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Modified Fri Jul 14 11:48:13 2000 UTC (12 years, 10 months ago) by joey
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   * Since jade generates the ugliest html I have ever seen, I'm now
     using tidy to clean that up and indent it properly.

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Modified Fri May 19 22:09:59 2000 UTC (13 years ago) by joey
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   * Updated and completed the Polish l10n thanks to Marcin Owsiany
     <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.
   * 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.

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Modified Mon May 15 22:59:30 2000 UTC (13 years ago) by joey
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   * 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
     <mss@transas.com>. 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.

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Modified Tue May 9 01:36:37 2000 UTC (13 years ago) by joey
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   * 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
     <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>.

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Modified Tue May 2 01:29:03 2000 UTC (13 years ago) by joey
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   * Prompted priority to standard, since lynx depends on it. Closes: #63346

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Modified Sat Apr 8 21:38:28 2000 UTC (13 years, 1 month ago) by joey
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   * debconf-doc conflicts with older versions of debconf that contained the
     manpages. Closes: #62030

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Modified Tue Apr 4 23:10:25 2000 UTC (13 years, 1 month ago) by joey
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   * 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..

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Modified Tue Apr 4 23:07:50 2000 UTC (13 years, 1 month ago) by joey
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   * 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.)

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Modified Thu Mar 30 23:21:26 2000 UTC (13 years, 1 month ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Mon Mar 20 23:13:16 2000 UTC (13 years, 2 months ago) by joey
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fixed some bugs

Added text to helpbar.

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Modified Sun Feb 13 09:23:33 2000 UTC (13 years, 3 months ago) by joey
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   * 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)

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Modified Tue Jan 18 03:19:06 2000 UTC (13 years, 4 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Fri Jan 7 05:00:12 2000 UTC (13 years, 4 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Tue Dec 21 23:13:18 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * 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")

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Modified Tue Dec 21 00:59:40 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * Tightened up the perl dependancies. I think the previous looser
     dependancies might have caused a problem.

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Modified Wed Dec 15 03:41:42 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Mon Dec 6 08:02:29 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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COrrected debconf-tiny conflicts line.

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Modified Sat Dec 4 20:59:25 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * Needs a versioned debhelper dependency.

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Modified Sat Dec 4 03:38:52 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * Build-Depends on docbook-stylesheets, which are needed to make the xml
     docs be formatted decently.

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Modified Mon Nov 29 20:56:59 1999 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by joey
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   * Element/Dialog/String.pm: Fixed a thinko that is causing the warning
     messages reported in bug #51561.

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Modified Sun Nov 28 05:08:22 1999 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Sat Nov 20 23:26:34 1999 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Mon Nov 15 02:10:42 1999 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Tue Nov 9 05:19:18 1999 UTC (13 years, 6 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Wed Oct 27 18:15:42 1999 UTC (13 years, 7 months ago) by joey
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   * 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)

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Modified Fri Oct 8 23:55:08 1999 UTC (13 years, 7 months ago) by joey
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   * Converted the tutorial and introduction to xml and docbook.

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Modified Wed Oct 6 19:12:36 1999 UTC (13 years, 7 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Tue Sep 28 22:21:50 1999 UTC (13 years, 7 months ago) by joey
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   * 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)

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Modified Mon Sep 27 03:28:25 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Mon Sep 27 01:05:16 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Fri Sep 24 22:42:49 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Sat Sep 18 01:05:35 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * Force use of gnu readline perl library. The other one is too bad.
   * dpkg-reconfigure allows you to configure it's frontend now.

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Modified Sat Sep 18 00:53:46 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Fri Sep 17 00:20:48 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Tue Sep 14 22:25:15 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Thu Sep 9 21:13:56 1999 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Sun Aug 8 23:17:28 1999 UTC (13 years, 9 months ago) by joey
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   * 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.

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Modified Thu Jul 15 21:31:26 1999 UTC (13 years, 10 months ago) by joey
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   * 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).

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