Changelog
devscripts (2.10.54) unstable; urgency=high
* Urgency "high" for security update
[ James Vega ]
* debchange: Clarify the wording for the explanation of
--force-save-on-release. (Closes: #539155)
* grep-excuses: Document that -w only works with a package name.
* manpage-alert: Fix handling of commands which start with non-word
characters. Based on a patch from Ville Skyttä.
* bts: Add support for the limit command. (Closes: #541698)
* tagpending: Use 'bts limit source ...' instead of 'bts package ...' and
listing every binary package the source produces. This will prevent
tagpending emails from exceeding the 998 characters per line limit of
email.
[ Adam D. Barratt ]
* bts:
+ Make "tags NNNNNN =" operate correctly again. (Closes: #539688)
+ Use >& rather than writing to filehandles under /dev/fd.
(Closes: #517917)
* cowpoke:
+ Update to new upstream version
- Run with reduced privileges and only elevate them when needed to
run cowbuilder.
- Don't explicitly pass a buildd username unless it is set, this allows
people to configure the remote username in their ssh config or
similar. (Closes: #538191)
- Supply pbuilder with the --buildplace and --aptcache options to
enable use with reduced privileges.
- Relative paths are all relative to the BUILDD_USER's home directory
now, not the incoming dir.
- Add --dpkg-opts support for passing options on to dpkg.
- Autoclean the apt-cache so it doesn't grow unbounded.
* dcmd: Add filtering options for udebs. (Closes: #541827)
* debchange: Don't output spurious characters when extended Unicode
characters are passed on the command line. (Closes: #542484)
* dget: Update the dpkg-source output matching to enable --build to work
again. (Closes: #541409)
* uscan: Evaluate mangle rules without evaluating them directly as Perl
code to avoid the possibility of remote code execution. This is
CVE-2009-2946. As a side effect, (Closes: #515209)
* Packaging changes: Add sensible-utils to Recommends. Several scripts
make use of sensible-editor and it has moved from debianutils so is
no longer essential. (Closes: #541846)
[ Patrick Schoenfeld ]
* Add an example for githubredir.debian.net to the uscan manpage
(Closes: #539923)
[ Christoph Berg ]
* debdiff: New option --no-unpack-tarballs to skip unpacking tarballs
contained in source packages.
[ Ryan Niebur ]
* uscan: add --download-current-version option (Closes: #539724)
* Add myself to Uploaders
* debchange: add support for using --package with -i to change the
source package name (Closes: #515885)
* debcheckout: use bzr+ssh instead of sftp, thanks to Colin Watson for
the patch (Closes: #526068)
* debchange: remove NMU version when -i is ran without -n or auto nmu
(Closes: 487323)
* uscan: add support for repacking lzma compressed tarballs, thanks to
Michal Čihař for the patch (Closes: #514504)
* namecheck: use comments instead of pod blocks so that they don't get
translated, thanks to Florentin Duneau for the patch (Closes:
#529062)
-- Adam D. Barratt <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:22:29 +0100
