Change log for how-can-i-help package in Debian

how-can-i-help (19) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Nicolas Noirbent ]
  * Fix autorm variable initialisation. Closes: #1070713

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 May 2024 21:10:39 +0200

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how-can-i-help (18) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Always build the manual page from source
  * Do not print the autorm header when all autorm items are hidden
  * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
  * Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.
  * Use debhelper execute_after_* instead of override_
  * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed.

  [ Athos Ribeiro ]
  * {Dir,File}.exists? were removed from Ruby 3.2. Use .exist? instead.
    Closes: #1069108

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Explicitly require ostruct. Closes: #1070652
    + Thanks Vincent Lefevre for the report, and Cédric Boutillier
      for the fix.
  * Add missing build-dep on docbook-xml

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 May 2024 10:15:00 +0200

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how-can-i-help (17) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Switch from `dpkg -l` to dpkg-query
  * Add an option to disable updating the cache when it is populated
  * Add an option to disable opportunities for packages installed locally
  * Add an option to hide autoremovals too far in the future (Closes: #826935)
  * Use the canonical value for salsa in the Vcs-Browser field
  * Switch from debian/compat to debhelper-compat Build-Depends
  * Switch from debhelper compat 11 to 12, no changes needed
  * Set Rules-Requires-Root to no
  * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.4.0

  [ lintian-brush ]
  * Set Homepage field in Source rather than Binary package.
  * Update standards version to 4.4.1, no changes needed.

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0; no changes needed.
  * debian/copyright: Bump years to include 2020.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:07:33 +0200

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how-can-i-help (16) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Correct the home directory handling (Closes: #859380)

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * debian/control: Use salsa.debian.org in Vcs-* fields.
    how-can-i-help repository was moved to salsa.debian.org.
  * debian/copyright: Bump years to include 2018.
  * d/compat d/control: Bump debhelper version to 11.
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.3; no changes needed.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:12:16 +0100

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how-can-i-help (15) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Nicolas Braud-Santoni ]
  * Use a stable sort order. Closes: #835653
  * Use the sort_by idiom where needed, for clarity and consistency

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Wrap and sort the Debian packaging
  * Drop unneeded ${shlibs:Depends} variable
  * Correct the dpkg filtering in the manual page

  [ Daniel Shahaf ]
  * Fix typo in manual page command
  * Add support for 'help' tag. Closes: #825349

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Clarified title of a section displaying package bugs tagged
    'newcomer'. Closes: #842353
  * Gracefully handle SIGPIPE. Closes: #845265

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:04:30 +0100

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how-can-i-help (14) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Exit with an error for download errors, actually Closes: #823193

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Minor changelog adjustment (unnecessary dot removed).

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Tue, 17 May 2016 12:38:45 +0200

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how-can-i-help (13) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Replace gift in the package description with newcomer

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Added an option to define exit code handling. Closes: #823193.
  * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (no changes required).
  * Minor code cleanup.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 May 2016 00:47:05 +0200

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how-can-i-help (12) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Defend against invalid encoding in package descriptions (in the output of
    dpkg -l). We only care about the first two columns anyway. Closes: #791515

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Sort bug numbers for RC bugs. Closes: #810757
  * Added an option to output data in JSON format. Closes: #794238
  * Double quotes replaced with single quotes where applicable.
  * Updated manpages (added --json flag description).
  * Updated copyright statements.
  * debian/compat, debian/control: Bumped compat level to 9.
  * debian/control: Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.7 (no changes required).
  * debian/control: Switched Vcs-* fields to https.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:22:32 -0300

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how-can-i-help (10+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium

  * Change hcih data source from http to https. Since the http is not 
    supported by UDD anymore, older hcih versions won't be able to 
    work. (Closes: #787471)
    Patch from Stephen Kitt <email address hidden>
  * Added gbp configuration pointing to jessie branch.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:33:32 +0200

how-can-i-help (11) unstable; urgency=high

  * Allow hcih to download data through https. Closes: #787471
    Patch from Stephen Kitt <email address hidden>

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:26:30 +0200

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how-can-i-help (10) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Added support for 'newcomer' tag. Closes: #769640
    - Added support for 'newcomer' option
    - Updated manual and help
    - Added 'gift' tag depreciation warning

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Fix a few typos in the manpage.
    + Re-generated the manpage from ascii. The generated format changed
      slightly, causing a rather huge diff.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:24:27 +0100

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how-can-i-help (9) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Step down from the Maintainer role and add Tomasz. He has been doing all
    the great work lately anyway.

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.6 (no changes required).
  * Added an option to show pseudo-packages tagged as 'gift'.
    Pseudo-packages tagged as 'gift' will appear in a new 'infrastructure'
    section, regardless of the fact if they are installed or not. They can
    be hidden using 'ignore' file. Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the idea!

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:44:12 +0200

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how-can-i-help (8) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * how-can-i-help can be configured to show only specific types of
    opportunities. Closes: #742245
  * Updated manpage and --help output.
  * Added two more links to 'see also' section.

  [ Paul Wise ]
  * Use https instead of http where possible.

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:48:23 +0200

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how-can-i-help (7) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Minor update to a TODO file.
  * Gracefully exit when there is a problem with $HOME. Closes: #746780
  * Reported links use https instead of http. Closes: #755425
  * how-can-i-help will now use tracker.d.o instead of old PTS interface.
    Closes: #756834
  * how-can-i-help will always exit with a return code 0. Closes: #747490

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:19:07 -0700

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how-can-i-help (6) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * If an error occurs while trying to download data file it is now correctly
    attributed to how-can-i-help. Closes: #740677

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Use dir.home instead of ENV['HOME']. This raises an exception if the HOME
    directory could not be found. Closes: #741326

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:43:49 +0100

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how-can-i-help (5) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Holger Levsen ]
  * Lower versioned depends on ruby-debian and ruby-json so that backporting
    the package requires no changes. Thanks to <email address hidden>.
    (Closes: #738826)

  [ Antonio Terceiro ]
  * Fix call to `dpkg -l` with C.UTF-8 locale
  * Add space between blocks of opportunities

  [ Tomasz Nitecki ]
  * Added an option to hide some types of opportunities. Closes: #738169
  * Added an option to list opportunities in all packages. Closes: #738170
    Patch from Matt Kraai <email address hidden>

 -- Tomasz Nitecki <email address hidden>  Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:48:27 +0100

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how-can-i-help (4) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Add support for listing RFS bugs. Closes: #731510

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:16:08 +0100

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how-can-i-help (3) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Add support for listing testing autoremovals.
  * Sort all information using sorting orders that try
    to make sense.
  * Add a (undocumented) -v option. Closes: #735915.

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:24:13 +0100

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how-can-i-help (2) unstable; urgency=high


  * Drop alternative dependency on ruby-interpreter, and add versioned
    dependencies to limit future problems due to the switching between Ruby
    releases. Closes: #734156

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:23:48 +0100

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how-can-i-help (1) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Christophe Siraut ]
  * Fix WNPP description.
  * Remove obsolete sudo instructions.

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Also look at RFH bugs. Closes: #730293
  * Another attempt at fixing the WNPP description.
  * Reduce gem2deb build-dep to 0.3.0. Closes: #728655
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5. No changes needed.

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:44:11 +0100

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how-can-i-help (0.9) unstable; urgency=low


  * Avoid using Dir.home as it is ruby1.9-specific. Future uploads
    should really be tested with all ruby versions. Closes: #728356

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:54:34 +0100

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how-can-i-help (0.8) unstable; urgency=low


  * Document how to run how-can-i-help in a cronjob. Closes: #720981.
    Thanks to Joseph Herlant for the help, and to Christophe Siraut for
    the review!

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:46:41 +0100

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how-can-i-help (0.7) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Christophe Siraut ]
  * Support providing a list of additional packages. Closes: #720982 
  * Remove non-root differentiation. Closes: #720980
  * Cache opportunities list. Closes: #720985 

  [ Arthur de Jong ]
  * Remove data directory op purge (Closes: #722594)
  
  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Adding the support of proxy, honoring the http_proxy environment
    variable. Patch from Joseph Herlant <email address hidden>.
    Closes: #726403
  * List packages removed from testing. Closes: #725819.
  * Also remove datadir on upgrade, as its content now lives in the user
    home directory.

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:19:16 +0100

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how-can-i-help (0.6) unstable; urgency=low


  * Add --quiet option. Contributes to fixing #720981.

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:03:27 +0200

how-can-i-help (0.4) experimental; urgency=low


  [ Holger Levsen ]
  * Add manpage, thus add asciidoc to build-depends.

  [ Lucas Nussbaum ]
  * Force encoding of output of 'dpkg -l' to UTF-8. It seems that
    dpkg -l outputs UTF-8 even when the locale is a non-UTF-8
    one (e.g. C), which breaks with Ruby 1.9. Closes: #720928
  * Document how to generate the manpage in debian/rules, and
    drop asciidoc from build-depends. a2x actually requires a
    whole docbook installation (200+ MB).

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:12:35 +0200

how-can-i-help (0.3) experimental; urgency=low


  * Test for existence of /usr/bin/how-can-i-help in the APT hook,
    in case the package was removed but not purged, or in case purge
    is in progress. Thanks to Shawn Landden for reporting.
    Closes: #720857

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:16:42 +0200

how-can-i-help (0.1) experimental; urgency=low


  * Initial release.

 -- Lucas Nussbaum <email address hidden>  Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:29:45 +0200