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  1. file (4.25-1) unstable; urgency=low
  2. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add volume label
  3. and UUID support for linux ext (Closes: #489865).
  4. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add volume label
  5. and UUID support for linux swap (Closes: #489865).
  6. * Adding patch from Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> to update ocaml magics
  7. (Closes: #488992).
  8. * Removing 907-file-funcs.dpatch, went upstream.
  9. * Removing 905-file-printf.dpatch, went upstream.
  10. * Updating 903-file-localmagic.dpatch for 4.25.
  11. * Updating 901-file-mgc.dpatch for 4.25.
  12. * Updating 338-magic-add-cromfs.dpatch for 4.25.
  13. * Updating 325-magic-add-sgf.dpatch for 4.25.
  14. * Updating 321-magic-add-pe5.dpatch for 4.25.
  15. * Updating 212-magic-update-pfm.dpatch for 4.25.
  16. * Updating 211-magic-update-mono.dpatch for 4.25.
  17. * Updating 206-magic-update-bash.dpatch for 4.25.
  18. * Updating 205-magic-update-tcsh.dpatch for 4.25.
  19. * Removing 201-magic-update-mp3.dpatch, went upstream.
  20. * Merging upstream version 4.25.
  21. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0200
  22. file (4.24-4) unstable; urgency=high
  23. * Adding patch from Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> to add new
  24. magics for bzr (Closes: #488742).
  25. * Adding symlinks to /usr/share/misc to conform to the LSB, thanks to
  26. Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>.
  27. * Adding zlibg1-dev to libmagic-dev depends (Closes: #472856).
  28. * Adding patch to revert upstream change to stop build plain magic
  29. files. This fixes #481247 correctly now (Closes: #481247).
  30. * Reverting previous wrong NMU.
  31. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:46:00 +0200
  32. file (4.24-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
  33. * Non-maintainer upload from the Cambridge BSP.
  34. * Work around bug #488562, that file assumes readdir() will return sorted
  35. names - instead of compiling magic.mgc from Magdir directly, use the logic
  36. already in debian/rules to build (the file that will become)
  37. /usr/share/file/magic, then compile magic.mgc from that. (Closes: #481247)
  38. -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:32:24 +0000
  39. file (4.24-3) unstable; urgency=medium
  40. * Rewriting copyright file in machine-interpretable format.
  41. * Updating package to debhelper 7.
  42. * Adding patch to update pfm magic.
  43. * Adding patch to update mono magic.
  44. * Adding patch to update Digifax magic.
  45. * Adding patch to update OS/2 REXX magic.
  46. * Adding patch to update real media magic.
  47. * Adding patch to update zip magic.
  48. * Updating bash magic to also look for /usr/bin/bash.
  49. * Updating tcsh magic to also look for /usr/bin/tcsh.
  50. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add new magic for
  51. selinux (Closes: #485886).
  52. * Updating to standards 3.8.0.
  53. * Adding patch to add mime for asf magics (Closes: #483797).
  54. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to add new magic for scribus.
  55. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update reiserfs magic also
  56. detecting ReiserFS V3.6.19.
  57. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to add new magic for CROM
  58. filesystem.
  59. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update (and re-enabled)
  60. awk magic.
  61. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to fix regressions with mp3
  62. files (Closes: #480683, #481377).
  63. * Adding patch for new TokyoCabinet database magic, thanks Benoit Sibaud
  64. <bsibaud@april.org> (Closes: #481768).
  65. * Adding patch for new QDBM Quick Database Manager magic, thanks Benoit Sibaud
  66. <bsibaud@april.org> (Closes: #481717).
  67. * Fixing regression in file 4.24 with file_printf(), thanks Martin Dorey
  68. <mdorey@bluearc.com> (Closes: #481523).
  69. * Removing annoying warnings when files can't be opened, thanks Martin Dorey
  70. <mdorey@bluearc.com> (Closes: #481512).
  71. * Adding new magic for freemind, thanks to Jamie Thompson
  72. <debian-bugs@jamie-thompson.co.uk> (Closes: #472385).
  73. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:06:00 +0200
  74. file (4.24-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  75. * Adding plain magic files for compatibility.
  76. * Using lintian debhelper to install lintian overrides.
  77. * Removing watch file.
  78. * Removing useless whitespaces in changelog file.
  79. * Adding vcs fields in control file.
  80. * Upgrading package to debhelper 6.
  81. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 3 May 2008 14:09:00 +0200
  82. file (4.24-1) experimental; urgency=low
  83. * New upstream release:
  84. - The following patches went upstream completely:
  85. 102-magic-remove-bennet, 103-magic-remove-bzip, 104-magic-remove-cgm,
  86. 105-magic-remove-com, 106-magic-remove-emf, 108-magic-remove-quicktime,
  87. 201-magic-update-avi, 203-magic-update-cow, 204-magic-update-cracklib,
  88. 206-magic-update-elf-b, 207-magic-update-elf-c, 208-magic-update-hp,
  89. 209-magic-update-jpeg, 210-magic-update-m4v, 211-magic-update-macintosh,
  90. 213-magic-update-pcp, 214-magic-update-perl, 215-magic-update-sh,
  91. 216-magic-update-spectrum, 301-magic-add-adf, 302-magic-add-apple2,
  92. 303-magic-add-arm, 304-magic-add-avg, 305-magic-add-clarion,
  93. 306-magic-add-dds, 307-magic-add-erlang, 308-magic-add-gedcom,
  94. 309-magic-add-git, 309-magic-add-inform, 310-magic-add-llvm,
  95. 311-magic-add-lua, 312-magic-add-luks, 313-magic-add-lzma,
  96. 314-magic-add-mathcad, 315-magic-add-mdi, 316-magic-add-mercurial,
  97. 317-magic-add-mozilla, 318-magic-add-nlm, and 332-magic-add-svg,
  98. 901-file-elf, 902-file-kfreebsd, and 905-file-segfault.
  99. - The following patches went upstream almost completely:
  100. 998-doc-manpages and 999-conglomeration.
  101. - Thanks to Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to merge them.
  102. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:30:00 +0200
  103. file (4.23-2) unstable; urgency=low
  104. * Applied patch from Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> to add crossbuild
  105. support to debian/rules (Closes: #465111).
  106. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:16:00 +0100
  107. file (4.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
  108. * New upstream release:
  109. - Removing '101-magic-remove-awk.dpatch', went upstream.
  110. - Removing '107-magic-remove-msi.dpatch', went upstream.
  111. - Removing '202-magic-update-blender.dpatch', went upstream.
  112. - Removing '205-magic-update-elf-a.dpatch', went upstream.
  113. - Removing '212-magic-update-os2rexx.dpatch', went upstream.
  114. - Removing '319-magic-add-ocfs.dpatch', went upstream.
  115. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:00 +0100
  116. file (4.21-4) unstable; urgency=low
  117. * Bumping to new policy.
  118. * Using new homepage field in control.
  119. * Using ${binary:Version} in all depends.
  120. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add new magic for
  121. Mozilla XUL fastload files (XUL.mfasl and XPC.mfasl; Closes: #452354).
  122. * Added patch from Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> to add new
  123. magic for Mercurial bundles (Closes: #451067).
  124. * Correct wrong applied patch for SNES sound files (Closes: #410847).
  125. * Added patch from Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> to add new magic for
  126. X11 cursor files (Closes: #451246).
  127. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:09:00 +0100
  128. file (4.21-3) unstable; urgency=low
  129. * Including extra headers in /usr/include/file (Closes: #397307).
  130. * Added patch from Eduardo Sabbatella <eduardo_sabbatella@yahoo.com.ar> to
  131. add magic for SGF Smart Game Format (Closes: #428605).
  132. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for git
  133. bundles (Closes: #430070).
  134. * Added patch from Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> to extend
  135. JPEG 2000 magic (Closes: #439005).
  136. * Added patch from Daniele Sempione <scrows@oziosi.org> to add magic for
  137. Microsoft Document Imaging Format (.mdi) (Closes: #430548).
  138. * Added patch from Nicolas Collignon <tsointsoin@gmail.com> to add magics
  139. for OpenSSH and OpenSSL certificates/key files (Closes: #439537).
  140. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:51:00 +0200
  141. file (4.21-2) unstable; urgency=low
  142. * Applied patch from Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com> to fix
  143. FTBFS on hurd (Closes: #433716).
  144. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:27:00 +0200
  145. file (4.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
  146. * New upstream release.
  147. * Rediffed 211-magic-update-os2rexx.dpatch.
  148. * Removed 302-magic-add-ape.dpatch, went upstream.
  149. * Rediffed 304-magic-add-arm.dpatch.
  150. * Rediffed 317-magic-add-ocfs.dpatch.
  151. * Rediffed 318-magic-add-par2.dpatch.
  152. * Rediffed 322-magic-add-scummvm.dpatch.
  153. * Rediffed 325-magic-add-subversion.dpatch.
  154. * Rediffed 326-magic-add-supercollider.dpatch.
  155. * Rediffed 328-magic-add-xen.dpatch.
  156. * Removed 999-upstream-reg-startend.dpatch, now included in upstream.
  157. * Updated 905-file-segfault.dpatch.
  158. * Rediffed 999-conglomeration.dpatch.
  159. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:29:00 +0200
  160. file (4.20-8) unstable; urgency=low
  161. * Build a python-magic-dbg package.
  162. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 20:40:00 +0200
  163. file (4.20-7) unstable; urgency=medium
  164. * Replacing work around patch from Ubuntu with proper fix from
  165. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> of OpenSuse (CVE-2007-2026).
  166. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 19:57:00 +0200
  167. file (4.20-6) unstable; urgency=medium
  168. * Fixed clean: target in rule (Closes: #424269).
  169. * Added patch from Anthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org> to add magic for LUKS
  170. (Closes: #394246).
  171. * Added patch from Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> to add magic for
  172. Power-Tab.
  173. * Added patch from Sven Anders <anders@anduras.de> to fix a segfault with -c.
  174. * Added patch from Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> to work around regex DoS
  175. (CVE-2007-2026) by disabling the respective magic.
  176. * Added patch from Noel Torres <tecnico@ejerciciosresueltos.com> to add magic
  177. for SVG (Closes: #417331).
  178. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for
  179. Mathcad documents (Closes: #421426).
  180. * Added patch from Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org> to update elf magic
  181. with missing elf architectures (Closes: #424859).
  182. * Added patch from Josef Spillner <2005@kuarepoti-dju.net> to update magic
  183. for HFS+ partition table detection (Closes: #405313).
  184. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 18:15:00 +0200
  185. file (4.20-5) unstable; urgency=low
  186. * Added patch from Ralph Amissah <ralph.amissah@gmail.com> to update magic for
  187. SiSU Markup Language.
  188. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to disable magic for
  189. Bennet Yee's face format (Closes: #420855).
  190. * Updated copyright file (Closes: #398453).
  191. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:13:00 +0200
  192. file (4.20-4) unstable; urgency=low
  193. * Rediffed some patches, now having always the same format of adding new
  194. magics.
  195. * Added patch from Ralph Amissah <ralph.amissah@gmail.com> to add magic for
  196. SiSU Markup Language.
  197. * Added patch from Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> to add magic for
  198. Xen saved domains.
  199. * Added patch from Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> to add magic for
  200. Apple Emulator 2IMG format.
  201. * Added patch from Aaron Botsis <redhat@digitalmafia.org> to add magic for
  202. Oracle Clustered Filesytem.
  203. * Added patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update pcp magics.
  204. * Added patch from Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> to add magic for
  205. NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs).
  206. * Added patch from Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to add magic for
  207. Inform interactive fiction language (Closes: #394522).
  208. * Added patch to add magic for Erlang BEAM and JAM files (Closes: #388356).
  209. * Added patch from David Newgas <david@newgas.net> to add magic for
  210. AVG vault files (Closes: #381053).
  211. * Added patch from root <ap@insysnet.ru> to add magic for detecting
  212. H.264 video in AVI files (Closes: #347263).
  213. * Added patch from Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> to update
  214. lua magic with Lua bytecode (Closes: #335036).
  215. * Added patch from Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl> to add magic for
  216. PAR2 archive files (Closes: #294070).
  217. * Added patch from Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> to add magic for
  218. SuperCollider 3 Synth Definition File Format (Closes: #284803).
  219. * Added patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add magic for
  220. Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec files (Closes: #279322).
  221. * Added patch from Phil Endecott <phil05@chezphil.org> to add magic for
  222. GEDCOME genealogical data files (Closes: #277339).
  223. * Added patch from Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>to
  224. fix wrong formating in manpage (Closes: #417511).
  225. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:00 +0200
  226. file (4.20-3) unstable; urgency=low
  227. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for
  228. SNES SPC700 sound files (Closes: #410847).
  229. * Added patch from Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to add magic for the
  230. Lua scripting language (Closes: #394524).
  231. * Added patch from Nigel McNie <nigel@mcnie.name> to detect m4v files as m4v
  232. instead of mp4 (Closes: #384018).
  233. * Added patch from Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> to update
  234. sh scripts identifier (Closes: #368613).
  235. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  236. LZMA compression format (Closes: #364260).
  237. * Added patch from Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> to add magic for the
  238. Ulead Photo Explorer5 image format (Closes: #339397).
  239. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  240. Monkey's audio format (Closes: #334862).
  241. * Added patch from Josh Babcock <jbabcock@atlantech.net> to updated magic for
  242. Blender (Closes: #323291).
  243. * Added patch from Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> to update magic for
  244. COW from 2.0 to 3.0 (Closes: #283515, #319128).
  245. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  246. OpenRISC binary format (Closes: #316076).
  247. * Added patch from Philip Kendall <pak21@srcf.ucam.org> to update the
  248. spectrum magics (Closes: #296202).
  249. * Added patch from Al Stone <ahs3@debian.org> to add magic for the
  250. LLVM byte-codes (Closes: #293427).
  251. * Added patch from Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org> to add magic for
  252. Clarion files (Closes: #282680).
  253. * Added patch from Sven Hartge <debian@ds9.argh.org> to add magic for
  254. scummVM savegame files (Closes: #263488).
  255. * Added patch from Nicolas Chauvat <nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr> to add magic
  256. for CGNS Advnaced Data Format files (Closes: #242644).
  257. * Added patch from Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> to add magic for
  258. pmenu (Closes: #38543).
  259. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:51:00 +0100
  260. file (4.20-2) unstable; urgency=low
  261. * New maintainer (Closes: #416263).
  262. * Redone debian directory.
  263. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:28:00 +0100
  264. file (4.20-1) unstable; urgency=high
  265. * New upstream version
  266. - Fixes supposed vulnerability in the file_fprintf in funcs.c
  267. (closes: #415362 and justifies urgency)
  268. - MPEG ADTS signedness fixed (closes: #392009)
  269. - Better TeX/LaTeX magic (closes: #402062)
  270. - Better XML mimetype magic (closes: #345834)
  271. - More linespacing in manpage (closes: #402058)
  272. * Revert URL in copyright file (see #406820), as the old one is supposed to
  273. be correct, even if it disappeared temporarily.
  274. * Fixed typo in manpage (closes: #394514)
  275. * Make Perl script entries consistent (closes: #394523)
  276. * Disable second MS Installer entry (closes: #409895)
  277. * Disable one-byte magic for COM (closes: #393775, #339618)
  278. * audio/midi mimetype (closes: #401839)
  279. * Enable gzip mimetype magic (closes: #324889)
  280. * Disabled some QuickTime entries (ASCII words, closes: #366986, #308394)
  281. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:55:46 +0100
  282. file (4.19-1) unstable; urgency=low
  283. * New upstream version.
  284. * Use correct new URL to upstream now (closes: #406820)
  285. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:03:27 +0100
  286. file (4.17-5) unstable; urgency=high
  287. * Initialize some previously uninitialized memory, this could lead to a
  288. segmentation fault when using magic_compile in libmagic (closes: #403085)
  289. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:36:12 +0100
  290. file (4.17-4) unstable; urgency=medium
  291. * Add proper depends for python-magic (fixes not yet filed serious bug)
  292. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:00 +0200
  293. file (4.17-3) unstable; urgency=low
  294. * Add example /etc/magic.mime and document the fact that file only look for
  295. a magic.mime file if the base magic file exists (closes: #382057)
  296. * Remove AWK detection by regular expression testing just for ‘BEGIN:’;
  297. this caused a lot of false guesses (and problems with naughty programs
  298. reading other programs’ files), this closes: #308305, #375403 and makes
  299. others disappear (for the time being, for example, it closes: #375722)
  300. * Added Python 2.5 byte-compiled (closes: #376711)
  301. * Fix some bad MIME types (closes: #379042, thanks to Moritz Naumann)
  302. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:28:25 +0200
  303. file (4.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
  304. * Using new python infrastructure now: python2.3-magic and python2.4-magic
  305. dropped in favour of python-magic containing all versions
  306. * Identify Mono assemblies (closes: #314756)
  307. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:39:15 +0200
  308. file (4.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
  309. * New upstream (closes: #343648)
  310. * Improved over-confident 64bit-cracklib rule (closes: #343504)
  311. * Revert ELF file-reading (by Alessandro Rubini, closes: #345089)
  312. * Detect GNU/kFreeBSD binaries (by Robert Millan, closes: #307475)
  313. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:25:06 +0100
  314. file (4.15-2) unstable; urgency=low
  315. * Add Build-Depends to python, although I really don’t see the point of the
  316. python package (since file Build-Depended transitively on python2.3
  317. anyway), which claims to be a dependency package only (closes: #333859)
  318. * Disabled EMF detection as it not only caused false positives, which might
  319. have been acceptible, but a segmentation fault (closes: #333502)
  320. * Move the magic databases from /usr/share/misc/file to /usr/share/file;
  321. this still violates the FHS in letter, but not in spirit; this is
  322. different from the position in other distros (closes: #215139, #278478)
  323. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:01:54 +0200
  324. file (4.15-1) unstable; urgency=low
  325. * New upstream, closes: #305914
  326. - Maya with string version (closes: #246962)
  327. - added ESRI Shapefile format (closes: #277552)
  328. - added Adlib tunes (closes: #317192)
  329. - many more magic additions, probably closing some bugs as well
  330. - magic files can now contain regular expressions
  331. * Fix manpage typo (closes: #323539)
  332. * Mention possibly unexpected behaviour of -k in man page (closes: #259193)
  333. * ELF machine 21 can be PowerPC64 (closes: #299620)
  334. * Remove gzip/bzip2-detection for Debian packages (closes: #328623)
  335. * Updated HP 38/39/40/48/49 magic (closes: #326680)
  336. * Disabled BZIP detection (closes: #277648)
  337. * Enabled the python bindings (Martin von Löwis, closes: #325073)
  338. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:35:17 +0200
  339. file (4.12-1) unstable; urgency=high
  340. * New upstream version. Closes: #283316, a potential stack smash in ELF
  341. header parsing. Urgency set to high.
  342. * /etc/magic is read, as it should (Closes: #279324)
  343. * No further changes to increase the slim chance of getting into Sarge.
  344. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:42:47 +0100
  345. file (4.10-3) unstable; urgency=high
  346. * The “for the love of Branden” release.
  347. * Urgency high in a vain attempt to get this into sarge.
  348. * Fix MIME detection for 3DS (actually, remove it because it was hilarious,
  349. closes: #216368)
  350. * Do _not_ depend on gcc-3.4
  351. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:14:48 +0200
  352. file (4.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  353. * Fix multibyte vs. byte issue in files-from (closes: #261799)
  354. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:40:53 +0200
  355. file (4.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
  356. * New upstream version.
  357. - No more doubling of file names with -z (closes: #260393)
  358. * New magic for SLL16 (closes: #249190)
  359. * New magic for SVN dumps (closes: #256652)
  360. * Patch for error return code on non-existant files
  361. (courtesy of Federico Grau, closes: #257805)
  362. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:58:40 +0200
  363. file (4.09-1) unstable; urgency=low
  364. * New upstream version. This includes almost every patch that the Debian
  365. version had, so this package is very close to upstream's.
  366. * Disable some more Apple magic (closes: #231476); curiously, most of the
  367. Apple magic is very weak.
  368. * Disable very weak Assembler magic (closes: #223328)
  369. * Disable weak AWK magic (closes: #223282)
  370. * Added DjVu magic (closes: #238570)
  371. * Removed erroneous 5th column in magic.mime (closes: #246428)
  372. * Better error report messages in two places (closes: #243446, #252951)
  373. * Use /etc/magic again (failed to touch Makefile.in, closes: #231306)
  374. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:35:30 +0200
  375. file (4.07-2) unstable; urgency=low
  376. * Move the "debian-additions" magic file back in; it got lost
  377. * Move up "compress" in the list to test for gzip before FLI; this
  378. closes: #228391 - but what happens if I have a real FLI file that
  379. starts with the two gzip magic bytes?
  380. * Replace the really bad magic for MP3 in magic.mime with the one found
  381. in "animation" (closes: #227625)
  382. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:57:47 +0100
  383. file (4.07-1) unstable; urgency=low
  384. * New upstream
  385. * do not loop endlessly when encountering zero-length section offsets in ELF
  386. headers (closes: #226289)
  387. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:54:32 +0100
  388. file (4.06-2) unstable; urgency=low
  389. * Unified HTML detection for normal and mime; handles the main complaint of
  390. #223340, but not all of it.
  391. * Added Hangul Word Processor File (closes: #219867)
  392. * Added Outlook personal folder (closes: #183764)
  393. * Added Mobipocket e-book (closes: #222855)
  394. * Added BIOS ROM dumps (closes: #150880)
  395. * Added some Doom and Quake (closes: #135671)
  396. * Added Sun/Cobalt boot ROMs (closes: #216867)
  397. * Made VMware magic more robust and (hopefully) correct (closes: #219037);
  398. file used to report nothing at all, due to an empty description string and
  399. heavy reliance on the subtype (which didn't match)
  400. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:25:34 +0100
  401. file (4.06-1) unstable; urgency=low
  402. * New upstream.
  403. - Return error for non-existant files (closes: #215801)
  404. - Adds BitTorrent (closes: #201301)
  405. * Fix minor AAC typo (closes: #215052)
  406. * More QuickTime subformats (closes: #198809)
  407. * Rearrange Flac detection (closes: #213693)
  408. * Improved CAB detection (closes: #208926, #205431)
  409. * Added Netscape Bookmarks (closes: #207344)
  410. * Added DACT (closes: #195882)
  411. * Added GCC precompiled headers (closes: #204304)
  412. * Added GEOS (closes: #162852)
  413. * Added HVQM4 (Still counting, Mark? Closes: #151138)
  414. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:40:54 +0200
  415. file (4.04-1) unstable; urgency=low
  416. * New upstream
  417. * add MAXPATHLEN to apprentice.c in order to make it build on the
  418. Hurd (closes: #212215)
  419. * add TFMX (closes: #151217, as the rest was already there)
  420. * recognize PO files (closes: #138423)
  421. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:06:48 +0200
  422. file (4.03-3) unstable; urgency=low
  423. * more and better magic:
  424. - added Python 2.3 byte-compiled
  425. - corrected magic for HFS+ (closes: #207576)
  426. - fixed XML magic and added to MIME magic (closes: #186613)
  427. - added Xbox magic (closes: #183432)
  428. - remove ", English" from MIME type output (closes: #160415)
  429. - remove the vain attempts to guess the size of JPEG files as they are
  430. either wrong or confusing (sort of closes: #74938, #153833, #198053)
  431. - add Gnumeric magic to both normal and MIME magic; note you still have to
  432. pass -z to file (closes: #205708, #206756)
  433. - remove compresse MIME types (related to #170981)
  434. - add ACE archiver (closes: #178807)
  435. * add more descriptive message for unreadable files (closes: #203168)
  436. * rearranges header inclusions so that configuration is the same in all
  437. compiled files (closes: #208785)
  438. * fix the long-standing crash-on-compressed bug (closes: #197442, #207458)
  439. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:59:54 +0200
  440. file (4.03-2) unstable; urgency=low
  441. * Compressed Flash (closes: #179640), also for MIME (closes: #186946)
  442. * Added GPG (closes: #197646) and JFFS2 (closes: #188780);
  443. accidentally also closes: #203158 (debian-additions not empty anymore)
  444. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:28:39 +0200
  445. file (4.03-1) unstable; urgency=low
  446. * New upstream
  447. - fixes Zsh bug (closes: #195583, #196163)
  448. - incorporates many Debian changes to magic entries
  449. - also closes: #196162 (no more Broken HTML)
  450. * Reformatted ancient changelog entries and made sure changelog
  451. is in UTF-8.
  452. * File depends on correct library version now (closes: #194697)
  453. * Recognizes more Magic Cookies (closes: #201301)
  454. * Dynamically updates libtool (closes: #195330)
  455. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:39:15 +0200
  456. file (4.02-4) unstable; urgency=low
  457. * The "no closes:" release.
  458. * Removed one last artifact of the raw-magic option.
  459. * Adapt the very-short-file fix to the new environment.
  460. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2003 20:01:17 +0200
  461. file (4.02-3) unstable; urgency=low
  462. * Remove the nomgc symbol from the library (closes: #193355); this kind of
  463. reopens #115573, but I am now sure that this is not a bug, document the
  464. behaviour instead.
  465. * Make HTML magic a little less picky (closes: #193296)
  466. * Close files after looking at them (closes: #193580)
  467. * Don't report bogus for unreadable files (closes: #193582)
  468. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2003 18:01:27 +0200
  469. file (4.02-2) unstable; urgency=low
  470. * Changed Priority of libmagic-dev to optional (closes: #193254)
  471. * Add Conflicts of libmagic1 to older file (closes: #193236, #193238)
  472. * Use newer libtool (closes: #193152)
  473. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 2003 13:47:47 +0200
  474. file (4.02-1) unstable; urgency=low
  475. * New upstream version
  476. * Acknowledge NMU, closes: #184204
  477. * Description length limit is down to 64 again. The easy way, setting it in
  478. file.h, doesn't work anymore, and I've not yet found out why.
  479. * Upstream has made a library out of the magic number recognition routines.
  480. Consequently, split the package up into three binary packages, adding
  481. libmagic1 and libmagic-dev.
  482. * debian/rules: all new and shiny; better autotools supprt
  483. * add some more magic:
  484. - TI emulators skins (closes: #167267)
  485. - Objective Caml (closes: #166830)
  486. - ReBorn (closes: #156279)
  487. - SE Linux policy database (closes: #159283)
  488. - Flow Cytometry Standard (closes: #160984)
  489. * remove some magic:
  490. - Brian Postma's Soundmon Module (closes: #168661)
  491. - LILO (closes: #160602)
  492. * fixed some magic:
  493. - XWD X Window Dump (closes: #164047, #81771)
  494. * fix reference to magic man page in README (closes: #159992)
  495. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 11 May 2003 20:15:20 +0200
  496. file (3.40-1.1) unstable; urgency=high
  497. * [readelf.c] Apply patch from upstream version 3.41 to fix buffer overflow
  498. - CAN-2003-0102
  499. - http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.04.03.txt
  500. - Closes: #184204
  501. -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:50:22 -0500
  502. file (3.40-1) unstable; urgency=low
  503. * New upstream version (closes... no, this time I'm faster)
  504. * Switched Maintainer and Uploaders field, thereby effectively taken over
  505. the package after not having heard of the previous maintainer for about
  506. a year (finally officially closes: #174338, which is already closed)
  507. * No more whitespace on first line of debian/rules (closes: #164651)
  508. * It seems this already was fixed, but using an addition to the additional
  509. StuffIt magic now (closes: #170893)
  510. * Added VRML (closes: #166955)
  511. * Corrected unknown groff character names in magic(5) manpage (closes: #180056)
  512. * Update TI Calculator Magic (closes: #162820)
  513. * Make the ELF string extraction a little more robust (closes: #166832)
  514. * Recognizes HTML even with whitespace (closes: #119193)
  515. * Do not hang on rapidly growing archives with -z (closes: #162896)
  516. * Remove CVS date from Ogg output, it is not very useful as version number
  517. is printed anyway, and may cause trouble as it is not a real string, thus
  518. breaking the output routine for LANG!=C (closes: #178479)
  519. * Fix alignment of multifile output and wide characters
  520. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:31:21 +0100
  521. file (3.39-1) unstable; urgency=low
  522. * NMU
  523. * New upstream version (closes: #148212, #151907)
  524. - incorporates most Debian patches
  525. - adds 9660 filesystem magic (closes: #157050; Upstream has
  526. a different magic than reporter.)
  527. - adds MNG magic (closes: #147264, see below)
  528. - adds PHP magic (closes: #145929)
  529. - detects UTF-8 and UTF-16 with BOM (closes: #102076)
  530. - some short string magic commented out (closes: #134266)
  531. * New Debian patches
  532. - improved Linux kernel magic, make it like lilo (closes: #106898)
  533. - changed BMP MIME type to x-ms-bmp (closes: #124234)
  534. - added JNG magic (closes: #147264)
  535. - added alternate ZIP magic (closes: #56292)
  536. - added alternate StuffIt magic (closes: #114027)
  537. - added/changed magic for Screamtracker (closes: #60009)
  538. - added vCalendar magic (closes: #158338)
  539. - added ZX spectrum magic (closes: #157162)
  540. - added EST flat binary (closes: #139239), Aculab VoIP firmware
  541. (closes: #138967), PPCBoot image (closes: #138958); thank you, Mark
  542. - tried some magic for multiple master fonts (closes: #29685)
  543. - removed some Mac magic (closes: #113733); this is not the
  544. real fix (TM), but works for the particular problem
  545. - removed some two-byte ASCII magic - too simple (closes: #144398)
  546. - fixed some entries extracting strings (changed \n to \0)
  547. - added new command line option -M which ignores compiled databases
  548. (closes: #115573)
  549. - give warning for one-byte files (magic is at least two bytes long,
  550. closes: #95778, #117222)
  551. * Move Debian magic additions all together in one spot to facilitate
  552. patching and communication with upstream
  553. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:13:15 +0200
  554. file (3.37-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
  555. * NMU
  556. * Removed regexp.patch and kleff, they didn't serve a purpose
  557. * Bumped standards-version to 3.5.
  558. * Added Kimwitu magic
  559. * Improved MS Office magic (closes: #116693, #54960)
  560. * Added XV thumb, ISDN vbox, KiSS (closes: #54391)
  561. * Emacs 19 improved upstream (closes: #101336)
  562. * Added long HtmlHelp magic (closes: #113876)
  563. * Added webshots desktop (closes: #118517)
  564. * Added newer Python magic (closes: #119572)
  565. * Ogg magic improved upstream (closes: #91858)
  566. * XFS cleaned up (closes: #129172)
  567. * Targa reports size (closes: #133024)
  568. * Documented arbitrary 50 character description limit and increased it
  569. to 80 characters (closes: #12415) - the patch for unlimited length
  570. doesn't work, at least not at advertised.
  571. * Added Atari MSA (closes: #95040)
  572. * TI-8x updated (closes: #102824)
  573. * Better Swap (closes: #105504)
  574. * Increased buffer size to 96K (closes: #105505)
  575. * Better CRAMFS (closes: #115575)
  576. * Added JFFS (closes: #118900)
  577. * Added Hercules DASD image magic (closes: #122326)
  578. * Added TDB magic (closes: #122328)
  579. * Added Matlab (closes: #125666)
  580. * Added Squeak images and (closes: #131627)
  581. * Added User Mode COW magic (closes: #134619)
  582. * Added even better Ogg magic and even include it (closes: #134663)
  583. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:47:32 +0100
  584. file (3.37-3) unstable; urgency=low
  585. * Implemented internal gzip support through the zlib library. It's much
  586. faster than executing gzip and it works better. Many small files that
  587. weren't properly handled now are. I've tested this with over 400 random
  588. gzipped files and it works, but please, report any problem with this.
  589. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 14 Oct 2001 05:56:19 -0300
  590. file (3.37-2) unstable; urgency=low
  591. * The new sread function was sooo broken... I have now enhanced
  592. it with the amazing capability of handling EOF. Now file -z
  593. shouldn't hang (closes:Bug#115156).
  594. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:10:10 -0300
  595. file (3.37-1) unstable; urgency=low
  596. * New upstream release:
  597. * Recognizes mp3 files with IDv2 tags (closes:Bug#112829, Bug#96688).
  598. * Adds magic for RRDtool databases (closes:Bug#114372).
  599. * Weak magic for AppleWorks spreadsheet data was removed
  600. (closes:Bug#110451,Bug#98447).
  601. * Remove warning for not using a compiled magic version for /etc/magic.
  602. I won't try to implement something to create a compiled version of
  603. /etc/magic as: 1) This fle is empty by default and will have only a few
  604. manually added entries, so there wouldn't be any speed gain; 2) It will
  605. add complexity and it wouldn't be trivial.
  606. * Added a note in magic2mime(1) deprecating its use.
  607. * No longer recognizes sunclock's "vector map format" as PostScript
  608. (closes:Bug#105930).
  609. * Added magic for cramfs and reiserfs from russell@coker.com.au
  610. (closes:Bug#105485, Bug#105508).
  611. * Added two Palm file formats from
  612. John Gruenenfelder <johng@bach.as.arizona.edu> (closes:Bug#104034).
  613. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:49:42 -0300
  614. file (3.33-5) unstable; urgency=low
  615. * Added "Build-Depends: debhelper" (closes:Bug#86829).
  616. * New magic for S/390 ELF binaries (closes:Bug#93491).
  617. * Added support for large files (closes:Bug#93402).
  618. * Fixed magic2mime to cope with the new charset detection
  619. (closes:Bug#92931).
  620. * Added -s option to short usage message (-h) (closes:Bug#85910).
  621. * Added magic for Paint Shop Pro from
  622. Telford Tendys <telford@triode.net.au> (closes:Bug#85359).
  623. * Removed minor PS version number from font detection magic,
  624. suggested by Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  625. (closes:Bug#82667).
  626. * Added magic for Flac audio (what's that? =) ) from
  627. Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> (closes:Bug#91857).
  628. * Added magic for newer LHA files (does someone still use lha? wow!)
  629. from Paul Martin <pm@nowster.zetnet.co.uk> (closes:Bug#83454).
  630. * Now shows which compressor a Debian package uses,
  631. contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> (closes:Bug#48389).
  632. * Removed creation date report from Debian magic, it no longer works.
  633. It seems that the gzipped members of the .deb file are no longer
  634. created with the proper date.
  635. * Added lots of Palm documents contributed by
  636. Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org> (but replaced "document" with
  637. "PalmOS document") (closes:Bug#87759).
  638. * Added magic for Squish and JAM echomail/netmail Fidonet areas storage
  639. formats contributed by peter@softwolves.pp.se (closes:Bug#90172).
  640. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 6 May 2001 02:13:10 -0300
  641. file (3.33-4) unstable; urgency=low
  642. * Modified Newton PDA package format magic so it doesn't match
  643. Java source code files.
  644. * When using -z, don't write the NUL terminator to the uncompressing
  645. program.
  646. * Ignore output from gzip (gzip should have an option to disable the
  647. "unexpected end of file" error message) (closes:Bug#83317).
  648. * Minor updates to debian/rules.
  649. * Reordered description for MIPS object files to please weak parsing
  650. in libtool (closes:Bug#83303).
  651. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:03 -0300
  652. file (3.33-3) unstable; urgency=low
  653. * Code for detecting if an input stream is seekable assumed that lseek
  654. returns 0 on success, which is untrue, and file was copying every ELF
  655. file probed to a temporary file. Fixed (closes:Bug#82261).
  656. Found by Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>.
  657. * Uses -g only if debug is in the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable.
  658. * Updated standards-version to 3.2.1.
  659. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:26:35 -0300
  660. file (3.33-2) unstable; urgency=low
  661. * Added ELF magic for IBM AS/390 mainframe (closes:Bug#79575).
  662. * Fix from Adam Heat for very small .gz files and -z, I've also
  663. added NUL termination of the uncompressed buffer
  664. (closes:Bug#16837,Bug#36724,Bug#37838).
  665. * If the file is ELF and is not seekable, `file' will now copy
  666. it to a temporary file because the ELF code needs to fseek
  667. everywhere in the file. The idea was from Adam Heath <adam@doogie.org>.
  668. (closes:Bug#28964,Bug#70629).
  669. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:38:58 -0300
  670. file (3.33-1) unstable; urgency=low
  671. * New upstream release (closes:Bug#67970). Fixes:
  672. * Recognizes Berkeley DB files (closes:Bug#18821).
  673. * Tries to recognize EBCDIC encoded files (closes:Bug#31949).
  674. * lif files recognized in LE systems (closes:Bug#78261).
  675. * Contributions from Wolfram Kleff (closes:Bug#56667).
  676. * Changed pgp armored data to pgp armored *text*.
  677. * Added GEM image and metafile from.
  678. * Added Vivo video format.
  679. * Added STAD packed image.
  680. * Added AFX compressed files.
  681. * Added GFA-BASIC 3 data.
  682. * Added ICE and X11 authority data.
  683. * Added magic for DJGPP compiled files from Robert vd Boon
  684. (closes:Bug#70600).
  685. * Changed file for data here and there (closes:Bug#35851).
  686. * Added Sketch document (closes:Bug#67511).
  687. * Added SMJPEG (image format used in games) (closes:Bug#62224).
  688. * Added magic for Sony PlayStation executables (closes:Bug#31310).
  689. * Added other way of detecting perl scripts (closes:Bug#45426).
  690. * Fixed detection of MP3 files with the new -i option.
  691. * Adapted Debian patch to include long-options alternatives for the
  692. new -k and -i options. Updated the manpage.
  693. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:02:07 -0300
  694. file (3.28-1) unstable; urgency=low
  695. * New upstream release. Fixes:
  696. * A serious attempt to detect JPEG is done now, but the
  697. format seems to be not very magic friendly (closes:Bug#31950).
  698. * DB2 magic added (closes:Bug#19097).
  699. * Added another case combination for the detection of HTML files
  700. (closes:Bug#45326).
  701. * Improved newly added xml detection (eg: added XSL stylesheets detection).
  702. * Some magic files weren't being included, modified Makefile.am.
  703. The files now included are jpeg, grace, mcrypt, palm and spectrum.
  704. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:58:01 -0300
  705. file (3.27-7) unstable; urgency=low
  706. * Added entry for recently announced new LSM file format.
  707. * Removed README.Debian and folded it into the copyright file
  708. (closes:Bug#53069).
  709. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:23:48 -0300
  710. file (3.27-6) unstable; urgency=low
  711. * Applied patch with improvements to magi2mime
  712. from J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <ray@cistron.nl> (closes:Bug#51399).
  713. * Added some Windows magic from Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>
  714. (closes:Bug#31023).
  715. * Added magic for PCX, Adobe's PSD, MS Word, and replaced
  716. magic for kernel detection with contributions from
  717. Wolfram Kleff <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de> (closes:Bug#46781).
  718. * Added magic for Linux kernel System.map files.
  719. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:09:08 -0300
  720. file (3.27-5) unstable; urgency=low
  721. * Put docs and manpages under /usr/share.
  722. * Updated `Standards-Version' to 3.1.0.
  723. * Added contributed magic for `Smith Corona Personal Word Processors'
  724. (closes:Bug#45704).
  725. * Added magic for X-Post-it (closes:Bug#43031).
  726. * Improved detection of MS-DOS batch files a bit (closes:Bug#50205).
  727. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:09:13 -0300
  728. file (3.27-4) unstable; urgency=low
  729. * It was not reading /etc/magic.
  730. * Updated manpage to say that local magic entries are read from
  731. and should be written to /etc/magic.
  732. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:40:17 -0300
  733. file (3.27-3) unstable; urgency=low
  734. * Added detection of SIDPlay audio files (closes: Bug#35564, Bug#35483).
  735. * Added "#include <errno.h>" to compress.c (closes: Bug#37705).
  736. * Fixed tiny typos in README (closes: Bug#38877).
  737. * Added magic for Atari ST executables from Wolfram Kleff
  738. <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de>.
  739. * Added formats for some communications standards contributed by
  740. W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org> (closes: Bug#34542, Bug#34779).
  741. * Removed detection of format `Fasttracker "oktalyzer" module sound data'.
  742. It was just 2 bytes at offset 0 and generated false positives
  743. (closes: Bug#36704).
  744. * Added detection of MPEG audio level 2.5 and improved messages for level
  745. 3 (mp3) contributed by Wolfram Kleff <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de>
  746. (closes: Bug#40733).
  747. * Added audio/midi to magic2mime.
  748. * Readded magic2mime to package. It was removed by mistake.
  749. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:11:45 -0300
  750. file (3.27-2) unstable; urgency=low
  751. * Removed detection of unstriped binaries. Patch from
  752. Sean Perry <shaleh@debian.org>. Fixes bugs #38407, #38417, 38419.
  753. * Added detection of NITF files from jrv@vanzandt.mv.com.
  754. Fixes bug #38452.
  755. * No longer includes Localstuff in /usr/share/misc/magic. Local
  756. definitions should go to /etc/magic.
  757. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Fri, 28 May 1999 00:39:32 -0300
  758. file (3.27-1) unstable; urgency=low
  759. * New upstream release. Fixes bugs #36786, #30692,
  760. #29353 (added shockwave/flash files).
  761. * Removed detection of "OS/2 URL objects": too general.
  762. * Truncates \n on output. file's outputs MUST be one line per file.
  763. Fixes bugs #34439, #34290, #35222, #32305, #32302, #30875.
  764. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 21:50:13 -0300
  765. file (3.26-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  766. * Moved x86 boot sector detection after linux kernel detection.
  767. Fixes bug #24185.
  768. * Added kernel version extraction for newer kernels.
  769. * Removed `,' from GIF description's end.
  770. * Changed version shown to 3.26-Debian, as this version is different from
  771. upstream.
  772. * Added manpage for magic2mime.
  773. * Added more mime types for magic2mime and some fixes for the script.
  774. * Switched to debhelper.
  775. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:08:24 -0300
  776. file (3.26-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  777. * New upstream release. Upstream author included many Debian enhancements
  778. and added some minor fixes. Fixes bug #30692. Bug #30875 was fixed in
  779. previous NMU.
  780. * Fixed autoconf use.
  781. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:15:45 +0000
  782. file (3.24-4.2) frozen unstable; urgency=HIGH
  783. * NMU:
  784. Fix critical bugs #31031 and #31057.
  785. -- Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:51:15 +0100
  786. file (3.24-4.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  787. * Non-maintainer release.
  788. * Add patch so "\n"-style escapes work (closes:Bug#22854).
  789. -- Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:44:18 -0800
  790. file (3.24-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  791. * Added `-f' to an rm that might obstaculize automatic builds,
  792. fixes bug #19970.
  793. * Removed very old Debian package detection that caused files starting
  794. with 0.9 to show no description at all, fixes bugs #19657 and #19677.
  795. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:18:34 -0300
  796. file (3.24-3) unstable; urgency=low
  797. * Small fix in online help.
  798. * Changed `Standards-version' to 2.4.0.0 (no changes required).
  799. * Moved /usr/share/magic to /usr/share/misc/magic, fixes bug #18639.
  800. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:28:45 -0300
  801. file (3.24-2) unstable; urgency=low
  802. * Fixed upstream completely broken configure.in (wasn't showing special
  803. files major & minor numbers).
  804. * Included upsstream magic2mime in the binary package.
  805. * Added more HTML tokns to names.h.
  806. * Added lzop compressd files definition, contributed
  807. by Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>.
  808. * Moved magic data to /usr/share/magic (not a conffile). /etc/magic will
  809. be used for local magic definitions.
  810. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:21:59 -0300
  811. file (3.24-1) unstable; urgency=low
  812. * names.h: Added HTML.
  813. * New upstream release.
  814. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:47:11 -0300
  815. file (3.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
  816. * Added long version for the new option `-b' (`--brief'). Added long
  817. option to manpage. Added the option to the usge message (`--help').
  818. * Added GNU message catalog magic, contributed
  819. by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>, fixes bug #14743.
  820. * Removed duplcated entry for romfs, fixes bug #13977.
  821. * New upstream release, fixes bug #17830.
  822. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:12:32 -0300
  823. file (3.20.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
  824. * Added magic for Octave contributed
  825. by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>
  826. * names.h: Added detectionn of Java source code.
  827. * softmagic.c: When converting endianness only swap bytes if needed.
  828. * Use %m instead of strerr.
  829. * Added magic for WordPerfect files, contributed
  830. by Scott K. Ellis <ellis@charon.valueweb.net>.
  831. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:22:27 -0300
  832. file (3.20.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
  833. * Changed maintainer address.
  834. * Added filesystems and Linux86 magic, contributed
  835. by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>, fixes #13279.
  836. * Keep files' date.
  837. * Added GIMP file formats, contributed
  838. by Kenneth MacDonald <kenny@ed.ac.uk>.
  839. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:22:38 -0300
  840. file (3.20.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
  841. * Minor changes to debian/rules.
  842. * Modified manpage.
  843. * Added `--help' option.
  844. * Added magic data for vgetty voice formats (thanks to
  845. David Engel <david@sw.ods.com>).
  846. * Arguments to a printf casted to long long, fixes #10779.
  847. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:21:58 -0300
  848. file (3.20.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
  849. * Added Linux kernel boot image version detection for new kernels.
  850. * Removed `-Wall' warnings.
  851. * Added "DEC SRC Virtual Paper: Lectern files" type,
  852. contributed by Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>.
  853. * Removed useless RCS ids.
  854. * Corrected compilation flags.
  855. * Don't try to keep file modification time, it changed file status change
  856. time. And it's more natural a change in access time than in file status
  857. change time. Fixes bug #7920.
  858. * Minor fix to manpage.
  859. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:49 -0300
  860. file (3.20.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
  861. * Built with libc6.
  862. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:09:58 -0300
  863. file (3.20.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
  864. * Removed information about who created the /etc/magic file.
  865. * Removed creation date from /etc/magic. This changed the md5sum of this
  866. conffile every release.
  867. * Man page updated.
  868. * Added long options support.
  869. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:19:43 -0300
  870. file (3.20.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
  871. * Improved MS applications' docuemts detection (#4473).
  872. * Added Steve McIntyre's contributed formats (#6735).
  873. * New upstream release has fixed bugs #5777 #5838 and #6656 . All
  874. reporting that file didn't detect Java's .class.
  875. * My name is Nicolás. Fixes #7238 (!).
  876. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 12 Feb 1997 02:53:42 -0300
  877. file (3.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
  878. * Added LSM files detection.
  879. * Clarified header of /etc/magic.
  880. * Added detection of creation time for .deb's.
  881. * Added detection of 2.1.x kernels.
  882. * Upstream fix to handle \n in arguments to string format broke
  883. description that expected \n to end the string. Changed file
  884. to discard \n's and following text at print time.
  885. * Upstream changelog included.
  886. * New upstream release
  887. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Sun, 9 Feb 1997 23:41:39 -0300
  888. file (3.19-7) unstable; urgency=low
  889. * Corrected section in control file.
  890. * New maintainer.
  891. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:49:19 -0300
  892. file (3.19-6) unstable; urgency=low
  893. * Added detection of pcap data files (like used by tcpdump) Peter Tobias
  894. <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
  895. * Removed signal detection from core files. Doesn't work for ELF binaries
  896. Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>.
  897. * Changed to new source format.
  898. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:11:00 -0300
  899. file (3.19-5)
  900. * Change of maintainer and updated for multi-architecture build (fixes Bug #3332)
  901. * Un-right-justified the description field
  902. * Move entry for debian packages to the correct spot and update it for debian 2.0 packages (fixes Bug #3411)
  903. * Add entry for TrueType fonts to Magdir/fonts
  904. -- Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>, Mon Jul 8 23:07:21 1996
  905. file (3.19-4)
  906. * added entry for Adobe Postscript PPD files in Magdir/ppd.
  907. file (3.19-3)
  908. * added entry for linux kernal images to source file Magdir/linux
  909. file (3.19-2)
  910. * add MAGIC=/etc/magic to make(1) invocation
  911. * change maintainer email address
  912. file (3.19-1)
  913. * added debian.* files
  914. * modified Magdir/archive to add debian-split entry to ar archives
  915. * modified magdir/elf to add more entry for core file