Change log for approx package in Debian

approx (5.12-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Install systemd units into /usr/lib/systemd/system.
    (Closes: #1059178)

 -- Chris Hofstaedtler <email address hidden>  Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:33:25 +0200

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• diff from 5.12-2 to 5.12-2.1 (422 bytes)

approx (5.12-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.2
  * Depend on ocaml instead of transitional ocaml-nox

 -- Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden>  Sun, 10 Sep 2023 06:10:50 +0200

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• diff from 5.12-1 to 5.12-2 (452 bytes)

approx (5.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * New upstream release
    - fix calls to Re.Pcre.extract (Closes: #1031117)

 -- Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:17:27 +0100

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• diff from 5.10-2build4 (in Ubuntu) to 5.12-1 (3.8 KiB)
• diff from 5.11-1 to 5.12-1 (721 bytes)

approx (5.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Stéphane Glondu ]
  * Team upload
  * New upstream release
    - incorporate OCaml 4.08.0 patch
    - use Re.Pcre instead of Pcre
  * Set Maintainer to Debian OCaml Maintainers

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Bump debhelper from old 10 to 13.
  * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster (oldstable)

  [ Edward Betts ]
  * Update homepage field, git.debian.org no longer exists.

 -- Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden>  Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:34:19 +0100

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• diff from 5.10-2build4 (in Ubuntu) to 5.11-1 (3.8 KiB)

approx (5.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * Update Vcs-*
  * Fix compilation with OCaml 4.08.0

 -- Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden>  Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:26:46 +0200

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• diff from 5.10-1 to 5.10-2 (816 bytes)

approx (5.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
  * revert to ocaml-sha instead of cryptokit

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:30:00 -0400

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• diff from 5.8-1ubuntu2 (in Ubuntu) to 5.10-1 (7.7 KiB)
• diff from 5.9-1 to 5.10-1 (1.1 KiB)

approx (5.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
  * use cryptokit for checksum functions
  * add Build-Depends for cryptokit (instead of sha) and ocamlbuild
  * enable all compiler warnings but don't treat them as errors
  * fix all code that caused compiler warnings
  * fix compiler warnings in test code

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 22 Jul 2017 15:26:05 -0400

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• diff from 5.8-1ubuntu2 (in Ubuntu) to 5.9-1 (8.1 KiB)

approx (5.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
  * handle HTTP/2 status (closes: #867048)
  * update Standards-Version and Build-Depends for debhelper
  * remove unused approx.config file

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:55:00 -0400

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• diff from 5.7-3build1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.8-1 (1.2 KiB)

approx (5.7-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * use dh support for systemd unit files (closes: #848312)
  * eliminate debconf configuration of port number

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:16:34 -0500

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• diff from 5.5-2build2 (in Ubuntu) to 5.7-3 (21.3 KiB)
• diff from 5.7-2 to 5.7-3 (6.5 KiB)

approx (5.7-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * remove broken debian/watch file
  * fix build failure for tests on architectures lacking ocamlopt

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sun, 04 Dec 2016 13:30:02 -0500

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• diff from 5.7-1 to 5.7-2 (636 bytes)

approx (5.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Eric Cooper ]
  * New upstream version
  * remove unused code
  * simplify build using findlib
  * use OUnit for tests
  * change String.create to Bytes.create
  * relax check for Invalid_argument exception
  * increment version number
  * depend on OCaml 4.02 for Bytes module
  * add build dependency on OUnit
  * remove approx-gc program (closes: #465473, #632926, #686062, #818731)
  * use find(1) command in weekly cron job
  * update Standards-Version to 3.9.8
  * add dependency on update-inetd

  [ Mark White ]
  * add $curl_path configuration parameter
  * cache unknown file types for $interval

  [ Kai Harries ]
  * remove dependencies on inet-superserver (closes: #784312)

  [ Romain Francoise ]
  * Bug#818633: approx: fails to connect to HTTP/2 servers (closes: #818633)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:08:24 -0500

approx (5.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * handle String.create deprecation warning during transition to OCaml 4.02

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:40:26 -0400

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• diff from 5.5-1 to 5.5-2 (1.2 KiB)

approx (5.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream version
  * Only cache "not found" for true 404 responses (closes: #655986)
  * Incorporate patch for #732021 into upstream branch
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.5

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:41:30 -0400

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• diff from 5.4-2build1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.5-1 (3.5 KiB)

approx (5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * patch doc/FAQ to avoid FHS violation (closes: #732021)
  * drop dm-upload-allowed (again)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:18:40 -0500

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• diff from 5.4-1 to 5.4-2 (1.0 KiB)

approx (5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * follow redirects for HEAD requests (closes: #695279)
  * eliminate Not_found exception in gc (closes: #695639)
  * increase debhelper compat to 9
  * update standards-version, drop dm-update-allowed
  * change from gz to bz2 (closes: #639540, #689444, #705890)
  * replace deprecated (or) with (||) (closes: #731703)
  * add example xinetd config (closes: #720359)
  * add systemd service file (closes: #679991)
  * document use of /var/cache/approx/.curlrc file (closes: #719912)
  * drop build-dependency on libsyslog-ocaml-dev (provided by ocamlnet now)
  * add depends on bzip2 and xz-utils

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:13:30 -0500

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• diff from 5.3-1build1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.4-1 (11.4 KiB)

approx (5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Check for chunked transfer encoding when closing cache file
    (closes: #685724)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:56:45 -0400

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• diff from 5.2-1 to 5.3-1 (755 bytes)

approx (5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Eric Cooper ]
  * New upstream version
  * Check for custom inetd.conf entry when updating (closes: #627053)
  * Handle Sources files with missing Directory fields (closes: #641928)
  * Change default $interval to 60 (closes: #658694)
  * Applied "Fix FTBFS with ocamlnet 3.5.1" upstream
  * Add debian/watch file
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.3

  [ Adriano Rafael Gomes ]
  * add Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation (closes: #661359)

  [ Jeroen Schot ]
  * add Dutch debconf translation (closes: #661438)

  [ Andika Triwidada ]
  * add Indonesian debconf translation (closes: #670916)

  [ Michał Kułach ]
  * add Polish debconf translation (closes: #671346)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Wed, 23 May 2012 15:52:32 -0400

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• diff from 5.1-1.2 to 5.2-1 (4.2 KiB)

approx (5.1-1.2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Fix "should depend on system-log-daemon":
    add dependency on "rsyslog | system-log-daemon".
    (Closes: #656791)

 -- gregor herrmann <email address hidden>  Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:04:42 +0200

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• diff from 5.1-1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.1-1.2 (1.1 KiB)

approx (5.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low


  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Fix FTBFS with ocamlnet 3.5.1 (Closes: #661775)
  * Add versioned dependency to libnethttpd-ocaml-dev in Build-Depends

 -- Stéphane Glondu <email address hidden>  Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:54:57 +0100

approx (5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * New upstream version  * Build with ocamlnet3 (closes: #610597, #635886)  * Remove unnecessary check_current_directory function (closes: #632670)  * Document default port number and how to change it (closes: #633811)  * Serve simple robots.txt file (closes: #626721) -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:30:00 -0400

approx (4.5-1+squeeze1) stable; urgency=low
  * Deny requests for InRelease files, forcing clients to fall back to    Release and Release.gpg files.  * Deny requests for all non-gzipped index files, not just bz2 versions. -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 May 2011 17:43:30 -0400

approx (5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * New upstream version  * Deny requests for non-gz index files (closes: #625457)  * Cache pdiffs instead of removing them (closes: #607896)  * Remove approx-update program  * Add $interval configuration parameter  * Cache Release files and "file not found" responses    for $interval minutes without contacting remote repository    (closes: #625458)  * Treat i18n/Index files as roots for garbage collection  * Run approx-gc cronjob at low priority (closes: #611370)  * Include process ID in syslog messages  * Defer pdiff application to the end of each connection -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 May 2011 16:11:00 -0400

approx (4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
  * New upstream version  * Support InRelease files (release files with inline signatures)  * Add Danish debconf translation (closes: #596464)  * Add FAQ entry about changing cache location (closes: #597949)  * Improve redirect handling (closes: #611975)  * Use dh instead of cdbs  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.2 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:22:11 -0400

approx (4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * The inetd.conf entry created by the postinst script requires an
    additional argv[0] after the approx pathname.  This problem went
    unnoticed with openbsd-inetd, but inetutils-inetd would exec the program
    with an empty argv[] (closes: #589937)
  * Compress files with the same gzip parameters that dak uses,
    so pdiff application can succeed (closes: #593428)
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.1

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:10:40 -0400

approx (4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Provide directory index for cache (closes: #577969)
  * Redirect requests for top levels of remote repositories
  * Handle Not_found exception from find_directory (closes: #573039)
  * Support multiple config files and alternate cache location
    (closes: #519497, #580663)
  * Support for HEAD requests (closes: #524984)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:49:35 -0400

approx (4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Use TMPDIR if accessible, otherwise use /tmp (closes: #573593)
  * Catch correct exception when Release file is missing md5sum section
    (closes: #573039)
  * Add explanation for openbsd-inetd rate-limiting (closes: #581220)
  * Avoid symlinks when traversing directories (closes: #582294)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:35:25 -0400

approx (4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Improve handling of invalid index files
  * Recognize compressed tarballs from 3.0 (quilt) format
  * Use dh-ocaml (>= 0.9) and simplify debian/rules
  * Update build-deps
  * Drop lsb-base dependency since approx no longer needs an init script
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.4
  * Suggest libconfig-model-approx-perl (closes: #554388)
  * Change to 3.0 (quilt) format

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:52:00 -0500

approx (4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Ignore epoch when comparing versions for importing
    (closes: #518763, #545424)
  * Deliver files properly in offline mode (closes: #524960)
  * Support udebs
    - patch from Matthew Palmer <email address hidden>
    - closes: #527188
  * Support https in URLs
    - patch from Andres Salomon <email address hidden>
    - closes: #531218
  * Add Czech debconf translation (closes: #537107)
  * Fix update-inetd call in postrm script
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.3
  * Add FAQ file

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:16:20 -0400

approx (4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * Add Japanese debconf translation (closes: #524624)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:53:01 -0400

approx (4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Change approx to run under inetd (closes: #517217, #479493)
  * Update packaging for OCaml 3.11 (closes: #518727)
  * Revert to dropping privileges in gc, update, and import
    (closes: #510761)
  * approx-import: use MD5 checksums instead of names and versions
    (closes: #518753, #518763)
  * approx-import: print status of each file when importing in verbose mode
    (closes: #518761)

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:37:00 -0400

approx (3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version
  * Handle unreadable directories like lost+found more robustly
    (closes: #488115)
  * Decompress files in /tmp so gc can be used on a full filesystem
    (closes: #490028)
  * Handle multiple blank lines between paragraphs in control files
    (closes: #501628)
  * Use "Pragma: no-cache" in case approx is behind a caching proxy
    (closes: #502405)
  * Check for correct user and group ID instead of dropping privileges
    in auxiliary programs like gc and update; use "su" in cron jobs
  * Create directories when importing files into the cache

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:42:00 -0500

approx (3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * Change to non-native Debian package
  * Update VCS info in debian/control to reflect change from svn to git
  * Fix race condition when creating directory for cache file
    (closes: #501406)
  * Add approx-import program to import local .debs into approx cache
    (closes: #488096)
  * Renamed auxiliary programs approx-gc and approx-update for consistency

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:16:00 -0400

approx (3.3.0) unstable; urgency=low


  * Allow empty host name in file URLs (closes: #479022)
  * Use unique temporary names to avoid race condition
    when opening cache files (closes: #488080)
  * Use hint files to avoid (but not eliminate) duplicate downloads
  * Remove unnecessary getpeername call in server loop

 -- Eric Cooper <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 May 2008 16:43:25 -0400