * Added a HISTORY file per Enrico Zini's suggestion.
  * With Nick Lewycky's help, made the scripts `helper/new-debram-body'
    and `helper/sort-maint' fully relocatable.
  * Updated `maint.txt'.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon,  2 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Observed here that this issue is principally a minor bugfix issue,
    and that more substantive modifications are deliberately held back
    against the apparent imminence of Debian sarge's release.  (Felt
    that a risk of introducing new bugs along with new features seemed a
    poor gamble at the moment.)
  * Disambiguated ram 8657's title from "Other Mail" (which was also
    ram 1657's title) to "Other Mail Transport".
  * Unswapped debram(1)'s seldom-used --data-file and --data-file-gz
    command-line options.
  * Corrected `prdeb.c' print_deb()'s inadvertent wasting of one
    available output column under the `-w' command-line option.
  * Fixed `conv.c' undot()'s edge-case handling.
  * Improved the source code's style slightly in a handful of spots.
  * Updated `maint.txt'; corrected one maintainer's name
    in `debram.txt'.
  * Corrected and extended the helper script `helper/new-debram-body''s
    documentation.
  * Added to the manpage's Bugs section additional remarks about the
    debram's future plans.
  * Conformed to Standards Version 3.6.1.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected `debian/control' to include a build-dependency
    on `zlib1g-dev'.  Closes #231100.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Fri,  6 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Incremented the version number to 0.4.0 for sponsor Giacomo
    Catenazzi's upload to Debian's unstable archive.  Updated the
    various package dates, histories and version notations accordingly
    but made no other changes to the package.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.3.1e) experimental; urgency=low

  * Corrected and neatened `helper/new-debram-body' in several small
    ways.  Improved its error messages generally.  Added and documented
    the useful new "unknown maintainer" error message.  Added the -w
    option.
  * Updated `maint.txt'.
  * Updated the manpage's Bugs section.
  * Added some nomenclature to the manpage's Ramification section.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.3.1d) experimental; urgency=low

  * Removed the `author/' directory and added the new `helper/'
    directory.  The old directory had contained undocumented scripts and
    other files which probably were useless to anyone but the author.
    The new directory contains documented scripts and files potentially
    useful to any debram developer.
  * In `debian/control', added explicit Section and Priority data to
    each binary paragraph; removed the Enhances datum.
  * Updated `maint.txt' to include all the names of sarge's current
    maintainers.  (Debian sarge is in testing at the time of this
    writing.)

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.3.1c) experimental; urgency=low

  * Removed `author/author.tar'.
  * Corrected FTP link in `debian/copyright'.
  * Per Giacomo Catenazzi's suggestion, added error checking to all the
    program's calls to malloc(3) and calloc(3).  (See `alloc.h'.)
  * Conformed to Standards Version 3.5.10.
  * Configured the source to build with debhelper 4.1.  (This means that
    the source now builds for sarge only, not woody.  Debian 3.0 woody
    users should install the old debram 0.3.1.)
  * Retagged `cmdsel.txt' for doc-base.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon,  5 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Tracked Debian's 3.0r2 issue.
  * Slightly altered the sorting of package names within a ram, letting
    packages from the same source appear sequentially.
  * Corrected five or six misramifications.
  * Because the debram's own control file refers to them, added
    packages `debram-data' and `debtags' (`debram' had already been
    added in 0.2.0).
  * Corrected color output to xterm(1).
  * Noted here for historical interest that a debram 0.1.0 did exist,
    but that it consisted solely of the unpackaged file `cmdsel.txt'.
    Its issue date was 29 May 2002.  While it was not then a Debian
    package and was not called `debram', it is the direct antecedent of
    today's debram package.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0000

debram (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Recast the source as a native Debian package.
  * Split the data files away into a separate, architecture-independent
    binary package `debram-data'.
  * Added new -1 and -s options to debram(1).
  * Extended debram(1)'s -T option to enhance -d and -m.
  * Extended debram(1)'s -d and -m options to accept ram specification.
  * Trimmed and updated debram(1)'s manpage.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:14:07 +0000

debram (0.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.

 -- Thaddeus H. Black <t@b-tk.org>  Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:36:26 +0000

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