Change log for avrdude package in Debian

avrdude (7.1+dfsg-3) sid; urgency=medium

  * clarify documentation license GFDL-NIV-1.3; no identifiable invariant sections
    exist in the document

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:17:35 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-20171130+svn1429-2 to 7.1+dfsg-3 (1.5 MiB)

avrdude (7.1+dfsg-2) sid; urgency=medium

  * add autopkgtest
  * exclude libhidapi-dev on hurd
  * use permissive metainfo metadata_license as required by the AppStream
    specification
  * upstream forwarding not needed for debian specific patches

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:24:31 -0500

avrdude (7.1+dfsg-1) sid; urgency=medium

  * new upstream release
    - support teensy bootloader (closes: #629360)
    - support ATtiny2313A (closes: #909573)
  * remove upstream accepted patches
  * remove upstream tarball signature verification
  * quilt refresh
  * update standards version to 4.6.2
  * bump debhelper compat level to 12
  * debian/copyright: update, exclude non-dfsg files (closes: #979090)
    - lintian override undefined license
    - fix short beer-ware license id
  * update metainfo release license
  * use texi2html instead of makeinfo for pretty html docs (closes: #1030364)
    (lp: #1783814)
  * use dh_installman
  * use dh_installinfo
  * proper AppStrem metainfo id
  * add new devices to metainfo, udev rules
  * enable linuxspi

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:53:51 -0500

avrdude (6.3-20171130+svn1429-2) sid; urgency=medium

  * revert usbtiny tpi implementation (closes: #922558)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Mon, 25 Feb 2019 01:51:58 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-20171130+svn1429-1 to 6.3-20171130+svn1429-2 (4.6 KiB)

avrdude (6.3-20171130+svn1429-1) sid; urgency=medium

  * new upstream release
  * remove upstream accepted patches
  * add new devices to metainfo, udev rules
  * use libhidapi

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:25:09 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-6build1 (in Ubuntu) to 6.3-20171130+svn1429-1 (377.5 KiB)

avrdude (6.3-6) sid; urgency=medium

  * update metainfo release license
  * udev: permit console users use usb serial adapters
  * update standards version to 4.3.0

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:06:16 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-5 to 6.3-6 (923 bytes)

avrdude (6.3-5) sid; urgency=medium

  * Update package maintenance Vcs-* fields
  * Use 'uaccess' tag in udev rules
  * Suggest dfu-programmer
  * Provide package metainfo
  * No direct libncurses5-dev build dependency
  * autotools-dev is not needed anymore
  * use dh_missing
  * Define optional posix limits to allow building on GNU/Hurd
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.2.1
  * Use debian watch secure uri
  * avrpart.c: correct a spelling mistake

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:21:43 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-4 to 6.3-5 (2.9 KiB)

avrdude (6.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Support ATtiny841 and ATtiny441
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.0
  * Full auto-reconfigure on builds

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:28:55 -0400

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• diff from 6.3-3 to 6.3-4 (1.5 KiB)

avrdude (6.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Recreate aclocal.m4 (closes: #868925)
  * Set package priority to overridden optional.

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:30:50 -0400

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• diff from 6.3-2 to 6.3-3 (577 bytes)

avrdude (6.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Do not mask unused lock byte bits on read (closes: #809002)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:27:46 -0500

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• diff from 6.3-1build1 (in Ubuntu) to 6.3-2 (1.5 KiB)

avrdude (6.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (closes: #821033)
    - set proper serial device attributes (closes: 805642), patch removed
  * Fix linuxgpio conversion failure. Upstream bug#47550 patch.
  * Update Vcs-Git to use secure transport for anonymous git repository access.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8. No changes.

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 May 2016 23:43:38 -0400

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• diff from 6.2-5 to 6.3-1 (136.0 KiB)

avrdude (6.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set ISO 8601 formatted postscript CreationDate.

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sat, 02 Jan 2016 09:59:25 -0500

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• diff from 6.2-4 to 6.2-5 (598 bytes)

avrdude (6.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update udev rules.
  * Set reproducible postscript CreationDate field.

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Fri, 01 Jan 2016 21:47:30 -0500

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• diff from 6.2-3 to 6.2-4 (1.4 KiB)

avrdude (6.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * No CPP macro timestamps.
  * Use tbl man preprocessor.
  * Use makeinfo instead of texi2html.
  * Include all ChangeLog files.
  * Add udev device rules. (Closes: #666137)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:22:32 -0500

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• diff from 6.2-2 to 6.2-3 (2.3 KiB)

avrdude (6.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (closes: #805651). Many thanks to Michael Biebl for a 
    decade worth of contributions to this package.
  * Set proper serial device attributes. (Closes: #805642)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:46:10 -0500

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• diff from 6.2-1 to 6.2-2 (2.4 KiB)

avrdude (6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #805352)
  * Rebase patches.
  * Override dh_install to list uninstalled files.
  * Use .install files to install the avrdude man page and info file.
  * Install html, pdf and ps documentation under /usr/share/doc/avrdude, as
    this is the location where upstream puts it.
  * Add symlinks in /usr/share/doc/avrdude-doc so the old paths still work.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:01:26 +0100

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• diff from 6.1-4build1 (in Ubuntu) to 6.2-1 (383.6 KiB)

avrdude (6.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Biebl ]
  * Update watch file to also track .bz2 and .xz tarballs.
  * Add cryptographic signature verification for upstream tarball.
  * Make no-patch-numbers the default for gbp.

  [ Guido Günther ]
  * Avoid division by zero on empty size. Patch cherry-picked from upstream.
    (Closes: #788517)

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:49:43 +0200

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• diff from 6.1-3 to 6.1-4 (4.8 KiB)

avrdude (6.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6. No further changes.
  * Update Vcs-Browser URL to use cgit and https.
  * Fix Linux GPIO typo. Patch cherry-picked from upstream. (Closes: #745034)

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Fri, 01 May 2015 05:22:06 +0200

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• diff from 6.1-2 to 6.1-3 (1.0 KiB)

avrdude (6.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Fix reset on FT245R. Patch cherry-picked from upstream. (Closes: #760764)

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:56:06 +0200

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avrdude (6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5. No further changes.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:30:25 +0100

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• diff from 6.0.1-1 to 6.1-1 (65.0 KiB)

avrdude (6.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Add Build-Depends on libelf-dev to enable support for reading ELF files.
  * Enable the Linux sysfs GPIO interface programmer type when building on
    Linux.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:32:13 +0200

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• diff from 5.11.1-2 to 6.0.1-1 (377.6 KiB)

avrdude (5.11.1-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Move package to collab-maint.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4.
  * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 9.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:49:52 +0100

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• diff from 5.11.1-1 (in Ubuntu) to 5.11.1-2 (671 bytes)

avrdude (5.11.1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Install ChangeLog files for 2007-2009.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:06:14 +0200

avrdude (5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 8 and update build dependency
    accordingly.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2. No further changes.
  * Remove debian/patches/01-arduino-auto-reset.patch, merged upstream.
  * Refresh debian/patches/02-manpage_fix.patch.
  * Add support for FT2232 based programmers by building against libftdi.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:30:26 +0200

avrdude (5.10-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/patches/01-arduino-auto-reset.patch
    - Fix DTR on/off to make Arduino auto-reset work. (Closes: #587280)
      Patch cherry-picked from upstream.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:57:37 +0200

avrdude (5.10-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Switch to source format 3.0 (quilt).
    - Drop Build-Depends on quilt.
    - Remove patchsys-quilt.mk include from debian/rules.
    - Remove debian/README.source.
    - Add debian/source/format.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4. No further changes.
  * Switch from cdbs to dh v7.
    - Drop Build-Depends on cdbs.
    - Bump Build-Depends on debhelper to (>= 7.0.50).
    - Bump Build-Depends on autotools-dev to (>= 20100122.1) for the
      autotools_dev dh addon.
    - Convert debian/rules to dh.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:46:04 +0200

avrdude (5.10-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Removed patches:
    - debian/patches/01-kfreebsd.patch (merged upstream)
    - debian/patches/03-freebsd-serial-device.patch (merged upstream)
    - debian/patches/04-am_maintainer_mode.patch (obsolete)
    - debian/patches/99-autoreconf.patch (obsolete)

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:57:14 +0100

avrdude (5.9-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * debian/patches/01-kfreebsd.patch
    - Update configure check to correctly detect kfreebsd and set the
      default serial and parallel port accordingly.
  * debian/patches/03-freebsd-serial-device.patch
    - The serial port naming scheme has changed since FreeBSD 6.0 from cuaa?
      to cuad?. Update the configure check and the documentation to reflect
      this change.
  * debian/patches/04-am_maintainer_mode.patch
    - Set AM_MAINTAINER_MODE as it makes patching the build system less
      painful.
  * debian/patches/99-autoreconf.patch
    - Run autoreconf -i for the changes above.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:19:31 +0100

avrdude (5.8-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Replace libreadline5-dev build dependency with libreadline-dev.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3. No further changes.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:10:47 +0200

avrdude (5.8-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2. No further changes.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:09:17 +0200

avrdude (5.6-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * debian/patches/03-spi_support.patch
    - Removed, merged upstream.
  * debian/patches/04-usbtiny_64bit_fix.patch
    - Removed, fixed upstream.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:43:22 +0100

avrdude (5.5-8) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/copyright
    - Refer to the versioned GPL-2 file in /usr/share/common-licenses as
      avrdude is released under version 2 of the GPL.
  * debian/rules
    - Include debhelper.mk before any other files as recommended by the cdbs
      documentation.
  * debian/control
    - Wrap Build-Depends.
    - Bump Build-Depends on debhelper to (>= 7).
  * debian/compat
    - Bump debhelper compat level to 7.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:43:47 +0100

avrdude (5.5-7) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/patches/04-usbtiny_64bit_fix.patch
    - Fix chip programming failures using USBTiny adapters on 64bit systems.
      The res[4] variable is passed to usbtiny_cmd() as char pointer and
      sizeof(char*) evaluates to 8 on 64bit systems. So hardcode the number of
      bytes we want to read instead of using sizeof. (Closes: #511751)

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:13:39 +0100

avrdude (5.5-6) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/patches/03-spi_support.patch
    - Add new commands to avrdude's terminal mode to support direct SPI
      transfers. (Closes: #509130)
      Thanks to Andrew O. Shadoura for the patch.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:41:30 +0100

avrdude (5.5-5) unstable; urgency=low


  * Misc white space cleanups.
  * debian/control
    - Add Vcs-* fields.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:42:20 +0200

avrdude (5.5-4) unstable; urgency=low


  * Switch patch system to quilt.
  * debian/control
    - Add Build-Depends on quilt.
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. Add debian/README.source as recommended
      by the new policy.
  * debian/rules
    - Include patchsys-quilt.mk instead of simple-patchsys.mk.
  * debian/patches/series
    - Add all existing patches.
  * Refresh all patches. 

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden>  Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:22:50 +0200