Change log for ncompress package in Ubuntu

ncompress (5.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Fix debian/watch to work with new upstream version format.
  * Adjust uncompress-real.patch to account for new upstream filename.
  * Update debian/copyright to reflect 2023 for Debian changes.
  * Bump standards version to 4.6.2.0 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:54:42 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-6build1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.0-1 (37.6 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-6build1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild to build on i386

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden>  Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:21:10 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-6 (in Debian) to 4.2.4.6-6build1 (336 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.6.1.0 (no packaging changes).
  * Update copyright year for Debian contributions in debian/copyright.
  * Add lintian override for pedantic prefer-uscan-symlink warning.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:31:13 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-5 to 4.2.4.6-6 (1.0 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.6.0.0 (no packaging changes).
  * Update debian/watch to reflect version 4 format (no changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:14:28 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-4 to 4.2.4.6-5 (624 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Package cleanup based on a review at qa.debian.org.
    - Update debian/control to move to debhelper-compat (= 13)
    - Add Lintian override for debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:13:34 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-3 to 4.2.4.6-4 (666 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Accept package cleanup from Debian Janitor.
    - Trim trailing whitespace
    - Set upstream metadata

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:37:32 -0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.6-1 to 4.2.4.6-3 (1.1 KiB)
• diff from 4.2.4.6-2 to 4.2.4.6-3 (808 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.5.0.0 (no packaging changes).
  * Adjust debian/watch so it doesn't catch the 4.2.4.6-old file at GitHub.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:01:29 +0000

ncompress (4.2.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Adjust debian/patches/fix-softlinks.patch for new upstream GNUmakefile.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:44:34 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.5-4 to 4.2.4.6-1 (6.7 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.5-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.4.0.1 (no packaging changes).
  * Build-Depend on debhelper-compat (= 12) and remove debian/compat.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:40:58 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.5-3 to 4.2.4.5-4 (740 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Incorporate package cleanup from Guillem Jover in guillem:pu/cleanups.
    - In debian/rules, use $(MAKE) rather than make to support parallel builds
    - In debian/rules, use buildtools.mk instead of setting vars manually
    - In debian/rules, no longer require root to build the package
    - In debian/control, split Depends/Build-Depends onto multiple lines
    - In debian/control, remove obsolete dpkg-dev and move to latest debhelper

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:55:32 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.5-2 to 4.2.4.5-3 (1.5 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix regression so soft links can be uncompressed again (fixes: #918836).
    - Add new autopkgtest debian/tests/softlink to catch regressions
    - Add new patch debian/patches/fix-softlinks.patch to remove -DLSTAT

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:55:35 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-23 to 4.2.4.5-2 (15.0 KiB)
• diff from 4.2.4.5-1 to 4.2.4.5-2 (2.1 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump standards version to 4.3.0.0 (no packaging changes).
  * Fix doc install in debian/rules to use README.md instead of README.
  * Use 'make compress' rather than explicit $(CC) build in debian/rules.
  * Run the new upstream test suite as part of the Debian build process.
  * Refresh debian/patches/uncompress-real.patch to reflect upstream changes.
  * Refresh debian/patches/remove-zcat.patch to reflect upstream changes.
  * Remove debian/patches/code-typos.patch because upstream contains fix.
  * Remove debian/patches/code-warnings.patch because upstream contains fix.
  * Revert some reproducible build changes obviated by upstream improvements.
    - Remove reproducible.patch, because upstream removed COMPILE_DATE usage
    - Remove NCOMPRESS_VERSION in debian/rules, which was used by the patch

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:31:48 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-23 to 4.2.4.5-1 (13.4 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-23) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Make testing improvements, including contributions from Ondřej Nový:
    - Use AUTOPKGTEST_ vars instead of ADT_ in test suite

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:17:01 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-21 to 4.2.4.4-23 (2.1 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-21) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.2.0.1 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 Aug 2018 01:52:17 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-20 to 4.2.4.4-21 (495 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-20) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Convert Debian packaging from Subversion to Git.
  * Bump standards version to 4.1.3.0 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:42:36 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-19 to 4.2.4.4-20 (565 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-19) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove "Testsuite: autopkgtest" from debian/control per Lintian warning.
  * Bump standards version to 4.1.1.0 (no packaging changes)

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:18:19 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-18 to 4.2.4.4-19 (561 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix build process to work when cross-building (closes: #876108).
    - Initial patch contributed by Helmut Grohne <email address hidden>
    - Update debian/rules to use a triplet-prefixed compiler 
    - Update debian/rules to honor DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:21:33 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-17 to 4.2.4.4-18 (933 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-17) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 4.0.0.0 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sun, 02 Jul 2017 21:19:50 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-16 to 4.2.4.4-17 (472 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-16) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 3.9.8.0 (no packaging changes).
  * Export "DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all" in debian/rules.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:43:08 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-15 to 4.2.4.4-16 (833 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove gzip and diffutils from build deps; they're essential packages.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:14:57 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-14 to 4.2.4.4-15 (557 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add support for the Debian continuous integration environment.
    - Update debian/control to list Testsuite: autopkgtest 
    - Add debian/tests/control to list tests for CI environment
    - Rewrite debian/smoketest in terms of debian/tests scripts

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:51:19 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-13 to 4.2.4.4-14 (3.1 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add upstream commit URL to code-typos.patch.
  * Add upstream commit URL to code-warnings.patch and adjust to match commit.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 08 Aug 2015 00:52:04 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-12 to 4.2.4.4-13 (1.1 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump standards version to 3.9.6.1 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:56:15 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-10 to 4.2.4.4-12 (2.5 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add code-typos.patch to to fix typo "vesion" vs "version" in compress42.c.
  * Add a quick unit test to prove that compiled code appears to work.
    - Create shell script debian/smoketest and debian/sample.txt
    - Add override_dh_auto_test in debian/rules to invoke smoketest
    - Add new build dep on gzip (>= 1.2.4) and diffutils (>= 2.7-11)
  * Rebuild with GCC 5 and fix compiler warnings.
    - Modify debian/rules to set -DUTIME_H so <utime.h> gets included properly
    - Add code-warnings.patch to fix %d vs %ld warning in compress42.c
  * Make build reproducible by removing the need for the COMPILE_DATE #define.
    - Upgrade build dep on dpkg-dev to >= 1.17.0, for dpkg-parsechangelog -S
    - Derive NCOMPRESS_VERSION in debian/rules using dpkg-parsechangelog output
    - Modify debian/rules to set -DNCOMPRESS_VERSION rather than -DCOMPILE_DATE
    - Add reproducible.patch to make -V use NCOMPRESS_VERSION in compress42.c

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:13:43 -0500

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-9 to 4.2.4.4-10 (3.6 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-9) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fix Lintian bug in debian/copyright: empty-short-license-in-dep5-copyright.
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.6.0 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:34:32 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-8 to 4.2.4.4-9 (744 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-8) unstable; urgency=low


  * Bump standards version to 3.9.5.0 (no packaging changes).

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:39:44 -0600

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-7 to 4.2.4.4-8 (495 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-7) unstable; urgency=low


  * Convert debian/rules to debhelper7.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:38:25 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-6 to 4.2.4.4-7 (1.0 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-6) unstable; urgency=low


  * Bump standards version to 3.9.4.0; no packaging changes.
  * Fix buildd log scanner W-build-stamp-in-binary warning in debian/rules.
    - Get rid of configure target (not necessary, causes problems)
  * Make other minor tweaks in debian/rules for consistency.
    - Add new .PHONY targets for all rules that don't create files
    - Change binary to depend on both binary-arch and binary-indep
    - Change binary-arch to depend on install, not build and install

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:47:27 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-5 to 4.2.4.4-6 (1.0 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Rearrange debian/rules slightly, to match other packages I maintain.
    - Move configure from build to build-stamp, so it's run consistently.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:48:46 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-3 (in Ubuntu) to 4.2.4.4-5 (1.4 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Handle changes to build flag behavior introduced with dpkg-dev 1.16.1.
    - Modify debian/rules to set DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS=1 and call buildflags.mk

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• diff from 4.2.4.4-1 to 4.2.4.4-3 (1.0 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Upstream now contains spelling-error.patch and manpage-syntax.patch
    - Tweak remove-zcat.patch and uncompress-real.patch for new compress.1
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.1.0 (no packaging changes).

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• diff from 4.2.4.3-1 to 4.2.4.4-1 (5.7 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump standards version to 3.8.4 (no packaging changes)
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Sun,  09 May 2010 13:58:05 +0100

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• diff from 4.2.4.2-3 to 4.2.4.3-1 (1.6 KiB)

ncompress (4.2.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix warnings/problems indicated on package tracking page.
    - Bump standards version to 3.8.3 (no packaging changes)
    - Add ${misc:Depends} for all binary packages
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Fri,  22 Jan 2010 11:26:56 +0000

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• diff from 4.2.4.2-2 to 4.2.4.2-3 (619 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4-15sarge2build0.6.06.1) dapper-security; urgency=low

  * fake sync from Debian

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• diff from 4.2.4-15 (in Ubuntu) to 4.2.4-15sarge2build0.6.06.1 (736 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bump standards version to 3.8.1 (no packaging changes).
  * Bump debhelper compatibility to 7, per linitian recommendation.
  * Declare a dependency on debhelper (>= 7.0.1) to match compatibility.
  * Remove unneeded leading .PU in compress.1, to quiet lintian.

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Wed,  29 Apr 2009 12:05:22 +0100

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• diff from 4.2.4.2-1 to 4.2.4.2-2 (675 bytes)

ncompress (4.2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Move to the SourceForge project, which is actively maintained.
    - Upgrade to version 4.2.4.2
    - Update debian/copyright to note the SF maintainer
    - Updated debian/README.Debian to discuss SF package
    - Updated debian/watch to point to the new upstream source

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  19 Nov 2007 14:10:54 +0000

ncompress (4.2.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix incorrect reference to /usr/doc (closes: #437106).

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Tue,  23 Oct 2007 17:55:10 +0100

ncompress (4.2.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed Debian watch file to include "real" upstream version.

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Mon,  13 Nov 2006 16:37:29 +0000

ncompress (4.2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fake upstream "version change" to force dak migration (closes: #395486).
    - dak cannot cleanly migrate from non-free to main without a version change
    - Because of this, the sources (orig.tar.gz) were still deployed to non-free

ncompress (4.2.4-15sarge2) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
  * Correction of the security patch by Ludwig Nussel [compress42.c,
    CVE-2006-1168]

ncompress (4.2.4-15) unstable; urgency=low


  * Move to main now that LZW patent has expired (closes: #261282).
  * Update debian/copyright to be clearer about public domain status.
  * Move James A. Woods letter from copyright file to README.Debian.
  * Move detailed location information from copyright file to README.Debian.

 -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <email address hidden>  Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:38:42 -0500