Change logs for how-can-i-help source package in Sid

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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