Contents of /debconf-trunk/debian/changelog

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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:15:33 -0800

debconf (0.2.100) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a stupid typo introduced last version. 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Feb 2000 00:04:35 -0800

debconf (0.2.86) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a typo I introduced earlier today.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Jan 2000 15:34:56 -0800

debconf (0.2.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add dpkg-reconfigure to debconf-tiny.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Jan 2000 20:32:15 -0800

debconf (0.2.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo fix, Closes: #54205

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:10:07 -0800

debconf (0.2.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't use lib. Closes: #53316

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:53:20 -0800

debconf (0.2.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added to the tutorial.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Dec 1999 13:49:16 -0800

debconf (0.2.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * Needs a versioned debhelper dependency.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:52:03 -0800

debconf (0.2.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * w3m -dump works again, so use it.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Nov 1999 15:22:17 -0800

debconf (0.2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patchs from Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@ukai.org> 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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  2 Nov 1999 12:47:39 -0800

debconf (0.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * For some reason, jade was inserting '&#13;' 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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:11:44 -0800

debconf (0.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed stupid debugging code. (oops)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:26:29 -0700

debconf (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed confmodule.sh reentrancy bug again.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <ukai@debian.or.jp>, Closes: #47937

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:14:17 -0700

debconf (0.1.66) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in debconf template. (Closes: #47458)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Oct 1999 18:11:24 -0700

debconf (0.1.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added stylesheet to turn on toc's.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  7 Oct 1999 02:52:02 -0700

debconf (0.1.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reorganized some modules. No user-visible changes.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  5 Oct 1999 11:21:25 -0700

debconf (0.1.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed fatal dpkg-reconfig typo.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Sep 1999 17:17:42 -0700

debconf (0.1.42) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a problem with Client::ConfModule.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:12:32 -0700

debconf (0.1.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied patch from Peter Vreman <pfv@cooldown.demon.nl> 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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:28:14 -0700

debconf (0.1.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> with:
    - spelling corrections
    - man page enhancements
    - better debian/templates text

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:04:50 -0700

debconf (0.1.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:00:55 -0700

debconf (0.1.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added default title support.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:48:53 -0700

debconf (0.1.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added advanced topics section to the tutorial.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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. <pant, pant>
  * 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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Sep 1999 16:19:21 -0700

debconf (0.1.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added db_set command to confmodule.sh

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  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 <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Jul 1999 13:38:37 -0700

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