Adding debian version 1.19.8.debian/1.19.8debian

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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diff --git a/debian/bug-script b/debian/bug-script
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index 0000000..56d6548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/bug-script
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+for d in /bin /sbin /lib /lib32 /libo32 /libx32 /lib64; do
+  if [ "$(readlink $d)" = "usr$d" ]; then
+    echo "System tainted due to merged-usr-via-symlinks." >&3
+    break
+  fi
+done
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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index 0000000..87729d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,13479 @@
+dpkg (1.19.8) buster-security; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::Source::Archive: Prevent directory traversal for in-place extracts.
+      Reported by Max Justicz <max@justi.cz>. Fixes CVE-2022-1664.
+  * Build system:
+    - Build gitlab CI images for buster instead of sid.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 24 May 2022 13:40:09 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.19.7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * dpkg: Fix off-by-one error in dpkg --abort-error. Closes: #924886
+    Thanks to Tom Goulet <tomg@sentex.ca>.
+  * dpkg: Set the force defaults before loading the config file, otherwise we
+    incorrectly override them. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.19.5.
+    Closes: #928671
+  * dpkg: Split the trigger dependtry into two, the second of which will be
+    the one checking trigger cycles when deferring trigger processing due to
+    unsatisfiable dependencies. Closes: #928429
+  * dpkg-deb: Validate ar member magic before normalizing any of its fields.
+  * dpkg-deb: Honor --nocheck when building packages with newlines in
+    filenames. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.1. Closes: #929727
+  * Documentation:
+    - rootless-builds.txt: Expand what the builder means. Mention the
+      dpkg-deb option to use to set the owner and group to root. And reword
+      the prototyping section to be less confusing with what is currently
+      implemented. Closes: #929019
+    - README: Clarify when autopoint is needed. Closes: #929601
+    - Fix typos in docs and output strings. Warned by codespell.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #926665
+  * French (Jean-Pierre Giraud). Closes: #929664
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:22:35 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.19.6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * libdpkg: Add a new TAR_FORMAT_UNKNOWN enum value.
+  * libdpkg: Set tar_entry to zero on tar_entry_destroy(), to avoid double
+    free()s and the subsequent crashes.
+  * libdpkg: Handle non end-of-tape errors from tar_header_decode().
+  * libdpkg: Use ERANGE instead of EINVAL for tar_atol8() out-of-range error.
+  * dpkg-gencontrol: Check presence of package build dir before traversing it.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V1: Change default build option style to -sa.
+      Using -sA by default means the user might lose data on overwrite if
+      there is already a directory with the same name laying around.
+      Closes: #910737
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Handle Format field being undefined. On source
+      format 1.0, the default is for the debian/source/format file not being
+      present, which means we'll start with an empty Format field name.
+      Regression introduced in dpkg 1.19.3.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Update usertags.
+    - Install a lintian profile for dpkg based on the debian profile, so that
+      we can suppress Debian-specific tags, such as the controversial one on
+      vendor-specific patch series files.
+    - Add Breaks on lsb-base due to start-stop-daemon exposing breakage in
+      the killproc function from /lib/lsb/init-functions. Closes: #923861
+  * Test suite:
+    - Stop requiring (pseudo-)root in the functional test suite.
+    - Export and move TESTDATA definition close to the PATH definition.
+    - Quote the 'yes' command to make a comment clearer.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #924776
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #924777
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:08:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.19.5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * start-stop-daemon: Make sure that we get a meaningful errno on
+    parse_unsigned(), so that the error messages always make sense.
+  * start-stop-daemon: Add new fatalv() and fatale() functions and use the
+    latter for system errors, so that we are explicit on whether we want to
+    use errno for error reporting or not.
+  * start-stop-daemon: Always refuse to parse a world-writable pidfile,
+    except when that is /dev/null.
+  * dpkg: Print the current set of enabled force options on --force-help.
+  * dpkg: Parse and set new DPKG_FORCE environment variable for subprocesses.
+    Closes: #666147
+  * dpkg-statoverride: Add support for --force-* options.
+  * dpkg-statoverride: Switch from --force option to new --force-<thing>
+    options. Deprecate --force option which will be considered an alias for
+    --force-all for now.
+  * dpkg, dpkg-statoverride: Add new option --refuse-security-mac to control
+    SELinux. See #811037.
+  * dpkg: Clarify error on unknown system user/group in statoverride database.
+    Closes: #920880
+  * dpkg-buildpackage: Clarify the warning/error on short OpenPGP key IDs.
+    Closes: #922039
+  * dpkg-maintscript-helper: Restrict find for dir-to-symlink move to
+    -maxdepth 1. Thanks to Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>. Closes: #922799
+  * dpkg-genbuildinfo: Add support for a new Build-Tainted-By field in
+    .buildinfo files. Suggested by Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>.
+  * libdpkg: Clarify field names in error and warning messages.
+  * libdpkg: Optimize error handling. Move the error reporting outside the
+    involved functions so that we do not need to call gettext if there is no
+    error, which has a significant performance cost.
+  * libdpkg: Merge nicknames table into fieldinfos, to stop penalizing the
+    lookup of non-obsolete fieldnames.
+  * libdpkg: Print a more accurate warning for Revision nicknames.
+  * libdpkg: Increase the pkg-hash bins size to 65521, to improve hash table
+    performance at the cost of a bit more memory usage.
+  * libdpkg: Blank packages that are not-installed with unknown selection.
+    Closes: #922410
+  * libdpkg, dpkg: Print the dpkg database directory on access errors.
+    Closes: #883700
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add support for merged-usr-via-symlinks tainted
+      tag. Suggested by Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>.
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add support for usr-local-has-* tainted tags.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Add a missing use Dpkg::Source::Format.
+      Diagnosed by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+      Closes: #921031
+  * Documentation:
+    - start-stop-daemon(1): Document behavior of --pidfile security checks.
+      Closes: #921557
+    - dpkg(1): Document the unknown selection state. Closes: #922407
+  * Code internals:
+    - dpkg: Move SELinux fallback label to the SELinux specific code path.
+    - dpkg: Simplify maintscript_set_exec_context().
+    - dpkg: Move force options support into its own file.
+    - dpkg: Do not hardcode the program name in the --force-help output.
+    - dpkg: Switch force options from individual variables to bit fields.
+    - dpkg: Switch from a char to an enum to track the force options types.
+    - dpkg: Switch to set the default force option from the forceinfos array.
+    - libdpkg: New benchmark programs and infrastructure.
+    - libdpkg: Add new dpkg_error_move() function.
+    - libdpkg: Add new dpkg_has_error() function.
+    - libdpkg: Move status names from parse errors to arguments.
+    - libdpkg: Use va_arg copy instead of the original on a vasprintf() call.
+    - libdpkg: Include <string.h> in pager.c.
+      Reported by Y <sevener@cock.li>. Closes: #922212
+    - libdpkg: Use pkg_set_want() instead of a direct assignment.
+  * Build system:
+    - Check whether this dist is a release, based only on the version format.
+      This will avoid having to do a two staged release to get a proper perl
+      distribution tarball.
+  * Packaging:
+    - autopkgtest: Add file to Depends fields.
+    - autopkgtest: Clarify behavior on root/non-root requirement.
+    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0 (no changes required).
+    - Remove now unused assert usertag description.
+    - Remove trailing whitespace from changelog.
+    - Remove Origin and Bugs fields from control file.
+    - Include a bug-script to report on tainted merged-usr-via-symlinks.
+  * Test suite:
+    - libdpkg: Fix unit test for file_slurp(). Closes: #920974
+      Diagnosed by Frank Schaefer <kelledin@gmail.com>.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #921942
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #920972
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #921943
+  * French (Jean-Pierre Giraud). Closes: #920905
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:00:54 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.19.4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * start-stop-daemon: Do not sanity check the pidfile when it is specified as
+    /dev/null, as that implies the caller wants to start the program no matter
+    what. Closes: #920242
+  * Portability:
+    - start-stop-daemon: Only use SO_PASSCRED if defined. Fixes build failure
+      at least on GNU/Hurd.
+  * Packaging:
+    - autopkgtest: Pass --disable-nls and --disable-dselect to configure.
+    - autopkgtest: Change Depends to «build-essential, autoconf, pkg-config».
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:06:39 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.19.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * dpkg-source: Stop filtering @builddeps@ from Testsuite-Triggers field.
+    Closes: #910734
+  * dpkg-genchanges: Only reference binary packages being uploaded, which
+    means that for a source-only upload, the Binary and Description fields
+    should be empty. Closes: #818618
+  * dpkg-scanpackages: Do not compute unnecessary checksums when using the
+    --hash argument. Based on a patch by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #916456
+  * dpkg-scanpackages: Emit a warning with the list of repeat packages.
+    Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+  * start-stop-daemon: Check whether standalone --pidfile use is secure.
+    Prompted by Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>.
+  * start-stop-daemon: Print complete verbose lines, instead of partial lines
+    with no newlines and a final print with a newline.
+  * start-stop-daemon: Add new --notify-await and --notify-timeout options,
+    which implement the systemd readiness protocol for services.
+    Closes: #910707
+  * update-alternatives: Add new --debug option.
+  * update-alternatives: Fix removal of obsolete slaves from the linked list.
+    Reported by Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>. Closes: #916799
+  * vendor.mk: Fix dpkg_vendor_derives_from macro documentation.
+    Thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>. Closes: #913816
+  * vendor.mk: Add support for an improved dpkg_vendor_derives_from macro.
+    Version the macros so that both can be used, and default the unversioned
+    one to the version 0 macro.
+  * dpkg: Mark the package we are giving up on a trigger cycle as "istobe"
+    normal, so that the dependency checks know they cannot expect this package
+    to be processed anymore. Otherwise we ended up never detecting that we
+    were not making progress, as we expected to process this package at a later
+    point, when that would never happen anymore. This then was causing asserts
+    in the process queue loop. Closes: #901127, #910819
+  * dpkg: Reset progress_bytrigproc once we have injected it into the current
+    package process queue iteration, so that we do not keep trying to process
+    it, which might end up generating artificial trigger cycles, if
+    dependencies are not satisfied yet.
+  * dpkg: Convert one trigger processing required type into the new try-queued
+    one, so that we stop skipping unsatisfiable dependency checks.
+  * dpkg: Move trigproc cycle reset inside try-deferred conditional. We should
+    only reset the cycle detection in case we are not bailing out from the
+    processing with an error, otherwise we could come back to this package and
+    detect an artificial trigger cycle.
+  * dpkg: Introduce a new dependency try level for trigger processing. This
+    completely defers trigger processing until after the dependency cycle
+    breaking level, so to avoid generating artificial trigger cycles, when we
+    end up trying to process triggers with yet unsatisifiable dependencies.
+    Closes: #810724, #854478, #911620
+  * dpkg: Fix --help output, to clarify which arguments are optional.
+  * libdpkg: Add proper tar error handling. This makes the tar extractor
+    track and report back parse errors, so that we can give more descriptive
+    messages.
+  * libdpkg: Detect unsupported tar entry types to give better error messages.
+  * libdpkg: Add new db-fsys:Files and db-fsys:Last-Modified virtual fields.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::Changelog::Debian: Preserve modelines at EOF. Closes: #916056
+      Thanks to Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> for initial test cases.
+    - Dpkg::File: Make file_slurp() also accept pathnames in addition to
+      filehandles.
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu: Fix buildflags override after default setting move.
+      Based on a patch by Iain Lane <laney@ubuntu.com> and
+      Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #915881
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Remove unused Dpkg::IPC import.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Only select objdump program when going to use it.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Do not reinitialize fields member in constructor.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Patch: Do not recommend --include-removal when not
+      supported. Closes: #913012
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Bzr: Fix format name in output message.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Add a new format option to the new constructor.
+      Prompted by James McCoy <jamesan@debian.org>.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Improve debian/source/format parsing and
+      validation.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Format: New public module.
+      Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - dpkg(1): Clarify --remove action. Closes: #914478
+    - dpkg-query(1): Clarify --list option behavior when no arguments are
+      specified. Closes: #917098
+    - deb-control(5): Clarify by adding a reference to deb-src-control(5) and
+      removing an invalid comment in the example.
+      Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+    - dpkg(1): Clarify databases used by --yet-to-unpack and --predep-package.
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Clarify character classes for various formats in man pages, by
+      explicitly listing the character ranges within parenthesis.
+      Prompted by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+    - dpkg-query(1): Document the version introducing the -f option.
+    - dpkg-architecture(1): Add reference to the TERMS section in the
+      VARIABLES section. Prompted by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>.
+    - Fix POD for Dpkg::Interface::Storable derived method implementations.
+    - Dpkg::Deps::Simple(3): Fix POD signature for new constructor.
+  * Code internals:
+    - dpkg-maintscript-helper: Use an explicit escape instead of a literal
+      backslash.
+    - Quote shell variables. Reported by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Switch perl code to use the new Dpkg::Source::Format module.
+    - dpkg-source: Move source format selection earlier in the build.
+    - dpkg-source: Use new format argument for Dpkg::Source::Package->new().
+    - dpkg-shlibdeps: Remove unused variable.
+    - dpkg-scanpackages: Unroll a single iteration loop.
+    - start-stop-daemon: Compare foundany against 0 instead of treating it
+      like a boolean.
+    - start-stop-daemon: Switch code to use new info() and debug() functions.
+    - update-alternatives: Use enums for actions instead of strings.
+    - update-alternatives: Switch verbose selection into an enum.
+    - dpkg: Negate tortoise_not_in_hare() function name and return value.
+    - dpkg: Initialize trigcyclenode's next member once.
+    - dpkg: Use common pattern of assigning as an iterator.
+    - dpkg: Factor trigproc_new_cyclenode() out from check_trigger_cycle().
+    - dpkg: Switch dependtry from an int to an enum.
+    - dpkg: Move dependtry description from deferred_configure() to its
+      declaration.
+    - dpkg: Split trigger processing types into required, try-queued and
+      try-deferred.
+    - dpkg-query: Rename variable to avoid shadowing a local function.
+    - When allocating use the variable instead of the type in sizeof().
+    - dselect: Rename variable r to pkgbin.
+    - libdpkg, dpkg: Rename r variables to fnn.
+    - libdpkg: Rename ret variable to next.
+    - libdpkg: Cleanup fsys module symbol names.
+    - libdpkg: Rename pkg_db symbols to pkg_hash.
+    - libdpkg: Add new warning printer setter function.
+      Prompted by Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>.
+    - libdpkg: Add new DPKG_ERROR_OBJECT macro.
+  * Build system:
+    - get-version: Use a format string with printf.
+    - run-script: Use $() instead of deprecated ``.
+    - run-script: Remove unused PERL_PROFILE variable, PERL5OPT can be used
+      instead, and does not require leaving an unquoted variable around.
+    - run-script: Add «set -e».
+    - Build.PL: Set environment variables only for CPAN tests.
+    - Build.PL: Set locale for CPAN tests to C. Fixes CPAN#127314.
+    - configure: Split AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE arguments into different lines.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.2.1 (no changes needed).
+    - Switch to debhelper compatibility level 11.
+    - Create the log file in postinst only if it does not exist.
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Add superficial autopkgtest functional tests.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Add new shellcheck author test.
+    - Add descriptions for the shellcheck exclude codes.
+    - Update cppcheck suppressions.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #912023
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #915610
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #917813
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #919040
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #912024
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:26:04 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.19.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * dpkg: Fix --force-not-root for chown() and chmod() based syscalls, and
+    give a more meaningful error message on chroot(). Closes: #614126
+  * dpkg-divert, dpkg-statoverride: Add new --instdir and --root options,
+    and make the commands honor the DPKG_ROOT environment variable.
+    Closes: #487108
+  * libdpkg: Call the pager with «$SHELL -c» to respect POSIX. Closes: #910009
+  * libdpkg: Do not spawn a pager if we are going to call «cat».
+  * libdpkg: Honor DPKG_PAGER when spawning a pager.
+    Suggested by Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>.
+  * libdpkg: Set LESS to “-FRSXMQ” if not already set, when spawning a pager.
+  * libdpkg: Ignore SIGPIPE when setting up a pager, and then ignore EPIPE
+    errors when writing to stdout, otherwise if we quit the pager early, the
+    program will exit with an error code.
+  * libdpkg: Set stdout to be fully buffered when using a pager.
+  * dpkg, dpkg-query: Add new --no-pager option. For dpkg this is also a
+    configuration option. Closes: #909754
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::OpenPGP: Ignore Version field in enarmored output.
+      Fixes CPAN#127217.
+    - Dpkg::OpenPGP: Do not read the gpg user configuration file.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Functions: Reimplement is_binary() w/o using diff(1).
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Split the BinaryFiles module into its own
+      file, and give it a more generic name (Dpkg::Source::BinaryFiles).
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Move binary file detection to BinaryFiles
+      module.
+  * Documentation:
+    - dpkg-buildpackage(1): Clarify --build=source explanation.
+    - dsc(5): Clarify what “flattened” means in Testsuite-Triggers.
+      Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+    - dsc(5): Add a reference to where the source formats are described.
+      Prompted by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>.
+    - dpkg-source(1): Improve documentation on vendor-specific series files.
+    - deb-control(5): Document Build-Ids field.
+      Prompted by Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>.
+    - dpkg(1): Clarify which fields are affected by dependency options.
+      Prompted by James Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org>.
+    - dpkg-query(1): Document the PAGER environment variable usage.
+    - Dpkg(1): Add POD documentation about the module hierarchy and API.
+  * Code internals:
+    - dpkg-split: Use nfstrnsave() instead of nfmalloc() + memcpy().
+    - libdpkg: Add new fsys-dir module.
+    - libdpkg: Pass the file contents to the pager instead of the filename.
+    - libdpkg: Add a pager kill switch, so that it can be forcefully disabled.
+  * Build system:
+    - Distribute a LICENSE file on CPAN.
+    - Do not make the Build.PL script executable.
+    - Generalize PACKAGE_CPAN_SIGN by setting PACKAGE_DIST_IS_RELEASE instead.
+    - Add a release_status key to the CPAN metadata.
+    - Fix typo in CPAN recommends key.
+    - Improve test and author CPAN dependencies.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Break libapt-pkg5.0 instead of apt. Closes: #909959
+      Analysis by Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Skip version checks involving «dpkg --compare-versions» if not available.
+      This is relevant on CPAN or on non-dpkg-based systems.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:43:48 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.19.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix logic in dpkg-buildpackage to decide whether to run build targets,
+    which broke tons of packages that are violating Debian policy MUSTs.
+    Thanks to James Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org>. Closes: #878899
+  * Do not try to recompute hashes for the .dsc file when signing binary-only
+    builds in dpkg-buildpackage. Reported by Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>.
+  * Pass the correct source stanza to the dpkg-buildpackage code parsing the
+    Rules-Requires-Root field. This meant the field was being ignored.
+  * Run dpkg-source directly from the current working directory in
+    dpkg-buildpackage, instead of changing directory back and forth.
+  * Setup and check rootcommand in dpkg-buildpackage only if it is going to
+    be needed. Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
+  * Add color support to dpkg-maintscript-helper (a shell script).
+  * Fix warning by including <sys/sysmacros.h> for makedev() in libdpkg.
+  * Fix directory traversal with dpkg-deb --raw-extract, by guaranteeing
+    that the DEBIAN pathname does not exist. Closes: #879982
+    Reported by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>.
+  * Add new AS, STRIP, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, NM, AR and RANLIB buildtools
+    variables to buildtools.mk. Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Restore rejecting negated architectures in Architecture field in
+    dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.5.
+  * Fix dpkg-gensymbols to print "error" instead of "warning" when these
+    are fatal. Closes: #881488
+  * Rename DPKG_GAIN_ROOT_CMD to DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD in the R³ support, as
+    the variable is expected to be set by any builder, not just dpkg. And
+    introduce ephemeral backwards compatibility even though there are no
+    known users.
+  * Do not set DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD in dpkg-buildpackage when the R³ value is
+    <implementations-keywords>, following the specification.
+  * Specify that DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD in R³ should preserve the environment.
+    Proposed by Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>.
+  * Specify new DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT variable for R³ support.
+  * Add new --rules-requires-root option to dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Declare R³ specification as "recommendation, stable" with version 1.0.
+  * Export architecture variables by default from architecture.mk, as
+    documented in dpkg-architecture(1). Closes: #888964
+    Thanks to Jack Bates <wdz7eo@nottheoilrig.com>
+  * Increment the line number on dpkg --set-selections on unknown packages.
+    Reported by Heinz Repp <heinz.repp@arcor.de>. Closes: #888983
+  * Switch a DEBIAN/conffile parsing assert() in dpkg due to empty lines
+    into an ohshit(), because this is really a run-time error.
+  * Fix assert() in dselect to expect the method lock file descriptor to be
+    initialized, instead of non-zero.
+  * Switch a fatal() call in start-stop-daemon into the new BUG() macro,
+    because it is really an internal error.
+  * Switch all assert() calls (except in update-alternatives) into internerr()
+    or BUG() calls, to get way better reporting with variable contents and
+    descriptions, and to make them always present independent of NDEBUG.
+  * Add a new --no-rename option to dpkg-divert. This is the current default
+    behavior, but it will make it possible to do a default switch in 1.20.x.
+  * Warn when using dpkg-divert --add or --remove w/o --rename or --no-rename.
+  * Warn when using dpkg-divert --rename on a file from an Essential package.
+  * Use a single “struct filenamenode” definition for the entire code base.
+    Closes: #746766
+  * Add support for frontend locking. This makes it possible for frontends
+    using this new protocol, to safely lock the dpkg database w/o risk of
+    race conditions with other dpkg instances or frontends supporting the
+    same protocol. Thanks to Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #850417, #851984
+  * Do not emit perl warnings in dpkg-source --help on source formats w/o
+    options.
+  * Make dpkg-buildpackage validate OpenPGP signing key IDs length. Error out
+    for short key IDs and warn for long key IDs.
+  * On the dpkg conffile prompt, print the set of environment variables setup
+    for the conffile shell, for easier discoverability.
+  * Fix dpkg-buildpackage option --rules-file parsing. It was trying to parse
+    it as --rules-target, which due to the ordering was a no-op.
+  * Only check for fallback build targets presence on binary builds in
+    dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Only check required build dependencies for known targets specified with
+    dpkg-buildpackage --rules-target option.
+    Reported by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+  * Track package status dirtiness in dpkg to only log and report in status-fd
+    when it has changed, removing duplication in output. Closes: #365921
+  * Use Synopsis instead of Summary for the short Description, to unify the
+    nomenclature and to make it more descriptive. Add a new binary:Synopsis
+    virtual field to dpkg-query show format.
+  * Add new dpkg-buildpackage --no-post-clean option, to be able to explicitly
+    select the current default behavior.
+  * Dump database package records in alphabetical order. This will give
+    reproducible status and available database files, and make it possible
+    to output other deb822 formatted data in a deterministic way.
+  * Require both standard input and output to be connected to a terminal to
+    use a pager.
+  * Run dpkg-query --list output through a pager if we are on a terminal,
+    instead of truncating it, to avoid data loss. Closes: #898603
+  * Fix use after free in dpkg maintainer script handling. Regression
+    introduced in dpkg 1.19.0.
+  * Flush output for dpkg-query --status, --print-avail and --listfiles at
+    the end, instead of after each stanza.
+  * Add support for dumping all dpkg-query --status and --print-avail records
+    from the database when no arguments are specified. Closes: #616342
+  * Add new dpkg-gensymbols -l option to avoid having to abuse LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+    for cross-build paths.
+  * Check that DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE is defined in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Closes: #907772
+  * Switch dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges to track automatically
+    generated artifacts by using the Auto-Built-Package field from the binary
+    package instead of hardcoding package name patterns (such as «-dbgsym$»).
+  * Add new --reverse option to dpkg-parsechangelog, to list the changelog
+    entries in reverse order.
+  * Architecture support:
+    - Add support for riscv64 CPU. Closes: #822914
+      Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>
+    - Document the purpose and columns in the tupletable file.
+  * Portability:
+    - Add libcompat md5 module to the libcompat-test library, so that we
+      always make sure it builds, even when we use an external implementation.
+    - Convert libcompat md5 module to use C99 int types, instead of mapping
+      them from the BSD types at configure time.
+    - Use MD5_CTX instead of struct MD5Context, as the prevalent more portable
+      type on system's <md5.h> headers.
+    - Check for ldconfig command in dpkg only on platforms that do have it.
+    - Fix file descriptor leak in start-stop-daemon on AIX.
+    - libcompat: Add new strchrnul() implementation.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V1: Check that $tarname is defined before use.
+      Thanks to Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
+      Closes: #879124
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Use proper %use_feature key. This was causing perl
+      errors on paths not accepted for fixdebugpath.
+      Reported by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>, on IRC. Closes: #881051
+    - Dpkg::Changelog: Print versions for incorrect changelog range warnings.
+      Thanks to Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs::SymbolFile: Check that $state->{seen} exists instead of
+      $state being just defined. Fixes regression in dpkg-gensymbols symbols
+      output. Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>. Closes: #880166
+    - Dpkg::Arch: Add new positive options argument to arch validators.
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Mark hurd-i386 as having gcc builtin PIE.
+      Requested by Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V2: Print one building line per existing tarball.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Print building lines for upstream tarball
+      signatures. Closes: #888787
+    - Dpkg::Deps: Turn virtualpkg tracking from an arrayyref into a hashref.
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Mark riscv64 as having gcc builtin PIE.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump: Fix ELF program detection, for PIE binaries and
+      executable libraries.
+    - Dpkg::Version: Fix bool overload behavior back to be an is_valid()
+      alias. Emit a specific perl warning until 1.20.x so that users can check
+      whether the semantic change has any impact on the code, which can then
+      be quiesced. Closes: #895004
+    - Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: When detecting the changelog format, read the
+      last 4KiB of the file instead of using «tail -n40», which should be
+      both faster and more portable, as the default tail(1) is not POSIX
+      compliant on all systems (c.f. Solaris).
+    - Dpkg::Build::Types: Add new set_build_type_from_targets() function.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs::SymbolFile: Always assign a proper Dpkg::Version to the
+      deprecated variable, otherwise the scalar value 0 can get confused
+      on scalar context to denote it is *not* deprecated instead of being
+      version 0.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs: Disable bool overload Dpkg::Version warnings.
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Inline _parse_feature_area() into
+      _add_build_flags(), for a small speed up and line count reduction.
+    - Dpkg::BuildFlags: Move default flags setting into the Dpkg::Vendor
+      modules.
+    - Dpkg::Gettext: Fix fallback textdomain() to honor its expected interface.
+    - Dpkg::Deps: Split subpackages into their own separate modules.
+    - Dpkg::Source: Do not change patch permissions if not necessary.
+      Closes: #898010
+    - Dpkg::Substvars: Reword used/unused warnings to clarify their meaning.
+      Closes: #904258
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs: Warn when using LD_LIBRARY_PATH with a private library
+      directory which is a descendent of the current working directory.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Quilt: Print series file used when applying
+      patches.
+    - Dpkg::OpenPGP: Return the destination path on successful ASCII armor
+      conversion.
+    - Dpkg::Control::Fields: Do not use & sigil for function calls.
+    - Dpkg::Shlibs: Ignore nonexistent directories present in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+    - Dpkg::Deps::KnownFacts: Satisfy :native with arch:all packages too.
+      These are treated as native packages everywhere else in the multi-arch
+      design, this was the only exception, which has become a source of
+      packaging problems as of late. This was apparently an oversight in
+      the original implementation. Closes: #854438
+    - Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Add fixfilepath support to reproducible feature.
+    - Dpkg::Dist::Files: Add support for file attributes.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Update gettext minimal version in README.
+    - Add a missing dot on the dpkg-buildflags(1) «lfs» feature paragraph.
+      Spotted by Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>.
+    - Document DPKG_COLORS environment variable for all programs using it.
+    - Document DPKG_NLS environment variable for all programs using it.
+    - Document the Testsuite and Testsuite-Triggers fields in
+      deb-src-control(5). Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+    - Update git URLs for move away from alioth.debian.org.
+    - Fix set_build_type_from_options() description in Dpkg::Build::Types.
+    - Clarify PIE build flag feature semantics. Closes: #900088
+    - Clarify dpkg-buildpackage pre and post-clean options and their default
+      state.
+    - Add --build option equivalents for dpkg-buildpackage short build type
+      options in --help output.
+    - Fold dpkg-buildpackage --[no-]check-builddeps in --help into both -D
+      and -d option descriptions.
+    - Mark profiles as a replaceable item in dpkg-buildpackage --help output.
+    - Update test suite requirements in README.
+    - Document textdomain() and ngettext() replacement functions in
+      Dpkg::Gettext POD.
+    - Clarify arch-qualified dependency simplification in Dpkg::Deps POD.
+    - Improve Dpkg::Deps modules and methods documentation.
+    - Fix typo in deb-changes(5). Closes: #902616
+    - Clarify awaiting state for interest and activate directives.
+      Closes: #904060
+    - Fix man page markup. Closes: #900033, #900035, #900040
+      Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>.
+    - Fix Doxygen comment for libdpkg dpkg_arch_find() function.
+    - Document the dangers of using start-stop-daemon(8) only with --pidfile
+      as matching option with the pid file owned by a non-privileged user.
+  * Code internals:
+    - Do not use stringy eval to define different sub implementations,
+      just assign an anonymous sub to the typeglob.
+    - Use memccpy() instead of strncpy() to quiesce a gcc-8 warning.
+    - Change pkgbin_name_needs_arch() to never arch-qualify packages that
+      have an empty or no architecture, which was already handled as part
+      of varbuf_add_archqual().
+    - libdpkg: Factor out cached arch-qualified package name generation into
+      new pkgbin_name_archqual() function.
+    - libdpkg: Add new pkg_name() and pkgbin_name() const variants.
+    - libdpkg, dselect: Use new pkg_name_const() and pkgbin_name_const().
+    - libdpkg: Rename struct pkginfo files member to archives.
+    - dpkg: Call ensure_package_clientdata() defensively.
+    - dpkg: For read-only state functions, check that clientdata is allocated
+      before using it.
+    - libdpkg: Move files list information from dpkg clientdata to pkginfo.
+    - dpkg: Move ensure_package_clientdata() into its own file.
+    - libdpkg: Move db-fsys code from src to lib/dpkg.
+    - libdpkg: Rename pkg-db module to pkg-hash.
+    - libdpkg: Simplify pkg_files_blank() by using a pointer to pointer to
+      track the previous entry.
+    - libdpkg: Factor out package files handling into its own module.
+    - libdpkg: Switch to a new tiny struct to track file on-disk identity.
+      This should reduce the run-time memory used.
+    - libdpkg: Reset nfiles in files_db_reset().
+    - libdpkg: Split push_cleanup() into push_cleanup_fallback().
+    - Switch from strchr() + strlen() to strchrnul().
+    - libdpkg: Change dpkg_error to track errno values.
+    - libdpkg: Add new varbuf_new() and varbuf_free() functions.
+    - libdpkg: Add new file_slurp() function.
+    - libdpkg: Switch db-fsys to use the new file_slurp() function.
+    - libdpkg: Add new pkg_infodb_reset_dir().
+    - libdpkg: Add new m_dup() function.
+    - libdpkg: Factor out package stanza printing into its own function.
+    - libdpkg: Split pager specific code into its own module.
+    - libdpkg: Add pager spawning and reaping support.
+    - Use new pager spawning support instead of open-coding it, or piping it
+      via a shell invocation, which required metacharacter escaping.
+    - dpkg-query: Split enqperpackage() into each different action.
+  * Build system:
+    - Set distribution tarball format to ustar, instead of default v7 format.
+    - Mark PO4A and POD2MAN as precious variables.
+    - Automatically replace -Wno- with -W when testing compiler flags,
+      instead of passing the positive form manually.
+    - Enable clang -Wdocumentation warning if available.
+    - Enable gcc-7 -Wregister warning if available.
+    - Add CPAN distribution machinery for the perl modules. Closes: #821177
+    - Add an autogen script to help people bootstrap the project.
+    - Distribute the man.stamp from VPATH.
+    - Preserve timestamps when distributing man pages.
+    - Add a GitLab CI configuration file.
+    - Disable C optimization levels when configuring for code coverage.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Install update-alternatives policykit-1 file.
+    - Add Breaks to libdpkg-perl against pkg-kde-tools (<< 0.15.28~), as
+      that package is using private modules with no API guarantees, that
+      obviously broke due to recent changes in 1.19.0. Closes: #878919
+    - Add Breaks on debhelper << 10.10.1~ to dpkg-dev, so that debhelper users
+      wanting to use R³ support do not need a versioned dependency on dpkg-dev.
+    - Add Breaks dgit << 3.13~ to libdpkg-perl, as older dgit versions assumed
+      that Dpkg::Compression::Process was available, via implicit import
+      from Dpkg::Source::Package.
+      Reported by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.1 (no changes needed).
+    - Add bzip2 and xz-utils to Build-Depends, required by the functional test
+      suite, but shadowed by dpkg-dev from the build system pulling those in.
+    - Add versioned libncurses-dev as the first Build-Depends alternative.
+      Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
+    - Do not pass VERBOSE to test suite, as we are not using any automake
+      test driver, so it does not get honored.
+    - Rename maintainer-build DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to new standardized terse.
+    - Enable verbose test suite only in non-terse builds.
+    - Add a Suggests on sensible-utils to libdpkg-perl.
+    - Switch libdpkg-perl again to depend on perl:any, now that debootstrap
+      in stable (stretch) supports arch-qualified dependencies.
+    - Update libdpkg-perl public module list in package description.
+    - Add Breaks on apt (<< 1.7~b) for --status-fd duplicate removals.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Skip Dpkg::OpenPGP test if gpg is not present.
+    - Check POD in all perl scripts.
+    - Consider *.PL also to be perl files.
+    - Infer automatically the unit test data directory.
+    - Infer automatically the unit test temp directory.
+    - Add new po author test case (use i18nspector if available).
+    - Add new test cases to clarify arch-qualified dependency simplification.
+    - Add several TODO tests cases for dependency simplification.
+    - Add new cppcheck author test.
+    - Add support for new test_get_srcdir() test_get_builddir().
+    - Add new unit tests for namevalue, fsys-hash and pkg-hash libdpkg modules.
+    - Improve coverage of perl unit tests.
+    - Delete fixup lines from i18nspector output instead of emptying them.
+    - Add new codespell author test.
+    - Add new test that the public libdpkg headers can be compiled with C++.
+
+  [ Josh Triplett ]
+  * Perl: Replace all calls to Cwd::cwd with Cwd::getcwd; the former calls
+    /bin/pwd, while the latter uses the getcwd() syscall directly.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #881401
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #883085
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo, Boyuan Yang). Closes: #900547, #890806
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino).
+  * Traditional Chinese (Buo-ren Lin). Closes: #905887
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #886252
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #881403
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:13:22 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.19.0) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Remove an unused variable in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
+  * Parse start-stop-daemon usernames and groupnames starting with digits in
+    -u and -c correctly. Reported by Bodo Eggert <7eggert@online.de>.
+  * Cache the result of «dpkg-query --control-path» calls in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Based on a patch by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>. Closes: #846405
+  * Always use the binary version for the .buildinfo filename in
+    dpkg-genbuildinfo. Reported by Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #869236
+  * Fix integer overflow in deb(5) format version parser.
+    Closes: #868356
+  * Re-enable upstream tar signatures when building source format 1.0.
+  * Make dpkg-deb --build sanity check the config maintainer script file type
+    and permissions.
+  * Add support to dpkg-deb for rootless builds, by setting the owner and
+    group for the control.tar entries to root:root, and making it possible to
+    do the same for the data.tar entries via the new --root-owner-group option.
+    Based on a patch by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>. Closes: #291320
+  * Make dpkg-buildpackage error out if --as-root is passed without
+    --rules-target.
+  * Add support for rootless builds in dpkg-buildpackage by honoring the
+    Rules-Requires-Root (R³) field.
+  * Add new dpkg-buildflags --query command, which is like --status but in
+    deb822 format.
+  * Remove long obsolete dselect floppy method.
+  * Remove traces of non-US support from dselect methods.
+  * Add support for a new Build-Kernel-Version field in .buildinfo files,
+    that can be emitted with a new dpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-kernel
+    option. Closes: #873937
+  * Make dpkg-genchanges honor substvars in .changes Description field.
+    Closes: #856547
+  * Add support for source package Description and substvars. This new
+    field in the debian/control source stanza will be copied into the .dsc
+    file, and will also be used to initialize the new source:Synopsis and
+    source:Extended-Description substvars that will be available when
+    generating the DEBIAN/control and .changes files. Closes: #555743
+  * Add new “future” feature area in dpkg-buildflags:
+    - Add new «lfs» feature, to be used instead of the getconf(1) interface
+      which cannot support cross-building.
+  * Add new buildtools.mk make fragment to support build tools variable
+    setup, for both TOOL and TOOL_FOR_BUILD variables. Not included by
+    default from default.mk.
+  * Make --uniform-compression the new default dpkg-deb behavior. Add support
+    for negating the option via --no-uniform-compression.
+  * Clarify subprocess error message by shuffling words around.
+  * Print the package name on maintainer script errors. Closes: #877521
+  * Fix capitalization of Debian in dpkg-deb output messages.
+  * Add a policikit file for running update-alternatives via pkexec.
+    Propose by Boyuan Yang <073plan@gmail.com>.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Switch from Dpkg::Util to List::Util, now that the module in the
+      new required Perl contains the needed functions.
+    - Add a new "unique_tuple_key" option to Dpkg::Index set_options() to
+      set better default "get_key_func" options, which will become the default
+      behavior in 1.20.x. Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Mark ppc64 and powerpc as having gcc builtin PIE in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+    - Make the Dpkg::Substvars warnings output deterministic.
+      Thanks to Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>. Closes: #870221
+    - Remove unused POSIX module imports.
+    - Use Errno module instead of the slow to import POSIX.
+    - Remove unused Dpkg::Path from Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu.
+    - Only load POSIX from Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle if we are going to
+      use signal definitions, reducing the load time of many other modules.
+    - Only load Dpkg::BuildOptions and Dpkg::Arch from Dpkg::Vendor-specific
+      modules if we are going to use them, reducing the load time of many
+      other modules.
+    - Only load Term::ANSIColor from Dpkg::ErrorHandling if we are going to
+      use colors, reducing the load time of many other modules.
+    - Move color setup into report_pretty in Dpkg::ErrorHandling.
+    - Move printforhelp initialization into usageerr() in Dpkg::ErrorHandling.
+    - Avoid many function arguments in Dpkg::Shlibs::SymbolFile parse().
+    - Avoid many function arguments in Dselect::Ftp do_connect().
+    - Add new Dpkg::Interface::Storable option to disable compression support,
+      so that we can load Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle only when enabled.
+    - Disable decompression support for Dpkg::Vendor origin files.
+    - Move file_lock() function into a new Dpkg::Lock module, to reduce the
+      module load chain for several Dpkg modules.
+    - Add support for new DPKG_NLS environment variable in Dpkg::Gettext,
+      that when set to 0 will disable NLS (i18n) support in the Dpkg modules,
+      and reduce the load chain.
+    - Disable compression when using the default file in
+      Dpkg::Changelog::Parse.
+    - Mark all missing CTRL_INDEX_SRC and CTRL_INDEX_PKG fields as allowed
+      in Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore.
+    - Complete field order for CTRL_PKG_DEB and CTRL_FILE_STATUS types in
+      Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore.
+    - Switch to use lowercase field names for all internal field name
+      handling in Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore, giving a significant speed up.
+    - Remove dependency on Dpkg::Checksums from Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore.
+    - Do not execute code when importing Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore.
+    - Use substr instead of a regex to match the first line characters in
+      when parsing control files in Dpkg::Control::HashCore.
+    - Merge build flag methods into a single _add_build_flags private method
+      in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+    - Do not use an intermediate variable in Dpkg::Control::HashCore::Tie
+      STORE method.
+    - Expect deb822 stanza delimiters more often than OpenPGP Armor Headers
+      in Dpkg::Control::HashCore parse method.
+    - Optimize trailing space matching on Dpkg::Control::HashCore parse
+      method, by trimming it just once at the beginning of the iteration.
+    - Optimize trailing space trimming on Dpkg::Control::HashCore parse
+      method, by requiring that at least one whitespace is present.
+    - Optimize first character matching in Dpkg::Control::HashCore parse
+      method, by storing the first character in a variable.
+    - Optimize field/value parsing in Dpkg::Control::HashCore parse method,
+      by switching from a capturing regex to split() plus a checking regex.
+    - Auto-convert binary signatures to OpenPGP ASCII Armor in
+      Dpkg::Source::Package when building source packages.
+    - Switch Dpkg::Source::Package::V3 modules to use find_command() instead
+      of ad-hoc code.
+    - Call source format prerequisites Dpkg::Source::Package method if
+      present. Addresses: #877688
+    - Unify Dpkg::ErrorHandling subprocess errors with the ones from libdpkg.
+    - Do not emit a perl warning if gcc or dpkg is not found from Dpkg::Arch,
+      the code already handles the commands not being present.
+    - Do not unnecessarily require setting the host_arch in Dpkg::Deps.
+      Closes: #856396
+    - Do not normalize args past a passthrough stop word in Dpkg::Getopt.
+      Some commands pass some arguments through to another command, and
+      those must not be normalized as that might break their invocation.
+      Reported by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Document currently accepted syntax for changelogs in deb-changelog(5).
+      Closes: #858579
+    - Mark source:Version substvar in bold in deb-substvars(5).
+    - Clarify behavior for dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #857852
+    - Use <command-string> instead of <command> for -c argument value in
+      dpkg-architecture(1). Reported by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Itemize the CTRL_* constants in the Dpkg::Index POD.
+    - Update buildinfo information in dpkg-buildpackage man page to match
+      the current implementation.
+    - Add all source files to POTFILES.in files.
+    - Move deb-version man page to section 7.
+    - Remove reference to obsolete dpkg-cross(1).
+    - Sort control field export markers by tool order in deb-src-control(5).
+    - Document Package-Type and Enhances fields in deb-control(5).
+    - Write the actual glyphs used to delimit dependency restrictions in
+      deb-src-control(5).
+    - Move Package-Type description just after the Package field in
+      deb-src-control(5).
+    - Move udeb-specific fields to the end of the list of fields in
+      deb-src-control(5), and mention these are really udeb-specific.
+    - Document that dependency fields in binary stanza can have restrictions
+      in deb-src-control(5).
+    - Clarify that the Testsuite field is comma-separarted.
+    - Fix update-alternatives man page section in alternatives/README file
+      reference. Closes: #872309
+    - Use correct name for archname validator value in dpkg(1) man page.
+      Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net.
+    - Add new deb-src-rules(5) man page.
+    - Document that trailing commas are valid in debian/control dependency
+      fields, which get stripped when generating output files.
+      Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+    - Clarify that sanitize options should not be used for production builds.
+    - Remove recommendation to use Pre-Depends for trigger directives from
+      deb-triggers(5). Closes: #864882
+    - Add new rootless build experimental draft specification.
+      Initial proposal by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, wording fixes
+      and spec clarifications by Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>.
+    - Fix several function signature documentation.
+  * Code internals:
+    - Switch perl code to use -> operator for function variables.
+    - Switch perl code from split() with /\s+/ to ' '.
+  * Build system:
+    - Require Perl 5.20.2, the version in Debian oldstable (jessie).
+    - Use new gcc-7 -Wrestrict and -Wshift-negative-value warnings if
+      available.
+    - Do not override the default DEPENDENCIES for libdpkg, extend it instead.
+    - Install perl man pages in section 3perl.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Remove preinst maintainer scripts for dselect and dpkg-dev, for an
+      ancient /usr/share/doc symlink to directory switch. Closes: #867327
+    - Remove now unused libio-string-perl Build-Depends, and versioned
+      dpkg-dev as we do not use build profiles any more.
+    - Set Rules-Requires-Root field to no.
+    - Do not set redundant source compression to xz.
+    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0 (no changes needed).
+    - Switch to debhelper compatibility level 10.
+    - Split alternatives logrotate into its own configuration file to help
+      downstreams and derivatives.
+    - Remove ancient code recompressing the alternatives database backups
+      from xz to gzip in the dpkg daily cron job.
+    - Remove Replaces and Breaks for ancient transitions.
+    - Remove workaround for ancient gcc lacking stackprotectorstrong support.
+    - Remove maintainer script code to handle downgrades to pre-triggers and
+      pre-multiarch dpkg versions.
+    - Remove alternative logs when purging dpkg (!?).
+    - Add support for DPKG_ROOT in dpkg maintainer scripts.
+    - Add git and bzr to libdpkg-perl Suggests. Closes: #877688
+  * Test suite:
+    - Enable perlcritic Documentation::RequirePodSections and
+      Miscellanea::ProhibitTies.
+    - Disable perlcritic ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEscapedCharacter.
+    - Add a new all_perl_modules function to Test::Dpkg.
+    - Add a new module-version unit test to check that module $VERSION
+      matches the newest entry in the CHANGES section.
+    - Use Module::Metadata instead of grepping for $VERSION in pod-coverage.
+    - Avoid many function arguments in Dpkg_Changelog.t check_options().
+    - Add a new unit test for Dpkg::Control::FieldsCore.
+    - Switch from IO::String to native open() scalar support.
+    - Use UTC0 when setting TZ.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Pietro Battiston). Closes: #864509
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #868800
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo, Boyuan Yang). Closes: #867133, #877929
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #862924
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:51:16 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.24) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add missing symbols to the libdpkg map file.
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps to preserve the Dpkg::Shlibs::find_library() order
+    when scanning symbols/shlibs files. This was causing generation of bogus
+    dependencies when multiple packages provide the same SONAME on different
+    directories. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.17. Closes: #860979
+  * Make dpkg-maintscript-helper print all unowned files from a directory
+    when printing the error message, to ease debugging those problems after
+    the fact. Closes: #813454, #860238
+    Based on a patch by Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>.
+  * Add duplicate prevention code for debian/files to dpkg-genbuildinfo, so
+    that successive runs with different versions and equivalent build types
+    do not generate multiple .buildinfo entries to be uploaded, which is
+    similar to what dpkg-gencontrol is doing for .deb files.
+  * Fix conffile takeover handling during unpack in dpkg on --root or
+    on diversions. Closes: #837051, #858004
+  * Fix digest inference for shared conffiles, causing bogus takeover
+    unpack errors. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.9. Closes: #861217
+  * Improve tar entry metadata parsing in dpkg:
+    - Do not parse device numbers for non block nor char tar entry objects.
+    - Make the existing octal parser more robust, by checking for the
+      expected format of leading zeros or spaces, followed by any ASCII
+      octal characters (0-7), followed by zero or more space or NULs.
+    - Add support for base-256 encoded numeric fields, to support large
+      values, for UID/GID, device number, size and even signed timestamps.
+      This is necessary not only to be able to store larger values, but to
+      cover packages that can already be generated by dpkg-deb, given that
+      it uses the system GNU tar when building. Closes: #850834
+  * Architecture support:
+    - Add support for ARM64 ILP32. Closes: #824742
+      Thanks to Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Remove obsolete hardening-wrapper support from Dpkg::Vendor::Ubuntu.
+      Thanks to Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>.
+    - Bump $Dpkg::Deps::VERSION to match the one documented in CHANGES.
+    - Ignore by default debian/files.new and debian/files for all source
+      formats in Dpkg::Source::Package, because these are generated files
+      with well known pathnames, part of the public interface, and with
+      dpkg-genbuildinfo always injecting .buildinfo entries into
+      debian/files, this meant this could disrupt previous workflows based
+      on not cleaning the source tree.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Many spelling fixes. Thanks to Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>.
+    - Do not include misspellings in changelogs, as that makes detecting them
+      more difficult.
+  * Build system:
+    - Use libexec variable for auxiliary internal programs, and set it to
+      /usr/lib on Debian and derivatives.
+    - Check that the detected tar is a GNU tar.
+    - Check that the detected patch is a GNU patch, so that we get a directory
+      traversal resistant patch implementation. This fixes CVE-2017-8283 by
+      delegating those checks to patch(1), so that we trap blank-indented
+      diff hunks trying to escape from the source tree.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Add a test case for blank-indented patches which were the cause for
+      CVE-2017-8283.
+    - Handle files with non-zero sizes in c-tarextract libdpkg test code.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann, David Rabel). Closes: #857449
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 17 May 2017 13:16:25 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.23) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Handle unmatched arch-qualified virtual packages in dpkg-genbuildinfo,
+    instead of letting perl die. Closes: #849944
+  * Declare .buildinfo format as stable with version 1.0.
+  * Do not depend on cxxabi.h to have declared __cxa_pure_virtual, use
+    the same “__cxxabiv1” namespace as specified in the C++ ABI, instead
+    of using the “abi” alias intended for use by userland.
+    Thanks to Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg@netbsd.org>.
+  * Add a comment on any C code switch case that falls through. Fixes new
+    gcc-7 warnings.
+  * Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() in libdpkg when constructing the ar
+    member header, as we might overflow depending on the input data.
+  * Portability:
+    - Do not redeclare sys_siglist in libcompat when the system does so.
+      Thanks to Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>.
+    - Rename err variable to ret in start-stop-daemon as the former is a
+      function on BSDs.
+    - Use 5-argument kvm_getprocs() call form on OpenBSD in start-stop-daemon.
+    - Use correct struct kinfo_proc ruid submember name on NetBSD in
+      start-stop-daemon.
+    - Define _KMEMUSER for NetBSD to get declarations for various
+      struct kinfo_proc members in start-stop-daemon.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Do not special case EM_SPARC32PLUS for NetBSD in Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump,
+      the code has been fixed in NetBSD as that situation could not happen.
+    - Fix read() error handling in Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump::get_format() to
+      gracefully ignore non-ELF files again. Closes: #854536
+    - Emit an explicit warning from Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump::Object::analyze()
+      for unknown executable formats instead of relying on objdump doing so.
+    - Do not parse bogus ELF binaries in Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump::get_format().
+      Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
+    - Add ‘.mnt-ignore’ to the default ignore lists in Dpkg::Source::Package,
+      as we were already ignoring the ‘_MTN’ pathnames. Closes: #855450
+      Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>.
+    - Mark kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, sparc and sparc64 architectures as
+      having gcc builtin PIE in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+    - Switch PIE handling in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian to have no default (!) and
+      delegate the setting to gcc or an explicit request by a user. This is
+      needed to cope with the general PIE brokenness situation in Debian, and
+      the current specific brokenness of a Debian gcc patch mangling the dpkg
+      build flags. Closes: #848129, #845550
+  * Documentation:
+    - Clarify the requirements for deb-conffile(5) pathnames. Closes: #854417
+      Proposed by Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com>.
+    - Document dpkg-source --before-build and --after-build in --help output.
+    - Document dpkg-buildpackage --ignore-builtin-builddeps in --help output.
+  * Build system:
+    - Check <sys/proc.h> by also including <sys/param.h>, on several BSD
+      systems the header is not self-contained.
+    - Handle libmd implementations built into system libc, as found on some
+      BSD systems.
+    - Do not fail on missing compression libraries or headers on automatic
+      detection mode. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.14.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Use the detected perl interpreter instead of a random one from PATH.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #856325
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaer). Closes: #856326
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:41:11 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.22) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Turn status file parser errors on bogus field blank lines into warnings,
+    otherwise the system cannot be easily recovered from. Regression
+    introduced in dpkg 1.16.1. Reported by Jay Freeman <saurik@saurik.com>.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Mask ARM ABI bits in the ELF processor flags in Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump.
+      These are too unreliable to be used for exact matching. Closes: #853793
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #853202
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:48:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.21) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Revert "Generate Testsuite-Restrictions fields from the test restrictions
+    in dpkg-source into .dsc files". This change is contentious and should
+    have been discussed more widely. Given that this has been live only for
+    a couple of days, the impact should be minimal, but still something to
+    take into account once and if this gets reintroduced. Closes: #852820
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Map alternative or old ELF machine types to canonical ones. We need
+      those to match on the encoded ABI, otherwise dpkg-shlibdeps will not
+      be able to find the objects.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:29:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.20) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add a new --no-sign option to dpkg-buildpackage, to make it possible to
+    disable all signing in a future-proof way.
+  * Make dpkg-buildpackage --unsigned-changes not sign .buildinfo either.
+    This breaks the expectations of users and tools, because there was no
+    way previously to request no signing at all. Closes: #852822
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Mask the machine bits for SH and MIPS in the ELF processor flags in
+      Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump. These do not define the ABI, and make the
+      objects not match when they should, when looking for shared libraries
+      from dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    - Encode the ELF ABI as a big-endian byte stream, so that decoding for
+      output gives meaningful results.
+    - Disable the NFS-unsafe warning on Linux, as using flock() on NFS has
+      been safe for some time now. Addresses: #677865 (on Linux)
+  * Documentation:
+    - Document the Built-For-Profile field in deb-changes(5).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jan 2017 06:32:53 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.19) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Stop emitting Built-For-Profiles from dpkg-gencontrol. The information
+    is already provided in .buildinfo and .changes files, and including it
+    in the binary packages makes them unreproducible even when the profile
+    used would not alter its contents. Closes: #831524
+  * Do not allow empty epochs and revisions in versions. When there's at
+    least one colon or one dash, we should expect epoch and revision numbers.
+  * Always set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source. Use
+    the current date if the changelog does not have one. Closes: #849081
+  * Refactor update-alternatives pathname existence check into a new function.
+  * Avoid useless repeated lstat()s in update-alternatives.
+  * Only check for debian/tests/control file once in dpkg-source.
+  * Generate Testsuite-Restrictions fields from the test restrictions in
+    dpkg-source into .dsc files. Closes: #847926
+    Based on a patch by Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>.
+  * Improve the ELF ABI mismatch detector in dpkg-shlibdeps, by parsing the
+    ELF header ourselves. While still not perfect (things like linux-i386 and
+    hurd-i386 will still match), it will filter lots of previously matching
+    objects that should have been ignored, and will work even when objdump
+    does not know about the specific object details. Closes: #849913
+  * Add initial support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to dpkg-genbuildinfo. This will
+    make it possible to enable or disable specific features that should be
+    recorded in the .buildinfo file. For now only “all” and “path” are
+    supported. Closes: #848705
+  * Add again the architecture from the filename to .changes files for any
+    artifact with one. This reverts the change introduced in dpkg 1.18.11.
+  * Fold the filtering and checksumming of files to distribute in a .changes
+    file in dpkg-genchanges into the initial loop. This way we do not include
+    architectures for artifacts we are not going to distribute, and do not
+    unnecessarily recompute the checksums for artifacts like the sources.
+  * Do not compute the architecture list twice in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Include .buildinfo files also for source-only uploads in dpkg-genchanges.
+    Closes: #846164
+  * Fix check for expected number of binary artifacts in dpkg-genchanges, to
+    only take into account the artifacts that we are distributing.
+  * Fix parsing of Pre-Depends and Depends in dpkg-genbuildinfo, so that
+    the code parses both and not just the first to appear in the stanza.
+    Based on a patch by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+  * Add support for signed .buildinfo files to dpkg-buildpackage. Add new
+    -ui and --unsigned-buildinfo options. Closes: #843925
+  * Portability:
+    - On GNU/Hurd try to use the new process executable name attribute from
+      libps, to properly match on start-stop-daemon --exec.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Fix Debian architecture wildcard parsing so that matching four-tuple
+      matchings work. Missed in dpkg 1.18.11.
+      Reported by Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>.
+    - Add new import tags for Dpkg::Arch.
+    - Abort on EOF in patch name prompt in Dpkg::Source::Package::V2,
+      instead of getting into an infinite loop. Closes: #851441
+    - Call anonymous subs via -> operator instead of casting with &, and fix
+      bogus POD documentation to match the code.
+    - Add new Auto-Built-Package field to Dpkg::Control::Fields.
+    - Add a new debug() reporting function, and switch code to use it.
+    - Add new Dpkg::BuildOption parse_features() method refactored from
+      Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Cleanup software requirements in README.
+    - Move control member file references from dpkg(1) to deb(5).
+    - Fix typos in docs and code comments.
+    - Document Auto-Built-Package field in deb-control(5).
+  * Build system:
+    - Disable disk pre-allocation by default, but let the builder re-enable
+      it via a new configure option. This has been causing major performance
+      issues on "modern" filesystems.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Add debsig-verify to dpkg Suggests. The code optionally supports this
+      specific signed .deb verification program.
+      Prompted by Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Generate and check all currently possible architecture wildcards.
+    - Correctly iterate over all default and passed .dsc template substvars.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #851889
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaer). Closes: #851891
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:43:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.18) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Documentation:
+    - Document DPKG_DATADIR in an ENVIRONMENT section in dpkg-architecture(1).
+    - Add a rationale for the purpose of Testsuite-Triggers in dsc(5).
+      Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Revert the perl to perl:any dependency change in libdpkg-perl, as that
+      breaks debootstrap in stable (jessie), testing (stretch) and unstable,
+      which do not support arch-qualified dependencies. We'll have to live
+      with the Multi-Arch hinter being unhappy for now.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:53:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.17) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Handle empty versions on validation in dpkg-maintscript-helper as they
+    are optional. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.16. Closes: #848422
+  * Validate versions too in dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir and
+    dir_to_symlink commands.
+  * Improve logic to identify packages owning a library in dpkg-shlibdeps,
+    by handling the same library appearing more than once on the filesystem
+    Thanks to Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>. Closes: #843073
+  * Documentation:
+    - Clarify that dpkg-buildpackage does not run «dpkg-source --before-build»
+      when using the -T option. Closes: #649531
+    - Document that dpkg sets DPKG_ADMINDIR on maintainer script environment.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Do not let dh_perl insert a dependency for libdpkg-perl, because it
+      emits perl instead of perl:any. Instead hardcode a perl:any dependency
+      to comply with the perl policy and make the Multi-Arch hinter happy.
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Dec 2016 02:43:10 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.16) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add support for specifying multiple targets on «dpkg-buildpackage -T»
+    which will be run successively. Closes: #671074
+  * Reject empty upstream versions in C and perl code. These are not permitted
+    by deb-version(5), but the code was letting those through.
+  * Use lzma_cputhreads() instead of sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) as the
+    former is way more portable.
+  * Automatically decrease xz encoder threads to try to not exceed available
+    memory limits. This should alleviate the insane requirements of memory
+    needed on 32-bit architectures with many cores, which results in more
+    than the userspace addressable memory, when using settings such as
+    -z9 and/or -Sextreme in dpkg-deb. Closes: #846564
+  * Add new dpkg --validate-<thing> commands to validate the syntax of
+    various <thing>s, where the current list is «pkgname», «trigname»,
+    «archname» and «version».
+  * Use the new dpkg --validate-version command in dpkg-maintscript-helper,
+    instead of abusing the --compare-versions command to perform version
+    validation. Closes: #844701
+  * Allow readlink(2) to return a size smaller than stat(2) in dpkg. Some
+    bogus filesystems do not return the actual symlink size in st_size,
+    which contradicts POSIX. But allowing the case where the returned size
+    is smaller than the one used to allocate memory is harmless, although
+    suspect. Let it through, but still print a warning so that users can
+    install stuff but are reminded they need to get a fixed filesystem in
+    place. This has affected at least ecryptfs in the past and now
+    file-based encryption support in ext4 on Android N.
+  * Add new dpkg-query virtual field source:Upstream-Version. Closes: #844348
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Whitelist DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL, DPKG_ROOT, DPKG_ADMINDIR and
+      DPKG_DATADIR environment variables in Dpkg::Build::Info.
+  * Documentation:
+    - State the current working directory used when running dpkg-buildpackage
+      hooks.
+    - Add a new ENVIRONMENT section to dpkg-gensymbols(1) and document
+      DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL there.
+    - Fix bogus description of --force-confmiss in dpkg(1). Regression
+      introduced in 1.16.4. Reported by Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
+      Closes: #846395
+    - Update dpkg-parsechangelog parser options. The options specific to
+      the changelog parser program did not get updated when the parser got
+      switched to be a perl module. Missed in dpkg 1.18.8. Closes: #848189
+  * Build system:
+    - Enable compression libs also in automatic check mode in configure.
+    - Honor DPKG_DATADIR again in the installed Dpkg modules. This was an
+      explicit public interface, documented in the man page.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848378
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #844955
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Martin Bagge). Closes: #847220
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #848379
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:25:53 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.15) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Improve PIE flags support:
+    - Do not enable PIE when linking static programs. glibc-based systems
+      do not support this combination and produce very bogus output.
+      Proposed by Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>. Closes: #843714
+  * On source builds add 'source' to the Architecture field in the
+    .buildinfo file in dpkg-genbuildinfo.
+  * Add new Build-Date field to .buildinfo files.
+  * Generate deterministic .buildinfo filenames in dpkg-genbuildinfo,
+    following the same pattern as used for .changes files.
+  * Bump .buildinfo Format to version 0.2.
+  * Change dpkg-buildpackage -j and -J on “auto” mode to fallback to serial
+    execution when we cannot infer the number of online processors on
+    unsupported or exotic systems. This should be a safer mode of operation.
+    Proposed by Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>.
+  * Only preallocate disk size in dpkg for unpacked files bigger than 16 KiB.
+    Closes: #824636
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Validate architecture arguments in Dpkg::Deps deps_parse().
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Escape dashes in field names in dpkg-buildinfo(1).
+  * Test suite:
+    - Mark partially documented POD modules as TAP TODO.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Nov 2016 03:28:05 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.14) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Improve PIE flags support:
+    - Rename the spec name cc1_options to self_spec.
+      Suggested by James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
+    - Do not set PIE options if they have been negated, and do not reset
+      them if they have been requested.
+    Closes: #843791, #843826
+  * Fix use after free error in dpkg. It was trying to print messages that
+    had already been freed as part of the database memory pool, causing in
+    some cases segfaults when reporting the error summary at the end.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.11. Closes: #843874
+  * Change default color behavior to auto.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Fix confusing date parse error message in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian
+      when the date contains “May”. Closes: #843829
+      Thanks to Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>.
+    - New module Dpkg::Build::Info module refactored from dpkg-genbuildinfo.
+      Requested by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Improve the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS description in dpkg-buildpackage(1).
+      And mention the parallel option there.
+    - Explicitly mention in dpkg-buildpackage(1) that setting the number
+      of parallel jobs to 1, restores the serial behavior.
+      Prompted by Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>.
+  * Packaging:
+    - List public Dpkg::Control::Tests module in libdpkg-perl description.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Do not fail tests on missing fakeroot, just skip them.
+  * Build system:
+    - Fix inversion logic in libmd configure check when requested explicitly.
+    - Do not consider the compressor libraries available in configure if the
+      headers are not usable.
+    - Fix DPKG_BUILD_RELEASE_DATE to require DPKG_PROG_PERL, as it uses perl.
+    - Change DPKG_BUILD_RELEASE_DATE to use perl instead of date(1) to
+      format the timestamp, as the former is more portable.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:26:08 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.13) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Improve PIE flags support:
+    - Retroactively document in the changelog that PIE is enabled by default
+      on all supported architectures regardless of gcc doing so itself on a
+      subset of them.
+    - When emitting PIE flags on architectures where gcc does not inject
+      those itself, do it via a specs file too, so that maintainers can
+      use them unconditionally regardless of the object being compiled
+      or linked.
+    - When injecting -no-pie for linking via the gcc specs file also
+      inject -fno-PIE.
+    - Update the documentation.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Do not try to load non-files in Dpkg::Dist::Files load_dir method.
+      Fixes test failures on non-Linux architectures. Closes: #843436
+  * Packaging:
+    - Add missing Breaks on old libdpkg-perl to dpkg. Closes: #843429
+      Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
+    - Ship deb-src-files(5) man page in dpkg-dev.
+  * Build system:
+    - Use deterministic dates for generated man pages. Closes: #843469
+      Thanks to Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 07 Nov 2016 03:28:42 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.12) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Build system:
+    - Set umask to 0022 for functional test suite.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Rename FILE FORMATS section to FILES in dpkg-source(1).
+    - Use "dpkg suite" as the manual item in man pages .TH macro.
+    - Use %VERSION% in dpkg-statoverride(1) source item in man page .TH macro.
+    - Document environment variables used by source format modules in
+      dpkg-source(1).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Nov 2016 05:36:20 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.11) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Make dpkg-maintscript-helper conffile commands more robust. Check that
+    conffile pathname arguments are absolute paths and verify version number
+    to be valid. Thanks to David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>.
+  * Add support to dpkg-scanpackages for scanning a single binary file.
+    Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo <javier@jasp.net>. Closes: #833964
+  * Obsolete dpkg-deb bzip2 and lzma compression methods by emitting errors.
+  * Remove obsolete dpkg-deb --old and --new options.
+  * Remove obsolete dpkg --print-installation-architecture option.
+  * Fix dpkg error messages when parsing md5sum files to include the package
+    name affected.
+  * Do not emit epochs for unambiguous versions in deb-split package header.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.0.
+  * Make the deb-split(5) generation in dpkg-split reproducible, by using the
+    timestamp from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
+  * Generate reproducible file modes for the .deb control member contents.
+    Closes: #787980
+  * Switch from non-freeing malloc to m_malloc on statdb slurping.
+  * Switch from non-freeing malloc to m_malloc for invoke hooks.
+  * Always reset the package in-core database when shutting down the package
+    database journal.
+  * Do not crash if we pass a NULL cip argument to setaction() in libdpkg.
+  * Shutdown the package database journal in dpkg --get-selections.
+  * Fix (deactivated) dpkg --command-fd to initialize and reset the files
+    database on each action.
+  * Implement source stanza substvars prefixed with S: in dpkg-gencontrol.
+    These auto-generated variables map each source stanza field into an
+    output substvar prefixed with “S:”.
+  * Make dpkg-source generate reproducible source packages when run
+    standalone, by honoring SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
+  * Fix several short-lived memory leaks in update-alternatives.
+    Reported by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Only set the error context message in libdpkg if it has been formatted
+    correctly.
+  * Return error in error_context_errmsg_format() only if the error message
+    gets truncated. In case we have to use the emergency buffer because the
+    previous vasprintf() call failed, we should only return an error code if
+    the vsnprintf() call on the emergency buffer truncates the output.
+  * Fix free() on uninitialized pointer in error_context_errmsg_format() in
+    libdpkg. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.7. Closes: #842004
+  * Move C++ support code into its own file.
+  * Add replacement new and delete array operators to C++ support code.
+  * Implement local abi::__cxa_pure_virtual. When using g++ if we provide our
+    version of this function we can avoid the dependency on either libstdc++
+    or libsup++.
+  * Include missing <new> for new and delete operator declarations.
+  * Do not log nor print duplicate dpkg removal action. We print
+    “Removing <package> (<version>)” lines and log remove action twice
+    when purging a package from frontends, because they usually first call
+    --remove and then --purge sequentially. When purging a package which is
+    already in config-files (i.e. it has been removed before), do not print
+    nor log the remove action.
+  * Remove default «.» from @INC before loading perl modules in perl code.
+    Fixes CVE-2016-1238.
+  * Give more information on --set-selections warnings. Closes: #842230
+  * Add new DEB_*_ARCH_ABI and DEB_*_ARCH_LIBC variables to dpkg-architecture
+    and architecture.mk Makefile fragment.
+  * Do substvar instantiation just once in dpkg-gencontrol.
+  * Fix dpkg-gencontrol to not update the files list file (debian/files)
+    when printing to STDOUT (via -O).
+  * Do not add architectures to .changes Architecture field for artifacts
+    that are not a .deb or .udeb in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Add support for .buildinfo files:
+    - Add new dpkg-genbuildinfo command.
+    - Hook it into the dpkg-buildpackage machinery.
+    Based on a patch by Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>. Closes: #138409
+  * Enable dpkg-buildpackage -Jauto by default. Closes: #842845
+  * Fix dpkg to not fail when removing non-existent backup files on read-only
+    filesystems. Closes: #838877
+  * Enable PIE on all supported architectures and handle PIE enabled by
+    default in gcc. On architectures where gcc enables them by default,
+    stop setting -fPIE and -pie, and set -fno-PIE and -no-pie when disabling
+    «pie» via gcc specs files, so that we do not emit them on situations
+    where it would be inappropriate. Closes: #835149
+    Based on a patch by Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>.
+  * Architecture support:
+    - Add support for AIX operating system.
+    - Add a version pseudo-field to the arch tables.
+    - Internally represent Debian architectures as quadruplets.
+  * Portability:
+    - Cast off_t variables to intmax_t when printing them with "%jd".
+    - Add missing <string.h> include in libdpkg.
+    - Cast strlen() return value to ssize_t to match write() return type.
+    - Use underscore-prefixed system preprocessor symbols instead of namespace
+      polluting ones (such as “linux”, “OPENBSD” or “hpux”).
+    - Handle _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING being defined to -1 or 0 in
+      start-stop-daemon. This affects Mac OS X.
+    - On FreeBSD return STATUS_UNKNOWN instead of false in start-stop-daemon
+      do_procinit().
+    - Port start-stop-daemon process handling to Mac OS X.
+      Based on a patch by Mo McRoberts <mo@nevali.net>.
+    - Port start-stop-daemon process handling to AIX.
+    - Fix lookup by name on update-alternatives --config. The code was wrong
+      and not working at least on Mac OS X, making the test suite to fail.
+    - Only use gzip --rsyncable in Dpkg::Compression on Debian and hopefully
+      derivatives, by using perl's $Config{cf_by} variable to key on. The
+      Debian-specific --rsyncable option should have never been accepted for
+      use in dpkg to begin with.
+    - Use our own dpkg_ar_hdr struct instead of relying on the system
+      ar_hdr struct, as the ar format is not standardized and does vary
+      across systems, for example on AIX.
+    - Add <sys/sysmacros.h> on AIX for major() and minor().
+    - Add missing <errno.h> in libcompat.
+    - Include libcompat getopt module when we need getopt_long.
+    - Disable gettext support in libcompat getopt module. We do not carry
+      translations for this module, and it makes it pull libintl for programs
+      that might not use it otherwise.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Obsolete Source-Version substvar in Dpkg::Substvars by emitting errors.
+    - Rework keyring hooks in Dpkg::Vendor. Deprecate the keyrings hook, and
+      add package-keyrings, archive-keyrings and archive-keyrings-historic
+      hooks. Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Make the Dpkg::Substavars parse() method return the number of substvars
+      parsed.
+    - Add new set_field_substvars() method to Dpkg::Substvars.
+    - Fix reproducible source package support in Dpkg::Source::Archive, by
+      sorting the tar contents with --sort=name.
+    - Prefix private Dpkg::Source::Package::* functions with _.
+    - Defer filehandle closures in Dpkg::IPC::spawn() to avoid double-close.
+      Closes: #839905, #840293
+    - Always map the build type to the shortest string form in
+      Dpkg::Build::Type::get_build_options_from_type().
+    - Change Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle to inherit directly from IO::File
+      instead of FileHandle.
+    - Add new Dpkg::PROGTAR variable to store GNU tar command name.
+    - Add new Dpkg::PROGMAKE variable to store GNU make command name.
+    - Add new CTRL_FILE_BUILDINFO type to Dpkg::Control.
+    - Add new .buildinfo fields to Dpkg::Control::Fields.
+    - Add new builtin-system-build-paths Dpkg::Vendor hook.
+    - Cope gracefully with changelogs missing a timestamp trailer.
+      Based on a patch by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+      Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.8. Closes: #843248
+  * Packaging:
+    - Add liblocale-gettext-perl to libdpkg-perl Recommends.
+    - Wrap and document dependency relationships.
+    - Remove obsolete dependency relationships, since Debian oldstable.
+    - Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
+      compatibility symlinks, again.
+    - Use perl:Depends via dh_perl instead of a hardcoded perl in Depends.
+    - Add perl:Depends to dpkg-dev Depends.
+    - Remove unused dh_strip from binary_indep target.
+    - Remove ancient upgrade code from maintainer scripts (before 1.15.x).
+    - Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip.
+    - Move dpkg to be the first binary package stanza in debian/control, as
+      debhelper assigns special meaning by considering it the main package.
+    - Set MAKEFLAGS to -jN from parallel=N in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Update custom changelog parser API support status in README.api.
+    - Fix typos in docs and man pages. Thanks to Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+      Closes: #834584
+    - Fix formatting in SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH description in dpkg-deb(5).
+    - Improve dpkg-deb --build arguments documentation in dpkg-deb(1).
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Document the .changes filename that dpkg-buildpackage generates in
+      dpkg-buildpackage(1). Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Add basic maintainer script man pages: deb-postinst(5), deb-postrm(5),
+      deb-preinst(5) and deb-prerm(5).
+    - Add new deb-src-files(5) man page.
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Add man page references to other binary control files in dpkg(1).
+    - Add version when "new" substvars were introduced in deb-substvars(5).
+    - Switch deb-triggers(5) types into a proper list.
+    - Itemize --log format entries in dpkg(1).
+    - Turn the update-alternatives(1) --query example item into a sub-section.
+    - Turn the Multi-Arch values into a list in deb-control(5).
+    - Improve user-defined field export marker documentation in
+      deb-src-control(5); clarify that X can be followed by zero or more
+      (instead of one or more) letters and turn the items into a proper list.
+    - Generate the man pages at build time. This makes it possible to process
+      them and update several variable strings such as system and package
+      pathnames, the release date and the dpkg suite version. And makes it
+      possible to use UTF-8 in the source and convert to the more conservative
+      groff escape sequences on the output.
+    - Switch from groff escape sequences to UTF-8 in man pages sources.
+    - Disable hyphenation in man pages globally, because it performs very
+      poorly on many technical terms.
+    - Append the German man pages addendum at the end of the translation,
+      instead of assuming that every page has the SEE ALSO section.
+    - Explicitly mention that Dpkg::Checksums::add_from_file() is used to
+      verify digests too. Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Document the behavior for consecutive calls to Dpkg perl module parse()
+      methods. Prompted by Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>.
+    - Document obsolete functions in Dpkg::Conf.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Make test main function a TEST_ENTRY macro. This avoids confusing
+      coverage programs, as the file that actually contains the main function
+      is the test itself.
+    - Rename test suite commands to be prefixed with «c-» instead of «t-».
+    - Add new dpkg-source functional tests.
+    - Add new dpkg-buildpackage functional tests.
+    - Add an initial functional test suite for dpkg-deb and dpkg-split.
+    - Skip the involved tests if IO::String is missing.
+    - Add new unit test for libdpkg error handling.
+    - Delete MAKEFLAGS environment variable when testing make invocations.
+    - Pass -q to grep command to suppress matched output in pod-coverage.t.
+    - Ignore POD coverage for partially private modules.
+  * Build system:
+    - Add support for profiling perl modules.
+    - Clean up compiler and linker automatic flag usage in configure.
+    - Fix the __progname check to avoid the optimizer discarding the symbol.
+    - Fix M4sh/Autoconf coding style. Add a new section to coding-style.txt
+      describing M4sh/Autoconf.
+    - Disable C++ exceptions for dselect.
+    - Fix typo in SE Linux library detection code, only affecting static
+      mode (not used in Debian). Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.8.
+    - Change --with-* option logic to default to check.
+    - Disable -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare (for clang).
+    - Check the availability of -W<warning> variant instead of -Wno-<warning>.
+      As at least gcc and clang do not warn on -Wno-* warning flags, only
+      when some unrelated warning needs to be emitted.
+    - Bump po4a version to 0.43 (we are using --porefs wrap option).
+    - Add support for running the test suite in parallel.
+    - Specify exec argument for TAP::Harness to gracefully handle non-perl
+      executables with older versions of the module.
+    - Require libselinux 2.0.99 for baseline API, remove static linking
+      support, use pkg-config unconditionally, and perform refinement checks
+      only if available.
+    - Check for the required minimal perl version.
+    - Use builddir instead of CURDIR in man Makefile.am.
+    - Use cp with -R instead of -r (the former is more portable and not
+      marked as deprecated by POSIX).
+    - Print an actual newline instead of a literal \n in lcov output.
+    - Do not honor DPKG_DATADIR on the installed Dpkg module.
+    - Pass --as-needed to the linker for dselect to avoid libstdc++ dependency.
+      Which makes of dselect the only front-end not pulling the C++ run-time.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #841117
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #842187
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:09:02 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.10) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix a short-lived memory leak in dpkg archive argument parsing.
+  * When activating file triggers on conffile purge, use the conffile name
+    instead of the real pathname it might refer to. This fixes a segfault
+    when using --instdir, or when the conffile has been moved around and
+    replaced with a symlink to the target.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.8. Closes: #830267
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Disable fixdebugpath feature on unsafe characters in the path.
+    - Generate reproducible source tarballs by using the new GNU tar
+      --clamp-mtime option in Dpkg::Source::Archive, to make sure no file
+      in source packages has an mtime later than the changelog entry time.
+    - Enable fixdebugpath build flag feature by default.
+      Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>. Closes: #832179
+    - Rename various private methods and functions with an underscore prefix
+      and unified names.
+    - Refactor perl modules directory list into a new function in Test::Dpkg.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Add new POD coverage author test for public perl modules.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Document Testsuite-Triggers in dsc(5).
+    - Fix deb-changes(5) description to talk about .changes instead of .dsc.
+      Reported by HW42 <hw42@ipsumj.de>.
+    - Use debian/control as the SYNOPSIS in deb-src-control(5).
+    - Add new deb-conffiles(5) man page.
+    - Add references to deb-control(5) and deb-triggers(5) in dpkg(1).
+    - Fix typos for repeated “the” word.
+      Prompted by Valentin Samir <valentin.samir@crans.org> in #830989.
+    - Fix misspelled -fdebug-prefix-map flag in dpkg-buildflags(1).
+      Reported by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>.
+    - Remove mention of source format 1.0 supporting building with upstream
+      tarball signatures from dpkg-source(1), as this was disabled in 1.18.8.
+    - Document all public methods in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
+    - Escape dashes in deb-changes(5) and dsc(5) man pages.
+    - Fix typos in dpkg-shlibdeps(1). Closes: #832434
+      Thanks to Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #832070
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Jul 2016 12:57:02 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.9) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Require Dpkg::Control::Info in dpkg-buildpackage.
+    Initially reported by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.8. Closes: #829542
+  * Documentation:
+    - Fix user configuration filename in dpkg-buildpackage(1).
+      Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>. Closes: #829546
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:23:13 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not disable PIE buildflags on */kFreeBSD anymore. Closes: #823877
+    Thanks to Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>.
+  * Add new long options in dpkg-buildpackage for any short option that is
+    a useful configurable candidate.
+  * Add configuration file support to dpkg-buildpackage, as buildpackage.conf
+    under either the dpkg system or user configuration directories.
+    Closes: #539692, #765494
+  * Check that debian/tests/control is a regular file before parsing it.
+  * Generate Testsuite-Triggers field from test dependencies in dpkg-source
+    into .dsc files. Based on a patch by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>.
+    Closes: #779559
+  * Add new dpkg-source --no-overwrite-dir extraction option. Closes: #826334
+  * Fix number of entries computation returned by sysctl() on */kFreeBSD in
+    start-stop-daemon.
+  * Set return buffer length for sysctl(2) calls on */kFreeBSD in
+    start-stop-daemon.
+  * Abstract ar archive handling behind a new struct dpkg_ar and functions.
+  * On dpkg --force-chrootless only set changedir to instdir if defined.
+    Thanks to Niall Walsh <niallwalsh@celtux.org>. Closes: #824542
+  * Set primary group to 0 in dpkg when running as root.
+    Reported by Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>.
+  * Activate file triggers for conffiles on purge, which has never happened
+    before. Before dpkg 1.17.0, conffiles were triggered on removal, which
+    was obviously wrong. Reported by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Fix strtol() errno check when parsing the COLUMNS envvar in dpkg-query.
+    Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>. Closes: #827265
+  * Use new GNU tar --clamp-mtime option in dpkg-deb to make sure no file in
+    binary packages has an mtime later than the given time. Closes: #759886
+  * Use the same timestamp for the ar container as for tarball mtime clamping
+    in dpkg-deb.
+  * Set ar timestamp and tar mtime clamping to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if defined
+    in dpkg-deb. Based on a patch by Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>.
+  * Preset build timestamp to latest changelog entry in dpkg-buildpackage,
+    by setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if it is not already
+    defined. Based on a patch by Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #759999
+  * Do not use the debian/rules build target fallback when building both
+    architecture independent and dependent packages in dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Use architecture «all» as part of the .changes filename when building
+    architecture independent binaries and no architecture dependent binaries.
+    Closes: #826161
+  * Do not emit warnings from dpkg-genchanges for automatic debug symbol
+    packages that are not found in debian/control.
+  * Export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from pkg-info.mk makefile snippet.
+    Closes: #824572
+  * Architecture support:
+    - Add TILE-Gx support to cputable. Closes: #823167
+      Thanks to Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Use warnings::warnif() instead of carp() for deprecated warnings.
+    - Add new format_range() method and deprecate dpkg() and rfc822() methods
+      in Dpkg::Changelog.
+    - Replace changelog program parsers with perl modules.
+    - Add a getter for the Time::Piece object in Dpkg::Changelog.
+    - Add new Timestamp field to Dpkg::Changelog output, which ends up on
+      dpkg-parsechangelog's output.
+    - Validate source version in set_version_substvars()'s Dpkg::Substvars
+      method.
+    - Revert "Dpkg::Conf: Switch implementation to be hash based", as this
+      change broke backwards compatibility in multiple ways. The format_argv
+      option was set by default, the order was not preserved, which was
+      important for dpkg.cfg files, and duplicate option names stopped being
+      supported. Add regression tests to avoid similar changes in the future.
+      Closes: #824938
+    - Add support for system and user config loading in Dpkg::Conf.
+    - Add support for autopkgtest control files, with new CTRL_TESTS control
+      type, new recognized fields to Dpkg::Control::Fields, and new modules
+      Dpkg::Control::Tests and Dpkg::Control::Tests::Entry. Also update
+      Dpkg::Index to support these.
+    - Fix Dpkg::Deps so that architecture qualifiers only imply one another
+      if they are the same. Closes: #745366, #827628
+    - Add support for new environment variable DEB_BUILD_PATH to be able to
+      control the path in the fixdebugpath feature in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+    - Preserve order when prepending shared library paths in Dpkg::Shlibs.
+      This fixes the order of paths passed via dpkg-shlibdeps -l option.
+      Closes: #823805
+    - Check whether dependency restrictions are implied in Dpkg::Deps::Simple.
+      Thanks to Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>. Closes: #827633
+    - Disable upstream tar signature when building format 1.0 source packages
+      in Dpkg::Source::Package::V1, as the current stable dpkg series do not
+      support extracting them.
+    - Preset Last-Update field in patch header template with current time in
+      Dpkg::Source::Package::V2. Thanks to Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org>.
+      Closes: #828146
+  * Packaging:
+    - Disable libmd usage in Debian and derivatives for now.
+  * Build system:
+    - Stop allowing to set deprecated bzip2 compressor as dpkg-deb default.
+    - Use libmd automatically if available.
+    - Uniformize library build options, from --with-zlib to --with-libz,
+      --with-bz2 to --with-libbz2 and --with-selinux to --with-libselinux.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Bump perlcritic ValuesAndExpressions::RequireNumberSeparators minimum
+      to 99999.
+    - Add new pod-spell unit test.
+    - Refactor common unit test checks for needed things into Test::Dpkg.
+    - Accept perl's Lancaster Consensus AUTHOR_TESTING variable.
+    - Add new minimum perl version unit test.
+    - Add new synopsis unit test.
+    - Add unit tests for dependency simplification with build profiles.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Improve dpkg-buildpackage(1) on environment expectations.
+    - Clarify the format of the db:Status-Abbrev virtual field in
+      dpkg-query(1). Closes: #824515
+    - Document the tar entry size limitation for deb(5) format.
+    - Document interaction between PIE and libraries in dpkg-buildflags(1).
+      Based on text by Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>.
+    - Merge ENVIRONMENT sections in dpkg-buildflags(1).
+    - Document various long options in dpkg-source --help output.
+    - Move dpkg-source -q option from “Build options” to “General options”
+      section in --help output.
+    - Clarify shared library search order in dpkg-shlibdeps(1).
+    - Remove most remaining AUTHOR sections from man an POD, as they are
+      strongly discouraged, for being redundant, tending to get out-of-sync,
+      and their format being inconsistent. In addition most got already
+      removed in the past for the man pages.
+    - Mark perlcritic as an optional author test dependency in the README.
+    - Fix example code in Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle SYNOPSIS.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #824873
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Jul 2016 19:01:56 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add new dpkg-source --require-strong-checksums option and change default.
+    There is no point in erroring out on this condition when signature issues
+    are only warnings, because we cannot guarantee we have functional keys
+    for old signatures. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.5. Closes: #823428
+  * Stop using several fixed sized buffers for program reporting, which in
+    many cases could cause confusing truncation of long messages. Use heap
+    allocated formatted strings instead:
+    - In start-stop-daemon to report what to stop.
+    - In dselect to print main and access methods menu entries.
+    - In libdpkg command-line option parsing errors.
+    - In libdpkg warning, notice and info reporting.
+    - In libdpkg ohshit, ohshitv, ohshite and internerr. But in this case
+      fallback to a fixed-size emergency buffer in case of allocation or
+      formatting error, so that we can at least print something, even if
+      truncated.
+    Prompted by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>.
+  * Colorize all fatal-error printing codepaths in libdpkg.
+  * Architecture support:
+    - Bump the GNU triplet cpu from i386 to i686 to match toolchain changes.
+      Thanks to Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>. Closes: #823619
+    - Clarify column descriptions in architecture table files.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Relax dependency restrictions parsing to allow again sloppy spaces
+      around versions, architectures and profile restrictions.
+      Regression introduced in 1.18.5. Closes: #823431
+    - Add new require_strong_checksums option to Dpkg::Source::Package.
+    - Add new tests_dep option to Dpkg::Deps deps_parse() to allow the
+      otherwise invalid ‘@’ character in dependencies. To be used when
+      parsing the debian/tests/control file.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Shorten example symbol names in dpkg-gensymbols to avoid a mandb
+      warning due to unwrappable lines in translations.
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 09 May 2016 03:19:52 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix file queue tail assignment on file queue pop during unpack. This
+    could mess up the file queue in some circumstances and leave behind
+    files in the filesystem as «pathname».dpkg-new after configuration
+    and without traces of the files in the dpkg database. Closes: #823288
+  * Use m_strdup() instead of strdup() in dpkg recursive installation code.
+  * Fix off-by-one array allocation in dpkg recursive installation code that
+    can cause segfaults.
+  * Rename sysctl() “name” variable to “mib”, to avoid a clash with the
+    call site function argument with the same name in start-stop-daemon.
+    This fixes a build failure on */kFreeBSD systems.
+  * Initialize number of entries on initial process scan in start-stop-daemon
+    on */kFreeBSD.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (no changes needed).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 03 May 2016 20:17:05 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.5) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Print correct integer parse error for short-only command-line options.
+    This affects «dpkg-deb -z». Closes: #809174
+  * Do not abort when traversing symlinks to directories in dpkg-scanpackages
+    and dpkg-scansources. Closes: #809219
+  * Implement delete operator with size argument in dselect, required by the
+    C++14 spec when the size-less delete operator is defined.
+  * Use EACCES instead of EWOULDBLOCK for fcntl(2) F_SETLK in dselect.
+  * Print the archive filename when dpkg cannot access it.
+  * Check that all passed archive filenames to dpkg exist before queuing them.
+    Closes: #809963
+  * Use ohshit() instead of internerr() for unhandled dpkg-split exit codes.
+    (i.e. do not abort). Closes: #812679
+  * Detect non-regular file archive arguments earlier in dpkg.
+  * Switch URLs in docs, code comments and packaging, from http:// or git://
+    to https:// if the latter is available (round three). This includes the
+    dpkg git repository, copyright format URL and examples in man pages among
+    others.
+  * Clarify where to find the GPL-2 license in debian/copyright.
+  * Do not enable stack-protector on nios2 in Debian and derivatives (it is
+    not supported by gcc yet).
+  * Check first for build type to short-circuit boolean expressions in
+    dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Add source format backend-specific --help options support to dpkg-source.
+  * Add MIPS R6 architectures to arch tables. Closes: #807340
+    Thanks to YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>.
+  * Fix memory leak when unpacking conffiles.
+  * Use fixed string matching for pathnames in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Thanks to Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+  * Quote shell variables in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Thanks to Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+  * Anchor pathnames in sed and grep regexes in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Thanks to Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+  * Allow broken versions starting with a dash in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Thanks to Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+  * Add a new treewalk module in libdpkg, with the nice properties of avoiding
+    duplicate stat(2) calls, not calling find(1), and sorting the output w/o
+    stalling on the entire input being slurped and sorted.
+    - Use it to build the .deb data member in dpkg-deb.
+    - Use it to build the .deb control member in dpkg-deb.
+    Closes: #719845
+    - Use it with dpkg --recursive option.
+  * Unify start-stop-daemon --help output with the rest of the tools.
+  * Search for debsig-verify in PATH instead of using an absolute path.
+  * Do not error out when failing to open the SE label db on permissive mode.
+    Closes: #811037
+  * Rewrite the trigger deferred file parser from flex to manual. The format
+    is very simple, and a simple hand-written parser is smaller and avoids a
+    build dependency.
+  * Be more strict when parsing the COLUMNS environment variable in dpkg-query.
+  * Make the Architecture field mandatory on package builds.
+  * Use new Dpkg::Arch functions to validate and parse architectures when
+    building source packages. Closes: #784808
+  * Do safe matching of directories containing conffiles in
+    dpkg-maintscript-helper, instead of using a variable pathname as a regex
+    with grep, which is susceptible to metacharacters acting as part of the
+    regex. Proposed by Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+  * Decouple local keyword declaration from command assignment in
+    dpkg-maintscript-helper, which masks the command return value when
+    using «set -e».
+  * Make dpkg pass <new-version> to maintscript actions that cannot get it
+    otherwise. These actions are now:
+    - <new-postrm> failed-upgrade <old-version> <new-version>
+    - <new-postrm> abort-install <old-version> <new-version>
+    - <new-postrm> abort-upgrade <old-version> <new-version>
+    - <new-preinst> install <old-version> <new-version>
+    - <new-preinst> upgrade <old-version> <new-version>
+    - <new-prerm> failed-upgrade <old-version> <new-version>
+    Prompted by Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com>.
+  * Promote a print to a warning for missing control files in dpkg-deb.
+  * Use info() instead of print in dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Add very basic color support to all dpkg namespaced programs, enabled by
+    setting the environment variable DPKG_COLORS to “auto”, “always” or
+    “never”, the latter being the default.
+  * Add support for a new --build option to define build type by a
+    comma-separated list of components (“source”, “any”, “all”, “binary” or
+    “full”) in dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Add new -I option to dpkg-shlibdeps to ignore package build directories.
+    Closes: #821025
+  * Add new -O option to dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Make dpkg export variable DPKG_ROOT in maintainer scripts. Closes: #804624
+    Thanks to Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Add new --force-script-chrootless option to dpkg.
+    Thanks to Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Portability:
+    - Move DPKG_ADMINDIR environment variable name out from update-alternatives
+      code, to make life easier for non-dpkg-based systems.
+    - Move alternatives temporary extension out from update-alternatives code,
+      to make life easier for non-dpkg-based systems.
+    - Switch start-stop-daemon on */kFreeBSD to use the low-level sysctl(3)
+      interface instead of libkvm-dev.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Add new CTRL_REPO_RELEASE control block type to Dpkg::Control.
+    - Add new CTRL_COPYRIGHT_HEADER, CTRL_COPYRIGHT_FILES and
+      CTRL_COPYRIGHT_LICENSE control block types to Dpkg::Control.
+    - Make patching a file multiple times fatal for the first quilt patch in
+      Dpkg::Source. Reported by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org>.
+      Closes: #810720
+    - Only warn once when a diff patches a file multiple times in
+      Dpkg::Source::Patch, and fix the warning message to make it clear that
+      the diff might be patching the file more than once, not just twice.
+    - Check existence of search criteria in Dpkg::Index when checking with a
+      regex or a string match. Closes: #780906
+      Base on a patch by Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin@baby-gnu.org>.
+    - Add new functions to validate and parse architecture names in Dpkg::Arch.
+    - Make the dependency parser more strict in Dpkg::Deps. Closes: #784806
+    - Add strong digest marking support to Dpkg::Checksums.
+    - Error out on source packages without any strong digests in
+      Dpkg::Source::Package, used by dpkg-source --extract, which can still
+      be disabled with --no-check.
+    - Switch Dpkg::Conf implementation to be hash based, add two new accessors
+      and a new option to the filter method to use the old behavior.
+    - Do not parse entry multiple times in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
+      Add new parse_header() and parse_trailer() methods, and deprecate
+      check_header() and check_trailer() ones.
+    - Use “GnuPG” instead of “gpg” in error messages to refer to the software
+      in Dpkg::Source::Package.
+    - Handle undef versions in Dpkg::Changelog from empty versions in
+      changelog entry header lines.
+    - Allow detached upstream orig tarball signatures when extracting
+      version 1.0 non-native source packages.
+    - Include upstream orig tarball signatures in source packages.
+      See #759478.
+    - Add fixdebugpath to reproducible feature in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+      Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>. Closes: #819194
+  * Build system:
+    - Fix building development documentation.
+    - Remove unused UA_LIBS variable.
+    - Split libps and libkvm detection into their own macros and variables.
+    - Make it possible to build without system libmd.
+    - Add a configuration summary to configure output.
+    - Make git log invocation immune to local configuration.
+    - Do not require passing the perl interpreter to run-script.
+    - Quote dirname argument in run-script, to handle spaces in pathname.
+      Reported by Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>.
+    - Use a single po4a opt argument instead of the same per language.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Enable all hardening flags, starting with gcc-5 there is no performance
+      loss anymore when enabling PIE on i386.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Add a unit test to compile perl code with warnings.
+    - Add a unit test for the trigger deferred parser.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Say value instead of option in deb-control(5).
+    - Mark debian changelog format in bold in dpkg-parsechangelog(1).
+    - Add references to man pages describing file formats.
+    - Document missing Install-Size, Built-For-Profiles and Build-Profiles
+      fields in man pages.
+    - Add new dsc(5), deb-changelog(5) and deb-changes(5) man pages.
+    - Remove Debian specific policy references.
+    - Remove superfluous SEE ALSO references from dpkg-source(1).
+    - Fix --remove and --purge summary formatting in dpkg(1).
+    - Move --audit description just after --verify in dpkg(1).
+    - Mark Maintainer field as bold in deb-src-control(5).
+    - Fix reference to --record-avail instead of nonexistent --avail.
+    - Add missing quotes in man pages.
+    - Document Source field version in deb-control(5).
+    - Add new deb822(5) man page.
+    - Document and improve C/C++ programs exit codes in man pages.
+    - Clarify dpkg --path-exclude/--path-include pathname filter behavior.
+      Closes: #811267
+    - Clarify that packages are only automatically forgotten by dpkg if they
+      contain no user data, such as package selections. Closes: #813179
+    - Fix documentation for package flags in dpkg(1).
+    - Clarify that deb-symbols(5) documents the binary format subset, and
+      the template symbol files are described in dpkg-gensymbols(1).
+      Closes: #795163
+    - Update field requirements of control file formats to match dpkg reality.
+    - Document the format of the origins filename in deb-origin(5).
+    - Add list of flags set by bug feature area to dpkg-buildflags(1).
+    - Switch output encoding of man pages to UTF-8.
+    - Move SEE ALSO section to the end of Dpkg::Changelog::Debian.
+    - Clarify that i386 does not suffer performance loss due to PIE anymore
+      since gcc >= 5 in dpkg-buildflags(1).
+    - Document in deb822(5) that deb-origin(5) also supports comments.
+    - Clarify which characters constitute the deb822(5) control files syntax
+      by using Unicode code points and their printable characters.
+      Based on a patch by Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>.
+    - Remove wrong mention that deb-control(5) support comments.
+    - Make explicit that deb-control(5) documents the binary control file.
+    - Add missing value for Standards-Version field in dsc(5).
+      Reported by Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #822797
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Japanese (Takuma Yamada). Closes: #819939
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #809517
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Japanese (Takuma Yamada). Closes: #819940
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ New man pages translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #822798
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 02 May 2016 04:14:57 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Switch dpkg-scansources and dpkg-scanpackages to use File::Find instead
+    of find(1), as the former is more portable with more consistent behavior,
+    and always canonicalizes the pathnames. Closes: #800649
+  * Initialize Config-Version also for packages previously in triggers-pending
+    state, otherwise we end up not passing the previously configured version
+    to «postinst configure», which might consider this a first install instead
+    of an upgrade. Closes: #801156
+  * Fix memory leaks in «dpkg --verify» and dpkg infodb format upgrade logic.
+  * Merge all update-alternatives action handling into a single if-else-if
+    block, to unify the code an allow a future switch into a shared library.
+  * Perform any necessary cleanups on normal exit from dpkg-divert --add and
+    --remove commands.
+  * Make dpkg-architecture warning on non-matching GNU system type compiler
+    agnostic.
+  * Add ‘.gitreview’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
+  * Add support for DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_DEBUG environment variable to dpkg.
+  * Fix dpkg-checkbuilddeps exit code to be 1 instead of a random error value
+    on unsatisfied dependencies. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.3.
+  * Fix an off-by-one write access in dpkg-deb when parsing the old format
+    .deb control member size. Thanks to Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>.
+    Fixes CVE-2015-0860.
+  * Fix an off-by-one read access in dpkg-deb when parsing ar member names.
+    Thanks to Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>.
+  * Add experimental multithreaded xz compression support in libdpkg, which
+    requires xz >= 5.2.0.
+  * Fix physical file offset comparison in dpkg. Closes: #808912
+    Thanks to Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>.
+  * Fix usage of dpkg-architecture -s after other action options.
+    Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
+  * Add NIOS2 support to cputable. Thanks to Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>.
+  * On Debian and derivatives enable timeless build flag feature by default.
+    Thanks to Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>. Closes: #805872
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Add support for Build-Essential field. Closes: #806315
+  * Test suite:
+    - Improve perl code test coverage.
+  * Build system:
+    - Set PERL5LIB globally for the test suite to the local modules directory,
+      to avoid using the system modules. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.8.
+      Reported by Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>. Closes: #801329
+    - Use absolute buildir pathnames in PATH variable for the test suite.
+    - Descend into scripts directory when cleaning up code coverage files.
+    - Add new configure option --disable-devel-docs to select the kind of docs
+      to generate, default for now is development documentation.
+    - Try to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION to benefit from the latest
+      installed gettext version, while guaranteeing a minimal required version.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Add missing Build-Depends for restriction formula support.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Move description for “target architecture” from the dpkg-architecture(1)
+      ‘-A’ option to the TERMS section. Closes: #799046
+    - Clarify that the md5sum check on «dpkg --verify» is performed on the
+      file contents, and failures denote changed content. Closes: #760248
+    - Document that dpkg-buildpackage -nc -S implies -d.
+    - Clarify role of Build-Depends in deb-src-control(5).
+      Prompted by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+    - Document supported feature areas.
+    - Clarify in dpkg-query(1) when binary:Package gets arch-qualified.
+      Closes: #801958
+    - Add a subsection separating external from internal environment variables
+      in dpkg(1).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #800513
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #799432
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #799875
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann, Julian R). Closes: #807156
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:20:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.18.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix short-lived memory leaks in start-stop-daemon. As a side effect now
+    a missing group after ‘:’ on --chuid is a fatal error.
+  * Print the master and slave links in «update-alternatives --display».
+  * Print the current best alternative in the head instead of the trail
+    in «update-alternatives --display», with a two space indentation.
+  * Reimplement «update-alternatives --all» as a fully built-in command
+    instead of executing itself with --config per subtask.
+  * Reimplement «update-alternatives --set-selections» as a fully built-in
+    command instead of executing itself with --set or --auto per subtask.
+  * Add kfreebsd-armhf support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #796283
+    Thanks to Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>.
+  * Fix «dpkg --verify» with --root.
+  * Fix an off-by-one write access in dpkg-deb when parsing the .deb magic.
+    Reported by Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah@gmail.com>. Closes: #798324
+  * Split overlong perl regexes into multiline extended regexes.
+  * Switch dselect multicd method license from GPL2 to GPL2+, with consent
+    from all its authors.
+  * Fix inadvertent license change for lib/dpkg/utils.c from GPL2 to GPL2+.
+  * Fix segfault when using «dpkg --no-act» with a synthetic --admindir.
+    Reported by David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Only warn on invalid week days instead of aborting in
+      Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.2.
+      Reported by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>.
+    - Do not warn when removing an empty subdirectory on source package
+      extraction in Dpkg::Source::Package::V2. Closes: #796671
+    - Do not abort on parse errors from Time::Piece->strptime() for the
+      changelog trailer date, just queue them so that the caller can decide
+      if they should be warnings or actual errors. Closes: #795936
+    - Validate the changelog trailer date, and catch and warn or error on
+      bogus month names, such as unknown or unabbreviated ones.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Get the reference build flags from dpkg-buildflags.pl, instead of
+      hardcoding them, which might not match depending on the architecture.
+      Closes: #794694
+    - Delete any environment variable starting with DEB_ in mk.t that might
+      affect the test results.
+  * Build system:
+    - Add a new --with-devlibdir configure option for the C libdpkg library.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Remove unneeded --sourcedir options from dh_install calls.
+    - Use the new --with-devlibdir configure option to only switch libdpkg-dev
+      files to the multi-arch directory. Closes: #794977
+  * Documentation:
+    - Fix typos for --predep-package option name. Closes: #794688
+    - Add missing dashes to package-list in deb-src-control(5).
+    - Mark each individual required field as such, instead of using segregated
+      sections.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #798371
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #798370
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #798369
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:11:42 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix plural form translations for single plural languages. Closes: #790025
+  * Add new dpkg-buildpackage -J option, which is a safe version of -j.
+  * Fix dpkg-gencontrol to add correct binary filename to debian/files,
+    even when overriding the Package field value with the -D option.
+    Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>.
+  * Move the implicit build-essential:native Build-Depends from
+    dpkg-checkbuilddeps to a new vendor hook, as it is Debian-specific.
+  * Add support for ignoring built-in build dependencies and conflicts
+    with the new «dpkg-buildpackage --ignore-builtin-builddeps» and
+    «dpkg-checkbuilddeps -I» options. Closes: #480638, #571671
+  * When sys_siglist is defined in the system, try to use NSIG as we cannot
+    compute the array size with sizeof(). If NSIG is missing fallback to 32
+    items. Prompted by Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>.
+  * Use string_to_security_class() instead of a literal SECCLASS value in
+    the setexecfilecon() libcompat function, as <selinux/flask.h> is now
+    deprecated.
+  * Switch libdpkg xz compressor to use CRC64 for integrity checks, to match
+    the default on the command-line tool, which should provide slightly better
+    detection against damaged data, at a negligible speed difference.
+  * Only use the SHELL environment variable for interactive shells.
+    Closes: #788819
+  * Move tar option --no-recursion before -T in dpkg-deb. With tar > 1.28 the
+    --no-recursion option is now positional, and needs to be passed before
+    the -T option, otherwise the tarball will end up with duplicated entries.
+    Thanks to Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>.
+  * Add an extra level of escaping for double $(evals) in architecture.mk
+    and buildflags.mk, so that the variables are computed lazily again.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.2. Closes: #793330
+  * Add binary packages Essential information to Package-List field in the
+    .dsc file, as optional essential=yes entries. This allows precomputing
+    the pseudo-essential set before starting an architecture bootstrap.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Remove non-functional timezone name support from
+      Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
+    - Use Time::Piece (part of the perl core distribution) instead of
+      Date::Parse in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian. This reduces the build
+      and run-time dependencies, and helps architecture bootstrapping.
+    - Simplify distribution splitting in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
+    - Add new function changelog_parse_plugin() in Dpkg::Changelog::Parse.
+    - Add new function changelog_parse_debian() in Dpkg::Changelog::Parse, and
+      use it in changelog_parse() instead of the external plugin parser when
+      the input format is “debian”. This significantly speeds up the parsing.
+    - Remove trailing space before handling blank line dot-separator in
+      Dpkg::Control::HashCore. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.0.
+      Reported by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>. Closes: #789580
+    - Allow the Maintainer field in CTRL_FILE_STATUS.
+    - Import make_path from File::Path in Dpkg::Source::Package::V2.
+      Regression introduced in dpkg 1.18.0. Closes: #789957
+    - Make the BinaryFiles subpackage self-contained by explicitly importing
+      File::Spec in Dpkg::Source::Package::V2.
+    - Do not exclude pre-existing symlinks when unpacking the debian/ tarball
+      in Dpkg::Source::Package::V2. Closes: #790073, #791535
+    - Disable the thread sanitizer when the address sanitizer is enabled
+      in Dpkg::Vendor::Debian as these are mutually incompatible, and make
+      sanitize=+all not work at all.
+    - Allow colons (:) in added filenames in Dpkg::Dist::Files, which can be
+      present when the upstream version contains colons. Regression introduced
+      in dpkg 1.18.0. Reported by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>.
+    - Future-proof tar invocations in Dpkg::Source::Archive for options that
+      might become positional in the future, and by always placing function
+      options first.
+    - Make the dependency comparison deep by comparing not only the first
+      dependency alternative, to get them sorted in a reproducible way.
+      Based on a patch by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>. Closes: #792491
+    - Support spaces in symbol names in Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump. This is
+      required by Go shared libraries. Closes: #785344
+      Based on a patch by Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Set SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGPIPE to their default actions to get
+      deterministic behavior.
+    - Add test cases for the makefile snippets.
+    - Delete DEB_VENDOR from the environment to get reliable results.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Make the libdpkg-dev package Multi-Arch:same.
+    - Mark libio-string-perl as <!nocheck>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Fix grammar in dpkg-architecture(1).
+      Thanks to Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>. Closes: #787616
+    - Use the feature area name in the dpkg-buildflags(1) subsection title.
+    - Document DPKG_HOOK_ACTION also in dpkg(1) ENVIRONMENT section.
+    - Clarify when some features where added in man pages.
+    - Document --yet-to-unpack, --predep-package and all --assert-<feature>
+      commands as supported in both «dpkg --help» and dpkg(1).
+    - Document abitable in dpkg-architecture(1).
+    - Clarify that an architecture wildcard is a Debian thing in
+      dpkg-architecture(1).
+    - Document multiarch triplet in dpkg-architecture(1) TERMS section.
+    - Remove “my” keyword from Dpkg perl modules function prototypes.
+    - Say FUNCTIONS instead of METHODS for Dpkg modules when appropriate.
+    - Fix POD syntax inside verbatim paragraph in Dpkg::Changelog.
+    - Document and mark Dpkg::Arch as a public module.
+    - Fix Dpkg::Changelog::Parse::changelog_parse documentation.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #789097
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #787986
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #788211
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #789096
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:40:21 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Cast c_isbits() c argument to an unsigned char when indexing the array.
+    This fixes build failures on armel, armhf, ppc64el and s390x.
+  * Do not allow pathnames with embedded newlines in dpkg-deb and dpkg.
+    Closes: #720761
+  * Fix setting the SE Linux context when a file has a statoverride.
+    Closes: #786435
+  * Set the SE Linux file context even when the file mode has no file type.
+  * Make dpkg-buildpackage -j override any parallel option specified in
+    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.14.15.
+  * Honor Pre-Depends, Conflicts and Breaks for packages in unpacked and
+    half states. Thanks to Ian Jackson <iwj@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #377860
+  * Fix build failure on FreeBSD by actually using libmd if available.
+  * Sort dpkg-scanpackages output by package name and version.
+    Thanks to Maximilian Schwerin <maximilian.schwerin@tigris.de>.
+  * Sort dpkg-scansources output by package name and version.
+    Thanks to Maximilian Schwerin <maximilian.schwerin@tigris.de>.
+  * Set the correct default compression value in dpkg-deb for control.tar.gz
+    member. This meant using compression level 1 when using the zlib shared
+    library to compress the control.tar member, and always failing when using
+    the gzip command. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.6. Closes: #786654
+  * Use the generated template file instead of the original one when looking
+    for changes in dpkg-gensymbols. There's too much information not being
+    preserved in the symbols files to be able to regenerate templates for
+    them. Closes: #785937, #786840
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Add missing strict and warnings pragmas for submodules.
+    - Use non-destructive substitutions inside map.
+    - Use the state keyword to simplify the code.
+    - Do not replace #PACKAGE# in template mode in Dpkg::Shlibs::SymbolFile.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Update current default source compressor from gzip to xz.
+    - Remove spurious ‘=’ from parallel DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS without arguments
+      in dpkg-buildpackage(1).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #786377
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 30 May 2015 03:00:21 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.18.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Only trim trailing “/” and “/.” from «dpkg-query --search» arguments if
+    they are a pathname, and not a pattern or a substring match.
+  * Switch C/C++ code to use a new set of C locale character type functions
+    independent of the current locale.
+  * Add support for arch-bits and arch-endian dpkg-gensymbols tags.
+    Closes: #630342
+  * Switch perl code from legacy File::Path functions to new ones.
+  * Fix perl uninitialized value usage in dpkg-scansources when the Binary
+    field is missing.
+  * Use dpkg-query instead of dpkg for --search in dpkg-shlibdeps so that
+    the subprocesses get the correct admindir. Closes: #775258
+  * Rework the Installed-Size field default value computation to make it
+    reproducible regardless of the build system filesystem, and document
+    how the value is computed and that it is just an approximation.
+    Closes: #650077
+  * Use strftime() instead of «date -R» in dpkg-genchanges, as the latter
+    is not specified by POSIX and is not widely portable.
+  * Warn on obsolete '<' and '>' operators in dpkg --compare-versions.
+  * Trim end of line whitespace from dpkg and dselect config file parsers.
+    Reported by Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>.
+  * Do not silently eat a standalone ‘-’ in the libdpkg command-line parser.
+  * Fix short-lived memory leaks in dpkg-deb and libdpkg. Closes: #769515
+  * Fix «dpkg-deb -b» filename generation when the package does not contain
+    an Architecture field. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.2.
+  * Fix «dpkg --audit» to report missing and empty architecture fields.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.2.
+  * Add support to dpkg-deb for reading the archive from standard input,
+    except for --raw-extract which does not yet support it. Closes: #616614
+    Based on a patch by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+  * Add ‘.mailmap’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
+  * Set the SE Linux context on «dpkg-statoverride --update». Closes: #690361
+  * Do not fail on dpkg-query -W and -l when multiple arguments match the
+    same package. Closes: #588505
+  * Change dpkg-maintscript-helper to handle symlinks and pathnames ending in
+    slash. For the former error out, for the latter strip it. Closes: #771752
+  * Support moving a conffile not being shipped anymore. Closes: #767003
+    Thanks to Mathias Behrle <mathiasb@m9s.biz>.
+  * Add a new dpkg-buildflags sanitize feature area:
+    - Add new “address”, “thread”, “leak” and “undefined” features, all
+      disabled by default. Closes: #760741
+  * Do not accept unknown user or group names on «dpkg-statoverride --add».
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.11. Closes: #775124
+  * Normalize dpkg-parsechangelog command-line parsing, so that «-ovalue»,
+    «-o value», «--option=value» and «--option value» will all be accepted.
+    Closes: #693951
+  * Add dpkg --ctrl-tarfile forwarding command for dpkg-deb.
+  * Disable dependency checks on dpkg-buildpackage -S -nc.
+  * Make dependency checks fatal for dpkg-buildpackage -S.
+  * Update amd64 GNU cpu regex in cputable to match amd64 too, in addition
+    to x86_64. This is required for FreeBSD.
+  * Use badusage() instead of ohshit() for command-line errors.
+  * Use the original template symbols file when diffing in dpkg-gensymbols.
+    We should not create a new template symbols file, because the output
+    might change (different sorting order for example) relative to the
+    original. Closes: #773718
+  * Do not leak kvm descriptors in start-stop-daemon on GNU/kFreeBSD systems.
+    Based on a patch by Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>. Closes: #779467
+  * Switch start-stop-daemon to use a monotonic clock if available. This
+    makes the timeout checks resilient to abrupt system clock changes.
+    Suggested by Jose M Calhariz <jose.calhariz@hds.com>. Closes: #783014
+  * Fix perl warning in dpkg-genchanges when parsing BY-HAND file entries.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.7. Closes: #781074
+  * Use the checksums files list order when building the Files field to match
+    the other Checksum fields in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Skip files based on the architecture from the filename in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Allow binary packages not found in debian/control in dpkg-genchanges,
+    which could allow injecting debug .debs for example.
+  * Annotate any non-deb binary descriptions (not just udebs) with their
+    package type in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Remove outdated local copy of the Debian README.mirrors.txt file from
+    dselect ftp access method, and print a message pointing to the current
+    URL instead. Closes: #784966
+  * Cleanup default dpkg-shlibdeps shared library directory search list:
+    - Do not add cross-root directories (/<triplet>/ and /usr/<triplet>/).
+    - Remove ancient multilib /emul/ia32-linux/ paths.
+    - Reorder directory precedence to:
+      «dpkg-shlibdeps -l» > ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATHS} > cross-multiarch >
+      DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH > ld.so.conf > DEFAULT_MULTILIB_PATH
+  * When upgrading, copy over the cached arch-qualified package name. This
+    fixes wrong output when cross-grading.
+  * Consider foreign packages ambiguous in need of an arch-qualifier.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Rename and deprecate Dpkg::Gettext _g function with new g_.
+    - Assume in Dpkg::Arch that the abitable is always present, and bump
+      libdpkg-perl Depends on dpkg to 1.16.3, the version introducing the file.
+    - Remove support for GCC_TARGET environment variable from Dpkg::Shlibs.
+      This was a temporary workaround for very old gcc toolchains. See #453267.
+    - Prefer multiarch paths to multilib ones in Dpkg::Shlibs.
+      Thanks to Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>. Closes: #772184
+    - Enable sub-second timestamps in Dpkg::Source::Patch by using Time::HiRes.
+    - Use TMPDIR instead of manually setting DIR on tempfile() call in
+      Dpkg::Source::Package::V2.
+    - Switch Dpkg::Checksums from using checksum programs to the more portable
+      Digest modules. Obsolete the 'program' property, and add a 'name' one.
+    - Add support for $DEFAULT_TEXT_DOMAIN to Dpkg::Gettext, so that the Dpkg
+      perl modules can always produce localized messages.
+    - Fix OpenPGP Armor Header Line parsing in Dpkg::Control::Hash. We should
+      only accept [\r\t ] as trailing whitespace, although RFC4880 does not
+      clarify what whitespace really maps to, we should really match the GnuPG
+      implementation anyway, as that's what we use to verify the signatures.
+      Reported by Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>. Fixes CVE-2015-0840.
+    - Pass PATCH_GET environment variable instead of -g0 to the patch command
+      in Dpkg::Source::Patch. This allows using non-GNU patch programs, like
+      FreeBSD's patch.
+    - Accept an %opts argument for the Dpkg::Control::Info constructor, and
+      accept either passing a filename option as undef, or a scalar undef.
+      Closes: #782019
+    - Do not print on undef filehandle in Dpkg::Control::Info output().
+      Thanks to Roderich Schupp <roderich.schupp@gmail.com>. Closes: #781887
+    - Always sort the Dpkg::Dist::Files files list on output, instead of
+      preserving the insertion order, which is not reproducible with parallel
+      builds. Reported by Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>.
+    - Add new filter() method to Dpkg::Substvars.
+    - Kill the process when reaching timeout in Dpkg::IPC::wait_child().
+  * Test suite:
+    - Check perl code compilation, warnings and strictness.
+    - Fix dpkg-divert unit test to work on BSD «rm -rf» that cannot traverse
+      directories with mode 000.
+    - Fix dpkg-divert unit test to work when there is no /dev/full.
+    - Skip test cases when there is no c++filt available.
+    - Add test cases for Dpkg::Conf and Dpkg::Checksums.
+    - Handle libtool executables in progname unit test.
+    - Do not use a timeout when testing cat I/O, speeds up test suite by 5s.
+    - Reduce timeout test from 5 seconds to 1, to speed up test suite by 4s.
+  * Build system:
+    - Bump gettext version to 0.19:
+      + Use --add-location=file in msgmerge and xgettext commands.
+      + Use --porefs=noline for po4a command.
+    - Wrap file references in man page PO files with po4a --porefs=wrap.
+    - Fix support for cross-building dpkg:
+      + Assume a working C99 snprintf on SUS >= v3.
+      + Do not try to run the va_copy configure check, just check that the
+        symbol is available.
+    - Check that HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST is 0 instead of undefined, to fix a
+      build failure on uclibc based systems. Closes: #777044
+      Based on a patch by Alex Potapenko <opotapenko@gmail.com>.
+    - Use single suffix rules instead of non-portable %-pattern rules.
+    - Pass CC to the test suite, so that we can use a non-gcc compiler.
+    - Call AM_PROG_AR to detect the correct system archiver to use.
+    - Pass -Wall to automake in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, not implied by foreign.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Remove old trigger related Breaks and Conflicts from dpkg.
+    - Only use stackprotectorstrong when building dpkg with gcc >= 4.9.
+    - Switch to debhelper compatibility level 9.
+    - Name each public-domain license with a different name.
+    - Add missing public modules to dpkg-dev package description.
+    - Get rid of backward compatibility pseudo-tags from bug reports.
+    - Install doc/README.feature-removal-schedule only on affected packages
+      and debian/usertags everywhere.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Document arch-qualifiers for dependency fields in deb-control(5) and
+      deb-src-control(5). Reported by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+      Closes: #768842
+    - Document versioned Provides in deb-control(5).
+    - Document the version when dpkg-deb --raw-extract got introduced.
+    - Document dpkg --log format, add missing actions and describe the startup
+      messages. Closes: #773398
+    - Document when and how the dpkg-maintscript-helper package name argument
+      is or should be arch-qualified. Closes: #776072
+    - Fix and update Arch substvar description in deb-substvars(5).
+    - Document that current build flag feature areas only work on Debian and
+      derivatives in dpkg-buildflags(1).
+    - Use “wildcard characters” instead of “wildchars” in dpkg-query(1).
+    - Document dpkg-query --search behavior in man page. Closes: #775379
+    - Document postinst “triggered” argument in debian/dpkg.postinst comment
+      header.
+    - Document Dpkg::IPC function signatures.
+    - Document the obsolete --compare-versions '<' and '>' operators in the
+      dpkg(1) man page. Thanks to Tomas Pospisek <tpo_hp@sourcepole.ch>.
+      Closes: #776551
+    - Move dpkg-divert, dpkg-statoverride and update-alternatives man pages
+      from section 8 to 1, to match their installation path.
+    - Capitalize dpkg-parsechangelog(1) option descriptions.
+    - Mark dpkg-parsechangelog(1) --format values in bold.
+    - Place short options before long ones in dpkg-mergechangelogs(1) and
+      dselect(1) man pages.
+    - Properly terminate a bold marking in dpkg(1).
+    - Document in man pages the dpkg version when new features were introduced.
+    - Document that timestamps are reset for files patched with source format
+      “3.0 (quilt)” too.
+    - Document in dpkg-buildpackage(1) that using dpkg-source is sometimes
+      better than -S. Suggested by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+    - Document dselect -? option.
+    - Document in dpkg-buildflags(1) that DEB_VENDOR influences the execution.
+    - Document that dpkg performs sanity checks on PATH.
+    - Mark some words and commands as non-hyphenable in man pages.
+    - Separate multi-line hanging tag paragraphs with .TQ in man pages.
+    - Mark field names in bold in man pages.
+    - Use various groff escape sequences for quoting characters.
+    - Lowercase warning and note admonitions in start-stop-daemon(8).
+    - Mark dselect(1) color attributes in bold.
+    - Say output instead of display for dpkg-deb tar-file option in dpkg(1).
+    - Say archive instead of filename for dpkg-deb option in dpkg(1).
+    - Say control-field-name instead of control-file-field in dpkg-deb(1).
+    - Fix option values and pathname markup in dpkg-deb(1).
+    - Use .TQ to separate different but related options in dpkg(1).
+    - Clarify that dpkg-buildpackage -jN forces parallel builds, regardless of
+      the packaging or upstream build systems supporting them. Closes: #780866
+    - Remove unneeded update-alternatives references from options descriptions.
+    - Document that apt might expect Packages.xz too in dpkg-scanpackages(1).
+    - Say METHODS instead of FUNCTIONS or OBJECT FOO in POD section titles.
+    - Document dpkg version when perl module versions got bumped.
+  * Output message fixes and improvements:
+    - Remove trailing newline from string literal in warning calls.
+    - Say “execute” instead of “exec” in Dpkg::Changelog::Parse error message.
+    - Say “package” instead of “it” in dpkg-name warning message.
+    - Uppercase field names in error messages.
+    - Expand EOF and eof into “end of file” in error messages.
+    - Use “<enter>” instead of “return” or “enter” in input prompts.
+    - Say directory instead of dir in output messages.
+    - Merge the same dpkg-scanpackages warning messages into a single line.
+    - Clarify dpkg-genchanges changes description open error.
+    - Add missing preposition in Dpkg::Source::Patch error message.
+    - Improve available state sorting order strings in dselect panel.
+    - Say “changelog-file” instead of “changelogfile” in --help output.
+    - Say “command” instead of “action” for dselect.
+    - Improve commands listing in «dselect --help» output, by printing them
+      before options and listing them one on each line with a description.
+    - Improve dselect color-spec --help output.
+    - Move "(default)" annotations in scripts --help output after option
+      description.
+    - Consistently use proper quotation marks ("" or '', and not the
+      unbalanced `' pair) all over the place.
+    - Use syserr() instead of an ad-hoc error message in dpkg-scansources.
+    - Say substvars instead of varlist in dpkg-shlibdeps error messages.
+    - Fix error messages on invalid uid/git/mode command-line syntax errors
+      in dpkg-statoverride, to not say they are from the statoverride file.
+    - Fix error message on empty dsc file in dpkg-genchanges.
+    - Mention “(^Z)” instead of “char” for the MSDOS end of file character.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Drop myself from Uploaders.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #782326
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #785096
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 18 May 2015 15:08:31 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Use a matching group instead of ${^MATCH} in s/// in dselect build script.
+  * Skip tar extractor tests if tar is not GNU tar >= 1.27.
+  * Reset the trigger cycle tracking on unsatisfied dependencies during
+    trigger processing. Closes: #771730
+  * Fix out-of-bounds buffer read accesses when parsing field and trigger
+    names or checking package ownership of conffiles and directories.
+    Reported by Joshua Rogers <megamansec@gmail.com>.
+  * Add versioned Breaks on packages creating trigger cycles. Namely auctex,
+    apt-cudf, ccache, cups, distcc, fusionforge-plugin-mediawiki, gap-core,
+    gxine, hoogle, icecc, libjs-protoaculous, mcollective, pypy, wordpress
+    and xfonts-traditional.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #771893
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Esperanto (Felipe Castro).
+  * French (Sébastien Poher).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #771691
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #771264
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino)
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #772965
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #772841
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Sébastien Poher).
+  * Italian (Beatrice Torracca). Closes: #771673
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug).
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #771682
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino)
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:45:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add version introducing --ctrl-tarfile in dpkg-deb(1) man page.
+  * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
+    to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
+  * Reintroduce update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
+    compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/. There are still packages
+    using those paths, but the relevant lintian check did not list any,
+    so this got removed prematurely.
+  * Add Breaks on old man-db, fontconfig and readahead-fedora packages using
+    awaiting triggers, as they produce trigger cycles. Closes: #768599
+  * Escape package and architecture names on control file parsing warning,
+    as those get injected into a variable that is used as a format string,
+    and they come from the package fields, which are under user control.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.16.0. Fixes CVE-2014-8625. Closes: #768485
+    Reported by Joshua Rogers <megamansec@gmail.com>.
+  * Do not match partial field names in control files. Closes: #769119
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.10.
+  * Fix build on Mac OS X. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.11.
+    Reported by Dominyk Tiller <dominyktiller@gmail.com>.
+  * Normalize tar entry uid and gid from the current system only in dpkg
+    unpack. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #769211
+  * Restore multiple processing instances check for packages and archives
+    specified on the command-line. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.20.
+  * Fail on trigger processing when it is required to progress. Trigger
+    processing is sometimes required and sometimes opportunistic, and we
+    should only fail on the former but ignore the latter. Closes: #768852
+  * Do not ignore trigger cycles for direct dependencies, these are just
+    normal trigger cycles, and as such should not be special cased.
+  * Register all pending triggers for deferred processing when being called
+    as «dpkg --configure pkgname…». This is a mostly conformant workaround
+    for frontends like apt that do not correctly call «dpkg --configure -a»
+    or «dpkg --triggers-only -a» after their normal runs, and leave packages
+    in triggers-pending and triggers-awaited states. Closes: #766758
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton).
+  * French (Sébastien Poher).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #771255
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #766724, #770280
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân)
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Sébastien Poher).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #767934
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #752123
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #767573
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton).
+  * Dutch (Frans Spiesschaert). Closes: #771237
+  * French (Sébastien Poher). Closes: #767918
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #771256
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:02:34 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Get consistent git-style diff support, by adding (>= 2.7) to the dpkg-dev
+    patch Depends, and a Breaks patch (<< 2.7) to libdpkg-perl.
+  * Error out on obsolete Build-Profiles field syntax.
+  * Document -g and -G options in dpkg-genchanges(1). Closes: #766568
+  * Do not accept values bundled with long options in dpkg-parsechangelog.
+    The parser was accepting things like «--count10», which is just broken.
+    Instead allow only «--count=10» in addition to «--count 10».
+  * Accept «-S value» in addition to «-Svalue» in dpkg-parsechangelog.
+    Closes: #766559
+  * Add support for new interest-await and activate-await trigger directives.
+    And a new --await option to dpkg-trigger. This might allow possibly
+    switching the default meaning after a transition period no shorter than
+    two minor versions, so in 1.19.x or 1.20.x. Perhaps.
+  * Do trigger cycle detection after dependency checks in dependtry <= 1,
+    and before dependency cycle breaking in dependtry > 1. This makes sure
+    to always catch trigger cycles, but still gives the opportunity to try
+    to process triggers for packages that are not yet ready in the first
+    dependtry, but which might be a bit later on, without wrongly detecting
+    avoidable and bogus trigger cycles. Closes: #766557
+  * Update features removal schedule:
+    - The -u, --udeb dpkg-scanpackages options got removed, state that.
+    - Remove the entry about obsolete fields, as these need to be preserved
+      for backward compatibility, they are part of the external interface to
+      be able to handle ancient binary packages.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #766311
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:21:43 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add a requeueing insertion protection for process_queue().
+  * Make sure to always switch to the next dependtry after we have made no
+    progress for a while. Regression stemming from non future proof changes
+    introduced with the initial triggers implementation in dpkg 1.14.17
+    combined with changes in dpkg 1.17.19. Closes: #766242, #766322
+  * Make the initial dependtry be 1 instead of 0. This gets rid of an unused
+    dependtry step, which got accidentally introduced when the perl dpkg was
+    rewritten in C, ages ago.
+  * Allow detached upstream signatures for upstream orig.tar files in the
+    .dsc file. Suggested by Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>.
+    Closes: #759478
+  * Inline alternative status description into translatable string in
+    update-alternatives. Required-by: #766311
+  * Reword description for installed status in dpkg(1) man page.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:43:05 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Bump the Breaks on devscripts to 2.14.10 due to the new dpkg-architecture
+    command-line parsing strictness introduced in 1.17.17. Closes: #764965
+  * Create pidfiles even when start-stop-daemon is not asked to background
+    the process itself. Although a bit of a dubious usage, because any error
+    before executing the program will not be properly reported to the caller.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #765110
+  * Add new --remove-pidfile option to start-stop-daemon.
+  * Mention --pid and --ppid in start-stop-daemon(8) man page DESCRIPTION.
+  * Add invoke hooks for dpkg --add-architecture and --remove-architecture.
+    Prompted by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Reverse --verify-format logic to actually accept 'rpm' as valid.
+    Closes: #765907
+  * Fix trigger dependency checks and cycle detection.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.17.
+    Closes: #765434, #765668, #765734, #765781, #765789, #765952
+  * Rework dependency problem debug and notice output on trigger processing.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande): Closes: #765748
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #764942
+  * Simplified Chinese (Zhou Mo). Closes: #765693
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:17:49 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Handle empty minimum versions when initializing dependency versions,
+    as the code is mapping the minimum version 0 to '' to avoid outputting
+    useless versions. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.17. Closes: #764929
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:47:44 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add dpkg-vendor, Dpkg/File.pm and Dpkg/Util.pm to the list of files with
+    translatable strings, so that they can be translated.
+  * Fix some typos for versioned and mentioned in comments and changelogs.
+  * Mark for translation and unify "rm cleanup" string in dpkg.
+  * Mark for translation and improve dselect method handling error messages.
+  * Defer trigger processing if the package does not fulfill dependencies.
+    Closes: #671711
+  * Do not write to the database when changing selections with --dry-run.
+    Closes: #764673
+  * Add missing imports from Dpkg::BuildProfiles in dpkg-genchanges.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #764216
+    Reported by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+  * Initialize dependencies with the correct minimum version from a symbols
+    file with multiple SONAMEs in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Thanks to Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>. Closes: #764721
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Allow multiple whitespace in Dpkg::BuildProfiles::get_build_profiles()
+      when parsing the DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable.
+      Thanks to Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+    - New Dpkg::Getopt private module.
+    - Document public module Dpkg.
+    - Document public module Dpkg::Gettext.
+    - Mark Dpkg::BuildProfiles as a public module.
+    - Document all public module versions in a CHANGES section.
+    - Remove EXPORTED from POD section titles.
+    - Document private modules as such in a CHANGES section.
+  * Set the DEB_TARGET_* dpkg-architecture variables from architecture.mk.
+    Missed in dpkg 1.17.14.
+  * Initialize DEB_TARGET_ARCH variable without requiring DEB_HOST_ARCH,
+    which is not being set at all when querying for DEB_TARGET_ variables.
+  * Normalize dpkg-architecture command-line parsing, so that «--option=value»
+    «--option value», «-ovalue» and «-o value» will all be accepted.
+  * Add long option names for all dpkg-architecture short options.
+  * Add support for --host-arch, --host-type, --target-arch and --target-type
+    long options in dpkg-buildpackage. These will get passed through to
+    dpkg-architecture. This restores the ability to specify the target
+    architecture when building cross-compilers. Regression introduced in
+    dpkg 1.17.14. Reported by Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Do not modify the topic variable values in list functions in perl code.
+  * List Dpkg::Exit and Dpkg::Interface::Storable as public modules in
+    libdpkg-perl package description.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:59:09 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Set the copyright holder in the po4a calls for man pages.
+  * Switch remaining topic to named variable in Dpkg::Source::Patch:analyze(),
+    otherwise the loop was expecting values in one variable but storing them
+    in another. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #764206
+  * Set umask to 0 when creating symlinks in tar test case, to normalize
+    results. POSIX specifies that symlinks have undefined permissions in
+    their mode, so their setting is system dependent. Linux does not honor
+    the umask for symlinks, other systems like Hurd or kFreeBSD do.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.14. Closes: #764171
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:29:17 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Do not blacklist pie and stackprotector build flags on mips/mipsel.
+    Thanks to Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>. Closes: #763672
+  * Fix build failures due to mismatched umask in libdpkg tar test case.
+    Set it to a known value of 0022.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:21:58 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix '--' to '-' on translations for single character options.
+  * Correct the copyright holder in the gettext Makevars files.
+  * Switch debian/copyright to machine-readable format 1.0, and extensively
+    update the information within.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed).
+  * Disable unused run-time type information for dselect.
+  * Fix compiler flag detection with non-GCC compilers in the build system.
+  * Fix perl warning on dpkg-source when typing Ctrl-D on patch name prompt.
+  * Add new dpkg-deb --ctrl-tarfile command.
+  * dpkg-architecture:
+    - Add support for target system information via the new DEB_TARGET_ family
+      of variables, and new -A and -T options to override defaulting to the
+      host system.
+    - Clarify that -a, -t, -e and -i work with the host system.
+  * Place 'Commands:' before 'Options:' sections on --help output in
+    dpkg-architecture and dpkg-vendor.
+  * Always warn in dpkg-genchanges on missing Section or Priority value,
+    either empty or '-'.
+  * Fix order of Files field on generated .changes file in dpkg-genchanges.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.7.
+  * Stop warning on unknown arbitrary fields from dpkg-deb.
+  * Remove unnecessary handling of obsolete Package_Revision field in dselect
+    ftp method.
+  * Fix the build system to parse the system curses.h header instead of
+    dselect-curses.h, to not just default on the builtin and override keys
+    for dselect key bindings support. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.15.1.
+  * Emit a warning when using the obsolete Dpkg::Deps check_package() function.
+  * Add support for versioned Provides to Dpkg::Deps::KnownFacts, missed in
+    dpkg 1.17.11.
+  * Man pages:
+    - Add a mention of packaging helpers support in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1).
+      Closes: #759754
+    - Move dpkg-buildflags(1) generic feature area details to the section top.
+    - Fix prerm invocation arguments in update-alternatives(8).
+      Reported by jre <jre.winesim@gmail.com>. Closes: #761025
+  * Add new deps_iterate() function to Dpkg::Deps. Closes: #759747
+    Based on a patch by Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>.
+  * Add support for relative symlinks to dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir
+    command. Suggested by Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>.
+  * Add a new dpkg-buildflags qa feature area:
+    - Add a new bug feature, disabled by default, which will enable fatal
+      warnings for code that can pose actual problems. Closes: #682659
+    - Add a new canary feature, disabled by default, which will allow tracking
+      build flags propagation. Closes: #628516
+  * Pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to dpkg-buildflags in buildflags.mk, required to
+    get noopt to work at all, for example.
+  * Add a new dpkg-buildflags reproducible feature area:
+    - Add a new timeless feature, disabled by default, which will add
+      «-Wdate-time» to CPPFLAGS.
+    Thanks to Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>. Closes: #762683
+  * Fix error message from buffer_copy() read and write functions. This
+    affects error messages from partial or broken .deb packages for example.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.10. Closes: #759498
+  * Remove lpia architecture support.
+  * Improvements and portability fixes to start-stop-daemon:
+    - Abort if the system or compatibility setsid() fails.
+    - Do not exit from the first parent before the pidfile has been created,
+      when using --background and --make-pidfile, to avoid the race condition.
+      Based on a patch by Nir Soffer <nirs@hyperms.com>. Closes: #686420
+    - Make sure the pidfile is always created with a 022 umask.
+      Reported by Will Conley <willconley3@gmail.com>. Closes: #760222
+    - Do not abort on --stop when only --pid or --ppid options are specified.
+      Thanks to Christos Trochalakis <yatiohi@ideopolis.gr>. Closes: #763767
+    - On kFreeBSD systems do not unnecessarily make kvm_openfiles() open
+      /dev/mem. This causes issues on FreeBSD jails for example.
+      Reported by Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>.
+    - On systems using libkvm, do not fail when kvm_getprocs() cannot find
+      any process.
+  * Map i786 to i386 also for the multiarch pathname in dpkg-architecture.
+  * Handle omitted binary packages due to build profiles in dpkg-genchanges.
+    Based on a patch by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>. Closes: #758191
+  * Update restriction formula syntax for build profiles:
+    - Restriction lists are now restriction formulas.
+    - Restriction formulas are given in disjunctive normal form expression:
+      <foo> <bar baz> <blub>
+    - Removal of the implicit prefix/namespace mechanic.
+    - Construct the profiles entry of the Packages-List field by converting
+      the "<bar baz> <blub>" syntax into "bar,baz+blub".
+    - Include a temporary compatibility mapping with the old way to write
+      the Build-Profiles field in binary packages which can be removed once
+      all affected source packages have moved to the new syntax.
+    Thanks to Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>. Closes: #760158
+  * Normalize instdir in dpkg by removing trailing «/» and «/.». This gets
+    rid of several inconsistencies and doubled «/» in syscalls and output
+    messages.
+  * Never try to remove the root directory or its backups. There's no point in
+    it, and makes life more difficult for a read-only root with a read-write
+    overlay or a symlink farm. Requested by sepero111@gmx.com.
+  * Remove arbitrary filename limit from dpkg-deb, which was lifted some
+    time ago when the code switched to a dynamic string via varbuf.
+  * Do not pipe the files to sign from dpkg-buildpackage to GnuPG. When GnuPG
+    uses the gpg-agent it is unable to detect the correct tty configuration
+    if stdin is a pipe instead of the current terminal. Closes: #762391
+  * Add a new --hash option to enable generating only specific file checksums
+    in dpkg-scanpackages. Requested by Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>.
+  * Add architecture restriction options for dpkg-architecture -L. This allows
+    selecting specific subsets of all valid known architectures, matching by
+    wildcard (-W), endianness (-E) or bits (-B). The restricting options can
+    be combined, or omitted altogether. Closes: #762635
+  * Say arch-wildcard instead of arch-alias in dpkg-architecture --help output.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Do not leave temporary files behind on failure or when interrupted.
+    - Add basic unit tests for the FNV hashing function.
+    - Add unit tests for the libdpkg tar extractor.
+  * Add --build and --extract command aliases to dpkg-source.
+  * Print file or package names instead of pointers in dpkg debug output,
+    to make it more meaningful and reproducible.
+  * Fix off-by-one error in libdpkg command argv size calculation.
+    Based on a patch by Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>. Closes: #760690
+  * Switch the libdpkg string hashing function from FNV-1 to the recommended
+    FNV-1a variant.
+  * Switch the dpkg files database string hashing function from what appears
+    to be a custom hash function to the libdpkg FNV-1a implementation. As a
+    side effect this fixes an integer overflow. Addresses: #760741
+  * Double the dpkg files database hash table size to the closest 2^18 prime.
+    Times have changed, and it's common to have at least these many files.
+    This reduces the amount of collisions.
+  * Document optional dpkg -C argument in --help output. Closes: #763000
+  * Consider a hardlink tar entry as a regular file for mode values, i.e.
+    assign to it S_IFREG instead of 0.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Explain better in deb-triggers(5) why interest/activate-noawait should be
+    favored.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover): Fix mismatched format string.
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Polish (Łukasz Dulny).
+  * Turkish (Mert Dirik). Closes: #763825
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Italian (Guillem Jover): Swap order of some dpkg-deb arguments.
+    Thanks to xor <xor@paranoici.org>. Closes: #759149
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:11:08 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Remove unbalanced trailing single-quote in dpkg-deb error message.
+    Reported by Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@gmail.com>.
+  * Remove architecture blacklist from hardening build flag option
+    stackprotectorstrong. Thanks to Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Merge binary:Package descriptions in dpkg-query(1).
+    - Split --remove and --purge options in dpkg(1). This also clarifies on
+      which package states each option can operate. Closes: #576338
+    - Remove duplicate “of the” in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1).
+  * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink to handle relative symlink
+    targets. Thanks to Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>.
+  * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure absolute pathnames
+    arguments.
+  * Fix dpkg-source not detecting modified files during --commit or -b.
+    Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.11. Closes: #758426
+    Reported by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>.
+  * Only test the strerror() compatible code if sys_errlist and sys_nerr
+    are present. This fixes a build failure on GNU/Hurd. Closes: #758199
+  * Switch start-stop-daemon on GNU/kFreeBSD systems to use libkvm, instead
+    of relying on linprocfs which is not the native procfs on kFreeBSD, and it
+    is usually not mounted as FreeBSD programs do not expect it to be present.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Jean-Pierre Giraud, Vincent Thomas, Raphaël Hertzog).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Raphaël Hertzog).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:14:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Only build the compatibility selinux code if libselinux is available or
+    the user requested it. Also fixes build failures on non-Linux systems.
+    Closes: #757637
+  * Documentation:
+    - Add a short description to each virtual field in dpkg-query(1), and
+      mention the version they got introduced in dpkg.
+    - Fix formatting of last paragraphs inside dselect(1) --color description.
+  * Rework dselect columns code, to make it easier to maintain and read.
+  * Add new architecture columns to dselect package list view. The new
+    columns, shown by default, can be turned off with the new ‘A’ key,
+    or bound to another key via the new “archdisplay” keybinding.
+  * Fix a descriptor leak on dselect subprocesses when --debug is used.
+  * Use «tar --format=gnu» when creating source archives. This makes sure we
+    get a deterministic output format, regardless of what tar defaults to.
+    Thanks to Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>..
+  * Use perl's length instead of defined when checking some environment
+    variables, if we require them to have content.
+  * Allow specifying the same build type option multiple times in
+    dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-genchanges. There seems to be scripts with
+    such invocations in the wild. Closes: #757795
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:30:39 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Switch URLs in docs and code comments from http:// to https:// if the
+    latter is available (round two). This includes the quilt patch header
+    templates, and examples in man pages.
+  * Update some dpkg git URLs to the new and newer (cgit switch) scheme.
+  * Changes to libcompat:
+    - Make the library testable.
+    - Do not run qsort() over the scandir() list if it is NULL.
+    - Add a setexecfilecon() compatibility function out from dpkg code.
+  * Use SELinux setexecfilecon() if available in dpkg instead of ad-hoc code.
+  * Replace obsolete <sys/fcntl.h> with <fcntl.h>, which fixes compilation on
+    Android. Thanks to Fredrik Fornwall <fredrik@fornwall.net>. Closes: #752036
+  * Fix file triggers/Unincorp descriptor leak on subprocesses. Regression
+    introduced with the initial triggers implementation in dpkg 1.14.17.
+    Closes: #751021
+  * Do not disable the stack-protector build flags on arm64 in Debian and
+    derivatives, the toolchain supports them now.
+    Thanks to Adam Conrad <adconrad@debian.org>. Closes: #751032
+  * When parsing the statoverride database from dpkg-statoverride do not
+    consider it an error and refuse to operate at all if the user or group
+    names are not known to the system, just preserve them. Closes: #563307
+  * Do not write to the available file when unpacking binary packages. This
+    information is not useful as dpkg has never recorded the archive path,
+    so it has never been truly available for re-installation anyway.
+    Closes: #241768
+  * Add versioned Provides support:
+    - Add a new dpkg --assert-versioned-provides command.
+    - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will
+      be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing.
+    - Non-versioned virtual packages will not satisfy versioned dependencies.
+    - Versioned virtual packages will satisfy non-versioned dependencies.
+    Based on skeletal code by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #7330, #24934, #112131, #134582, #180316
+  * On removal check Depends and Pre-Depends for packages in unpacked and
+    half-configured states too.
+  * Add support for new hardening build flag stackprotectorstrong in Debian
+    and derivatives, enabled by default. It will fallback to stackprotector
+    when the former is not functional or disabled by the user.
+    Thanks to Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>.
+  * Change «dpkg-deb --field» code to use the libdpkg deb822 parser instead
+    of an ad-hoc one. This makes sure any field fixup and sanity check is
+    performed on the input, and gets reflected on the output.
+  * Add new dpkg-query virtual fields db:Status-Want, db:Status-Status and
+    db:Status-Eflag to allow fine-grained access to the Status values.
+  * Automatically add the Testsuite field in dpkg-source to the .dsc file.
+  * Spell nocheck option in dpkg-scanpackages wait_child() call correctly.
+    Spotted by James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> (in devscripts).
+  * Move the explanation of functional checks from --verify-format to the
+    --verify command in the dpkg(1) man page. Closes: #747264
+  * Improve dpkg-buildpackage(1) man page:
+    - Mark DEB_CHECK_COMMAND environment variable in bold.
+    - Add final item for done hook in the actions sequence.
+    - Mention that -nc does not apply either when -F is specified.
+    - Mention that the --FOO-option options can be used multiple times.
+    - Fix a typo in the BUGS section.
+  * Mark the “and” between the filenames as regular format in dpkg-source(1).
+  * Add --format and --ignore-bad-version to dpkg-source --help output.
+  * Clarify error message in Dpkg::Source::Quilt when patches fail to apply,
+    to note that the patch might be malformed (besides not accepting patches
+    with fuzz).
+  * Try to preallocate the disk size for extracted files on unpack. This
+    might help in avoiding filesystem fragmentation, and possibly improve
+    performance on some filesystems.
+  * Print the correct removed binary filename when building a source package
+    with dpkg-source --include-removal. Closes: #755166
+  * Add powerpcel support to cputable. Thanks to Jae Junh <jaejunh@embian.com>.
+  * Bump the i386 architecture GNU triplet to i586-linux-gnu to match the
+    change in gcc. Somewhat reluctantly, as i386 wants to be its unique
+    snowflake and use a GNU triplet not matching its baseline. This will
+    cause problems when cross-building and using unmatched combinations of
+    dpkg-dev and gcc. Closes: #751363
+  * Update i386 architecture GNU cpu regex in cputable to match i786 too.
+  * Remove unused pkglibdir variable from libdpkg.pc.in.
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Add new set_as_auto() method to Dpkg::Substvars.
+    - Add support for sig and delete_sig spawn() options in Dpkg::IPC.
+    - Add %opts to ensure_open() member in Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle.
+    - Change find_command() to handle an empty or undef argument in Dpkg:Path.
+  * Mark Format and Installed-Size as automatic substvars in dpkg-genchanges
+    and dpkg-gencontrol respectively.
+  * Warn on usage of deprecated Source-Version substvar.
+  * Say OpenPGP instead of PGP when referring to the standard on code comments
+    and output messages.
+  * Add a hint to the “no dependency information found” error message in
+    dpkg-shlibdeps, to check if the library is actually packaged.
+    Thanks to Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>. Closes: #756230
+  * Delete the current compressor SIGPIPE disposition in Dpkg::Source::Archive,
+    which fixes ignoring SIGPIPE from the calling process. Closes: #756526
+  * Ignore DEB_CHECK_COMMAND in dpkg-buildpackage if the command is not found.
+  * Emit a warning when using the deprecated -is/-ip/-isp/-ips options in
+    dpkg-gencontrol.
+  * Only print build type once in dpkg-genchanges, instead of once for each
+    specified -A or -B option and then yet another time for the general build
+    type description.
+  * Unify build options description in --help output for dpkg-buildpackage
+    and dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Only allow one build type option in dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Correctly filter the host architecture on the Architecture field in the
+    generated .changes file from dpkg-genchanges, when the debian/files
+    contains arch-specific packages but dpkg-genchanges was called with
+    one of the build types excluding them.
+  * Add new -g and -G options to dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage for
+    source plus arch-indep/specific builds. Closes: #756975
+  * Fix dpkg --add-architecture and --remove-architecture to check that they
+    get exactly one argument. Closes: #757254
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #754127
+  * French (Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner, Julien Patriarca).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #756920
+  * Spanish (Guillem Jover): Fix «dpkg-query -l» header. Closes: #756209
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:16:27 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.10) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Use libtool to build the static libraries, which makes it possible to
+    embed libcompat inside libdpkg, as required by some external programs
+    linking against the latter. Closes: #746122
+  * Fix word wrapping logic in dselect. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.3.
+  * Fix possible out of bounds buffer read access in the error output on
+    bogus ar member sizes.
+  * Fix memory leaks in buffer_copy() on error conditions.
+  * Test suite:
+    - Improve C code coverage.
+    - Add template test cases for most perl modules.
+    - Add test cases for Dpkg::Deps OR relationships.
+    - Add minimal test case for Dpkg::Source::Quilt.
+    - Add test cases for Dpkg::Source::Patch CVE-2014-0471 and CVE-2014-3127.
+    - Add test case for patch disabling hunks; not security sensitive.
+  * Fix non-security sensitive TOCTOU race in triggers database loading.
+  * Fix non-security sensitive TOCTOU race in update-alternative alternative
+    database loading.
+  * Fix non-security sensitive TOCTOU race in update-alternative rename code.
+  * Add a workaround to start-stop-daemon for bogus OpenVZ Linux kernels that
+    prepend, instead of appending, the " (deleted)" marker in /proc/PID/exe.
+    Closes: #731530
+  * Move dpkg-architecture -L argument to the Commands --help output section.
+  * Make dpkg-maintscript-helper print only once that we are moving a
+    conffile, and not on every interim state transition. Closes: #747370
+  * Do not use global match variables in perl code.
+  * Man pages:
+    - Attempt to clarify and improve wording of some strange or confused
+      constructs. Reported by Helge Kreutzmann.
+    - Expand Vcs-* field names into each supported field name in
+      deb-src-control(5) to make it easier to search for them.
+    - Change control.tar.gz reference to simply control.tar in deb(5).
+    - Document in dpkg-deb(1) -Z option that bzip2 and lzma are deprecated.
+    - Add notes in dpkg-gensymbols(1) about symbol backward-compatibility.
+      Based on a patch by Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>.
+      Closes: #746973
+    - Document that dpkg-buildpackage(1) -j argument is optional.
+    - Add current and deprecated media types to deb(5).
+    - Document in dpkg(1) that --audit now does more than just searching for
+      partially installed packages.
+  * Add support for automatic parallel job selection in dpkg-buildpackage,
+    matching currently active processors, when using -jauto. Closes: #748012
+  * Perl modules:
+    - Bump $VERSION for Dpkg::Patch, missed in 1.16.1.
+    - Bump $VERSION for Dpkg::Deps, missed in 1.17.0.
+    - Update and fix CHANGES POD sections for public modules.
+    - Add missing Dpkg::Deps::Multiple profile_is_concerned() and
+      reduce_profiles() methods, inherited by Dpkg::Deps::Union,
+      Dpkg::Deps::AND and Dpkg::Deps::OR.
+  * Do not mangle quilt series files with a missing newline on the last line.
+    Closes: #584233
+  * Quiesce tar warnings in cron job by redirecting stderr to /dev/null, as
+    it seems --warning=none does not work correctly. Closes: #748544
+  * Do not emit a trailing space from Dpkg::Control::Hash on a field's empty
+    first line. Bump dpkg-dev Breaks on devscripts to 2.14.4, as previous
+    versions expect a trailing space from dpkg-parsechangelog output.
+    Based on a patch by Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>. Closes: #749044
+  * Do not assume that sensible-editor is present on «dpkg-source --commit»,
+    as that command is very Debian specific. Fallback to try VISUAL, EDITOR,
+    or vi, if the previous commands are either unset or not found.
+  * Use badusage() instead of ohshit() on dpkg --ignore-depends argument
+    parsing errors.
+  * Add per package dpkg --audit support.
+  * Add support for DragonFlyBSD to ostable and triplettable.
+    Thanks to Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com>.
+  * Add support for DragonFlyBSD to start-stop-daemon. Closes: #734452
+    Based on a patch by Hleb Valoshka <375gnu@gmail.com>.
+  * Correctly parse patch headers in Dpkg::Source::Patch, to avoid directory
+    traversal attempts from hostile source packages when unpacking them.
+    Reported by Javier Serrano Polo <javier@jasp.net> as an unspecified
+    directory traversal; meanwhile also independently found by me both
+    #749183 and what was supposed to be #746498, which was later on published
+    and ended up being just a subset of the other non-reported issue.
+    Fixes CVE-2014-3864 and CVE-2014-3865. Closes: #746498, #749183
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #750105
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Let dpkg-source unpack additional tarballs in a deterministic order.
+    Thanks to Samuel Bronson for the report. Closes: #747148
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:18:04 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.9) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not allow patch files with C-style encoded filenames. Closes: #746306
+    Fixes CVE-2014-3127 and unconditionally fixes CVE-2014-0471.
+    Reported by Javier Serrano Polo <javier@jasp.net>.
+  * Switch alternative database backups from xz to gzip. Closes: #746354
+  * Do not leak long tar names on bogus or truncated archives.
+  * Do not leak the filepackages iterator when a directory is used by other
+    packages.
+  * Fix short lived memory leaks in «dpkg-split --split».
+  * Fix memory leak in unused Keybindings screen in dselect.
+  * Do not leak color string on «dselect --color».
+  * Fix memory leaks when parsing alternatives.
+  * Fix off-by-one stack buffer overrun in start-stop-daemon on GNU/Linux and
+    GNU/kFreeBSD if the executable pathname is longer than _POSIX_PATH_MAX.
+    Although this should not have security implications as the buffer is
+    surrounded by two arrays (so those catch accesses even if the stack
+    grows up or down), and we are compiling with -fstack-protector anyway.
+  * Mark the command_get_pager() tests on a tty as TODO for now, so that
+    we do not get failures on build daemons.
+  * Make test suite errors abort the build again. Closes: #746331
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Steve Petruzzello). Closes: #746350
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Apr 2014 05:45:20 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.8) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not backup nonexistent database files from the cron.daily file.
+    And stop emitting tar warnings. Closes: #745592, #745651
+  * Test suite:
+    - Improve Perl code coverage.
+    - Improve C code coverage.
+  * Handle space-only strings when parsing versions in libdpkg.
+  * Document the environment requirements for the dpkg-maintscript-helper
+    supports command in the man page. Closes: #739634
+  * Improve wording for «dpkg --verify» and --verify-format in the man page.
+    Closes: #733057
+  * Switch test runner from Test::Harness to TAP::Harness.
+  * Use the perl TAP::Harness for the C test suite instead of the automake
+    tap-driver, to avoid requiring automake >= 1.12, currently not present
+    in stable.
+  * Enable failed test case reporting from the TAP::Harness, so that we get
+    more meaningful reports on failure from the C test suite.
+  * Correctly parse C-style diff filenames in Dpkg::Source::Patch, to avoid
+    directory traversal attempts from hostile source packages when unpacking
+    them. Reported by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>. Fixes CVE-2014-0471.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #745869
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:33:11 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Documentation:
+    - Mention in deb-symbols(5), that the “main-dependency-template” is
+      always used. Closes: #737731
+    - Clarify in deb-control(5) «Multi-Arch: no» field omission.
+    - Clarify in dpkg-buildpackage(1) --check-option description.
+    - Document dpkg-query --control-path life expectancy. See: #699647
+    - Fix indentation of “Extract options (with -x)” title in dpkg-source(1).
+    - Improve symlink <-> directory switch information in
+      dpkg-maintscript-helper(1). Closes: #739388
+    - Add missing flags affected by hardening options to dpkg-buildflags(1).
+  * Use exit instead of return to exit a subshell in dpkg-maintscript-helper.
+    Thanks to Richard Levitte <richard@levitte.org>. Closes: #738957
+  * Localize $_ in Perl functions with while (<$fh>) style loops.
+  * Perl test suite cleanup:
+    - Switch test suite runner from ExtUtils::Command::MM to Test::Harness.
+    - Enable colors in test suite runner.
+    - Remove sequence number prefixes from test case filenames.
+  * Do not generate perl warnings on nonexistent fields with
+    «dpkg-parsechangelog --show».
+  * Fix bogus message on dependency parse errors in dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+    Closes: #736778
+  * Document is_pgp_signed as a public Dpkg::Control::Hash option.
+    Closes: #735975
+  * Do not generate perl warnings on undef versions in
+    Dpkg::Deps::deps_compare(). See: #737731
+  * Clarify dpkg-genchanges error message on binary builds without any binary
+    artifact built. Closes: #726520
+  * Improve dpkg-source warning message when ignoring file removals,
+    by adding a hint about the --include-removal option.
+    Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>. Closes: #738310
+  * Add a new dpkg-source extraction --ignore-bad-version option.
+    Closes: #740883
+  * Add Architecture and Build-Profiles information to Package-List field,
+    as optional name=value1,value2 entries, with names «arch» and «profile».
+    Use the now recognized field Build-Profiles from binary stanzas in the
+    source control file to fill the «profile» value.
+  * Do not interpret the .dsc filename as a regex when recomputing the
+    md5sum for the .changes file after signing the .dsc. Closes: #742535
+  * Cache vendor info Control::Hash objects in Dpkg::Vendor::get_vendor_info()
+    when parsing the vendor file on each hook invocation.
+  * If the vendor does not have a Dpkg::Vendor module, try loading a module
+    from the parent vendors, before falling back to Dpkg::Vendor::Default.
+    Closes: #735978
+  * Set Ubuntu build flags for ppc64el instead of ppc64, as Ubuntu never ended
+    up shipping a ppc64 architecture. Also honor noopt DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag.
+    Thanks to Adam Conrad <adconrad@debian.org. Closes: #738691
+  * Add OpenRISC or1k support to cputable.
+    Thanks to Christian Svensson <christian@cmd.nu>. Closes: #736717
+  * Add support for FCFLAGS, OBJCFLAGS and OBJCXXFLAGS build flags.
+    Closes: #744326
+  * Improvements and portability fixes to start-stop-daemon:
+    - When using the Linux procfs switch to use /proc/PID/status instead of
+      /proc/PID/stat to read the process name.
+    - Add a generic KVM-based implementation to initialize the entire
+      process list.
+    - Fix FreeBSD KVM code to use current kinfo_proc layout.
+    - Add a native FreeBSD pid_is_exec() method, which is more reliable than
+      the KVM-based one, and means neither linprocfs nor procfs are required
+      on such system anymore. Note that GNU/kFreeBSD is still using Linux
+      procfs code (which ends up using linprocfs).
+    - Fix OpenBSD KVM code to use current kinfo_proc layout.
+    - Detect system specific headers at configure time instead of hardcoding
+      their usage depending on system macros.
+    - Add a new --ppid matching option to check for parent PID.
+      Suggested by Alex Mestiashvili <mailatgoogl@gmail.com>.
+    - On GNU/Hurd do not link unnecessarily against libshouldbeinlibc and
+      libihash.
+  * Set TAR preprocessor variable at build time instead of hardcoding it.
+    This will allow non-GNU systems to easily use another value for their
+    GNU tar, which is usually either gnutar or gtar.
+  * Require compound literals support in the compiler at configure time.
+  * Fix compound literals usage with compilers in C99 mode, by not assigning
+    them to static variables.
+  * Test suite cleanup:
+    - Do not unnecessarily shut up stdout in t-subproc.
+    - Test command_exec() exit code.
+    - Test allocations with new test_alloc() instead of pass/fail macros.
+    - Switch C test suite to use TAP.
+  * Add support for Packages-files in dpkg --update-avail and --merge-avail
+    from pipes, or standard input if the argument is omitted or is ‘-’.
+    Closes: #357093, #367297
+  * Error out on not-installed packages passed to «dpkg --verify».
+  * Deprecate compressing .deb files with bzip2, by making dpkg-deb issue a
+    warning, as the compressor has been superseded by xz when it comes to
+    compression ratio, and in cases where higher compatibility or raw speed
+    is desired gzip is still the better option. Although unpacking will be
+    kept being supported to handle existing bzip2 compressed .deb files.
+  * Use GNU tar's --no-unquote when using -T in dpkg-deb to avoid mangling
+    filenames. Reported by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>. Closes: #743687
+  * Backup all databases with user data, not just the status database.
+  * Add Conflicts to dpkg against packages using install-info that were
+    removed after lenny or squeeze, but may have survived upgrades to wheezy.
+    Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>. Closes: #735159
+  * Be verbose on «make check» errors by printing the test suite log.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #745032
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Italian (Beatrice Torracca). Closes: #742449
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:03:52 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Move signing in dpkg-buildpackage to the end of the build.
+  * Add new --check-command and --check-option options to dpkg-buildpackage,
+    and DEB_CHECK_COMMAND environment variable as a default value, to
+    specify a package checker to use before the signing process.
+  * Detect a missing gain-root-command even if dpkg-buildpackage is running
+    as root.
+  * Detect a missing sign-command in dpkg-buildpackage, before starting the
+    build, to avoid a failure at the end of the process.
+  * Remove trailing newlines from dpkg-deb warning message.
+  * Change dpkg-deb conffile name length warning into an error, as dpkg will
+    reject those packages at install time anyway.
+  * Unify and clarify dpkg-deb and dpkg conffile name length error message.
+    Closes: #108196
+  * Add new start-stop-daemon --pid option. Closes: #253265
+  * Mention Multi-Arch: no value in man pages. Closes: #732648
+  * Correctly hyphenate binary-only and source-only in dpkg-buildpackage
+    output messages.
+  * Use makedev(3) when extracting .deb archives rather than ad-hoc
+    computations, to be able to support large major/minor device numbers,
+    supported on at least Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD based systems.
+    Thanks to Peter Chang <dpf@google.com>.
+  * Turn the ARM Embedded ABI symbols blacklist into a regex, to stop having
+    to keep up with the GNU toolchain, or other toolchains emitting different
+    symbols.
+  * Blacklist GOMP critical section symbols. Closes: #708033
+  * Add support for Ignore-Blacklist-Groups field in symbols files, with the
+    two available group values aeabi and gomp. Closes: #694524
+  * Allow updating checksums in Dpkg::Checksums without erroring out.
+  * Add shell hooks support to dpkg-buildpackage, based on the debuild
+    implementation in devscripts 2.13.9. Closes: #476221
+  * Add support for Testsuite source field.
+  * Clarify error message about missing revision in non-native source package.
+    Closes: #719348, #733746
+  * Set default compression options in source format specific modules instead
+    of dpkg-source. This makes sure the correct compression level is set, even
+    for “3.0 (native)” packages with non-default compressors. Closes: #733326
+  * Change default source package compressor for new formats (>= 2.0) to xz.
+  * Ignore the same packages in «dpkg-query --list» when computing the
+    column width as when printing the entries. Closes: #734114
+  * Do not produce .deb archives with uncompressed gzip members on
+    «dpkg-deb -Zgzip -z0», instead create them as non-compressed members,
+    as if -Znone had been passed, as documented. Closes: #718295
+  * Add support for .deb archives with a control member not compressed
+    (control.tar) or compressed with xz (control.tar.xz).
+  * Add support for creating uniformly compressed .deb archive members,
+    with the new dpkg-deb option --uniform-compression.
+  * Fix file descriptor leaks in diversions and statoverride databases.
+    Closes: #734783
+  * Allow missing prior-version argument in dpkg-maintscript-helper
+    dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands. Closes: #733980
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:29:45 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Switch non-tty output to be line buffered by default, and set it to fully
+    buffered only for programs with precious and abundant output, not just
+    progress reporting output (i.e. dpkg-query). This was causing out-of-order
+    error and debug messages in relation to normal progress reporting, which
+    could be very confusing. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.2.
+  * Fix segfault in update-alternatives when adding or renaming slaves for
+    an existing alternative. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.2.
+    Closes: #731710
+  * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir and dir_to_symlink commands:
+    - Always run postinst code regardless of prior-version, as the package
+      might have been never configured before.
+    - Be more strict when checking the expected state of paths.
+    - Rename subcommand shell code to check-files-ownership.
+    - Change dir_to_symlink switch code to use a staging empty directory,
+      to avoid dpkg removing files from other packages, when removing the
+      package old files during upgrade.
+    - Bump minimal version in man page to 1.17.5.
+    Closes: #731730
+  * Mention gpg2 too as one of the default sign commands in dpkg-buildpackage.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:29:45 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Keep the diversions and statoverride database files open during dpkg
+    runs, to avoid eager inode number reuse by the filesystem if these files
+    get replaced multiple times in maintainer scripts, as we rely on the
+    inode numbers being different when checking if the databases need to
+    be reloaded. Regression introduced in 1.17.2. Closes: #731524
+  * Add debug output to diversions and statoverride database loading code.
+  * Reset the statoverrides information from the in-core database when
+    reloading it from disk, otherwise removals in maintainer scripts will
+    not be seen during the current dpkg run.
+  * Get rid of dpkg-split global partqueue queue variable.
+  * Use warningv() in dpkg instead of ad-hoc printing message when
+    overriding with --force option.
+  * Switch URLs in docs and code comments from http:// to https:// if the
+    latter is available.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:34:54 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Check availability of warning flags at build time. Fixes a build failure
+    on systems with old g++ compilers not accepting -Wc++11-compat.
+  * Move DPKG_C_C99 call just after AC_PROG_CC, so that subsequent checks
+    can take advantage of the possibly set flags to enable C99 features.
+  * Improve configure C99 compiler check output.
+  * Use C++11 nullptr instead of 0 or NULL, which is way more descriptive
+    and has a better type. Check for C++11 compiler support, and fallback
+    nullptr to 0 if unavailable.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân). Closes: #731409
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:19:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Make Dpkg::Arch debwildcard_to_debtriplet() more robust by matching
+    on exact 'any' strings, instead of substrings.
+  * Add manpages-it Replaces to dselect and dpkg-dev. Closes: #717983
+    Reported by Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>.
+  * Document default dpkg-deb compressor change to xz in man page.
+    Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>. Closes: #718437
+  * Version manpages-it in Replaces with (<< 2.80-4), now that the package
+    does not ship the overlapping paths any more.
+  * Automatically prepend needed spaces for continuation --force-help lines.
+  * Be more precise on deb format errors with data member in dpkg-deb.
+  * Do not allow deb packages with control and data members swapped.
+  * Clarify «dpkg-deb --extract» bad usage error message on missing arguments
+    by printing all required arguments at once. Closes: #718899
+  * Clarify the insertion order of _ members in deb(5) man page.
+  * Fix use after free in alternative_parse_fileset() on update-alternatives.
+    Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>.
+  * Fix use after free in dpkg_arch_load_list() on libdpkg.
+    Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>.
+  * Fix theoretical stack buffer overflow in w_dependency() on libdpkg, not
+    currently applicable. Reported by Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>.
+  * Add ppc64el support to cputable. Closes: #718945
+    Thanks to Jeff Bailey <jeffbailey@google.com>.
+  * Use dpkg-gencontrol -c argument as a fallback lock file in case
+    debian/control does not exist. Closes: #667008
+  * Pass the package reference count (i.e. number of present instances) to
+    maintainer scripts via the new variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE_REFCOUNT.
+    Closes: #681370
+  * Fix field names on error messages in libdpkg, by either capitalizing them
+    or by renaming them to match reality.
+  * Do not capitalize error and warning messages.
+  * When ignoring invalid remove requests in dpkg consider that progress,
+    reset the loop detector and avoid the assert. Closes: #143307
+  * Activate all path components for file triggers on removal.
+    Regression introduced in 1.17.0. Closes: #725437
+  * Activate file triggers on disappearance more accurately, only when we know
+    we are inevitably removing things.
+  * Fix «dpkg-query --list» output when using multibyte character strings,
+    to avoid unaligned columns and mojibake. Closes: #257505, #718541
+    Based on a patch by Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>.
+  * Use fully buffered output on non-tty stdout.
+    Reported by Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>.
+  * Recognize «start-stop-daemon -C» as documented. Closes: #719746
+    Reported by Brian S. Julin <bri@abrij.org>.
+  * When update-alternatives is told to change slave links, do not warn that
+    the link group is broken, just print a notice that the alternative is
+    being updated due to the changes.
+  * Add a new «dpkg --verify» command to check the integrity of packages
+    installed files. Add a --verify-format option to explicitly select the
+    output format, currently only rpm compatible output is supported, but
+    the default might change in the future. Closes: #187019
+  * Improve dpkg “Preparing to replace” and “Unpacking” progress messages.
+    Closes: #32427, #71106
+  * Print the package version on main dpkg progress messages.
+  * Do not store timestamps in gzip headers when using the command, to try to
+    mimic the zlib behavior. This does not affect Debian as it's been using
+    zlib for a very long time. Closes: #719844
+  * Reset environment variables affecting compressor commands when not using
+    the shared library implementations. Namely XZ_DEFAULTS, XZ_OPT, BZIP and
+    BZIP2.
+  * Use a simple list to track packages owning a file, instead of using a
+    list of arrays of pointers which waste 10 pointers per non-shared file,
+    instead of 1. This significantly reduces dpkg memory usage.
+  * Honor new DEB_SIGN_KEYID environment variable in dpkg-buildpackage.
+    Suggested by Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de>. Closes: #615813, #719418
+  * Always check subprocess exit codes in Dpkg::Source::Package modules.
+    Reported by Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+  * Add support for pie and stack-protector options to dpkg-buildflags FFLAGS,
+    and update the man page to mention FFLAGS are a subset of CFLAGS.
+    Closes: #726932
+  * Improve and unify -O option handling in dpkg-genchanges, dpkg-gensymbols
+    and dpkg-shlibdeps, by always taking an optional filename argument and
+    describing in the man page the default output files.
+  * Use “hyphen” instead of “dash” when we mean the ‘-’ character in the
+    documentation and code comments.
+  * Do not NULL-terminate the list in the compat scandir(), as this might
+    cause a segfault in case the function returns 0 entries.
+  * Always return from ensure_statoverrides() if file is NULL, otherwise
+    we might get us to read garbage from memory or segfault.
+  * Add new symlink_to_dir command to dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #720712
+    Based on a patch by Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>.
+  * Add new dir_to_symlink command to dpkg-maintscript-helper. Closes: #583585
+  * Distinguish dpkg error reports between errors while processing packages
+    and archives.
+  * Fix crashes in the first call to gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X, by
+    forcing the initialization at program start of the CoreFoundation cached
+    values in libintl.
+  * Set a default gettext domain for libdpkg code, so that other programs
+    using a different domain can still get correct translations, like dselect.
+  * Cleanup libdpkg-perl API:
+    - Dpkg::Compression: Deprecate $default_compression_level,
+      $default_compression and $compression_re_file_ext package variables.
+    - Dpkg::Exit: Deprecate @handlers package variable.
+    - Dpkg::Source::Package: Deprecate $diff_ignore_default_regexp and
+      @tar_ignore_default_pattern package variables.
+    - Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian: Deprecate $regex_header and
+      $regex_trailer package variables.
+  * Add GnuPG 2.x support. Add gnupg2 and gpgv2 as alternative Recommends to
+    gnupg and gpgv (to not pull them by default), but prefer gpgv2 over gpgv,
+    and gpg2 over gpg at run-time if they are available.
+  * Switch dpkg conflictor tracking from a fixed-size array to a queue,
+    fixing several related issues, due to conflictors not being removed from
+    the array after processing them. dpkg could fill it due to additions in
+    previous package processing producing very confusing error messages; and
+    a theoretical problem where a package could get appended to be removed,
+    then reinstalled as a new version, to get removed again when revisiting
+    the array in a subsequent package processing. Closes: #726112
+  * Do not accept empty field names in dpkg.
+  * Do not accept an initial hyphen in field names.
+  * Add experimental build profiles support:
+    - Add support for <!profile.name> build-time restrictions in dependencies.
+    - Add support for DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable.
+    - Add new option -P to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+    - Add new Built-For-Profiles output field in .deb and .changes files.
+    Based on a patch by Patrick "P. J." McDermott <pjm@nac.net>,
+    Wookey <wookey@debian.org> and Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>.
+    Closes: #661538
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5.
+  * Document interactions of dpkg-source --extend-diff-ignore and -i in the
+    man page. Closes: #729874
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier): fix incorrectly translated sentence,
+    thanks to Fabien Givors.
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:56:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Man pages cleanup:
+    - Make explicit that dpkg-shlibdeps -e can be used multiple times.
+    - Improve documentation on how to update the available database before
+      setting package selections. Suggested by Klaus Ita <koki.eml@gmail.com>.
+  * Add manpages-it Replaces to dpkg due to new translated man pages.
+    Reported by Alessio Gaeta <alga777@gmail.com>. Closes: #717983
+  * Reword libdpkg-perl description and only list public modules.
+  * Remove space before value in dpkg-parsechangelog -S option on pkg-info.mk.
+    Closes: #718014
+  * Make the build system install start-stop-daemon directly under /sbin,
+    instead of moving it around in debian/rules.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:44:50 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.17.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Switch update-alternatives back to a fatal error on out of range priority
+    on --install.
+  * Document dpkg-deb --debug in --help output.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed).
+  * Use the new canonical dpkg git Vcs URLs.
+  * Remove ancient version from zlibg1-dev Build-Depends.
+  * Add compression development packages to libdpkg-dev Depends.
+  * Man pages cleanup:
+    - Disable justification and hyphenation in SEE ALSO sections.
+    - Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH headings.
+    - Do not use “header” when “format” or “field” is meant.
+    - Move dangers of installing via dpkg-deb from BUGS to a NOTES section.
+    - Remove BUGS sections containing obvious or misplaced information.
+    - Move BUGS sections before EXAMPLES and SEE ALSO sections.
+    - Place ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections contiguously.
+    - Move EXIT STATUS section before ENVIRONMENT.
+    - Rename CAVEATS sections to NOTES.
+    - Fold BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY section into other sections.
+    - Document since when DEB_*_MULTIARCH variables are supported.
+    - Move compiler flags subsection from ENVIRONMENT to NOTES.
+    - Unify WARNING and ERROR sections into DIAGNOSTICS.
+    - Unify command-line options into a single OPTIONS section.
+    - Mark programs, variables, fields and command-line options in bold.
+    - Fold dpkg-architecture(1) DEBIAN/RULES section into EXAMPLES.
+    - Fix dpkg-architecture(1) debian/rules usage documentation.
+    - Move dpkg-buildflags(1) HARDENING into a new FEATURE AREAS subsection.
+    - Improve dpkg-buildflags(1) usage documentation.
+      Thanks to Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>. Closes: #657627
+    - Clarify that DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE is not arch-qualified.
+    - Add triggers to the list of binary control information files.
+      Thanks to Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>.
+  * Use colon instead of dot for user:group in dpkg debug output.
+  * Remove support for obsolete DM-Upload-Allowed from Dpkg::Vendor::Debian.
+  * Fix update-alternatives to use the current alternative link as the first
+    best value, to avoid flip-flops of alternatives with equal priority.
+    Closes: #699807
+  * Fix clang warnings due to change of alignment requirements.
+  * Change copyright file to point to GPL-2 instead of GPL.
+  * Do not pass -e in shell script shebangs, set it in the body.
+  * Add new dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field option to print a field value.
+    Closes: #284664
+  * Add new dpkg-buildpackage --force-sign option.
+  * By default do not sign builds for UNRELEASED uploads on dpkg-buildpackage.
+    Closes: #635117
+  * Also check Build-Depends-Arch for minimal versions in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Closes: #681470
+  * Document dpkg-buildflags export mode usage in man page. Closes: #691449
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
+  * Rename dpkg-buildflags configure exporter to cmdline, but preserve
+    configure as a legacy alias.
+  * Mask fortify hardening option from dpkg-buildflags output on noopt.
+    New glibc 2.16 and later, issue a warning on this condition.
+    Closes: #691745
+  * Refer to path instead of file on dpkg-statoverride.
+  * Always print a descriptive architecture column, even for empty or missing
+    architectures on «dpkg-query --list».
+  * Rework SELinux code on unpack to reload the label database if it has
+    changed, for example while upgrading the SELinux policy package.
+  * Execute maintainer scripts in a new execution context, based on the
+    current one and the specific maintainer script filename, and if it's
+    not different to the current one, use "dpkg_script_t" as a fallback.
+  * Do not unnecessarily create a dpkg update log record on remove or purge.
+  * Always reset want status when removing or purging a package; so this
+    now resets holds among others. Closes: #163763
+  * Always reset want status when installing a package; so this now resets
+    holds among others. Closes: #162541
+  * Defer cleanup of .dpkg-new and .dpkg-tmp paths on removal to the point
+    when we are definitely removing the main path.
+  * Activate file triggers on removal more accurately, only when we know
+    we are inevitably removing things.
+  * Change dir to / before executing maintainer scripts. Closes: #686782
+  * Add new dpkg-deb --deb-format option and base --new and --old on it,
+    as the latter are not future-proof, and neither can be guaranteed to
+    produce a reliable output file format.
+  * Drop archtable. It serves no purpose, it's Debian specific, it's
+    usually outdated, and everyone should be using dpkg-architecture anyway.
+  * Add musl-linux support to ostable and triplettable.
+    Requested-by Kevin Bortis <wermut@gmail.com>.
+  * Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride
+    compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/.
+  * Remove install-info wrapper.
+  * Only ignore older packages if the existing version is informative. This
+    allows any program using libdpkg to parse the available file to see again
+    packages with versions lesser than 0-0 (like 0~0-0). Closes: #676664
+  * Fix Dpkg::Control::Hash set_options() to take a hash as argument instead
+    of two scalars.
+  * Add a new Dpkg::Vendor get_vendor_dir() function.
+  * Print correct path to vendor directory on error message in dpkg-vendor.
+  * Do not hardcode the dpkg system configuration directory in perl scripts,
+    respect build time setting.
+  * Deprecate Dpkg perl module lowercase and exported by default variables,
+    replaced by new unified uppercase non-exported by default ones.
+  * Do not set -fstack-protector in the default build flags on arm64 (it's
+    not yet supported). Thanks to Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>.
+    Closes: #711936
+  * Add GCJFLAGS support to dpkg-buildflags. Closes: #708375
+  * Clarify that dpkg --set-selections needs an up-to-date available db,
+    by documenting it on the dpkg(1) man page, and warning whenever dpkg
+    finds unknown packages while setting the selections. Closes: #703092
+  * Print nicer error messages in perl scripts using Getopt::Long by trapping
+    $SIG{__WARN__} to call usageerr() on option parse errors.
+  * Move the exit call out from usage() in dpkg-scansources so that usageerr()
+    gives a correct exit code. Thanks to Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>.
+  * Print correct error message on unknown dpkg-name options before --.
+  * Require at least one filename on dpkg-name after --.
+  * Switch program usage errors to not print entire --help output.
+    Closes: #681371
+  * Document that «dpkg-parsechangelog -l-» can be used to read from stdin.
+  * Support parsing compressed changelog files transparently. Closes: #684196
+  * Sort files inside new diffs generated by dpkg-source lexicographically.
+    Closes: #689193
+  * Add support for a build_arch option in Dpkg::Deps deps_parse().
+    Thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #697297
+  * Move epoch-less or revision-less output logic to Dpkg::Version.
+    Based on a patch by Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>.
+  * Catch mismatches between version strings and format versions in
+    dpkg-source. Ensure that a 3.0 (quilt) package has a non-native version
+    and that a 3.0 (native) package has a native version. Closes: #700177
+    Thanks to Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>.
+  * Add support for mipsn32(el) and mips64(el) to arch tables.
+    Thanks to YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>. Closes: #685096, #707323
+  * Document --file and --label parser options in dpkg-parsechangelog(1).
+  * Add a new configure --with-dpkg-deb-compressor option to allow selecting
+    the default dpkg-deb compressor, mainly for downstreams.
+  * Switch dpkg-deb default compressor from gzip to xz. Build dpkg.deb using
+    gzip to make debootstrap life easier on non-Debian based systems.
+  * Add support for gzip compression strategies to dpkg-deb. The new
+    strategies are: filtered, huffman, rle and fixed.
+  * Change dpkg and dpkg-deb help output to recommend apt instead of dselect
+    as a user-friendly frontend.
+  * Remove temporary file on error during «dpkg-divert --rename».
+  * Fix value caching in Dpkg::Arch by not shadowing the variables.
+  * Fix chmod() arguments order in Dpkg::Source::Quilt. Closes: #710265
+    Thanks to Pablo Oliveira <pablo@sifflez.org>.
+  * Add new dpkg-shlibdeps -l option to add private shared library directories.
+    This should be used instead of abusing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to pass the paths,
+    which might be problematic when cross-compiling. Closes: #698881
+  * Only apply empty line and comma cleanups when doing substvar replacements
+    on fields where those are relevant. Closes: #659814
+  * Do not scan control files twice for PGP signature presence.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile and mv_conffile to do nothing
+    when the conffile is no longer owned by the current (or named) package.
+    Thanks to Steve Langasek for the patch. Closes: #716948
+  * Improve dpkg-maintscript-helper behaviour in “Multi-Arch: same” packages
+    by arch-qualifying package names read from the environment. Also add
+    a warning about this potential problem in the manual page.
+  * Fix usage of non-existent _() function in multiple places of the Perl
+    code. Thanks to Lincoln Myers <lincoln@netapp.com> for the patch.
+    Closes: #708607
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Fix typo in Spanish translation of update-alternatives.
+    Thanks to Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>. Closes: #713020
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân). Closes: #715334
+
+  [ Added man pages translations ]
+  * Italian (Beatrice Torracca). Closes: #711647
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Fix wrong translation of "fortify" in French dpkg-buildflags(1) man page.
+    Thanks to Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>. Closes: #712976
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-source(1) man page French translation.
+    Thanks to Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org>. Closes: #708292
+  * Japanese (TAKAHASHI Motonobu). Closes: #704240
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:54:54 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix typos in 1.16.9 changelog entry. Closes: #691954
+    Thanks to Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com>.
+  * Add missing @LIBLZMA_LIBS@ to Libs.Private in libdpkg.pc.in.
+  * Do not use an undefined va_list variable in dpkg_put_errno().
+  * Abort installation if we cannot set the security context for a file.
+  * Fix OpenPGP armored signature parsing, to be resilient against doctored
+    input, including source package control files. Closes: #695919
+  * Make sure the OpenGPG armor contains a signature block, even on EOF.
+  * Do not accept Armor Header Lines inside a paragraph.
+  * Do not abort dselect when multiarch is detected, as that only makes
+    users downgrade and hold on an older version w/ worse multiarch support.
+  * Fix warning in Dpkg::Source::Archive with «perl -w» due to redefinition
+    of getcwd() by removing unused POSIX modules usage. Closes: #700978
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Esperanto (Felipe Castro).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino).
+  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân). Closes: #692100
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Fix mistranslation in French translation of scripts.
+    Thanks to Filipus Klutiero. Closes: #698530
+  * Fix typos in French translation of scripts.
+    Thanks to Sylvestre Ledru. Closes: #702627
+  * Fix Russian translation (wrong order of parameters in a string).
+    Thanks to Andrey Rahmatullin for noticing and Yuri Kozlov for fixing
+    the translation. Closes: #698869
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:41:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.16.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-source regression in "3.0 (quilt)" source packages while
+    unapplying patches that remove all files in a directory. Closes: #683547
+  * Fix segfault in field format parsing on empty strings, affecting
+    «dpkg-query -W -f ''» and «dpkg-deb -W --showformat=''». LP: #1035512
+  * Fix dpkg's French usage string which was missing the final “s“ in
+    --print-foreign-architectures. Closes: #685863
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Use “statoverrides” instead of “statusoverrides” in dpkg-statoverride.
+    Closes: #686995
+  * Comment out dpkg(1) documentation about disabled --command-fd option.
+    Closes: #685677
+  * Cleanup dpkg-divert unit-test environment to avoid build failures.
+    Closes: #687656
+  * Fix update-alternatives test suite to behave correctly on non-Debian
+    binary paths. Known to be affecting at least Gentoo and Mac OS X.
+  * Do not leak subcall command arguments in update-alternatives.
+  * Fix segfault on update-alternatives when passing --slave without any
+    action at all. LP: #1037431
+  * Fix memory leak in dpkg filesavespackage().
+  * Do not print garbage (or worse) on dpkg shared conffile debug output.
+  * Use a hash instead of a ref to a hash for keys() in Dpkg::BuildFlags
+    get_feature_areas(). This causes compilation failures with older perl
+    versions, which can be an issue with partial upgrades.
+  * Fix filter subpattern debug output format string to print an actual
+    value instead of just blanks.
+  * Ignore trailing filter subpattern slashes on reinclusion comparison.
+    This makes sure to reinclude directories previously excluded so that
+    contained files marked for inclusion do not fail to unpack due to a
+    missing directory. Closes: #688416
+  * Do not consider obsolete conffiles as actively owned by the package.
+    This ensures conffile entries are not mishandled nor mixed up when
+    configuring packages owning the non-obsolete conffiles. Closes: #689836
+    Based on a patch by Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>.
+  * Properly mark in the database obsolete conffiles on package replaces.
+  * Sync the Conffiles field values for all package instances. Because
+    only the first package instance being configured will have a *.dpkg-new
+    conffile available to be processed, the subsequent ones need to use the
+    hash from the previously processed entries.
+  * Fix logic for previously configured conffiles, so that the shared
+    conffile checks actually work on reinstallation. Closes: #684776
+  * Avoid info database corruption and bogus accesses on unknown format
+    values, by always reading the format file and validating it.
+  * Clarify that the most probable reason for multiarch database
+    inconsistencies is due to upgrades from unofficial dpkg versions.
+  * Only satisfy a dependency on a “Multi-Arch: foreign” if arch-unqualified.
+  * Take architecture into account in virtual packages on remove and
+    configure dpkg actions. Closes: #683411
+  * Update update-alternatives --query format and examples in man page to
+    match the implementation.
+  * Add two missing 3rd person ‘s’ in dpkg-gensymbols(1). Closes: #689863
+    Thanks to Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com>.
+  * Fix regression on old-style binNMUs for packages that specify an
+    explicit binary version to dpkg-gencontrol, by always fixing up the
+    source version. Closes: #690823
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #690808
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande).
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto).
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #690449
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #682582, #690431
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #688050, #690415
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #690426
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #690678
+  * Traditional Chinese (imacat). Closes: #687002
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #683104
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne). Closes: #685297
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #686421
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #689820
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Thomas Vincent, Sylvestre Ledru, Christian Perrier).
+    Closes: #682978, #683221
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Japanese (Hideki Yamane). Closes: #685103
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach).
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne, Guillem Jover). Closes: #683514
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:59:50 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Esperanto (Felipe Castro).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #680561
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #677850, #680411
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino)
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Danish (Joe Dalton). Closes: #680108
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov).
+  * Traditional Chinese (Asho Yeh - 阿信).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:11:04 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix bogus dpkg-query --control-show badusage() strings.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-gencontrol to correctly compute the source version
+    in the case of "old-style" bin-nmus. Closes: #679959
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:16:12 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not translate SE Linux context to human readable form while unpacking,
+    as that might cause the operation to fail if the mcstransd daemon
+    stopped running during the transaction. Closes: #679641
+    Thanks to Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.
+  * Add --control-list and --control-show to dpkg-query --help output.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix import of error functions in dpkg-buildflags. Regression introduced
+    in 1.16.5.
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:45:10 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * dpkg-source will now clean up after a failed application of a quilt
+    patch. Closes: #652970
+    And it will display a message explaining the most likely cause of
+    failure (patch applying with fuzz).
+  * When dpkg-source regenerates the automatic patch (with formats "2.0"
+    or "3.0 (quilt)") it will keep the current patch header to avoid
+    losing changes made by the maintainer.
+  * Modify dpkg-source --commit to auto-whitelist modified binary files.
+    That way the same command can be used whatever kind of upstream files
+    has been modified.
+  * dpkg-source now supports a new option --no-unapply-patches to force
+    patches to be kept applied after build (used by formats "2.0" and "3.0
+    (quilt)"). Closes: #643043
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add a dpkg-buildflags --status action to describe the flag settings.
+    Thanks to Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>. Closes: #664058
+  * Add support for “binary-only” key-value option in changelogs, to allow
+    marking changelog entries as part of a binary only upload, having a
+    different version from the source package. Closes: #440094, #672723
+  * Minimize source architecture list on «dpkg-source -b» by removing
+    architectures already covered by architecture wildcards. Closes: #675333
+  * Do not assume $ENV{'HOME'} is defined in Dpkg::Source::Package.
+    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>. Closes: #677631
+  * Document in more detail in deb(5) the supported ar archive format.
+  * Document in deb-src-control(5) the “Private-” field prefix.
+  * Add new start-stop-daemon --no-close option to disable closing file
+    descriptors on --background. Closes: #627333, #646425
+  * Switch source compression to xz.
+  * Detect ar header fields truncation due to too long member names or too
+    large member sizes. Closes: #678933
+  * Add new dpkg-query --control-list and --control-show commands, which
+    replace the now deprecated --control-path.
+  * Print master and slave alternative link names in update-alternatives
+    --query and always print alternative link in --config. Closes: #679010
+  * Cleanup and clarify buffer I/O error reporting. Closes: #621763
+  * Avoid full stop and double newline at the end of errors and warnings.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jnieder@gmail.com>. Closes: #624000
+  * Change all programs to accept -? instead of -h for help output.
+  * Add support for specific arch-qualified dependencies. Closes: #676232
+    Thanks to Thibaut Girka <thib@sitedethib.com>.
+  * Accept “:native” arch-qualified Build-Dependencies. Closes: #558095
+    Thanks to Thibaut Girka <thib@sitedethib.com>.
+  * Do not use undefined values returned form deps_parse() in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Closes: #640676
+  * Add an Architecture column to «dpkg-query -l» before the Description
+    column. Suggested by Jonathan Nieder <jnieder@gmail.com>. Closes: #673190
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:28:51 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * On «update-alternatives --install» only warn for now on out of range
+    priorities and clamp the values, as there seems to be packages using
+    priorities > INT_MAX, which although bogus as they were previously
+    overflowing the int used to store them, that would cause installation
+    failures when upgrading from squeeze. This will be reverted to an
+    error after wheezy. Closes: #676874
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:56:15 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Check correctly for out of range negative field width values in dpkg-query
+    --show format strings. Regression introduced in 1.16.4. Closes: #676796
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:16:17 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix explicit file trigger activation. Regression introduced in 1.16.4.
+    Closes: #676684
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:17:11 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Deprecate compressing .deb files with lzma, by making dpkg-deb issue a
+    warning, as the format has several deficiencies that have been addressed
+    by upstream in xz. Although unpacking will be kept being supported to
+    handle existing lzma compressed .deb files.
+  * Add alternative changelog formats documentation from the policy manual
+    to dpkg-parsechangelog(1). Closes: #584141
+  * Add MiNT support to ostable and triplettable.
+    Requested by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>.
+  * Add new frontend.txt file to dpkg-dev documenting some public interfaces
+    for dpkg frontends. Closes: #670897
+  * Clarify in dpkg(1) when --force-conf* options cause action.
+    Suggested by Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>. Closes: #391818
+  * Add “gcc | c-compiler” to libdpkg-perl Suggests, due to Dpkg::Arch usage.
+    Closes: #671198
+  * Do not mask PIE from dpkg-buildflags on m68k, it appears to work now.
+    Requested by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>.
+  * Remove deprecated support for PGP style signing command interface from
+    dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Remove obsolete --udeb dpkg-scanpackages option.
+  * Add arm64 support to cputable. Closes: #672408
+    Thanks Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>.
+  * Check parsed integers for invalid or no digit errors in start-stop-daemon
+    and update-alternatives.
+  * Check all parsed integers for out of range errors; i.e. that no negative
+    values are allowed if not appropriate, and that no overflows occur.
+    Closes: #580038
+  * Switch start-stop-daemon(8) man page examples from /var/run to /run.
+  * Do not obscure Dpkg::Source::Package ‘require’ errors with custom
+    error message. Thanks to Thomas Adam <thomas.adam@smoothwall.net> and
+    Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
+  * Add new Dpkg::Substvars::set_as_used() member function.
+  * Rename Dpkg::Substvars no_warn() member function to mark_as_used(), keep
+    the old name aliased to the new one producing a deprecation warning.
+  * Add support for Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch fields, and
+    a new -A option to dpkg-checkbuilddeps. Closes: #629480
+    Thanks to Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.
+  * Add support for “none” as a valid dpkg-deb compression strategy value.
+    Closes: #674711
+  * Clarify in dpkg(1) that the «dpkg -l» example only lists installed
+    packages, and that to list available packages «dpkg-query --load-avail»
+    has to be used instead. Closes: #673305
+  * Clarify also in the dpkg(1) man page (already present in the dpkg.cfg(5)
+    man page) the valid filenames for /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/ fragment files.
+    Closes: #674674
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon to not follow symlinks when creating pidfiles.
+    Thanks to Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>. Closes: #675918
+  * Refactor the file locking logic into a new Dpkg::File module, and move
+    the libfile-fcntllock-perl dependency from dpkg-dev to libdpkg-perl.
+  * Demote the libfile-fcntllock-perl Depends to a Recommends by falling back
+    to use flock based locking, because it being an XS module makes building
+    a new perl package bumping the perl ABI impossible, as both packages
+    become uninstallable. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>.
+    Closes: #675947
+  * Put an & before field_capitalize() calls in Dpkg::Control::Fields to
+    fix a usage before declaration warning with perl 5.16. Closes: #676262
+  * Do not warn in dpkg-divert on missing files list file for packages never
+    installed before. Closes: #673518
+  * Add support for liblzma to handle .xz and .lzma compressed files, and
+    switch to it instead of using xz-utils. This removes the xz-utils
+    Pre-Depends from dpkg. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
+  * Always activate all path components for file triggers, this fixes file
+    trigger handling for conffiles and dpkg-trigger invocations.
+    Closes: #675613, #676061, #676062, #676107, #676118, #676122
+  * Do not reset Multi-Arch field in the update log when removing the package.
+    Closes: #676496
+  * Fix dpkg-split to honour the DPKG_ADMINDIR environment variable.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * French (Christian Perrier). Fixes a mistranslation and some
+    inconsistencies reported by Vincent Danjean( thanks). Closes: #673158
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:43:19 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not look for newline beyond the read buffer on dpkg-deb extract.
+  * Check update-alternative name and link arguments for all commands.
+    Closes: #665050
+  * Check all dpkg-divert filename arguments to be absolute and to not
+    contain newlines. Closes: #21722
+  * Print errors while reading the file list files on a new line instead
+    of just after the progress percentage. Closes: #552517
+  * Document in dpkg-source(1) that patches for source format “3.0 (quilt)”
+    are expected to apply without any fuzz. Closes: #666752
+    Based on a patch by Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>.
+  * Remove redundant -Wformat-security from default dpkg-buildflags, which
+    is already implied by -Werror=format-security. Closes: #664964
+    Suggested by Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>.
+  * Document in dpkg-query(1) that commands producing multiple paragraphs
+    will preserve the order of the packages specified on the argument list.
+  * Change start-stop-daemon --exec on GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
+    and Solaris to check for executables matching device and inode numbers
+    instead of filenames.
+  * Change start-stop-daemon --name on GNU/Hurd to check the process' argv[1]
+    in addition to argv[0], to handle both binaries and interpreted scripts.
+    Reported by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>.
+  * Handle deb format versions as major.minor integers instead of strings or
+    floats, the latter being susceptible to parsing errors depending on the
+    current locale (although this was only affecting the old deb format).
+  * Ignore the minor format version number for deb-split format, unifying
+    the behaviour with the deb format.
+  * Add support for an abitable containing arch attribute overrides.
+  * Add x32 support to abitable, ostable and triplettable. Closes: #667037
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon to work with relative --exec arguments and --chdir.
+    Closes: #669047
+  * Ignore request to rename a file owned by the diverting package on
+    «dpkg-divert --add --rename». Closes: #588077
+  * Clarify dpkg-gensymbols(1) by way of examples that architecture wildcards
+    are supported in symbols files. Closes: #670048
+  * Fix memory leak due to Dpkg::Control objects not being garbage-collected.
+    Thanks to Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>. Closes: #669012
+  * Compute the md5sum hash on unpack for empty files too, so that these
+    can be checked correctly for matching content when installing multiple
+    package instances.
+  * Generate md5sums files automatically at unpack time if missing from the
+    binary package. Closes: #155676, #155799
+  * Add missing list and md5sums database file checks to «dpkg --audit».
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Fix a typo in man/dpkg-buildflags.1.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:10:10 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Move <config.h> and <compat.h> to the top of trigdeferred.l to properly
+    use the configured features and compat code.
+  * Honour --disable-nls when the system lacks obstack support, by updating
+    the obstack compat module from gnulib.
+  * Link the libdpkg unit tests with libcompat and libintl, so that systems
+    needing them will compile correctly.
+  * Check for the presence of the strnlen declaration and correctly provide
+    the compat one in case the systems lacks it.
+  * Do not assume existence of paths on the build system in the test suite.
+  * Do not fail to link dselect on MacOS X when using --disable-nls.
+  * Remove versioned coreutils Pre-Depends from dpkg due to the ancient
+    md5sum transition. Reported by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #643746
+  * Change dpkg-architecture to only compute the requested variables. This:
+    - Fixes the bootstrapping problem, as the dpkg build system only needs
+      the host architecture, for which dpkg itself is not required.
+    - Reduces the amount of work performed, including loading and parsing
+      unnecessary table files or calling either of gcc or dpkg programs.
+  * Improve error message in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-gensymbols when
+    debian/control does not have any package stanza. Closes: #642473
+    Based on a patch by Kyle Willmon <kylewillmon@gmail.com>.
+  * Add Pre-Depends on tar >= 1.23 (satisfied in stable) to dpkg due to it
+    using the ‘--warning=no-timestamp’ option. Closes: #642802
+  * Do not segfault on GNU/Linux when dpkg cannot retrieve the block size
+    for the filesystem containing the info database. LP: #872734
+  * Fix two memory leaks per tar entry in the tar extractor used on unpack.
+  * Mark dpkg and dselect as Multi-Arch foreign.
+    Reported by Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>.
+  * Mark dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl as Multi-Arch foreign. Closes: #648217
+    Thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>.
+  * Add new deb-origin.5 man page. Closes: #608884
+    Thanks to Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>.
+  * Return correct status on start-stop-daemon --status when using --pidfile.
+  * Treat dpkg-deb compression level independently for each backend. This
+    has the effect of changing the current behaviour for level 0 on all
+    compressors except gzip.
+  * Add new dpkg-deb -S option to specify the compression strategy. The only
+    currently supported value is “extreme” for xz. Closes: #647915
+  * Stop using brace expansion to install man pages by using dh_installman
+    instead of dh_install, the former does not abort on empty glob expansion.
+  * Do not use absolute paths for programs in perl and shell code.
+  * Add missing ‘*’ in asprintf() and vasprintf() compat declarations.
+  * Add support for virtual output binary:Summary and db:Status-Abbrev fields.
+    Closes: #192619, #427945
+  * Add support for virtual output source:Package and source:Version fields.
+    Closes: #653575
+  * Use a different temporary file per process on libcompat's vsnprintf()
+    function to avoid race conditions from children after fork(3).
+    Reported by Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com>. Closes: #655411
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon --exec and --name options on FreeBSD, NetBSD and
+    OpenBSD by swapping the process matching implementations.
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon --name option on GNU/Hurd to match the process name.
+  * Document in more detail the implications of start-stop-daemon matching
+    options. Closes: #367608
+  * Improve and clarify dpkg-shlibdeps superfluous linking warning messages.
+    Based on a patch by Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>. Closes: #656496
+  * Relax --merge-avail Packages file parser, to not fail on bogus versions.
+  * When building only arch-indep binaries with «dpkg-buildpackage -A», name
+    the .changes file using ‘all’ as architecture. Closes: #661638
+  * Handle unknown architectures gracefully in dpkg-buildflags.
+    Closes: #663004
+  * Add missing --status-logger to dpkg --help output.
+  * Do not print bogus errno string for invalid package names in dpkg
+    --ignore-depends option.
+  * Change dpkg-query to not load the available file by default for --list
+    and --show, add a new --load-avail option to expose the old behaviour.
+  * Only allow setting selections via «dpkg --set-selections» for known
+    packages (i.e. those present in either the status or available files).
+  * Always ignore older versions when parsing the available file, not only
+    for --update-avail and --merge-avail.
+  * Mark not-installed non-arch-qualified selections for removal.
+  * Add new «dpkg --assert-multi-arch» command to allow checking for
+    multi-arch support availability.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3 (no changes needed).
+  * Add architecture consistency checks to «dpkg --audit».
+  * Add new dpkg --add-architecture and --remove-architecture commands to
+    track supported architectures.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Update Dpkg::Shlibs to look into multiarch paths when cross-building
+    too. Closes: #595144
+  * Rewrite architecture.mk with explicit loops instead of duplicating many
+    similar lines. Based on a patch by Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>.
+  * Modify dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-distaddfile to grab a write lock
+    on debian/control before updating debian/files to avoid simultaneous
+    updates. Closes: #642608
+    Add libfile-fcntllock-perl to dpkg-dev's Depends since we use this module
+    to handle the locking.
+  * Update dpkg-gensymbols(1) to clarify that -e accepts shell patterns
+    expansions and not regular expressions. And let dpkg-gensymbols output a
+    warning when a pattern doesn't match any file. Closes: #649248
+  * Add new option "-a <arch>" to dpkg-checkbuilddeps to check build
+    dependencies for another architecture. This is really basic for now since
+    it assumes all build dependencies must be satisfied on the listed
+    architecture. Closes: #648180 Thanks to Colin Watson for the patch.
+  * Error out if a dpkg database .list file is not a regular file. LP: #369898
+  * Fix dpkg-mergechangelogs to not error out on invalid versions.
+    Closes: #651993
+  * Fix dpkg-source --commit on "3.0 (quilt)" when an explicit patch file
+    is given with a relative filename. Closes: #652414
+  * Further clarify in dpkg-source(1) the conditions under which it's possible
+    to pass an explicit patch file to dpkg-source --commit.
+  * Add new --query-features command to dpkg-buildflags. Thanks to Kees Cook
+    for the patch. Closes: #651481
+  * Fix description of Multi-Arch in deb-control(5). Closes: #654453
+    Thanks to Jakub Wilk for spotting the mistake.
+  * Drop misleading spaces in deb-symbols(5) in the format description.
+  * Clean up dpkg-architecture(1) dropping useless information and
+    adding a reference to /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk.
+  * Update dpkg-buildpackage to use the "build-arch" (for -B) and
+    "build-indep" (for -A) targets unless "make -qn" says that they do not
+    exist. Closes: #229357
+  * Improve deb-shlibs(5) to mention that the dependency field must
+    use the same syntax as a Depends field. Closes: #658696
+  * Update dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) to recommend usage of the version
+    removing/renaming a conffile with a "~" suffix as "priorversion"
+    parameter. Thanks to Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> for the patch.
+    Closes: #658854
+  * Fix debug output of dpkg-maintscript-helper. LP: #936340
+
+  [ Jonathan Nieder ]
+  * Bump po4a version in Build-Depends to 0.41, since earlier versions do
+    not handle --srcdir correctly. Closes: #644370
+
+  [ Guillem Jover, Steve Langasek, Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add new dpkg --print-foreign-architectures command.
+  * Add support for virtual output binary:Package field.
+  * Implement Multi-Arch support.
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Fix a typo in man/dpkg-deb.1.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #627832, #657849
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * French (Christian Perrier)
+  * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #658126
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne). Closes: #636238
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann), including typo fix in dpkg-genchanges
+    Closes: #646496, sub optimal translation of package states LP: #368783
+    and an fix by Chris Leick
+  * Japanese (TAKAHASHI Motonobu).
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne). Closes: #643969
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Minor errors corrected in French (thanks to David Prévot)
+  * Fix translation of -B and -A options of dpkg-buildpackage.
+    Thanks to Vincent Danjean. Closes: #654626
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Dutch (Jeroen Schot). Closes: #651813
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:27:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.16.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix another typo to correctly set DEB_*_ARCH_BITS in architecture.mk.
+  * Set urgency to medium as changes are minor, and it should migrate
+    quickly in case 1.16.2 comes soon.
+
+  [ Jonathan Nieder ]
+  * Update dpkg-buildflags(1) to note that the processor option
+    -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is set in CPPFLAGS now instead of CFLAGS and
+    CXXFLAGS. Closes: #646073
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:18:30 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.16.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not ignore the automatic patch when checking
+    for unrecorded changes. Closes: #643148
+  * Let dpkg-source --commit create debian/patches when required.
+    Closes: #643037
+  * Fix dpkg-buildflags --dump to return 0 as exit code and not 1.
+  * Update dpkg-buildflags(1) to not include quotes in the examples
+    setting DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
+  * Stop outputting build flags in dpkg-buildpackage as it confuses
+    maintainers who are overriding them in debian/rules and who
+    are not seeing the expected value in the build log.
+  * Fix trigger setup code to not reset the status of packages
+    when they are in a status different from triggers-awaited,
+    triggers-pending or installed. Closes: #644492
+  * Fix dpkg-source to ignore changes on debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied
+    when building a "2.0" source package. Closes: #642656
+  * Fix buildflags.mk to re-export the environment variables that
+    the maintainer can use to change the build flags. Closes: #644412
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Change dpkg-buildflags to set preprocessor option -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+    in CPPFLAGS, instead of CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. Closes: #642521, #643632
+  * Fix typo to correctly set DEB_*_ARCH_BITS instead of DEB_*_ARCH in
+    architecture.mk. Thanks to Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>.
+  * Make dpkg-buildflags disable full relro (bindnow) if relro is not enabled.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:08:31 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Dpkg::Deps: Implement new "reset" method and bump module version to 1.01
+    due to this.
+  * Improved description of --search in dpkg-query(1). Closes: #621066
+    Thanks to Lars Buitinck <larsmans@gmail.com> for the patch.
+  * Let update-alternatives fsync() its administrative files before
+    moving them in place to avoid empty files with some filesystems.
+    LP: #344019
+  * Tighten the regexp used by dpkg-source to ignore the .pc directory of
+    quilt. Thanks to Mike Hommey for noticing the problem.
+  * Change behaviour of dpkg-source's --extend-diff-ignore to also
+    extend the current diff-ignore if it has already been set.
+  * Fix dependency checking code to consider a dependency on a virtual
+    package provided by a package in triggers-pending status as satisfied.
+  * Do not fail when encountering a pre-dependency in triggers-awaited state,
+    instead process the awaited triggers. Closes: #526774
+  * "any" no longer hides "all" in the Architecture field of a .dsc.
+  * Fix dpkg --remove to really remove the triggers from the various
+    internal files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/triggers/. Closes: #525160
+  * Avoid a perl warning in dpkg-gensymbols when no symbols file has been
+    generated (because it would have been empty). Closes: #626684
+  * Re-enable the Package-List field but drop the Architecture column since we
+    have no clear use case yet. It can always be added later on.
+    Also drop the source line since it duplicates other fields.
+    Closes: #619131
+  * Add the extraction part of Dpkg::Source::Package to the supported API.
+    Useful to extract source packages without having to depend on dpkg-source
+    (and hence dpkg-dev).
+  * Add the Dpkg::Vendor module to the supported API. Useful for lintian
+    when dpkg-dev is absent.
+  * Check presence of required parameters in dpkg-vendor. Closes: #628726
+    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> for the patch.
+  * Avoid a Perl warning in dpkg-buildflags when HOME is not set.
+    Closes: #635467
+  * dpkg-source can now also use debian/source/local-patch-header (that is not
+    included in the generated source package) instead of
+    debian/source/patch-header. Closes: #629582
+  * Changed dpkg-source --after-build to automatically unapply patches that it
+    has applied during --before-build.
+  * Fix two possible causes for the assertion failure "pigp->trigpend_head".
+    LP: #798793, #424358 Closes: #560251
+  * Use "special" instead of "particular" to qualify the "3.0 (custom)" format
+    in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #631435
+  * Add some supplementary checks to ensure debian/control has the required
+    fields. Closes: #631439
+  * dpkg-gensymbols(1): document syntax of comments. Closes: #630996
+  * Allow empty lines in symbols files to better delimit multiple libraries.
+    Thanks to Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> for the patch.
+  * dpkg: if "prerm upgrade" fails when downgrading, do not try to run
+    "prerm failed-upgrade" with the prerm of the oldest prerm, it can't work
+    around a bug of a newer prerm anyway.
+  * dpkg: support new "interest-noawait" and "activate-noawait" trigger
+    directives.
+  * dpkg-buildflags(1): make it clear that DEB_*_(SET|APPEND) environment
+    variables are meant for users and should not be used by packages.
+  * update-alternatives: do not allow reusing a slave link in another
+    slave alternative. Closes: #631547
+  * Improve dpkg-source's logic to identify ignored files. Closes: #632168
+  * Fix a small typo in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #632937
+  * Reword the description of dpkg-source --before-build and --after-build
+    to be clearer. Closes: #608260
+  * dpkg-buildpackage no longer exports the compiler flags. Closes: #560070
+    Packages must directly call dpkg-buildflags to retrieve them.
+  * dpkg-buildflags supports a prepend command to modify the build
+    flags. Particularly useful for package maintainers who don't want
+    their supplementary flags to take precedence over user submitted
+    flags.
+  * Add new --dump action to dpkg-buildflags and make it the default action.
+    Closes: #603435
+  * dpkg-mergechangelogs now checks the return value of the close() call.
+    Thanks to Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> for the patch. Closes: #633539
+  * Similar changes to dpkg-shlibdeps and dpkg-gencontrol, also by Niels.
+  * Fix update-alternatives to not remove a real file when dropping a
+    symlink for a slave that's not provided by the new current choice.
+    Closes: #633627
+  * Improve dpkg-source's error message complaining about the lack
+    of the upstream tarball. Closes: #634510
+  * Add some common makefile snippets for use in rules files in
+    /usr/share/dpkg/: default.mk, architecture.mk, buildflags.mk, pkg-info.mk,
+    vendor.mk Closes: #606839
+  * Fix the dpkg-divert test-suite to also skip test that would fail if run
+    under root. Closes: #634961
+  * Change merge conflict separators created by dpkg-mergechangelogs to match
+    the usual norm of being composed of 7 characters. LP: #815700
+  * With source format 2.0 and 3.0 (quilt), dpkg-source now fails by default
+    when upstream changes have not been recorded in a quilt patch. The new
+    --commit operation can be used to properly record the changes before-hand.
+    LP: #797839
+    And it fails before installing the automatic patch in debian/patches/
+    Closes: #615899
+  * dpkg-buildflags now supports "--export=configure" to output compilation
+    flags on a single line with double quotes as delimiter of the various
+    values. It also uses DEB_<flag>_MAINT_<op> to let the maintainer
+    extend the build flags to use. Last but not least, it can now also strip
+    options from the returned build flags.
+  * Fix possible segfault of dpkg in findbreakcycle(). LP: #733414
+  * dpkg-source now properly cleans up the temporary tarball generated for
+    native formats in case of unexpected interruption. Closes: #631494
+  * Fix simplification logic of union dependencies. Closes: #637564
+  * Fix dpkg's handling of a hardlink pointing to a conffile. Closes: #638291
+  * Add example of extend-diff-ignore's usage in dpkg-source(1).
+    Closes: #640198
+  * dpkg-buildflags now returns hardening flags by default. Closes: #489771
+    They can be individually enabled/disabled via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS,
+    see dpkg-buildflags(1). Thanks to Kees Cook for his help.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Install deb-src-control(5) man pages in dpkg-dev. Closes: #620520
+  * Add ‘.gitmodules’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists. Closes: #620490
+  * Document in dpkg-query(1) man page that on --listfiles each list of
+    files per package name is separated by a blank line. Same goes for
+    --status and --print-avail.
+  * Use execvp(3) unconditionally in command_exec(). Making the call always
+    fallback to use the system shell in case of error, such as with empty
+    maintainer scripts. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
+    Closes: #622094
+  * Improve deb-split(5) format description by splitting debian-split
+    member contents into a list.
+  * Switch to debhelper compatibility level 7.
+    - Use dh_prep instead of deprecated “dh_clean -k”.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no changes needed).
+  * Generate filenames following current conventions on “dpkg-split --join”,
+    by including the architecture in the debian-split member of a split
+    package and using underscores to separate filename parts.
+  * Support conffiles with spaces when diffing them. Closes: #147583
+  * Allow installing packages with bogus versions with new
+    --force-bad-version.
+  * Do not fail when unpacking a diverted hardlink. Closes: #245322
+    Based on a patch by Christopher Baines <cbaines8@gmail.com>.
+  * Document in dpkg-deb(1) that --fsys-tarfile will always process the
+    input archive sequentially. Closes: #616609
+  * Remove long non-functional --new and --old dpkg-deb option handling
+    from dpkg which were being treated as dpkg commands.
+  * Remove reference to --nocheck dpkg-deb option from dpkg man page as
+    the latter does not pass it to the former.
+  * Clarify the current dpkg behaviour when running the dpkg-deb and
+    dpkg-query back-ends, of not passing through back-end specific options
+    when running them from dpkg. Closes: #610940
+  * Use “unselected” as an adjective in dpkg output messages instead of
+    “deselected”. Closes: #231089
+  * Clarify exit status in dpkg-split and start-stop-daemon --help output.
+  * Clarify “EXIT STATUS” section in man pages by using a table.
+  * Add a --status command to start-stop-daemon returning LSB Init Script
+    status action exit codes.
+  * Add start-stop-daemon process name kernel limits for Solaris, NetBSD,
+    OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Darwin.
+  * On package removal, keep only directories actually containing conffiles,
+    and not directories just matching the substring in the conffile or the
+    directory itself. Thanks to Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>.
+  * On purge correctly remove symlinks acting as directories, when they are
+    not being used by any other package's files.
+  * Do not lose track of parent directories on removal so that they can
+    be properly cleaned up on purge if not used by any other package.
+    Based on a patch by Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>. Closes: #454694
+  * Add ‘.hgsigs’ to the default dpkg-source ignore lists.
+    Based on a patch by Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>. Closes: #627462
+  * Do not allow blank lines in field values. Closes: #308082
+  * Do not warn on missing architecture on packages in config-files state,
+    but then make sure the architecture field is usable. Closes: #604241
+  * Run du with --apparent-size when generating the Installed-Size field in
+    dpkg-gencontrol to get consistent results independent of build system.
+    Thanks to Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>. Closes: #630533
+  * Do not fail to unpack shared directories missing on the file system
+    from packages being replaced by other packages. Closes: #631808
+  * Do not require programs to define thisname, provide two new functions
+    to handle the program name (dpkg_set_progname and dpkg_get_progname).
+    Closes: #631757
+  * Man pages cleanup:
+    - Rename “USAGE” dselect(1) section to “ACTIONS” and clarify they can
+      be performed interactively or from command line.
+    - Add missing built-in methods to dselect(1).
+    - Add missing escaping to field dashes in deb-control(5).
+    - Use dashes instead of underscores for variable text.
+    - Clarify that several front-end fields are not dselect specific in
+      dpkg-query(1).
+    - Use [option...] instead of [options] and friends.
+    - Use italics or bold instead of surrounding the text with <>.
+    - Correctly format text with bold and italics.
+    - Use minus signs and hyphens consistently in man pages.
+    - Fix reference to /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d instead of dpkg.cfg.d in
+      dselect(1).
+    - Add missing optional group|gid --chuid argument in start-stop-daemon(8).
+  * Refer to Sources and Packages files as part of a repository instead of
+    as being of exclusive use or owned by APT, which has never been the case.
+  * Unify somewhat dpkg-maintscript-helper --help output with other commands.
+  * Add build-indep and build-arch targets as aliases for build in
+    debian/rules.
+  * Use the perl interpreter found by configure to call dpkg-architecture.pl
+    in the m4 DPKG_ARCHITECTURE macro.
+  * Add new --verbose option to dpkg-deb and change --extract to honour it.
+    Closes: #293280
+  * Add new --raw-extract option to dpkg-deb combining --control and
+    --extract. Closes: #552123
+  * Defer hardlink renames so that there's never a point were the new
+    file contents are accessible from the final path before they have
+    been fsync()ed and cannot be executed causing ETXTBSY when trying
+    to open the to be installed paths for writing.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>. Closes: #635683
+  * Clarify the default dpkg-deb compression-levels on the man page.
+  * Clarify dpkg --update-avail usage error message. Closes: #628055
+  * Change Dpkg::Compression default values depending on the compressor
+    used, and as such dpkg-source inherits this functionality.
+    Prompted by Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>.
+  * Print an actual error or warning message instead of assert()ing on
+    readlink()/stat() size discrepancies. Closes: #639229
+  * Update alternative links only if they change. This allows for a
+    read-only file system and a writable database. Closes: #636700
+    Based on a patch by Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
+  * Fix double “error:” string in dpkg missing PATH error output.
+    Closes: #639997
+  * Do not warn on strange timestamps when unpacking with dpkg-deb.
+    Closes: #640298
+  * Reduce dpkg-trigger binary size by refactoring libdpkg modules so that
+    it does not end up pulling triglib.
+  * Reduce dpkg-deb binary size by refactoring libdpkg modules so that it
+    does not end up pulling triglib.
+  * Do not fail on --compare-version when generating parse warnings.
+    Existing packages with invalid versions should not fail on their
+    maintainer scripts due to that.
+  * Use the user name (instead of the user id) when setting the supplementary
+    groups in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #641834
+  * Use --srcdir and --destdir po4a options, and bump Build-Depends version
+    to 0.36.4.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #620312
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann) including improvement by "Flo".
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier, Sylvestre Ledru). Closes: #637096
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:00:11 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Allow again Priority field values not known to dpkg. Regression
+    introduced in 1.16.0.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 04 May 2011 10:01:30 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.0.2) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Fix dpkg-split --auto to not fail when opening the new depot file.
+  * Fix dpkg-split to correctly set the last part split size.
+  * Fix build failure on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt due to a missing <locale.h>
+    include in gettext.h needed by the gettext context functions.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:14:15 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix regression affecting dpkg -R. Closes: #620636
+  * Don't fail during unpack if the system doesn't support changing timestamps
+    of symlinks. Closes: #620679
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:28:20 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.16.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Use DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable as package name on
+    dpkg-divert when no --package or --local options have been specified.
+  * Do not allow versions starting with non-digit when doing strict parsing,
+    warn otherwise.
+  * Update dpkg(1) to note that --status-fd output does not contain newlines
+    in error messages anymore (this was fixed in 1.15.0).
+  * Add a new --status-logger option to dpkg, similar to --status-fd but
+    instead invoke the command ourselves and feed the status information
+    to its standard input. Suggested by Raphaël Hertzog.
+  * Add missing space in update-alternative --set-selections output.
+  * Add missing options to update-alternative --help output.
+  * Count “conffile name is duplicated” for dpkg-deb warning count summary.
+  * Improve and clarify strings for translation. Closes: #604914
+  * Prefix all fatal error messages with “error: ”.
+  * Do not check presence of update-rc.d in the PATH in dpkg, as it's not
+    a program needed for dpkg correct operation.
+  * Fix dpkg -GEO options on multiple versions of the same packages.
+    Closes: #31141
+  * Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scripts.
+    Closes: #97076
+  * Do not fail when trying to remove the root directory. This will only
+    happen either on distributions where dpkg is a foreign package manager,
+    or on artificial dpkg databases.
+  * Always warn when parsing any package control data which does not have
+    an Architecture field except for status and status log files when
+    packages are not-installed or half-installed.
+  * By default reject installing packages w/o an Architecture field. They
+    now need --force-architecture, dpkg will still warn about them though.
+  * Fix build failure when passing --disable-nls to configure.
+  * Do not segfault on “dpkg -i --no-act”.
+  * Add missing semicolon to the vsnprintf() compat declaration.
+    Thanks to Robert Millan. Closes: #612203
+  * On install for Ubuntu adjust the i386 GNU cpu name in cputable.
+    Thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #611741
+  * Sync the info database directory on unpack instead of the temporary
+    control information directory, and print the correct pathname on error
+    instead of the last file acted on that directory.
+  * Document in dpkg-query --help output and man page that --list and --show
+    arguments are optional.
+  * Do not read and write the available file unnecessarily.
+    Thanks to Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>. Closes: #397121
+  * Fix typo in «dpkg-name --overwrite» argument parsing so that it actually
+    works at all. Thanks to Ivan Gagis <igagis@gmail.com>. LP: #728708
+  * Add armhf support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #594179
+  * Set the modification time for unpacked symlinks on supported systems.
+  * Fix undefined value usage in dpkg-genchanges when adding files w/o a
+    matching architecture, because they are not present in debian/control,
+    this is most commonly the case due to dpkg-distaddfile.
+  * Terminate immediately on dpkg-divert rename errors instead of propagating
+    up the error codes, this improves error reporting and avoids triggering
+    leak detectors. Closes: #620380
+  * When moving a diverted file across filesystems in dpkg-divert, remove
+    the source file.
+  * Fix large file support for .deb and split .deb in dpkg-deb, dpkg-split
+    and dpkg on 32-bit architectures.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fail properly when debian/source/format is empty. Closes: #600854
+  * Add new deb-src-control(5) manual page documenting the debian/control
+    file contained in source packages.
+    - it documents the X[SBC]- prefix. Closes: #476335
+    - it documents the VCS-* fields too. Closes: #483119
+    Thanks to Oxan van Leeuwen <oxan@oxanvanleeuwen.nl> who wrote it
+    as part of the Google Code In program.
+  * Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps to not fail immediately when a library is not found.
+    Instead continue and fail after all problems have been reported. Thanks
+    to Chris Baines <cbaines8@gmail.com> for the patch. Closes: #596841
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not list Debian packaging files as modified
+    upstream files in Format "1.0" when unpacking to a non-standard
+    directory.
+  * Apply patch from Colin Watson to let dpkg-buildflags return -O3
+    instead of -O2 when building ppc64 packages on Ubuntu. Closes: #612472
+  * Add new function get_control_path() to Dpkg::Path, it wraps dpkg-query
+    --control-path.
+  * Update dpkg-shlibdeps to be multiarch-ready:
+    - use get_control_path() to find symbols/shlibs files
+    - parse correctly the output of dpkg --search
+  * Small fix to support files >2GB in .deb on 64-bit systems. Closes: #616502
+    Thanks to Martin Dorey <mdorey@bluearc.com> for the patch.
+  * dpkg-source now keeps the file ordering in the autogenerated patch when
+    regenerating it. Closes: #606080
+    Thanks to Colin Watson for the patch.
+  * dpkg-source now uses a timestamp retrieved from the filesystem when
+    resetting the timestamp of patched files so that a time skew when using
+    NFS doesn't introduce any inconsistency. Closes: #613023
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> for the patch and the
+    diagnosis.
+  * dpkg-source will now remove quilt's .pc directory when --unapply-patches
+    is in use. Closes: #591858
+  * dpkg-source is now a bit less strict when parsing patches:
+    - it accepts seeing the same file twice; Closes: #608829
+    - it doesn't match on the English text "No newline at end of file" as it
+      might be translated in some cases. Closes: #612465
+  * Improve parser in Dpkg::Control::Hash to not require an empty line
+    before the PGP signature. Closes: #617923
+    Thanks to Roger Leigh for the initial patch.
+  * Fix a regression in dpkg-divert where using --rename led to a failure when
+    the rename implies crossing file systems. Thanks to Durk Strooisma for
+    spotting it.
+  * Use the correct mtime when installing a file with statoverrides.
+    Regression introduced in 1.16.0. LP: #739179
+  * Remove duplicate word in german translation of dpkg(1). Closes: #616096
+  * Strip repeated non-significant spaces before and after newlines
+    in Uploaders. Closes: #598922
+  * Ignore whitespaces after options in headers of changelog entries.
+    Closes: #605719
+  * Fix dpkg-source's regression with empty patches (introduced while fixing
+    #613023). Closes: #619541
+
+  [ Jonathan Nieder ]
+  * Remove support for use of synchronous sync(2), due to its pernicious
+    side-effects and to ease maintenance.
+  * Clarify that an up-to-date dpkg only needs to be unpacked for
+    dpkg-maintscript-helper to work.
+
+  [ Steve Langasek ]
+  * Add new variables to dpkg-architecture, DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH and
+    DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH, that return the "ideal" GNU triplet for each
+    architecture which should be used as the path component for library
+    installation.
+
+  [ Mark Hymers ]
+  * Add support for Built-Using field. Closes: #619311
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:56:54 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Do not segfault on “update-alternatives --auto” when the link group only
+    has alternatives which are dangling symlinks. Closes: #611545
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:28:27 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Drop Breaks on konqueror to avoid some lenny -> squeeze upgrade
+    problems. It was only needed to ensure install-info is installed
+    even for partial upgrades. Closes: #610991
+  * Do the same for all emacs/jed packages. For jed, the breaks has been
+    rendered useless as the maintainers dropped the install-info dependencies
+    anyway.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Remove space before "…" in several Catalan strings (Jordi Mallach).
+  * Romanian (Stan Ioan-Eugen).
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:24:53 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Truncate the output part file on “dpkg-split -s”. Regression introduced
+    with the C rewrite.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Two typos fixed in French (Christian Perrier, thanks to Julien
+    Valroff).
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix multiple security issues with dpkg-source (CVE-2010-1679):
+    - Enhance checks to catch maliciously crafted patches which could modify
+      files outside of the unpacked source package.
+    - Do not consider a top-level symlink like a directory when
+      extracting a tarball.
+    - Exclude .pc while extracting the upstream tarball in 3.0 (quilt)
+      as patch blindly writes in that directory during unpack (and would
+      follow any existing symlink).
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:04:33 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Defer symlink renames so that there's never a point were a symlink
+    is broken, this is particularly important for shared libraries.
+    Closes: #605536
+  * On Linux use sync_file_range() to initiate asynchronous writeback
+    of just unpacked files. Suggested by Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>. Closes: #605009
+  * On non-Linux use posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) to notify the kernel
+    dpkg does not need the unpacked files any longer, and that it can start
+    writeback to be able to evict them from the cache at a later point.
+  * Fix stanza delimiting on -L, -s and -p output. This was making the output
+    for multiple packages unrealiable to parse. Closes: #606315
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #607253
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #605099
+  * Esperanto (Felipe E. F. de Castro). Closes: #607437
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto). Closes: #605248
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #607306
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #607259
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #605506
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #607292
+  * Simplified Chinese (Aron Xu).
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #607302
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #607501
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (fix by Sven Joachim).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:26:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Ensure debian/source/local-options is always excluded from the source
+    package even if the user provides customized -i or -I options.
+    Closes: #597023
+  * Fix Dpkg::Version's handling of version with a debian revision but an
+    empty version (e.g. "-0.1"). Thanks to James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
+    for the patch. Closes: #597651
+  * With "3.0 (quilt)" source package, create .pc/.quilt_series with the
+    correct series file if the source package provides vendor specific patch
+    sets.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Disable by default usage of synchronous sync(2), as it causes undesired
+    I/O on unrelated file systems. Closes: #588339, #595927, #600075
+  * Add new --force-unsafe-io to disable safe I/O operations on unpack.
+    Closes: #584254
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier). Including a typo fix and a typographical
+    change reported by Vincent Danjean. Closes: #601852
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne). Closes: #596519
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio). Closes: #599923
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen). Closes: #600240
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Improved by Holger Wansing.
+  * Italian (Pietro Battiston). Fix translation of "however". Closes: #602518
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #596168
+  * Romanian (Andrei Popescu). Closes: #604769
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #595455
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #598473
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:10:48 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not print a warning when parsing status or status log files on
+    half-installed packages w/o a Description or Maintainer field, as
+    this happens normally when the package was never installed before.
+    Closes: #594167
+  * Improve git format documentation in dpkg-source(1).
+    Thanks to Joey Hess, based on a patch by Tanguy Ortolo.
+  * Clarify effect of “dpkg --purge” on homedir files in dpkg(1).
+    Thanks to The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>. Closes: #593628
+  * Add gettext plurals infrastructure support.
+  * Add gettext messages for plural forms. Closes: #594218
+  * Fix possible but improbable segfault in update-alternatives in case
+    the master file name contains a format string specifier. Reported by
+    Sandro Cazzaniga.
+  * Fix realloc usage on compat scandir() implementation.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-genchanges to not split the short description in the middle of a
+    UTF8 character. Closes: #593442
+  * Drop -k parameter from the tar call used by dpkg-source to extract
+    tarballs. Upstream binary files modified by the packager were not properly
+    installed due to this. Thanks to James Westby for the report.
+    Closes: #594440
+  * Make dpkg Breaks: dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.8) so that older versions of dpkg-dev
+    that did not depend on libdpkg-perl must be upgraded together with dpkg.
+    Closes: #596417
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Fix encoding of German addendum. Closes: #595643
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Esperanto (Felipe Castro). Closes: #596173
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto). Closes: #596657
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #592953, #595615
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #595468
+  * Korean (Changwoo Ryu). Closes: #595556
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Nordhaug). Closes: #595208
+  * Simplified Chinese (Aron Xu). Closes: #594513
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #595968
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #594011
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier). Includes a fix to a specific
+    message translation that was imprecise. Closes: #596333
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Improved by Holger Wansing.
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #595299
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne).  Closes: #596518
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #595175
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:26:21 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix use after free segfault on update-alternatives --remove-all.
+    Closes: #591653, #591654
+  * Always print a message on warning when parsing control files.
+  * On database parsing only warn on bogus versions previously accepted,
+    the other instances will keep producing errors, to avoid newly
+    introduced bogosity. Closes: #590885, #590896, #591692, #591885
+  * Fix compilation on Solaris and Darwin:
+    - Link update-alternatives against libintl if libc does not have i18n
+      support.
+    - Include <limits.h> for _POSIX_MAX_PATH in update-alternatives.
+    Thanks to Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix make -C man install so that it actually finds the manual pages
+    to install. Closes: #591588
+  * When analyzing the ELF format of a binary in dpkg-shlibdeps, fallback on
+    usual objdump when the cross objdump failed. Closes: #591522
+
+  [ Sven Joachim ]
+  * Ensure removal of leftover backup .dpkg-tmp files after unpacking
+    failures, when the backup is still a hard link to the original file.
+    Closes: #591993
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:02:10 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-divert test suite to cope with + and other special characters for
+    regexps in the build directory name. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the
+    patch and to Phil Kern for the report. Closes: #591182
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix buffer overflow in dpkg_ar_member_put_header causing it to write the
+    header to fd 0 (instead of ar_fd) depending on the stack layout, affecting
+    armel. Thanks to Phil Kern for the analysis and Reinhard Tartler for the
+    initial patch. Closes: #591312
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:38:07 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Bump libdpkg-perl Depends on dpkg to 1.15.8, as it will break dpkg
+    versions before that when installing and removing libdpkg-perl,
+    because older update-alternatives and dpkg-divert require Dpkg.pm and
+    Dpkg/Gettext.pm which will disappear due to the Replaces. Closes: #590867
+    Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> for the analysis.
+  * Allow specifying again absolute and relative paths for dpkg-buildpackage
+    -r option. Closes: #591010
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:20:01 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix off-by-one error in update-alternatives that lead to an infinite loop
+    while writing the administrative file. Closes: #590854
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:18:16 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add new commands --before-build and --after-build to dpkg-source
+    and modify dpkg-buildpackage to call them automatically at the
+    start and at the end of the process. With "3.0 (quilt)" source packages
+    this ensures patches are applied even in case of binary-only builds.
+    Closes: #572526
+  * Merge non-regression test for Ubuntu's specificities concerning
+    changelog handling. Closes: #582389
+  * Fix some copy-paste mistakes in dpkg-architecture(1). Thanks to Ian Fleming
+    <iflema@yahoo.com.au> for the patch and Colin Watson for forwarding out of
+    Launchpad. Closes: #582404 LP: #564308
+  * Clarify description of dpkg --configure in dpkg(1). Thanks to Colin Watson
+    for the patch and to Robert Persson for the report.
+    Closes: #582406 LP: #77287
+  * Fix the non-regression test lib/dpkg/test/t-ar.c by not overflowing the
+    size of ar_name. Thanks to Colin Watson for the report, analysis and patch.
+    Closes: #582401
+  * Modify Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump to use the cross objdump binary when cross
+    compiling. Thanks to Loïc Minier for the initial patch. Closes: #578365
+  * Make dpkg-maintscript-helper more robust when required parameters are
+    missing. Closes: #582814
+  * Clarify that dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile needs the last version of
+    the package that did not remove the obsolete conffile if this was not
+    implemented at the time the file became obsolete. Closes: #582893
+  * Enhance dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile and mv_conffile to work
+    properly when <lastversion> is not given (or is empty). Closes: #582819
+  * Small fix in dpkg-gensymbols' handling of tags. Closes: #583656
+    Thanks to Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> for the report and the fix.
+  * update-alternatives has been rewritten in C, the only feature change
+    should be that it uses its own logfile /var/log/alternatives.log (rotated
+    like dpkg.log).
+  * Implement new --unapply-patches option for dpkg-source with source formats
+    2.0 and 3.0 (quilt) that unapplies the patches after a successful build.
+    This option can be put in debian/source/local-options in the package VCS
+    repository for instance.
+  * Implement new --abort-on-upstream-changes option for dpkg-source with
+    source formats 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 (quilt). It aborts every time that you try
+    to build a source package which contains (unmanaged) changes to the
+    upstream source code. Closes: #579012
+  * dpkg-source now captures the output of patch and prints it on error so
+    that the user can better diagnose what went wrong. Closes: #575304
+  * Fix Dpkg::Changelog to cope properly with an entry of version "0".
+    Add non-regression test for this. Closes: #587382
+  * Add --export command to dpkg-buildflags to be used in shell with eval.
+  * Modify source format "3.0 (git)" to use git bundles. Thanks to Joey Hess
+    for the patch.
+    The usage of git bundle avoids distributing cruft. Closes: #477954
+    It's no longer needed to tell which branch contains the debian packaging,
+    it uses automatically the one that was used at build-time. Closes: #534637
+  * Pass --no-name option to gzip to avoid encoding the timestamp in the file
+    so that the result is more predictable. Closes: #587724
+    Also pass --rsyncable to make source packages more rsync friendly.
+  * Replace dpkg-source's tar ignore pattern "*~" with "*/*~" to avoid
+    matching on the top level directory. Closes: #588265
+  * In source formats "2.0" and "3.0 (quilt)", make sure to remove the
+    upstream-provided debian directory before copying the debian-provided
+    version of that directory in place. Closes: #590297
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Require gettext 0.18:
+    - Remove embedded gettext files from the repository, now properly
+      installed by autopoint for all po/ directories.
+    - Add versioned Build-Depends.
+  * Fix variable usage after delete in dselect.
+  * Change default configure admindir to LOCALSTATEDIR/lib/dpkg from
+    LOCALSTATEDIR/dpkg, so that we can use a correct --localstatedir=/var.
+  * Add two new dpkg options --path-exclude and --path-include for filtering
+    files on package installation. This allows embedded systems to skip
+    /usr/share/doc, manpages, etc. Based on work from Tollef Fog Heen and
+    Martin Pitt, thanks! Closes: #68788, #68861, #497304, #525567, #583902
+  * Remove obsolete internal status aliases “postinst-failed” for
+    stat_halfconfigured and “removal-failed” for stat_halfinstalled.
+  * Check version syntax when parsing it from libdpkg based programs.
+    Closes: #574704
+  * Rewrite mksplit in C, and merge it into dpkg-split.
+  * Rewrite dpkg-divert in C.
+  * Use linux-any wildcard for libselinux1-dev Build-Depends instead of
+    using a list of negated architectures.
+  * Use Breaks instead of Conflicts in dpkg, dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl binary
+    packages.
+  * Move Dpkg.pm and Dpkg/Gettext.pm from dpkg to libdpkg-perl.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.
+  * Detect when another process has locked the database, and mention that
+    problematic dpkg --audit results might be due to ongoing operations.
+    Closes: #80252
+  * Add new dpkg --force-confask option that forces a conffile prompt when
+    the conffile from the new package does not differ from the previous one.
+    Thanks to Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>. Closes: #102609
+  * On dpkg-divert --rename, check if the source file exists, and disable
+    renaming if it does not. Closes: #550252
+    As a side effect, this avoids useless errors when the destination
+    directory is not existent or writable. Closes: #581544
+  * Properly compute the longest package description from all to be displayed
+    on “dpkg-query --list”, so that it does not get incorrectly trimmed.
+  * Consistently use earlier/later instead of smaller/bigger when describing
+    comparison relationships. Closes: #587641
+  * Stop exporting DPKG_LIBDIR to maintainer scripts, no need for it anymore.
+  * Assign correct SE Linux label on non-regular files. Based on a patch by
+    Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>. Closes: #587949
+  * Add -F option to dpkg-buildpackage to be able to explicitly specify a
+    normal full build and combine it with -nc. Closes: #547993
+  * Add missing mentions of the Breaks field alongside the other fields
+    sharing the same syntax in deb-control(5).
+    Thanks to Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>. Closes: #590472
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #579149
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #579149
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ New scripts translation ]
+  * Spanish (Omar Campagne).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Improved by Holger Wansing.
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #579149
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:37:35 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.7.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Update dpkg-buildflags to respect $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and to use
+    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dpkg/buildflags.conf by default.
+  * Update deb-substvars(5) to codify how variables containing multiple
+    lines must be managed.
+  * Fix boolean evaluation of Dpkg::Version so that version 0 evaluates to
+    false and dpkg-shlibdeps can strip the minimal version specification.
+    Closes: #579724
+    Document this behaviour in the API and add non-regression test to ensure
+    it's kept.
+  * Let dpkg-buildflags error out when a required parameter is missing.
+    Closes: #579722
+  * Add Bug-Ubuntu field in DEP-3 template provided in the automatic header
+    of patches in 3.0 (quilt) source packages. Thanks to Benjamin Drung
+    <bdrung@ubuntu.com> for the patch. Closes: #578002
+  * Update deb-override(5) by removing references to usage of sections
+    to place the packages on the mirrors and by indicating that the Debian
+    policy offers a list of allowed values for section and priority.
+    Closes: #575410
+  * Update reference to triggers.txt.gz in dpkg-trigger(1) and deb-triggers(5)
+    to match the new location. Closes: #580774
+  * Drop mention of PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in dpkg-buildpackage(1), the feature has
+    been removed in 1.15.6.
+  * Rename /usr/lib/dpkg/maintscript-helper into
+    /usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper, it is a public interface even if working
+    around known limitations.
+  * Add "supports" command to dpkg-maintscript-helper to ensure the wanted
+    command is supported before calling it.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add powerpcspe support to ostable and triplettable.
+    Thanks to Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> and
+    Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>. Closes: #568123, #575158
+  * Fix dpkg --root by properly stripping again the root directory from the
+    path of the maintainer script to execute. Closes: #580984
+  * On Linux use sync() instead of an fsync() per file on deferred extraction,
+    to workaround performance degradation on ext4. Closes: #578635
+
+  [ Gerfried Fuchs ]
+  * Fix syntax error in dpkg-name. Closes: #581315
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 19 May 2010 07:57:14 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix dpkg-source -b (without -i) for source packages 1.0. Closes: #578693
+    It was erroneously ignoring all changes because the ignore regex was
+    wrong (due to the change to ignore debian/source/local-options).
+  * Add missing call to textdomain() in dpkg-mergechangelogs to make
+    translations work.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:05:20 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Clarify the plan concerning dpkg-source, debian/source/format and
+    the default source format in dpkg-source(1). Add a warning
+    in dpkg-source to invite people to always create debian/source/format.
+    We deprecate the fallback to "1.0" (it's there for backwards compatibility
+    only) and debian/source/format is going to be mandatory at some point in
+    the future. Closes: #553928
+  * Add .gitattributes to list of files ignored by dpkg-source.
+  * Document most common warnings and errors of dpkg-source in its manual
+    page.
+  * Let dpkg-source read options from debian/source/local-options as well but
+    do not include that file in the generated source package.
+  * Improve explanation of --all option in dpkg-parsechangelog(1). Thanks to
+    Jari Aalto. Closes: #575706
+  * Fix dpkg to not lose package metadata on filesystems where readdir()
+    returns new files added after the opendir() call, btrfs in particular
+    triggered the problematic behaviour. Closes: #575891
+  * Tighten the regex used by dpkg-source to match the component name of
+    supplementary tarballs so that underscore (_) are not allowed as it was
+    supposed to be.
+  * Introduce a new script called dpkg-buildflags: its purpose is to retrieve
+    compilation flags and it should be used within debian/rules to pass
+    the right compilation flags to the build process. dpkg-buildpackage still
+    exports them to not break packages currently relying on them but packages
+    should now start using dpkg-buildflags instead. Closes: #560070
+  * For Ubuntu set default value of LDFLAGS to -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions.
+  * Cleanup some old Conflicts/Replaces, thanks to Helge Kreutzmann.
+  * Modify dselect to treat all unknown package as known and marked for purge.
+    This is a temporary work-around so that dselect doesn't try to reinstall
+    packages of priority > standard that were removed or not installed. Thanks
+    to Robert Luberda for the patch. Closes: #559519, #556889
+  * dpkg now exports DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME to maintainer scripts with the
+    type of maintainer script currently running (preinst, postinst, prerm,
+    postrm). Closes: #546577
+  * dpkg now exports DPKG_LIBDIR to maintainer scripts pointing to the
+    private directory containing internal programs like the upcoming
+    maintscript-helper.
+  * Add $DPKG_LIBDIR/maintscript-helper program that can be used in
+    maintainer scripts to perform common operations working around
+    current dpkg limitations: first version supports removing obsolete
+    conffiles and renaming conffiles. Closes: #514316
+  * Fix "dpkg-scansources -e", it was calling a non-existing function.
+    Closes: #578162
+  * Add new script dpkg-mergechangelogs to do 3-way merges of Debian
+    changelogs. Add libalgorithm-merge-perl to Recommends for the
+    benefit of this script.
+
+  [ Colin Watson ]
+  * Modern tar files typically use NormalFile1 rather than NormalFile0 for
+    file objects. A typo meant that the former never triggered rename
+    deferral. Closes: #577756
+  * Use the new list of files on rename deferral instead of old one, so that
+    newly added files get installed.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Report deferred trigger errors on status-fd. Closes: #574599
+    Thanks to Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>.
+  * When creating hard links to normal files on extraction use the .dpkg-new
+    filename for source as the file is not yet in place due to the rename
+    deferral. Thanks to Colin Watson for the initial patch.
+  * Do not output the Package-Type field on udeb.
+  * Fix versioned Replaces to not produce file overwrite errors on downgrades.
+    Closes: #568566
+  * Fix installation of replaced and replacing packages in reverse order
+    (first the replacing then the replaced) for which the replaced package
+    is supposed to get disappeared, to disappear the correct package and not
+    lose track of the ownership of the replaced files.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:05:55 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.6.1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix two memory leaks introduced in 1.15.6.
+  * Always use C99 variadic macros, as the build requires them anyway, we
+    avoid exposing the configure variable HAVE_C99 on installed headers.
+  * Use __attribute__ keyword depending on compiler support, we avoid
+    exposing the configure variable HAVE_C_ATTRIBUTE on installed headers.
+  * Do not allow a --retry schedule in start-stop-daemon where forever is
+    the last item, as it needs something to repeat over. Closes: #570938
+  * Show dselect dependency/conflicts resolution screen again, by switching
+    the code to use STL's min() and max() instead of preprocessor macros, to
+    avoid multiple evaluation of arguments. Regression introduced in 1.15.6.
+    Based on a patch by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>. Closes: #574816
+  * Defer the fsync and rename for normal files in tar extraction so that
+    it's done in one pass afterwards, to avoid massive I/O degradation due to
+    the serialization from each write + fsync. This restores extraction times
+    to numbers closer to the ones before the fsync patch introduced in 1.15.6.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Accept source packages without "Format" field for compatibility with very
+    old source packages. Thanks to Colin Watson for the report and the patch.
+    Closes: #574097
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:56:28 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.6) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * debian/control: Add the accent on my first name.
+  * Perl API cleanup:
+    - rename Dpkg::Deps dump() methods into output([$fh]), overload string
+      representation ("$dep") to provide the result of $dep->output()
+    - prefix public functions in Dpkg::Deps with deps_ and export them
+      by default
+    - rename Dpkg::Source::Compressor in Dpkg::Compression::Process
+    - rename Dpkg::Source::CompressedFile in Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle
+      and completely redesign its API
+    - update Dpkg::Compression's API to use compression_* functions
+      instead of granting direct access to variables, integrate
+      there management of default compression
+    - introduce Dpkg::Interface::Storable and update many modules
+      to make use of it
+    - update Dpkg::BuildOptions to provide an object-oriented interface
+    - update Dpkg::Checksums to provide an object-oriented interface
+  * Drop debian-maintainers from Suggests since it's obsolete, the
+    corresponding keyring is in debian-keyring.
+  * Merge support of symbol patterns in dpkg-gensymbols. Thanks to
+    Modestas Vainius for his work (see further for more details).
+  * Accept filename with spaces and colon in the output of objdump.
+    Required so that dpkg-shlibdeps support such files properly.
+    Thanks to Raphaël Geissert for the patch. Closes: #565712
+  * When unpacking a "3.0 (quilt)" source package, tell quilt where
+    patches are (to be) stored. Requires quilt >= 0.48-5 to work.
+    Closes: #557619
+  * Fix update-alternatives to not try to reinstall an unknown alternative
+    when the link group is broken, instead switch to the best choice in
+    automatic mode. Closes: #566406
+  * Don't return duplicate bug numbers in Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed:.
+    Thanks to Brian Murray <brian@ubuntu.com> for the report
+    and the patch. Closes: #569618
+  * Add $VERSION numbers to all perl modules. Closes: #465256
+    1.00 and higher means that the API should be stable
+  * While parsing diff's output, accept any sentence that contains the word
+    differ (as specified by POSIX) to identify that binary files could not be
+    compared. Closes: #570008
+  * dpkg-gencontrol does no longer accept arch-specific dependencies in
+    arch: all packages. Closes: #560071
+  * dpkg-gencontrol no longer warns if a substitution variable provided by -V
+    is not used (the warning is meant to catch unused substitutions coming
+    from the file, those are package specific with debhelper). Closes: #557133
+  * dpkg-gencontrol now indicates which package is concerned by the substvars
+    warning that it displays. Closes: #566837
+  * dpkg-buildpackage now supports options --source-option=<opt> and
+    --changes-option=<opt> to forward arbitrary options to dpkg-source and
+    dpkg-genchanges respectively. Closes: #566230
+  * The -T option of dpkg-{source,gencontrol,genchanges} can now be used
+    multiple times to read substitution variables from multiple files.
+    Closes: #363323
+  * dpkg-source now supports an option --create-empty-orig in formats
+    "2.0" and "3.0 (quilt)" to auto-create the main original tarball when
+    there are supplementary tarballs. This makes it easier to bundle
+    multiple software together. Closes: #554488
+  * dpkg-source supports long option names --diff-ignore and --tar-ignore for
+    -i and -I. A new option --extend-diff-ignore is introduced. Those options
+    can thus now be used in debian/source/options.
+  * Generate manual pages for perl modules.
+  * Introduce the libdpkg-perl package and clarify its status in README.api.
+  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed).
+  * Drop unused lintian override for arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share on
+    dselect.
+  * The rewritten Dpkg::Checksums deals properly with filenames with
+    spaces. Closes: #572030
+  * dpkg-source does no longer fallback to other source formats if the
+    requested one is not usable. Closes: #557459
+  * Modify dpkg-source to error out when it would apply patches containing
+    insecure paths (with "/../") and also error out when it would apply a
+    patch through a symlink. Those checks are required as patch will happily
+    modify files outside of the target directory and unpacking a source package
+    should not be able to have any side-effect outside of the target
+    directory. Fixes CVE-2010-0396.
+  * Also error out when the quilt series contains a path with "/../" as this
+    can cause patch to create files outside of the source package due
+    to the -B .pc/$path option that it gets.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Handle argument parsing in dpkg-checkbuilddeps and dpkg-scanpackages
+    in a way consistent with the rest of the tools.
+  * Recognize --help in addition to -h in dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+  * Add a --version option to dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+  * Improve and mark more messages in writedb() to make translators lifes
+    easier. Closes: #408525
+  * Improve update-alternatives --display output to use two leading spaces
+    for current link and slave information. Use single quotes for both “best”
+    and the alternative it's pointing to. Closes: #549167
+  * Refer to “half configured” instead of “failed config” in «dpkg-query -l»
+    header and dselect package status printing for consistency.
+  * Make “dpkg-statoverride --quiet” actually do something, and quiesce
+    most of the innocuous warning messages. Closes: #403211
+  * Make “dpkg-statoverride --update --add” fail if it cannot update the
+    mode and owner of the file. This would fail later on when dpkg itself
+    applies the overrides, so better to signal this earlier.
+  * Add sparc64 to cputable. Thanks to Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>.
+    Closes: #560010
+  * Do not allow diverting a file to itself, which makes the file to get
+    removed. Closes: #312206
+  * Make the check for duplicate fields in a stanza in libdpkg actually work,
+    which now makes it fatal, as was intended originally. This should not
+    cause problems for anything using dpkg-dev to build packages as those
+    are already fatal on that case.
+  * Add new deb-split(5) man page.
+  * Fix misspellings of “explicitly” all over the place.
+  * Normalize ar member names when reading (removing trailing spaces and
+    slash), this allows deb-split packages be created with GNU ar.
+  * Validate compression level on dpkg-deb argument parsing.
+  * Fix error handling, clean up and refactor compression code.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for several of the patches.
+  * Do not print unambiguous epoch on dpkg file overwrite error.
+  * Rename Dpkg::IPC::fork_and_exec() to Dpkg::IPC::spawn().
+  * Change dpkg-dev to Depend on perl instead of perl5 and perl-modules.
+  * Fix small memory leaks related to scandir() in dpkg-deb and libdpkg.
+  * Fix dpkg-query and dpkg-trigger to actually print a version on --version.
+  * Always spawn a new shell on conffile prompt, instead of supporting
+    self backgrounding, remove DPKG_NO_TSTP environment variable support.
+    Closes: #38334
+  * Set DPKG_SHELL_REASON, DPKG_CONFFILE_OLD and DPKG_CONFFILE_NEW environment
+    variables when spawning a shell for conffile examination. Closes: #60329
+    Thanks to Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu> for the idea.
+  * Add support for disabling update-alternatives at configure time using
+    --without-update-alternatives.
+  * Add support for disabling install-info at configure time using
+    --without-install-info.
+  * Update debian/copyright.
+  * Use Debian instead of ‘Debian GNU/Linux’ when referring to the
+    distribution.
+  * On dpkg --no-act with --install, --unpack or --record-avail, and
+    dpkg-deb --info or --field use mkdtemp() to create a temporary directory
+    instead of insecure tempnam() or tmpnam() functions.
+  * Remove --license and --licence options from tools.
+  * Securely remove newly installed files when rolling-back a failed unpack.
+  * Change default lzma compression level from 9 to 6.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the initial patch.
+  * Add support for xz compressed data.tar member of binary packages. Add
+    xz-utils to dpkg's Pre-Depends. Closes: #542160
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the initial patch.
+  * Use xz command to handle lzma compressed files in dpkg and dpkg-dev.
+    This removes the lzma package from both dpkg and dpkg-dev dependencies.
+  * Do not set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in dpkg-buildpackage when cross-building.
+    The proper solution to this is to let the build system choose the
+    appropriate pkg-config binary for the build or host system in the same
+    way pkg.m4 is handling it now. Closes: #551118
+  * Dynamically link against all external libraries. This includes libbz2
+    and zlib for dpkg-deb and libselinux for dpkg on GNU/Linux.
+  * Mark the libdpkg.a API as volatile and require any possible users to set
+    LIBDPKG_VOLATILE_API to acknowledge that fact.
+  * Add a new libdpkg-dev package with the headers and the static library,
+    although its API should be considered volatile.
+  * Reorganize the doc contents that goes into each package:
+    - README.multicd only in dselect.
+    - README.api only in development packages, dpkg-dev and libdpkg-dev.
+    - triggers.txt only in dpkg-dev.
+  * Move source.lintian-overrides to debian/source/lintian-overrides.
+  * Switch SE Linux support to explicitly set path context. This fixes the
+    mislabeling of files under <admindir> on conffile extraction or on unpack
+    errors, due to improper default context restoration. Closes: #498438
+  * Use FIEMAP when available (on Linux based systems) to sort the .list
+    files loading order. With a cold cache it improves up to a 70%.
+    Thanks to Morten Hustveit <morten@debian.org>.
+  * When FIEMAP is not available use posix_fadvise() to start preloading the
+    .list files before loading them. With a cold cache it improves up to 40%.
+    Thanks to Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>. Closes: #557560
+  * Call fsync(2) after writing files on disk, to get the atomicity
+    guarantees when doing rename(2). Based on a patch by
+    Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jeanbaptiste.lallement@gmail.com>.
+    Closes: #430958
+  * Call fsync(2) on database directories after creating, renaming or
+    unlinking files, to guarantee the new file entry is correctly listed
+    in the directory. Base on a patch by
+    Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jeanbaptiste.lallement@gmail.com>.
+  * Document in the man page the effects of setting TMPDIR for dpkg and
+    dpkg-deb, HOME for dselect and dpkg and PAGER for dpkg. Closes: #572836
+  * Document the exit codes for dpkg-query. Closes: #571798
+  * Document “dpkg-query -l” abbreviated state information in the man page.
+    Based on a patch by Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_br_debian.org@marc-jano.de>.
+    Closes: #383869
+  * Honour LINGUAS environment variable when installing translated man pages.
+  * Allow disabling at configure time Unicode ncurses support for dselect.
+    Based on a patch by Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@gentoo.org>.
+
+  [ Modestas Vainius ]
+  * Implement symbol patterns (Closes: #563752). From now on, it is possible to
+    match multiple symbols with a single entry in the symbol file template.
+    While the concept is not new (wildcards also match multiple symbols),
+    patterns cover much more ground and are a lot more flexible. Together with
+    the framework, 3 basic pattern types are supported:
+    - c++ - matching C++ symbols by their demangled name (as emitted by
+      c++filt);
+    - symver - matching by symbol version. It replaces the wildcards feature
+      which is still supported for backwards compatibility but is reimplemented
+      on top of the new framework;
+    - regex - matching symbol names with perl regular expression.
+    Basic patterns may be combined where it makes sense.
+  * As a positive side effect of the new symbol patterns implementation,
+    patterns are now treated like normal symbols whenever possible, e.g. a
+    pattern is MISSING if it does not match anything. As a result,
+    dpkg-gensymbols is now able to detect NEW/MISSING symbols when patterns are
+    present in the symbol file (Closes: #541464). Please note, however, that
+    there is no way to detect symbol changes in the pattern match sets.
+  * Add source version to the dpkg-gensymbols diff label, reformat it according
+    to the rules of dpkg-name.
+  * Add -a<arch> option to dpkg-gensymbols.
+  * Add -q option to dpkg-gensymbols. -c0 will never fail but still generate a
+    diff. Use -c0 -q to keep dpkg-gensymbols completely quiet as before
+    (Closes: #568228).
+
+  [ Jonathan Nieder ]
+  * Fix a file handle leak in “dpkg-deb --info”. Thanks to Raphael Geissert
+    for the report and patch.
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Add dpkg-gensymbols.1 to the translatable man page set.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * French (Christian PERRIER).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian 'Milo Casagrande). Closes: #567531
+  * Simplified Chinese (Aron Xua). Closes: #558794
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #559269
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino). Closes: #572861
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier): correcting inconsistencies for the translation
+    of "original" here and there. Thanks to Julien Valroff for pointing this.
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+  * French (Christian PERRIER).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:15:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg-source: with format "3.0 (quilt)" ensure quilt's .pc directory is
+    created before trying to register a new patch in .pc/applied-patches.
+    Thanks to Tommi Vainikainen <thv+debian@iki.fi> for the report and the
+    patch. Closes: #561237
+  * Fix dpkg-buildpackage to set "parallel=" in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS instead of
+    the invalid "parallel=-1" when option "-j" is given. Closes: #562038
+  * Clarify how dpkg-source --print-format works and display messages on
+    STDERR when the requested format is discarded. Closes: #560391
+  * Add ${misc:Depends} in all Depends fields.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:57:43 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Allow again new lines in dpkg-source and dpkg-genchanges on substvar and
+    maintainer arguments.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:49:49 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix Dpkg::Index::get() and remove(). Thanks to Roderich Schupp
+    <roderich.schupp@googlemail.com> for the patch. Closes: #558595
+  * Modify implementation of "3.0 (quilt)" source format to not be
+    behave differently depending on whether quilt is installed or not.
+    The option --without-quilt is thus gone and dpkg-source creates
+    and relies on the .pc directory to know whether patches are applied
+    or not. Closes: #557667
+  * Add new dpkg-source option --single-debian-patch supported by the source
+    format "3.0 (quilt)" so that it behaves more like 1.0 and its single diff
+    that is constantly updated with all upstream changes. Useful if the
+    workflow is VCS based and can't generate a full patch set.
+  * dpkg-source now uses debian/source/patch-header as header of the automatic
+    Debian patch in format "3.0 (quilt)".
+  * Fix Debian changelog parser so that the trailer line is again checked.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:24:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Avoid usage of IO::String in dpkg-scanpackages, rely on Dpkg::IPC
+    instead to directly get a pipe file descriptor. Closes: #557013
+  * Put "3.0 (quilt)" in the default list of formats tried by dpkg-source
+    after "1.0" and before "3.0 (native)".
+  * Let dpkg-source fail if several upstream orig.tar files are available
+    (using different compression scheme) since we don't know which one
+    to use.
+  * Add missing "use Dpkg::Gettext" in Dpkg::Changelog::Entry::Debian.
+    Closes: #557668
+  * When building "3.0 (quilt)" source packages, use QUILT_PATCH_OPTS="-t -F 0
+    -N -u -V never -g0" so that quilt is as strict as dpkg-source's internal
+    implementation of quilt. Closes: #557664, #558233
+  * Before accepting to build a 3.0 (quilt) source packages, ensure that
+    debian/patches is a directory (or non-existing) and that
+    debian/patches/series is a file (or non-existing). Closes: #557618
+  * Dpkg::IPC::fork_and_exec() now includes the changed environment
+    variables in the default error message displayed when the sub-process
+    fails.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Verify that the alternative used in update-alternatives --set has been
+    registered instead of failing with an undefined value in the slave
+    method. Closes: #554136
+  * Strip leading spaces in the first line of a field's value in
+    Dpkg::Control::Hash. Closes: #557547
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:23:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Change Dpkg::Version API to accept invalid versions by default and add
+    is_valid() method. The boolean evaluation of a version object returns
+    true if the version is valid, false otherwise.
+  * Update dpkg-shlibdeps to always use Dpkg::Version now that it can
+    contain the empty version string. Closes: #556786
+  * Keep compatibility with perl 5.8 by avoiding the _ prototype.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:54:50 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix build failures due to off_t type mismatch caused by not including
+    <config.h> first on the unit tests. Suggested by Pierre Habouzit and
+    Julien Cristau, thanks!
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Remove obsolete conffiles on purge. Closes: #421367, #453005, #454628
+  * Update list of binaries dpkg checks on the PATH.
+    - Remove install-info, now a wrapper that will disappear soonish.
+    - Add programs used by dpkg itself: sh, rm, find, tar and dpkg-deb.
+  * Check and warn on duplicate conffiles in dpkg-deb. Closes: #131633
+  * Make the upstream build system silent by default with automake 1.11 or
+    newer, and always verbose when building the Debian packages.
+  * Fix small leak when parsing ‘--ignore-depends’ option values.
+  * Define compatibility WCOREDUMP only if the system does not have it.
+  * When start-stop-daemon fails to set the io scheduling warn instead of
+    finishing fatally. Closes: #553580
+  * Update md5 file paths in debian/copyright.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>.
+  * On ‘dpkg-trigger --help’ print the default admindir instead of the one
+    passed on the command line.
+  * Abort on configure if the required C99 extensions are not supported.
+  * Add C coding style document.
+  * Make dpkg as strict as dpkg-statoverride on input when validating the
+    parsed data from the statdb.
+  * Rewrite dpkg-statoverride in C.
+  * Use C99 snprintf function family semantics to avoid having to call them
+    in a loop to grow the varbuf buffer. This should reduce memory usage and
+    be slightly faster on varbufprintf calls.
+  * Use the size from stat to allocate the buffers for readlink, instead of
+    indefinitely calling readlink and growing the buffer. This should reduce
+    memory usage when handling lots of symlinks, and be slightly faster.
+  * Rework varbuf API to avoid increasing buffers indefinitely when adding
+    content to them, regardless of space being already available.
+  * Fix build macros to allow start-stop-daemon to use TIOCNOTTY.
+  * Generate the autoconf version from git to make it easier to see when a
+    snapshot version is being used.
+  * Add infrastructure for doxygen, for now not installed anywhere.
+  * Allow overriding the pkg-config path to ease cross-compilation.
+    Suggested by Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>.
+  * Fix spelling errors in the Catalan translation. Closes: #553328
+    Thanks to Robert Millan.
+  * Update the FSF postal address in the source code license headers by
+    replacing it with a URL to the gnu.org page.
+  * Fix a file descriptor leak in dpkg-deb.
+    Reported by Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com>.
+  * Fix resource leaks on error conditions in compat scandir.
+  * Add a new status-fd action when disappearing a package. Closes: #537338
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add versioned dependency on base-files (>= 5.0.0) to dpkg-dev to ensure
+    that /etc/dpkg/origins/default exists. Closes: #545274
+  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes needed).
+  * Major changes to the perl API:
+    - Dpkg::Control is now Dpkg::Control::Info
+    - Dpkg::Cdata is gone and is replaced by a new Dpkg::Control
+    - Dpkg::Control::Fields contains authoritative information
+      about fields allowed in various types of control information
+      (and can be customized by each vendor). It also integrates
+      information that was previously available through Dpkg::Deps.
+    - Dpkg::Changelog has been split in multiple modules and largely
+      modified to offer an interface that is now more in line with the
+      other modules.
+  * All dpkg-* perl programs that work with control information have been
+    updated to use the new Dpkg::Control interface.
+    In this process, dpkg-scanpackages has been fixed to not skip non-standard
+    fields. Closes: #494136
+  * Create Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed directly in the changelog parsing code thanks
+    to a new vendor hook post-process-changelog-entry. Closes: #536066
+  * Integrate dpkg-ftp into dselect. Add the required Replaces and Conflicts.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages/dpkg-scansources now supports compressed override files.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages now supports a new --medium option as needed to
+    generate Packages.cd file for consumption by the multicd dselect access
+    method. Closes: #402527
+  * Integrate dpkg-multicd into dselect. Add the required Replaces and
+    Conflicts. The dpkg-scanpackages fork is dropped. Closes: #516631
+  * Fix bashisms in dselect multicd access method. Closes: #530070
+  * Add support of "xz" compression method for source packages. Add dependency
+    dpkg-dev → xz-utils to ensure xz and unxz are available.
+  * Fix dpkg-source --include-binaries to correctly compute the path name of
+    the discovered binary files. Closes: #554612
+  * Remove extra quoting that should not be there while passing an exclude
+    file to git ls-files during build of 3.0 (git) source package.
+    Thanks to Courtney Bane for the patch. Closes: #551829
+  * Optimize dpkg-source -b by avoiding many diff calls when not required.
+    Thanks to Mike Hommey for the idea. Closes: #554689
+  * Add new option --print-format to dpkg-source to be able to know by advance
+    the source format that would be used during a build.
+  * Modify dpkg-source -b to use default build options from
+    debian/source/options. Thus it's now possible to have sticky options, for
+    example for the choice of a compression method (--compression=<comp>).
+  * dpkg-source outputs the list of upstream files modified by the diff.gz
+    (applies only to source packages using format 1.0). Closes: #482166
+    It also recommends usage of 3.0 (quilt) format during dpkg-source -b if it
+    detects changes to upstream files that are stored in the .diff.gz.
+  * Add DEP-3 compliant headers to automatic patches created by dpkg-source
+    in 3.0 (quilt) source format. Closes: #543581
+  * Switch dpkg to source format "3.0 (native)" with bzip2 compression.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #548615, #555806
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #548541
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #548541
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * French translation error fixed (Christian Perrier)
+    Thanks to Pietro Battiston for spotting it. Closes: #545446
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #548541
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #548541
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:17:57 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.15.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Do not mark any package as unseen in dselect. This is a workaround
+    until it learns how to store such information again. Closes: #545366
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:15:17 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Call _g instead of g_ in dpkg-name.
+  * Fix inverted logic when deciding to assume the architecture in dpkg-name
+    when the package didn't have such field.
+  * Do not take into account Revision and Package_Revision fields in dpkg-name
+    and dpkg-scanpackages as they have been handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”.
+  * Switch dpkg-scansources to use Dpkg::Cdata instead of duplicating the
+    .dsc parsing code. As a side effect it now handles properly bogus files.
+  * Do not remap obsolete fields in dpkg-scanpackages as they have been
+    handled already by “dpkg-deb -I”.
+  * Properly mark packages being purged for disappearance from the database.
+    This will make the status database not be left behind with traces of old
+    not-installed packages. Closes: #472208
+  * On parse mark not-installed leftover packages for automatic removal from
+    the database on next dump. This obsoletes the --forget-old-unavail option,
+    thus making it now a no-op. Closes: #33394, #429262
+  * Document “hold” under package selection states instead of flags in dpkg(1).
+  * Remove trailing ‘/’ and ‘/.’ from the directory name to be used as the
+    package name on “dpkg-deb -b”. Closes: #218018, #373602
+  * Remove obsolete ‘hold’ and ‘hold-reinstreq’ internal status flags.
+  * Add fakeroot to dpkg-dev Recommends. Closes: #536821
+  * Fix an always false test when trying to decide which package to deselect
+    to resolve a dependency problem in dselect.
+  * Add uClibc Linux support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #455501
+  * Add uClinux support to ostable and triplettable.
+    Thanks to Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>.
+  * When aborting due to file conflicts print the version of the conflicted
+    package. Closes: #540019
+  * Remove double slash in database path visible to the user in some error
+    conditions.
+  * Stop matching sparc64-*-* GNU triplets with sparc Debian architecture.
+  * Add support for config.d style directories in dpkg and dselect,
+    (/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d and /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d respectively).
+  * Define DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH on the maintainer script environment to the
+    architecture the package got built for.
+  * Document DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE maintainer script environment variable
+    in dpkg man page.
+  * Document DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION maintainer script environment variable
+    in dpkg man page.
+  * Change po4a usage to not create unwanted changes depending if doing out or
+    in-tree builds.
+  * Use po4a “--previous” support when updating the man pages.
+    Suggested by Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>.
+  * On configuration error print file name and line number.
+  * Allow quoting values in configuration file options.
+  * Add new --pre-invoke and --post-invoke hooks in dpkg.
+  * Add new --control-path command to dpkg-query.
+  * Use ohshit on bad version syntax in --compare-versions.
+  * Add Multi-Arch to the list of known binary package fields for dpkg-dev.
+    Thanks to Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Replace install-info by a wrapper around GNU's install-info. The wrapper
+    will be dropped in squeeze+1. dpkg now Breaks: old versions of
+    info-browsers that do not depend on the new install-info package
+    that provides the real functionality. Closes: #9771, #523980
+    See https://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo for details.
+  * Fix dpkg's preinst in case /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives contains unexpected
+    sub-directories. Closes: #535138
+    And also when one of the file doesn't contain correct alternatives
+    information (improper number of lines). Closes: #537558
+  * Upgrade Standards-Version to 3.8.2 (no changes).
+  * Update deb-substvars(5) to list fields that do not support substvars.
+    Closes: #535353
+  * Fix dpkg-parsechangelog to include all entries with -v0 parameter.
+    Closes: #537800
+  * Fix update-alternatives to mention the correct slave link that can't
+    be installed due to a conflicting file instead of quoting the master link.
+  * Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scanpackages. Thanks to Robert
+    Millan for the patch. Closes: #537559
+  * Add support for extra override file in dpkg-scansources.
+  * Document format of extra override file in a new manual page
+    deb-extra-override(5).
+  * Update sample in dpkg-gensymbols(1) to give an accurate listing of
+    64 bit arches. Thanks to Julien Cristau for the patch. Closes: #540382
+  * Create /etc/cron.daily/dpkg to handle the backup of
+    /var/lib/dpkg/status in /var/backups. This is taken out of the cron
+    package and need no conflicts/breaks as the code does nothing if
+    the current status file is already backuped. Thanks to Leo 'costela'
+    Antunes <costela@debian.org> for the patch. Closes: #541412
+  * Change behaviour of dpkg --merge-avail to not update a package's
+    information if the version provided is older than the one already listed
+    in the available file. Thanks to Ian Jackson
+    <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> for the patch. Closes: #496114
+  * dpkg-architecture can now export DEB_{HOST,BUILD}_ARCH_{BITS,ENDIAN}
+    (pointer size and endianness):
+    - cputable (in dpkg) modified to contain those information
+    - dpkg-dev depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) to ensure that we have an updated
+      cputable (and so that a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev is enough
+      to use this new feature)
+    Closes: #531307
+  * Split overly long Binary: field values over multiple lines. This is
+    allowed since policy 3.8.3. Closes: #494714
+  * Improve performance of dpkg-shlibdeps by caching minimal version
+    associated to each library in Dpkg::Shlib::SymbolFile. Thanks to
+    Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de> for the patch.
+  * Slightly improve dpkg-source(1) by giving the section name that we're
+    referring to. Closes: #544037
+  * Fix translation error in German manpage of dpkg-buildpackage. Thanks
+    to Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>. Closes: #541829
+
+  [ Modestas Vainius ]
+  * Provide a meaningful label for dpkg-gensymbols diff.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales). Closes: #535327
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Italian (Milo Casagrande). Closes: #536538
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #537742
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #537741
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann), proofread by Jens Seidel.
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French completed (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #542254
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:37:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Modestas Vainius ]
+  * Fix wildcard support in symbol files. Closes: #536034
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:26:36 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Unset TAR_OPTIONS when extracting .deb archives.
+  * Use default compressor values in dpkg-source from Dpkg::Source::Compressor.
+  * Fix dpkg-scanpackages to properly detect spurious overrides.
+  * Rewrite dpkg-name in perl.
+  * Do not close already closed files in some error conditions in libdpkg.
+  * Use the correct units (KiB) in dpkg-split when referring to partsize.
+  * Document in dpkg-statoverride(8) that mode needs to be specified in
+    octal. Closes: #534551
+  * Mark argument names in dpkg-statoverride.1 in italic.
+  * Explicitly pass field argument to Dpkg::ErrorHandling::unknown().
+  * Move unknown() from Dpkg::ErrorHandling to Dpkg::Fields.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Unset TAR_OPTIONS when creating/extracting tar archives for source
+    packages. Closes: #530860
+  * Add cleanup of all invalid (master) alternatives in preinst script.
+    Closes: #530633, #531611, #532739, #521760
+  * Let update-alternatives fix a manual alternative with a dangling symlink
+    by switching it to automatic mode. Closes: #529999
+  * Add missing paragraph separator in dpkg-buildpackage(1). Thanks to Per
+    Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com>. Closes: #532769
+  * Fix English mistake (“as you request” → “as you requested”) in several
+    places. Thanks to David Stansby for the patch. Closes: #533171
+  * Support tags before symbols in symbols file contained in source packages.
+    The first two tags are "optional" (use it to not fail if the symbol might
+    disappear from the library without breaking the ABI) and "arch" to
+    restrict the set of architectures where the symbol is supposed to exist.
+    Thanks to Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu> for the patch.
+    See dpkg-gensymbols(1) for more information. Closes: #521551
+  * Do not include #MISSING lines in symbols files integrated in binary
+    packages. Closes: #526251
+  * Assume an implicit version of "Base" for all unversioned symbols
+    that are merged into a SymbolFile. Closes: #533181
+  * Add new tag "ignore-blacklist" to force-include symbols which are
+    normally blacklisted. This can be useful for libgcc to include symbols
+    that the toolchain allows being shared but that are often static (and
+    hence are blacklisted for this reason). Closes: #533642
+  * In dpkg-source, explicitly pass --keyring ~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg to
+    gpgv as it does not use it if other --keyring parameters are given.
+    Closes: #530769
+  * In dpkg-vendor, allow using dashes instead of spaces in vendor
+    filenames. Closes: #532222
+  * Skip dpkg-genchanges' warning about lower version numbers for backports
+    (recognized by ~bpo or ~vola in their version number). Closes: #525115
+  * Support all checksum algorithms in dpkg-scanpackages/dpkg-scansources.
+    Closes: #533828
+  * Fix dependency parsing code in Dpkg::Deps to not accept "foo\nbar"
+    even if foo is valid. Closes: #534464
+    Thanks to Andrew Sayers for spotting the problem.
+
+  [ Joachim Breitner ]
+  * Warn about unused substvars in dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: #532760
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #532109
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #534831
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #531387
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:06:43 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix FTBFS on GNU/Hurd due to a mismatched define usage in
+    start-stop-daemon. Closes: #530446
+  * Remove obsolete priorities support from dselect.
+    Thanks to Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>.
+  * Fix bashism (“echo -e”) in dselect disk setup method. Closes: #530071
+  * Properly parse fdisk output in dselect disk setup method.
+  * Fix memory leaks due to not destroying some pkg iterators.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales). Closes: #529889
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #529857
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 26 May 2009 01:00:36 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix dpkg-genchanges to not include the additional upstream tarballs
+    when they are not desired (specific to source packages using format 3.0
+    quilt).
+  * Call quilt only once to apply all patches instead of once per patch
+    when building 3.0 (quilt) source packages. Closes: #518453
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps so that it works again when analyzing binaries
+    outside of package's directory. Closes: #518687
+  * Modify dpkg-shlibdeps to let shlibs.local override symbols files too.
+  * Drop support of debian/control's “Format” field used by dpkg-source while
+    it's not too late. Instead debian/source/format should be used to indicate
+    the desired source package format.
+  * Update deb-triggers(5) and dpkg-trigger(1) to add a reference to
+    /usr/share/doc/dpkg/triggers.txt.gz. Closes: #519717
+  * Avoid perl warnings in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges when the
+    Architecture field is missing in a binary package. Closes: #510282
+  * Modify Dpkg::Version::check_version() to not die by default.
+    Closes: #510615
+  * dpkg-source now ignores all possible vi swap file extensions (and not
+    only .swp). The corresponding exclude pattern for -I also got tightened to
+    only catch filenames starting with a dot. Closes: #515540
+  * dpkg-gencontrol displays a better error message when an ORed dependency
+    is used in a union field like Conflicts, Replaces or Breaks.
+    Closes: #489238
+  * dpkg-source's signature check is now done with gpgv if possible and
+    timeouts if not completed within 10 seconds. Closes: #490929
+    When using gpg, use --no-default-keyring to be consistent with gpgv's
+    behaviour to not use the user's keyring. Closes: #440841
+  * Update dpkg-dev dependencies: Closes: #472942
+    - Move gnupg to Recommends. It's needed to sign .dsc and .changes.
+    - Add gpgv to Recommends. Useful to check signatures of extracted packages.
+    - Add debian-maintainers to Suggests. Together with debian-keyring they
+    contain all the GPG keys required to verify official Debian packages.
+  * Drop /etc/dpkg/origins as it's taken over by base-files (see #487437).
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps to properly initialize a symbol-based dependency
+    even when some symbols are associated with a (fake) version "0". Such a
+    version means that the symbol has always existed in all versions of the
+    package.
+  * When dpkg delegates to dpkg-query or dpkg-deb to do the actual work, add
+    the "--" marker to explicitly document the end of options so that
+    arguments starting with a dash are not interpreted as options.
+    Closes: #293163
+    Thanks to Bill Allombert for the patch.
+  * dpkg now correctly refuses empty parameters when an integer value is
+    wanted. Closes: #386197 Based on a patch by Bill Allombert.
+  * Fix a mistake in the french translation of dpkg's manual page.
+    Thanks to Jonathan Gibert. Closes: #522032
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not die when uncompressor processes are killed by
+    SIGPIPE due to tar closing the pipe without exhausting all the data
+    available. Closes: #523329
+  * dpkg-gencontrol now handles properly (empty) dependencies which contain
+    only spaces. Closes: #522787
+  * dpkg-source now accepts additional tarballs (in format "3.0 (quilt)")
+    with a "component" name containing dashes. Closes: #524376
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not complain on binary files that are ignored and are
+    not going to be included in the debian tarball of a "3.0 (quilt)" source
+    package. Closes: #524375
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no change required).
+  * Do not store usernames and group names in tarballs created by dpkg-source,
+    they are anyway ignored at unpack time. Closes: #523184
+  * Fix update-alternatives to not remove real files installed in place of
+    an alternative link when the corresponding alternative is fully removed.
+    Closes: #526538
+  * Add a new dpkg-vendor tool to query vendor information stored in
+    /etc/dpkg/origins. It can be used in debian/rules to enable different
+    behaviour depending on the current vendor at the time of the build.
+    Closes: #498380
+    Modify dpkg-buildpackage to not set the DEB_VENDOR environment variable,
+    packages should use the dpkg-vendor program instead.
+  * Ensure that the automatic patch created in format "3.0 (quilt)" is always
+    well registered with quilt even when it's updated by a new call to
+    dpkg-source. Thanks to Goswin von Brederlow for the initial patch.
+    Closes: #525858
+  * Do not update/create debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied during build,
+    it's only meant to document what patches have been applied at extraction
+    time. Closes: #525835
+  * Let dpkg-buildpackage add the missing execute right on debian/rules if
+    needed. Display a warning when it happens. Closes: #499088
+  * Allow combining -nc and -S in dpkg-buildpackage but display a warning
+    saying that it's not advised. Closes: #304404
+  * Let dpkg-buildpackage error out with subprocerr() when dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+    is interrupted/killed by a signal. Closes: #498734
+  * Fix dpkg-buildpackage/dpkg-genchanges to properly interpret option -v0.
+    Closes: #475916
+  * Improves how dpkg-parsechangelog handles non-existing versions
+    in its --since, --until, --to, --from options. Approximate the intent
+    by selecting the nearest version instead. Closes: #477638
+  * Update dpkg-parsechangelog's documentation to make it clearer that spaces
+    are not allowed between single characters options and their values.
+    Closes: #494883
+  * Don't let dpkg-scanpackages complain about missing overrides when
+    no overrides file has been given. Closes: #468106
+    Thanks to Piotr Engelking for the patch.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix typo in dpkg output (for ‘unexpected’). Closes: #519082
+    Thanks to Ivan Masár.
+  * Sync archtable with architectures currently present in Debian sid.
+    - Remove m68k.
+    - Add kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64.
+  * Add avr32 to cputable. Closes: #523456
+  * Detect the curses headers to use instead of hardcoding them.
+  * Make dpkg-source do not set arch:any in .dsc on arch-restricted packages.
+    Thanks to Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>. Closes: #526617
+  * Add '.hgtags' to the default dpkg-source -i regex and -I pattern.
+    Closes: #525854
+  * Use backticks instead of non-portable make $(shell) function in automake.
+  * Do not install dselect and start-stop-daemon man pages when the programs
+    have been disabled from configure.
+  * Move Debian specific keyrings to the Debian vendor class and change the
+    Ubuntu vendor class to inherit from it.
+  * Do not set the Arch substvar in dpkg-source, avoiding generating warnings
+    when there's no compiler present. Closes: #526132
+  * Preserve faulting errno when printing reason in start-stop-daemon fatal
+    function.
+  * Only print fatal errno string in start-stop-daemon if it was non-zero.
+  * Print the valid values for the IO scheduler class in start-stop-daemon
+    --help output.
+  * Print a warning when using obsolete '--print-installation-architecture'.
+    Closes: #528171
+  * Remove obsolete --largemem and --smallmem dpkg options.
+  * Remove obsolete --force-auto-select dpkg option.
+  * Remove obsolete priorities support from dpkg.
+  * Remove obsolete 822-date program.
+  * Do not right justify the database reading progress percent counter.
+  * Remove deprecated status on substvars for dpkg-source dpkg-genchanges,
+    and stop producing warnings.
+  * Make deprecated dpkg-scanpackages --udeb option produce a warning.
+  * Change dpkg-source --help output to state there's no default substvar
+    file to match reality.
+  * Warn in start-stop-daemon if the argument to --name is longer than the
+    supported kernel process name size. Closes: #353015, #519128
+  * Do not warn in dpkg-deb when parsing unknown fields with the “Private-”
+    prefix. Based on a patch by Nils Rennebarth. Closes: #353040
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Dpkg::Version: Remove unnecessary function next_elem which just
+    replicates the standard shift behaviour.
+
+  [ Colin Watson ]
+  * Add "keyrings" vendor hook, used by dpkg-source to allow vendors to
+    supply additional keyrings against which source package signatures will
+    be verified. Implement this for Ubuntu. Closes: #525834
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Asturian (Marcos Alvarez Costales). Closes: #519478, #519813, #519998
+  * Esperanto (Felipe Castro). Closes: #523023
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #519084
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #526659
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 21 May 2009 06:45:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.15.0) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not suggest manually changing the alternative symlinks on
+    update-alternative's verbose mode. Closes: #412487
+  * Refactor subprocess signal setup.
+  * Mark and coalesce similar strings for translation.
+  * Add '.be' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #481716
+    Based on a patch by Ben Finney.
+  * Fix link order when using libcompat.a and libintl.a by placing them after
+    libdpkg.a. Based on a patch by Martin Koeppe. Closes: #481805
+  * Remove duplicate program name from dpkg-trigger badusage output.
+  * Trim trailing slash and slash dot from 'dpkg -S' arguments when those
+    are path names, but not on patterns. Closes: #129577
+  * Fix the support for passing more than one --status-fd option to dpkg.
+    Until now only the last one was being used.
+  * Replace realloc plus error checking usage with m_realloc.
+  * Add '.hgignore' to the default dpkg-source -i regex and -I pattern.
+    Closes: #485365
+  * Support diverting files when origin and destination are on different file
+    systems. Based on a patch by Juergen Kreileder. Closes: #102144, #149961
+  * Do not silently enable --rename on dpkg-divert --remove. Closes: #160848
+  * Do not allocate memory when lstat fails during package upgrade.
+  * Properly lstat the correct file when using --root on package upgrade.
+    Thanks to Egmont Koblinger. Closes: #281057
+  * Print a longer string when a disallowed field value is found when parsing.
+  * Use $(filter ...) instead of $(findstring ...) to extract space separated
+    options from DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in debian/rules.
+  * Do not leave new conffile as .dpkg-new when it has been diverted, also
+    properly activate the file trigger for the diverted conffile.
+    Based on a patch by Timothy G Abbott. Closes: #58735, #476899
+  * Improve comment on BUGS section in dpkg-deb.1 about lack of authentication
+    and checksum support in .deb files. Closes: #492052
+  * Use a troff special character for the copyright symbol on man pages.
+  * Mark program names in dpkg-trigger.1 in bold.
+  * Unmark dselect debug messages for translation.
+  * Use a the warning function to uniformly print all warning messages.
+  * Properly use internerr to report about programming bugs.
+  * Do not log repeated strings when the write call wrote partial data.
+  * Change dir to / after chroot when using --instdir.
+    Thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #509578
+  * Make dpkg log files user readable. Closes: #480556
+  * Clarify in the start-stop-daemon man page that the signal sent by default
+    is TERM not KILL. Closes: #507568
+  * Warn in dpkg-deb man page that -x will modify the extraction directory
+    permissions. Closes: #502496
+  * Make start-stop-daemon behave the same way whether --chuid gets a user
+    name or a uid. Closes: #368000
+  * Add new option --procsched to start-stop-daemon to be able to set the
+    process scheduling policy and priority. Closes: #175740
+  * Add initial C unit test suite for libdpkg.
+  * Sanitize --status-fd output by replacing newlines with spaces.
+    Closes: #505172
+  * Remove unneeded cpio dependency from dpkg-dev.
+  * Add kopensolaris support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #509312
+  * Document in deb.5 in detail the currently supported format, ar member
+    names, types of tar archives and data.tar members.
+  * Print correct feature name on «dpkg --assert-*» failures.
+  * Add progress reporting to dpkg while reading the file list database.
+    Based on a patch by Romain Francoise.
+  * Add new option --iosched to start-stop-daemon to be able to set the
+    IO scheduling class and priority. Closes: #443535
+    Thanks to Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@googlemail.com>.
+  * Add tar format detection support to the internal extractor.
+  * Add support for ustar long names using the prefix field. Closes: #474092
+  * Code refactoring and cleanup, some of the major changes include:
+    - Use standard interfaces instead of ad-hoc ones.
+    - Fix memory leaks.
+    - Fix compilation warnings.
+    - Constify string members in structures and arguments in functions.
+    - Make local functions static.
+    - Remove unused functions, macros and variables.
+    - Fix and cleanup libcompat broken replacement implementations.
+    - Reduction of module interdependencies.
+    - Rename function and variable names to make them more clear.
+    - Cleanup and split of header files.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps' error message when a library can't be found to
+    include the ELF format of the desired library. Closes: #474671
+  * dpkg-gensymbols now refuses empty values for the -v -P and -e
+    parameters.
+  * Update dpkg(1) to refer to conffile whenever we speak of configuration
+    file handled by dpkg. Thus harmonize vocabulary with the policy. Thanks
+    to Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>. Closes: #381219
+  * Improve error message stating that dpkg is unable to create a file so that
+    it also refers to the real filename instead of the non-diverted name only.
+    Thanks to Daniel Hahler for the patch. Closes: #457135
+  * dpkg-gencontrol can now again read the control file from its standard
+    input with "-c-". Closes: #465340
+  * Add DEB_VENDOR environment variable in the build environment to be able
+    to change behaviour dynamically depending on the vendor of the current
+    system (or target system when the user overrides DEB_VENDOR by setting
+    it himself). Closes: #457371
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps give less strong warnings for symbols not found in NEEDED
+    libraries when the shared library is a non-public directory and is likely
+    to be a plugin. Closes: #481165
+  * Clarify list of packages displayed by dpkg --get-selections and
+    dpkg-query -l. Thanks to Jidanni. Closes: #487455
+  * Document -A option in dpkg-buildpackage(1). Closes: #482834
+  * Add some warning concerning the available file and the related commands.
+    They are mostly obsolete for APT users. Closes: #481185
+  * Add new option --listpackage to dpkg-divert. Thanks to Timothy G Abbott
+    <tabbott@MIT.EDU> for the patch. Closes: #485012
+  * Add new option --require-valid-signature to dpkg-source. Closes: #390282
+  * In dpkg-query(1) document the origin of the various fields and warn that
+    they are not always available. Closes: #488293
+  * Improve error message in install-info when the file doesn't exist.
+    Thanks to Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>. Closes: #107098
+  * Use description of installed package as fallback in dselect.
+    Based on a patch from Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>. Closes: #21659
+  * Reduce memory usage of dselect by avoiding usage of a big infopad.
+    Thanks to Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org> for the patch.
+    Closes: #395140
+  * Largely improve and update dpkg-buildpackage's manual page.
+  * Clarify two points in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #490693
+  * Support RUNPATH exactly like RPATH in dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #502258
+    Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo <jasp00@terra.es>.
+  * Set Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed).
+  * Drop some unneeded lintian overrides.
+  * Fix a chmod call in dpkg-source to not fail when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+    Closes: #506028
+  * Optimize dpkg-shlibdeps by caching parsed symbols files and
+    objdump objects. Thanks to Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu> for the
+    patch. Closes: #503954
+  * Add new framework to hook vendor-specific logic (see
+    module Dpkg::Vendor::Default).
+  * Add Ubuntu vendor object implementing lookup of launchpad bugs in
+    changelogs and a safety-check for Maintainer fields of forked packages
+    (launched during source build). Closes: #426752, #499924
+  * Improve behaviour of update-alternatives --config. Thanks to
+    Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> for the initial patch. We can know
+    select between manual and auto in --config and --all. Closes: #392430
+  * Fix update-alternatives to not switch to manual mode an alternative
+    with a broken symlink (instead let the current action fix it).
+    Also ensure that a message is displayed by default when such a switch is
+    made. Closes: #141325, #87677
+  * Fix update-alternatives' logic to rename files. It failed to ignore errors
+    in some cases where it wanted to when the source file didn't exist.
+    Closes: #99870
+    This also makes update-alternatives less noisy when this happens since we
+    don't call mv when we know that it's going to fail.
+    Closes: #98822
+  * Properly remove inappropriate slave links in update-alternatives even when
+    we switch to manual mode with --set or --config. Closes: #388313
+  * Modify update-alternatives to always remove the alternative group when the
+    last alternative is removed (even in manual mode).
+  * Ensure that update-alternative --install fix the links if the alternative
+    installed is the one currently selected. Closes: #100135
+  * Let update-alternatives deal with empty files in its administrative
+    directory by ignoring them. Closes: #457863
+  * Add new --target and --as-root options to dpkg-buildpackage to call
+    any debian/rules target with the proper build environment.
+    Closes: #477916
+  * Move update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride to /usr/bin
+    but keep compatibility symlinks in /usr/sbin for the squeeze release
+    until all maintainer scripts are fixed (see
+    https://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html).
+    Closes: #216606
+  * Use dh_lintian to install lintian overrides. Build-Depends on debhelper
+    (>= 6.0.7) for this. Update debhelper compatibility level to 6 at the same
+    time.
+  * Drop cleanup-info script.
+  * Reset umask to 0022 in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-gensymbols to ensure that
+    files created in the DEBIAN directory have sane permissions.
+    Closes: #516481
+  * Rewrite update-alternatives (so that we can understand it again) and
+    implement new features on top of it:
+    - the --config output is now sorted. Closes: #437060
+    - it now logs information to /var/log/dpkg.log. Closes: #445270
+    - it forbids reusing master alternative as slave and vice-versa.
+      Closes: #342566
+    - it forbids reusing alternative links managed by other alternatives
+    - new sanity checks on --install parameters. Closes: #423176
+    - install slave link only if the corresponding slave file is available.
+      Closes: #143701
+    - new option --get-selections to export the configuration of all
+      alternatives. It's a simple way to discover the name of all available
+      alternatives. Closes: #273406, #392429
+    - new option --set-selections to reconfigure a set of alternatives in
+      a single command.
+  * Document in update-alternatives(8) how one can repair all broken
+    alternatives with a single command. Closes: #250258, #395556
+  * Modify dpkg-gensymbols to replace #PACKAGE# on the fly while installing
+    symbols files so that package having libraries whose name varies between
+    architectures do not need to hardcode the package name. Closes: #517264
+
+  [ Pierre Habouzit ]
+  * Add a --query option to update-alternatives. Closes: #336091, #441904
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #514106
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz). Closes: #514106
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Korean (Changwoo Ryu).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or)
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #514490
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:13:53 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix typo in package description (for 'provides').
+    Thanks to Pascal De Vuyst <pascal.devuyst@gmail.com>. Closes: #510755
+  * Do not lose conffiles while replacing them from another package on the
+    same install run. Closes: #513857
+    As a side effect this fixes the following symptoms:
+    - Do not do unneeded conffile prompts when it wasn't locally changed.
+    - Do not ensure (and thus do not output debug information) that the
+     .dpkg-new and .dpkg-tmp directories for an existing directory do not
+      exist. Closes: #80416
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * dpkg-deb now always produces GNU tarballs inside .deb and ignores
+    TAR_OPTIONS. Closes: #513863
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #506092, #509851
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #506177
+  * Traditional Chinese (Tetralet). Closes: #513312
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #509852
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans F. Nordhaug).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #509904
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Add missing space in French translation.
+    Thanks to Cyril "Oeil de lynx" Brulebois.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:41 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix parsing of objdump output (by dpkg-shlibdeps) in a special case where
+    the symbol name is separated only with a single space. Closes: #506139
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps behaviour when Build-Depends-Package is used in the
+    symbols file. It was merging all dependency templates into the generated
+    dependency instead of simply modifying the minimal version. Thanks to
+    Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>. Closes: #507346
+  * Fix dpkg-source to correctly extract a source package even when called
+    from a non-writable directory when a target directory has been specified
+    on the command line. Closes: #507217, #507219
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Do not allow installing packages with non-obsolete conffiles owned by
+    other packages without a proper Replaces field. Closes: #508392
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Galician (Marce Villarino). Closes: #509887
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Galician (Marce Villarino). Closes: #509150
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #509424
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Improve German translation.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:38:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.14.23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Blacklist "__gnu_local_gp" symbol for dpkg-gensymbols. Closes: #500188
+    Thanks to Thiemo Seufer <ths@debian.org>.
+  * Important bugfix in dpkg-gensymbols for people using includes in symbol
+    files: the current object didn't flow back from the included file to
+    the including file.
+  * Fix Dpkg::Version comparison code. Closes: #504135
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Untangle fatal abort condition from the “too many errors” one in the
+    archives and packages processing loop. Closes: #367226
+  * Abort on unrecoverable fatal errors instead of continuing execution, as
+    the recovery code assumed the execution would not be reaching it again
+    and some times bogus update files were created either with incompletely
+    written content or with '#padding' lines. Closes: #497041, #499070
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel).
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #505910
+  * French (Christian Perrier)
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Greek (Emmanuel Galatoulas). Closes: #498585
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto).
+  * Korean (Changwoo Ryu). Closes: #505777
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans F. Nordhaug).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #505869
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #499028, #505735
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or).
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #506024
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino). Closes: #505836
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Fix typo in Russian. Closes: #499736
+  * Fix wrong translation in French. Closes: #504123
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:50:56 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * The last "small fix" actually broke conversion of source packages to
+    "3.0 (quilt)" format when they have local changes and no pre-existing
+    quilt series file. Now always provide a valid name in QUILT_SERIES.
+    Closes: #496920
+  * Fix permissions of the automatically generated patch in "2.0" and "3.0
+    (quilt)" format. They were improperly set to 0600 due to tempfile()
+    and were not reset to a sane value. Closes: #496925
+  * Fix dpkg-gensymbols to not scan (real) directories accessed through a
+    symlink contained in the build tree as they may well not be part of
+    the package (with absolute symlinks). It was already skipping symlinks
+    (since 1.14.16.6) for similar reasons.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #496753
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * Norwegian Bokmal (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #497309
+  * Swedish (Daniel Nylander and Peter Krefting).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #497893
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Krefting).
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:54:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Small fix in "3.0 (quilt)" source format when using non-standard name
+    of the quilt series.
+  * Handle debian.tar.gz files like diff.gz in dpkg-buildpackage and
+    dpkg-genchanges to detect the kind of upload.
+  * Add "armel" to /usr/share/dpkg/archtable. Closes: #487768
+  * Modified Dpkg::BuildOptions to recognize and use spaces as separator
+    in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS (in order to conform with the Debian policy
+    ruling established in #430649). Closes: #486937
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not use -i and -I by default with "1.0" source
+    packages. Closes: #495138
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * When loading the status file fix up any inconsistent package in state
+    triggers-awaited w/o the corresponding package with pending triggers.
+    Closes: #487637, #486843, #489068
+  * Fix --no-act in triggers related code. Closes: #495097
+  * Do not assert when dpkg stops processing packages due to too many
+    errors occurred while configuring or removing packages.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>. Closes: #483655
+  * Move lzma from dpkg Suggests to Pre-Depends. Closes: #456332
+  * Match description of -si option in dpkg-buildpackage to the one in
+    dpkg-genchanges. Closes: #493743
+  * Close --status-fd file descriptors on exec, so that they are not
+    inherited by the children. Closes: #471488, #487684
+  * State that the preferred front-end is aptitude and replace one instance
+    of dselect usage with apt-get. Closes: #483785
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Florent Usseil).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #490076
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #490905
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Korean (Changwoo Ryu).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #488689
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #496176
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #488903, #495505
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #488090
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas). Closes: #493326
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petri?or).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:32:39 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Change UTF-8 '©' to '(C)' in deb-version.5 (unfuzzy translations).
+  * Document --force-breaks in 'dpkg --force-help' output.
+  * Document triggers --debug values in dpkg.1. Thanks to Sven Joachim.
+  * Improve package descriptions for dpkg, dpkg-dev and dselect.
+    Thanks to Justin B Rye for the review and corrections. Closes: #484002
+  * When dpkg-divert does renames do no check the target file if the source
+    does not exist and the rename is thus being disabled. This also allows
+    removing bogus diversions. Closes: #476973, #469033
+  * Properly close triggers 'File' file, so it does not get leaked to children.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add missing 'use File::Path' in Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::quilt.
+  * Use debian/patches/debian-changes-<version> (without the trailing ".diff")
+    as default name for the automatic patch created by the format "3.0
+    (quilt)". This ensures a saner cohabitation with patch systems that
+    apply all of debian/patches/*.{diff,patch}.
+  * Improve patch parser to accept more patches that are accepted by patch
+    itself.
+  * Correctly skip comments in quilt series files (concerns "3.0 (quilt)" source
+    packages). Closes: #486323
+  * The automatically created patches (in source package formats "2.0" and
+    "3.0 (quilt)") will now contain "/dev/null" as previous filename when the
+    patch creates a new file (instead of putting the same name).
+  * Set PERL_DL_NONLZY to 1 in perl scripts that are likely to be called in
+    package's configuration scripts to work around the perl bug #479711.
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Fix a typo in dselect.1.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #481043
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel).
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #383448
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio). Closes: #483441
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Norwegian Bokmal (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #480626
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #483143
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #481199
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:33:54 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix a double-free by setting scontext to NULL after calling freecon.
+    Based on a patch by Russell Coker. Closes: #474339
+  * Add missing import of internerr in Dpkg::Source::Patch.pm.
+    Thanks to Marco d'Itri. Closes: #479205
+  * Consider also custom Package-Type fields when printing warnings in
+    dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: #452273
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add missing import of subprocerr in Dpkg::Source::Package. Thanks to Sven
+    Joachim for the patch.
+  * Handle symlinks better when deciding if dpkg-source has to copy the
+    original tarball in the current extraction directory. Closes: #475668
+  * Fix the dpkg-source error message about unrepresentable changes to
+    source because the type of a file changed (new and old were inverted).
+  * Fix dpkg-genchanges to detect udeb based on Package-Type control
+    header instead of file extension analysis on uploaded files.
+    Closes: #476113
+  * Fix dpkg-source to grant correct permissions to tarballs of native
+    source packages. Closes: #477784
+  * Add Conflicts: devscripts (<< 2.10.26) to ensure that people are
+    using versions of debsign/mergechanges that support the Checksums fields
+    in *.dsc and *.changes.
+  * Cleanup the various Conflicts/Replaces fields to remove references
+    to package that have disappeared before sarge (this includes dpkg-doc-ja,
+    dpkgname, and dpkg-static which has never officially been built).
+    dpkg-iasearch has been kept as popcon still reports a few installations.
+  * Collapsed multiple conflicts of dpkg with old versions of dpkg-dev
+    in a single Conflicts: dpkg-dev (<< 1.14.16).
+  * The "3.0 (quilt)" source package format now parses correctly series files
+    with patch options and warn if something else than -p1 is used.
+  * Change the way dpkg-source finds the perl object to use to unpack/build
+    a source package to ignore the minor part of the Format: version.
+    For example "1.0" and "1.1" would both map to Dpkg::Source::Package::V1
+    instead of ::V1_0 and ::V1_1 before. Similarly "3.0 (quilt)" now maps to
+    ::V3::quilt instead of ::V3_0::quilt.
+  * Fix changelog parser to not fail when an unexpected changelog entry
+    appears without the preceding heading line. Closes: #478925
+  * Change the "2.0" and "3.0 (quilt)" source packages to refuse by default
+    binary files in the debian sub-directory. They have to be whitelisted
+    through debian/source/include-binaries. Closes: #473041
+  * Make sure triggers are activated when a file is removed in a directory
+    shared by multiple packages. Closes: #479850
+
+  [ Helge Kreutzmann ]
+  * Minor fixes and clarifications to man pages.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel). Closes: #480579
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Florent Ussel).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #478827
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #478897
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Wiktor Wandachowicz).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #479142
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #478802
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #479007
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 12 May 2008 08:33:07 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Bump po4a version in Build-Depends to 0.33.1-1, as usage of UTF-8
+    in original man pages was causing build failures. Closes: #473498
+  * Add triggers documentation to dpkg-dev. Closes: #473449
+  * Add deb-triggers.5 and dpkg-trigger.1 man pages, and document new
+    statuses and options in dpkg.1.
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * When dpkg-source builds a source package of Format: 2.0 or 3.0 (quilt) it
+    applies the patches before the build if
+    debian/patches/.dpkg-source-applied doesn't exist. This file is created
+    during extraction if patches are applied, and is auto-excluded from the
+    debian tarball. This enables on-the-fly conversion of source packages from
+    Format: 1.0 to Format: 3.0 (quilt) without manual intervention of the
+    user. This feature can be disabled with the option --no-preparation.
+  * The dpkg-source option --skip-patches disables application of patches
+    during extraction of source packages using Format: 2.0 or Format: 3.0
+    (quilt).
+  * Ensure the Files field is last in *.dsc and *.changes. This is a
+    work-around for some braindead dsc parsers (dupload and sbuild for
+    instance, see #473518 and #470440).
+  * Initialize dependencies for libraries having symbols files with the
+    smallest minimal version listed in the symbols file instead of using
+    an unversioned dependency. It's the only way to ensure the library
+    presence if it wasn't available in all versions of the package that ever
+    existed. Closes: #474079
+  * Don't use the -p option of diff for Format: 1.0 source packages.
+    dpkg-source of sarge doesn't accept data after @@. Closes: #474417
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * German. (Sven Joachim).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #473523
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #473726
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:00:10 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.17) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Replace strdup plus error checking usage with a new m_strdup function.
+    Closes: #379028
+  * Add new keybinding in dselect to restore all selections back to
+    whatever's currently installed. Closes: #151540
+    Thanks to Colin Watson.
+  * Use system timersub and fix timeval normalization in multiplication in
+    start-stop-daemon. Thanks to Andreas Påhlsson. Closes: #462225
+  * Cosmetic fixes to start-stop-daemon output and man page. Document that
+    --chuid will change the group even if it has not been specified. Add
+    EXIT STATUS and EXAMPLE sections to man page. Thanks to Justin Pryzby.
+  * Add Raphaël Hertzog to Uploaders, and remove Brendan O'Dea and
+    Christian Perrier with their permission.
+  * Use functions from libcompat when those are not provided by the system.
+    - Add strnlen to libcompat.
+    - Link programs against libcompat which provides obstack. Closes: #142042
+  * Change dpkg-gencontrol to not output the Homepage field on udeb.
+  * Reintroduce 'no-debsig' back in dpkg.cfg to avoid failing to install any
+    package when debsig-verify is installed. Closes: #311843
+  * Fix some small memory leaks. Closes: #469520
+    Thanks to Sean Finney.
+  * Correct broken dselect logic for self-conflicting packages.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Implement 'Breaks' properly in dselect. Closes: #448946
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Fix erroneous description of Breaks in dselect output.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Allow compilation with --disable-nls on systems without libintl.h where
+    a non glibc claims to be glibc. Closes: #465420
+  * Fix crash when a .deb file becomes unreadable while dpkg is starting.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson. Closes: #255882
+  * Few file descriptor cleanup and error handling fixes.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson. Closes: #443338
+  * Move test suite invocation to a new check target in debian/rules.
+  * Add support for nocheck DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in debian/rules, so that the
+    dpkg test suite can be skipped if desired.
+  * Improve log and status-fd output by printing more status change updates
+    and actions. Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Implement triggers support. Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+    Closes: #17243, #68981, #215374, #217622, #248693, #308285
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add a warning displayed by dpkg-genchanges if the current version is
+    smaller than the previous one. Closes: #4655
+  * Add -d and -c options in dpkg-checkbuilddeps to override
+    build-depends/conflicts. Closes: #114774
+  * Include list of libraries in dpkg-gensymbols' warning about new/lost
+    libraries.
+  * Add -R option to dpkg-buildpackage so that one can replace the usual
+    "debian/rules" by something else. Closes: #355654
+  * Always list all binary packages in the Description: field of .changes
+    files. It's nice for reviewers and mentors.debian.net was using this field
+    on source only uploads to display short description of what the package is
+    about.
+  * Handle the case when the library has a different SONAME than the one used
+    to find it. Closes: #462413
+  * Fix Dpkg::Version and Dpkg::Fields::Object to import _g() from
+    Dpkg::Gettext. Thanks to Adam Heath and Olivier Berger for spotting
+    this. Closes: #465651
+  * Change PATH during make check to look into build directories containing
+    dpkg and the related scripts. Thanks to Mike Frysinger. Closes: #466957
+  * Some lintian cleanup:
+    - add overrides for some useless I: tags
+    - drop unused overrides
+    - updated several manual pages to fix hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
+    - fixed manpage-has-errors-from-man in several manual pages
+    - removed empty debian/dpkg.prerm
+  * Removed old upgrade code from dpkg's preinst and postinst which only
+    concerns upgrading from dpkg version older than the one in oldstable
+    already. And thus we get rid of old the last usage of read in those
+    scripts (fixes lintian's warning read-in-maintainer-script).
+  * Removed sorting of dependencies in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source. But
+    kept it for all other fields (Enhances, Conflicts, Replaces, Breaks,
+    Build-Conflicts and Build-Conflicts-Indep).
+  * Instead changed dpkg-shlibdeps to sort the dependencies generated in
+    ${shlibs:*} variables.
+  * Changed the logic of simplification of dependencies: if any dependency
+    must be discarded due to another dependency appearing further
+    in the field, the superseding dependency will take the place of the
+    discarded one. Added a test case for this.
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps properly accounts usage of symbols provided by private
+    libraries without SONAME. Closes: #469838
+  * Add a new warning to dpkg-shlibdeps when a library NEEDED is in fact
+    not used by any of the binaries analyzed. Closes: #472332
+  * Add a new --warnings=<value> option to select the set of warnings to
+    activate. By default, do not activate the warning about useless
+    libraries at the binary level (instead the new warning above is activated
+    by default: it's less strict and more useful).
+  * dpkg-source has been heavily refactored to make it easier to support
+    multiple source package formats. Several new source package formats have
+    been added:
+    - the format "2.0" is the original wig&pen
+    - the format "3.0 (quilt)" is based on 2.0. It uses a tarball for the
+      debian directory and can thus include binary files. Binaries
+      outside of the debian directory can be also included if they
+      are listed in debian/source/include-binaries (and option
+      --include-binaries will generate this file automatically).
+      Closes: #4588, #4628
+    - thus it will also preserve timestamps on Debian-provided
+      documentation like README.Debian. Closes: #366555
+    - it handles an explicit series of patches and the patch can thus be
+      named without constraints. Patches can contain arbitrary
+      headers/comments between file chunks. Closes: #363018
+    - it ignores changes on a number of temporary and VCS-specific files
+      by default. Closes: #203792, #323909
+    - the patches in debian/patches can remove files. Closes: #12564
+    - the patches are applied at unpack time. Closes: #463048
+    - the formats "3.0 (quilt/native)" don't include VCS directories by
+      default. Closes: #435126
+    - the format "3.0 (custom)" can be used to create a source package
+      containing arbitrary files. It's useful for helper tools that can
+      generate the files by themselves in a more efficient way
+      (like all the *-buildpackage tools). Closes: #246918
+    - the formats "3.0 (git/bzr)" are experimental formats based
+      on corresponding VCS repositories. Thanks to Joey Hess and Colin Watson
+      respectively.
+  * dpkg-source has a new --no-check option. It disables GPG check and
+    checksums checks. Closes: #220758
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps is now able to look into directories containing libraries
+    used by cross-built binaries provided that the right environment variable
+    are set. Closes: #453267
+  * Change default value of LDFLAGS (set by dpkg-buildpackage) to ''
+    instead of '-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions'. It's safer at this point of the
+    release cycle.
+  * dpkg-buildpackage will set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR (but not override an existing
+    value) in case of cross-compilation so that pkgconfig finds .pc files
+    in the directory specific to the target architecture. Closes: #439979
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add a warning in dpkg-buildpackage if the build-dependencies are not
+    satisfied during -S. Closes: #445552
+  * Add a missing space in the German scripts translation. Closes: #463398
+  * Add improved deb-shlibs.5 manual page by Zack Weinberg. Closes: #466135
+  * dpkg-buildpackage exports some build related environment variables
+    now. Based on a patch by Matthias Klose. Closes: #465282
+    (See dpkg-buildpackage(1) and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags
+     for details)
+  * Add support for use of SHA1 and SHA256 checksums in .dsc and
+    .changes files. Information will be available in Checksums-Sha{1,256}
+    fields. .changes format version increased to 1.8.
+  * Link dselect against libncursesw. Closes: #466321
+  * Forward port a patch from the old changelog parser to the new
+    one that got lost during the transition. '+' and '.' can now
+    be used in distribution names yet again. Reported by dann frazier.
+    Closes: #467470
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Korean (Changwoo Ryu).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Slovak (Ivan Masár). Closes: #471342
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #468916
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #462403
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:48:22 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Let dpkg-gensymbols skip directories which are just symlinks when scanning
+    the package build dir.
+  * Bump urgency to medium to compensate lost days in testing migration due to
+    the two last uploads.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:20:40 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix dpkg-gensymbols handling of #include so that one can include multiple
+    times the same file and have it properly taken into account.
+  * Add many armel-specific symbols to dpkg-gensymbols' blacklist.
+    Closes: #462318
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:20:10 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Import capit in Dpkg::Cdata from Dpkg::Fields. Closes: #462172
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:44:32 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Remove the ":utf8" layer that utf8-encodes already valid utf8.
+    Closes: #462098
+  * Disable variable substitution in dpkg-genchanges. Closes: #462079, #462089
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Make start-stop-daemon set the supplementary groups if the real user or
+    group are different than the ones we should switch to. Closes: #462075
+  * Fix segfault in start-stop-daemon when using --group w/o --chuid (as
+    a side effect, using --group alone works for the first time in years).
+    Closes: #462072
+  * Fix timeout computations for start-stop-daemon --retry option. This has
+    not worked properly for a long time (maybe never), but came to light
+    due to #460903's fix. Closes: #462104
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:39:59 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Change uid after changing gid and initializing supplementary groups in
+    start-stop-daemon. Closes: #462018
+  * Change temporary dpkg Breaks on dpkg-dev (= 1.14.13) and (= 1.14.14)
+    to Conflicts, so that users from etch can upgrade to sid (or lenny
+    once dpkg has migrated).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:05:22 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.16.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add libtimedate-perl to dpkg-dev's Depends and to Build-Depends.
+    Reported by Aurelien Jarno. Closes: #461875
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:48:51 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.14.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add build-essential as an implicit Build-Depends in dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+    Closes: #402901
+  * Add build-essential to dpkg-dev Recommends.
+  * Do not warn about unrecognized Homepage field in binary package stanzas
+    in dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-source. Closes: #460309
+  * Do not use the enoent helper binary, and use perl POSIX module instead.
+  * Keep checking for the process when start-stop-daemon is called with
+    --retry even if the daemon removed the pidfile. Closes: #460903
+    Thanks to Justin Pryzby for the analysis.
+  * Make --quiet silence --test in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #367998
+  * Check current uid and gid in start-stop-daemon before calling setuid,
+    setgid and initgroups. Closes: #222524
+    Based on a patch by Samuel Thibault.
+  * Remove unimplemented --test option from update-alternatives.
+    Closes: #392432, #461247
+  * Additionally check if errno is EEXIST after rmdir(2), as SUSv3 specifies
+    that on non-empty directories it can either return that or ENOTEMPTY.
+    This fixes run time problems on Solaris.
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon --help output to state that --name is one of the
+    possible required options to use. Closes: #354999
+  * Demote dselect from priority important to optional. Closes: #461327
+  * Fix portability issues on HP-UX, by not using backticks inside double
+    quotes in m4 files. Closes: #24514
+  * Switch Maintainer address to <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org> from
+    <team@dpkg.org>.
+  * Add README.feature-removal-schedule describing the features to be removed
+    and README.api describing the provided APIs.
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Make the -L option of dpkg-parsechangelog actually work (it's
+    only been eleven years...)
+  * Import the code from my external Parse::DebianChangelog as
+    Dpkg::Changelog and Dpkg::Changelog::Debian. Using this
+    from parsechangelog/debian adds the following requested
+    features:
+     - Option to use a non-lossy format. Closes: #95579
+     - Various options to better control how many entries
+       should be displayed. Closes: #226932
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Replaced all the remaining code in controllib.pl by new modules. All
+    scripts have been adjusted to use the new modules and controllib.pl has
+    been removed.
+  * The code to parse debian/control is available in a perl module
+    Dpkg::Control. Closes: #26554
+  * Temporarily add a Breaks: dpkg-dev (= 1.14.13), dpkg-dev (= 1.14.14) on
+    dpkg for the convenience of sid users. Closes: #459815
+  * Update dpkg-source(1) to explain better what the directory after -b is.
+    Closes: #323606
+  * Also force version in ${binary:Version} if dpkg-gencontrol -v<version>
+    is used. That way we're consistent with the definition of that variable
+    in deb-substvars(5). Closes: #433477
+  * Add support of Dm-Upload-Allowed field. Closes: #453400
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps' filtering of duplicated dependencies in fields of
+    lesser priority (when -d is used).
+  * Fix behaviour of dpkg-shlibdeps when the same binary was passed multiple
+    times for use in different dependency fields (-d option).
+  * Change logic of -si option of dpkg-genchanges to include the original
+    tarball only if the current upstream version differs from the upstream
+    version of the previous changelog entry. Replaces the heuristic based
+    on revision number (-0, -0.1 or -1). Closes: #28701
+  * Some code refactoring on dpkg-genchanges and bug fixes in the generation
+    of the Description: field. As a result, source only uploads will no more
+    have Description fields.
+  * Add support of wildcard entries in symbols files. This makes it much
+    simpler to write symbols files for well managed libraries but in that case
+    dpkg-gensymbols can't check any more if symbols have disappeared.
+    Closes: #459359
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Fix typo in French. Closes: #460021
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #459565
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German, Basque, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese,
+    Galician unfuzzied.
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #460708
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #460709
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:00:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Make sure {dpkg-dev,dselect}.preinst are included in the source tarball.
+    Closes: #452730
+  * Blacklist armel-specific symbols in dpkg-gensymbols. Reported by Riku
+    Voipio. Closes: #457964
+  * Fix typos in various manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Closes: #458276
+  * Make dpkg-shlibdeps choose the right symbols files when we have several
+    debian/*/DEBIAN/symbols for a given soname. Closes: #458860
+  * Add a -S<pkgbuilddir> option to dpkg-shlibdeps to indicate a package build
+    tree to scan first when trying to find a needed library.
+  * Change dpkg-gensymbols to mark symbols that disappeared with #MISSING
+    instead of #DEPRECATED, it's clearer for people.
+  * Fix Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump to properly take into account R_*_COPY
+    relocations. Closes: #454036
+  * Explain better the order in which postinst/prerm scripts are called
+    between a package and its dependencies. Thanks to Nicolas François and
+    Helge Kreutzmann for their suggestions. Closes: #379641
+  * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions so that dpkg-buildpackage doesn't double all
+    options in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS when called with the -j parameter.
+    Closes: #453656
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Move compression related variables to a new Dpkg::Compression module.
+  * Remove disabled, obsolete and quite incomplete Hebrew translations.
+  * Revert dpkg-dev versioned dependency bump on dpkg >= 1.14.13 back to
+    >= 1.14.6, as the compression variables are now in a module in dpkg-dev.
+  * Do not display garbage in dselect on monochrome terminals, by setting
+    a missing ncurses character attribute. Closes: #155741, #157093
+    Thanks to Sven Rudolph.
+  * Do not loop endlessly in dselect with very long package descriptions.
+    Closes: #179320, #342495
+    Thanks to John Zaitseff.
+  * Ignore wrapped lines in install-info when matching section titles.
+    Closes: #214684
+    Thanks to Andreas Metzler and Ian Zimmerman.
+  * Do not use strdup for execvp arguments. Closes: #379027
+  * Do not print 'failed to kill' warning in start-stop-daemon when polling
+    the pid. Closes: #157305, #352554
+    Thanks to Samuel Thibault.
+  * Properly print build message in dpkg-buildpackage for lzma and bzip2
+    compressed sources. Closes: #458519
+  * Promote bzip2 Recommends to Depends for dpkg-dev. Closes: #458521
+  * Add lzma to dpkg-dev Depends.
+  * Do not automatically enable -j if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains parallel=n,
+    and allow overriding its value from the environment. Closes: #458589
+  * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse all options in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, so
+    that dpkg-buildpackage called with -j preserves unrecognized options.
+  * Fix several signed vs unsigned value comparisons that were making some
+    code to never be executed.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #459223
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #457918, #458732
+  * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #459018
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #459016
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:12:16 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix override disparity: set priority of dselect to important.
+  * Add libio-string-perl to Build-Depends as it's needed by a non-regression
+    test (fix FTBFS, thus a quick upload).
+  * Make dpkg-dev depend on dpkg (>= 1.14.13) as the latest Dpkg.pm is needed
+    for dpkg-source.
+
+ -- Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:20:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.14.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add an own manpage for Dpkg's version format. Mostly stolen
+    from policy. Closes: #373003
+  * Fix control file parsing for field values starting with a colon.
+    Apparently nobody ever needed this until Vcs-Cvs came along.
+    Closes: #453364
+  * Copy the usr/share/doc directory to dpkg-dev and dselect (Instead
+    of using symlinks). The space requirements are minimal and adding
+    the needed dependencies to comply with policy would be way more
+    inconvenient. Pointed out by Rene Engelhard. Closes: #452730
+  * Allow more than one arch and more than one type of a package
+    in debian/files. Parts of the patch by Goswin von Brederlow
+    and Bastian Blank. Closes: #356299, #377400, #229143
+  * Allow building only architecture independent packages (-A).
+    Closes: #109794, #200454
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes)
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * When dpkg-shlibdeps finds a lib in a directory which is just a symlink to
+    another directory that is also considered, remember the other directory
+    name as the canonical one. Closes: #453885
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't warn any more about libm.so.6 being unused if the
+    binary is also linked against libstdc++ since g++ always add an implicit
+    -lm. Closes: #454616
+  * Included files in symbols files (via #include) do no more need to repeat
+    the header line. Closes: #455260
+  * Tweak the sort algorithm between dependencies so that intervals
+    are displayed as "a (>= 1), a (<< 2)" instead of the opposite.
+    Closes: #455520
+  * Extend format of symbols files to support arbitrary fields of
+    meta-information. First field is Build-Depends-Package used to extract the
+    version requirement possibly encoded in the Build-Depends field and make
+    sure that the generated dependency is at least as strict as this one.
+  * Fix dpkg-gensymbols to not update version info of a deprecated symbol.
+    Closes: #457739
+  * Fix dpkg-source's behaviour with options -sk -sK -sp -sP. Closes: #457784
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Ignore the man pages when building without NLS support. Closes: #457673
+  * Fix perl warnings:
+    - Check for undefined values when reading from the alternative db.
+  * Properly handle symlinks for alternatives with nonexistent slave links.
+    Closes: #76295, #246906, #433567, #451872, #220044, #392440, #441021
+    Closes: #443241
+    Based on a patch by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>.
+  * Fail when diverting to a non existent directory. Closes: #245562
+    Thanks to Flavio Stanchina <flavio@stanchina.net>.
+  * Refactor update-alternatives.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier, as this was trivial).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #456984
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #455841
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:16:45 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Add -I<file> option to dpkg-gensymbols to force the usage of a specific
+    symbols file.
+  * Dpkg::Shlibs::find_library() now returns canonicalized paths.
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps always tries the realpath() of a lib as fallback when
+    trying to identify the package of a lib (and not only for symlinks).
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't fail any more if it can't find unversioned
+    libraries on the presumption that they are just private libraries. Outputs
+    a warning instead.
+  * Expand the dpkg-shlibdeps manual page with explanations concerning
+    failures.
+  * The environment variable DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL can be used to force
+    dpkg-gensymbols to use a precise level of checks. Closes: #452022
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Define several private functions and variables as static.
+  * Move extern declarations to header files and stop defining them as extern.
+  * Unify parsing of Section and Priority in dpkg-gencontrol with Homepage.
+  * Switch dpkg-scanpackages to use the new Dpkg::ErrorHandling and
+    Dpkg::Versions modules.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:14:09 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps now ignores the lack of dependency information in some
+    specific cases (instead of failing):
+    - when the library is in the same package than the binary analyzed
+    - when the library is not versioned and can't have a shlibs file
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps now only displays 10 warnings about symbols not found for
+    each binary and a count of skipped warnings. Closes: #452318
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps: optimize "dpkg -S" lookups by caching results, patch
+    from Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org>. Closes: #452577
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix dpkg-scanpackages to properly support an optional override file.
+    Closes: #452621
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:19:02 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps now correctly identify private libraries (avoid many
+    warnings with perl/python modules). Closes: #452338
+  * Move capit() to a Dpkg::Fields module and use it in dpkg-shlibdeps.
+    Closes: #452262
+  * Add more debug messages to dpkg-shlibdeps to ease collecting information
+    in case of problems.
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps now accepts again empty dependencies in shlibs files.
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps will try harder to identify packages providing a library
+    by looking up dpkg -S on the realpath of any symlink to a library.
+    Closes: #452339
+  * dpkg-source now correctly identifies the extension of the
+    orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file and won't unexpectedly create "Format: 2.0"
+    .dsc files.
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add support for Package-Type in dpkg-name.
+  * Restore cross compilation support by honouring the environment host and
+    arch variables to override the default values on the dpkg-dev scripts.
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson)
+
+  [ Added scripts translations ]
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson)
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:32:27 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Fix bad behaviour of Dpkg::Path::get_pkg_root_dir() and adjust
+    dpkg-shlibdeps accordingly. Closes: #452012
+  * Fix Dpkg::Deps to accept empty fields. Closes: #452013
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:15:41 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
+  * Heavy rework of dpkg-shlibdeps:
+    - Support "symbols" files to generate finer-grained dependencies.
+      Those files can be created by the new dpkg-gensymbols command.
+      Closes: #430367
+    - Uses now all paths in RPATH (instead of only the first).
+      Closes: #395942
+    - Support parsing include directives in /etc/ld.so.conf. Closes: #431597
+    - Libraries are also searched in the public directories of packages
+      being built and thus debian/shlibs.local can effectively define
+      dependencies for libraries that are being built. Closes: #80340
+    - "symbols" files use the full SONAME as key instead of splitting it in
+      (name, version) like in the "shlibs" format. This allows binaries to
+      be linked with unversioned libraries and not fail. Note that
+      unversioned libraries are still a very bad idea.  Closes: #48208
+    - dpkg-shlibdeps now supports '-x<package>' options that can be used to
+      exclude packages from generated dependencies (use with care though).
+      Closes: #41907, #109954
+    - If dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't find any dependency information for a
+      shared library that is actively used, then it will fail. This can be
+      disabled with the option '--ignore-missing-info'. Closes: #10807
+  * Switch perl programs to use the new Dpkg::Deps module. This changes the
+    behaviour of dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source which will rewrite and
+    simplify dependencies and build dependencies as possible. Multiple
+    dependencies on the same package are replaced by their intersection.
+    Closes: #178203, #186809, #222652
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add $(MAKE) check to build target
+  * Allow using other compressions than gzip on dpkg-source -b
+    (NOTE: this will result in a Format: 2.0 source package!).
+    Closes: #382673
+  * Various small fixes to the manpages suggested by Helge Kreutzmann.
+    Closes: #445858
+  * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions (and thereby dpkg-buildpackage) to really
+    set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Found by Daniel Shepler. Closes: #446119
+  * Change some ' in shell code in dpkg-source.1 and dpkg-query.1 to
+    proper \(aq. Reported by Daniel van Eeden. Closes: #447476
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Use shipped perl modules when calling perl programs at build time.
+  * Switch perl programs to use the new Dpkg::ErrorHandling and Dpkg::Arch
+    perl modules.
+  * Add support for format strings in Dpkg::ErrorHandling functions.
+  * Move build and host arch detection code from dpkg-architecture to
+    Dpkg::Arch.
+  * Add initial udeb support:
+    - Support new fields Package-Type, Subarchitecture, Kernel-Version
+      and Installer-Menu-Item. Closes: #383916
+    - New '--type' option for dpkg-scanpackages.
+  * Make dpkg-dev Conflict on dpkg-cross << 2.0.0 which was sourcing
+    dpkg-buildpackage expecting it to be a shell script. Closes: #445852
+  * Get rid of undefined macros from man pages. Thanks to Colin Watson
+    for the analysis.
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #446501
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio). Closes: #446624
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #446278
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #448354
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Added scripts translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #448353
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:36:30 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add back $dpkglib into @INC, needed by the controllib.pl require in
+    822-date. Closes: #440962
+  * Document in dpkg-scanpackages that apt now requires Packages.bz2 in
+    preference to Packages.gz. Closes: #440973
+  * Stop recognizing the obsolete Optional field when building packages.
+  * Use fakeroot, if present, by default to gain root privileges in
+    dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Fix typos in dpkg-deb.1 and start-stop-daemon.8. Closes: #441051
+    Thanks to A. Costa.
+  * After '<prerm> remove' fails and while doing the error unwinding, if
+    the '<postinst> abort-remove' call succeeds, preserve the old status
+    instead of unconditionally setting it to 'Installed'. Closes: #432893
+    Thanks to Brian M. Carlson.
+  * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields to debian/control.
+  * Add a Homepage field to debian/control (to be changed later when
+    there's a more formal site).
+  * Allow comparing unsupported architectures for equality and identity.
+    Based on a patch by Frank Lichtenheld. Closes: #427210
+  * Document Origin and Bugs fields in deb-control.5. Closes: #173463
+  * Do not replace substvars for build dependencies (it was not supported
+    anyway).
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add _MTN to dpkg-source -i default regex. Suggested by Jari Aalto.
+  * Convert dpkg-buildpackage to a Perl script.
+    Fix some bugs in the new script detected in experimental:
+    Closes: #444362
+  * dpkg-buildpackage accepts a -j<n> option now which will set
+    MAKEFLAGS(-j<n>) and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS(parallel=<n>) accordingly.
+    parallel=<n> in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS will be passed to MAKEFLAGS as
+    well. Based on an idea by Robert Millan. Closes: #440636
+  * Allow dpkg-source -I without a pattern which will load a default
+    list of pattern similar to -i without regexp. Patch by
+    Jari Aalto. Closes: #440972
+  * Rework documentation of dpkg-source's -i and -I options.
+    Closes: #323911, #440956
+  * Add --utf8-strings to gpg call in dpkg-buildpackage since
+    that seems to be the better default. Suggested by Székelyi Szabolcs.
+    Closes: #379418
+  * Let dpkg-buildpackage error out early if the version number from
+    the changelog is not a valid Debian version. Closes: #216075
+  * Fix dpkg-source to create correct diffs for files with spaces in
+    their name (apparently we don't have many of those ;).
+    Based on a patch by Marcel Toele. Closes: #445380
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #440859
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul). Closes: #441106
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #440537
+  * Nepali (Shiva Prasad Pokharel). Closes: #437825
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo). Closes: #441113
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #440502
+  * Korean (Sunjae Park). Closes: #443190
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Korean (Sunjae Park). Closes: #443191
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Correct a typo in the French translation. Closes: #443276
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:31:34 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Synchronise usage information of dpkg, dpkg-deb, and
+    dpkg-query man pages. This fixes some small mistakes
+    and also Closes: #321520
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Man pages cleanup:
+    - Some italics and bold fixes.
+    - Unify ellipsis, argument separator, and remove redundant program name
+      preceding the options.
+    - Substitute 'FILES' header with 'SEE ALSO' in dpkg-buildpackage(1),
+      and remove leftover string from man page split. Closes: #439306
+    - Split option descriptions so that it gets easier to distinguish.
+    - Unify author and copyright information formatting.
+  * Move variables automatically modified at build time for the perl scripts
+    to a new style perl module (Dpkg) and make all programs use it.
+  * Switch 'dpkg-gettext.pl' to a new style perl module (Dpkg::Gettext).
+  * Implement support for Breaks field. Closes: #379140
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Run the deconfiguration of each package to be deconfigured once, instead
+    of once per each conflicting package being removed. Closes: #378003
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Do not segfault when the result from a 'dpkg-query -l' is bigger than
+    the total number of current packages, and do not produce repeated
+    results with overlapping patterns on 'dpkg-query -W'. Closes: #428427
+  * Tightening dpkg-dev versioned Depends to dpkg 1.14.6, and dpkg Conflicts
+    against << dpkg-dev 1.14.6, where the perl modularization started.
+  * Do not print empty lines after 'Setting up ...' output. Closes: #392317
+  * When a slave alternative is inapplicable do not attempt to create the
+    slave link before removing it again. Closes: #411699
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Do not consider it a file conflict if the package contains a symlink
+    to a directory where the existing symlink on-disk points to the
+    same place. Closes: #377682
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Fix perl warnings:
+    - When removing a non diverted file with dpkg-divert. Closes: #438416
+  * Implement support for Homepage field. Closes: #142324
+  * Ignore XB- fields instead of XC- fields from control file binary package
+    stanzas in dpkg-genchanges.
+  * Explicitly ignore all known fields from the control file source package
+    stanza in dpkg-genchanges, instead of leaving unknown fields unwarned.
+  * Implement support for Vcs-Browser, Vcs-Arch, Vcs-Bzr, Vcs-Cvs, Vcs-Darcs,
+    Vcs-Git, Vcs-Hg, Vcs-Mtn and Vcs-Svn fields in control file source
+    package stanza.
+  * Implement support for Tag field.
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy, Christian Perrier).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dzongkha (Tshewang Norbu). Closes: #430931
+  * Nepali (Shiva Prasad Pokharel). Closes: #435353
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #436147
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #436149
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:36:02 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add lpia support to ostable and triplettable.
+  * Fix dpkg-source to not emit duplicated entries for the Architecture field
+    in the .dsc file.
+  * Fix dpkg-scanpackages to load the override file after having filled the
+    packages information. Closes: #428169, #428470
+  * Add '.shelf' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #427827
+    Thanks to Adeodato Simó.
+  * Support a colon separated list of paths from the ELF RPATH field in
+    dpkg-shlibdeps. Thanks to Jiří Paleček. Closes: #427988
+  * Man pages cleanup:
+    - Reference deb-substvars(5) instead of dpkg-substvars(5). Closes: #429182
+    - Mark dpkg-* commands in bold.
+    - Unify title header.
+    - Remove an additional space in install-info(8) and mark gzip in bold
+      and remove redundant reference to GNU.
+    - Fix explanation of dpkg-source '-b' option, remove a reference to
+      checking for a missing empty string argument, and add a reference
+      to '-sX' arguments affecting the behaviour. Closes: #428167
+    - Remove documented dpkg-gencontrol options in dpkg-source left over
+      from the man pages split.
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Fix typo in German translation of start-stop-daemon(8).
+    Noted by Joachim Breitner. Closes: #430008
+  * Correct permission and owner/group handling when extracting
+    tar balls to match more the user's preferences instead of
+    ours or the ones from the originator of the tar ball. Patch
+    by Ian Jackson. Closes: #390915, #207289
+  * dpkg-source warns now about new empty files since those will
+    not be represented in the diff. Closes: #383394
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Estonian (Ivar Smolin). Closes: #427589
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino). Closes: #429958
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:27:07 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.14.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix perl warnings:
+    - When unpacking a source package with -sp from a different directory
+      than the one containing the tarball. Closes: #424998
+  * Remove an unused variable in dpkg-statoverride by renaming it to the
+    initially intended name. Closes: #425041
+  * Fix loose regex in dpkg-source (/\.debian.tar/ -> /\.debian\.tar/).
+    Thanks to Kylan Robinson. Closes: #425629
+  * Revert change on 1.14.0 from Aaron M. Ucko. Trim down duped entries only
+    when passing them to dpkg-query instead. Closes: #425641
+  * Recognize again architecture wildcards. Closes: #424670
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #425776
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrío).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 24 May 2007 19:30:26 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix perl warnings:
+    - In dpkg-genchanges when called with -S. Closes: #423193
+    - In architecture comparison operations. Closes: #423452
+    - Fill slavepaths undefined entries with an empty string to guarantee
+      they are always defined. Closes: #423140, #423451, #423544, #423555
+  * Include the new split man pages deb-substvars.5, deb-override.5 and
+    deb-shlibs.5 in dpkg-dev.
+  * Fix deb-substvars.5 section to match reality.
+  * Refactor update-alternatives.
+  * Fix dpkg-divert to work again w/o specifying the '--divert' and
+    '--package' or '--local' options. Closes: #423864
+  * Document in install-info.8 that when no '--section' option is specified,
+    install-info will try to use the INFO-DIR-SECTION entry from the info
+    file. Add missing commas. Thanks to Kurt B. Kaiser. Closes: #397737
+  * Disambiguate in install-info.8 the use of 'Info directory' with
+    'Info dir file'. Closes: #420766
+  * Document in deb-control.5 that the control file can have '#'-style
+    comments. Closes: #406481
+  * Make start-stop-daemon fork twice while daemonizing.
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy). Closes: #423392
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #423401
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #423403
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2007 16:02:59 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Remove bashisms in dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: #422239
+  * Handle case in update-alternatives when there's no existing alternative
+    to configure. Closes: #260987, #353252, #367717, #392431
+  * Add solaris support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #361866
+  * Properly create the generic name symlink in update-alternatives for new
+    alternatives. Closes: #422979
+  * Include translations again, which disappeared due to a dirty source tree
+    and a bogus Makefile.am for the man pages. Closes: #423029, #423085
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 09 May 2007 22:22:45 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix partial upgrades by tightening dpkg-dev versioned Depends to
+    dpkg 1.14.0, and dpkg Conflicts against << dpkg-dev 1.14.0, where
+    the triplettable support first appeared. Closes: #422848
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 18:23:49 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.14.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Make the copyright information in dpkg-deb.1 and dpkg-split.1 match the
+    one in the source. Thanks to Nicolas François. Closes: #379320
+  * Allow dpkg-buildpackage to properly override '-b' when passed after '-B'.
+    Thanks to Julian Gilbey. Closes: #397479
+  * Move retrieval of uid and gid information from controllib.pl into a
+    function, so that scripts not needing it do not execute that code.
+    Based on a patch by Riku Voipio. Closes: #396884
+  * Do not bail out in dpkg when building without start-stop-daemon support,
+    by checking if the macro value is true instead of it being defined.
+    Thanks to Mark Rosenstand.
+  * Make all perl scripts use strict and warnings, to ease catching errors.
+  * Refactor update-alternatives code, with the side effect that now commands
+    on non existing link group files will return an error code (except
+    for --remove, now). Closes: #273407
+  * Add a missing newline to a warning message in dpkg. Closes: #390914
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Fix typo in variable name in dpkg-source which was causing it to not
+    create directories when extracting the diff. Closes: #374645
+  * Fix up and down keystrokes in the dselect help message. Closes: #383438
+    Thanks to Sven Joachim.
+  * Convert 822-date to be a simple wrapper around 'date -R'. 822-date is
+    now deprecated and should not be used anymore. It might be removed
+    sometime in the future. Closes: #31634, #367712, #314462
+    Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld.
+  * Add '.gitignore' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #409566
+    Thanks to Julien Cristau.
+  * Add '.hg' to the default dpkg-source -i regex. Closes: #414794
+  * Use l10n-friendlier strings to describe dependencies. Closes: #390916
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson.
+  * Change priority for dpkg-dev from standard to optional to match the
+    override.
+  * Do not use a build-stamp in debian/rules.
+  * Fix confusing bottom status lines in dselect, unifying them by removing
+    the method or package name and capitalizing. Closes: #9085
+  * Check proper error value returned by BZ2_bzerror. Closes: #410605
+  * Exit with an error instead of an assert if a file name is too long when
+    building a .deb package. Closes: #393069
+  * Exit with an error instead of an assert if the number of conflictors is
+    exceeded. Remove bogus comments. Closes: #377855
+  * Fix regular expression special-casing Origin, Bugs and Maintainer fields
+    which was making X[SBC]- fields containing such strings to propagate into
+    the .deb control file unprocessed. Thanks to Colin Watson.
+  * Add support for '--admindir' in dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+    and dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #162348
+  * Cleaning and format unification of manual pages.
+  * Make the override-file argument to dpkg-scanpackages optional.
+  * Refactor compression filtering code.
+  * Split override file information from dpkg-scanpackages.1 into
+    deb-override.5 manual page.
+  * Split dpkg-source.1 into independent man pages, namely deb-substvars.5,
+    deb-shlibs.5, dpkg-buildpackage.1, dpkg-distaddfile.1, dpkg-genchanges.1,
+    dpkg-gencontrol.1, dpkg-parsechangelog.1 and dpkg-shlibdeps.1.
+  * Support building binary packages with the member data.tar.lzma compressed
+    with lzma.
+  * Require gettext 0.16.1.
+  * Show the epoch (if present) when displaying package versions.
+    Closes: #107449, #179913, #345594, #393924, #405668
+    Based on a patch by Jeffrey W. Baker.
+  * Switch from pseudo-tags to usertags, and update the documentation.
+  * Fix typo in German dpkg man page. Closes: #416167
+    Thanks to Martin Weis.
+  * Properly sort Uploaders field in generated .dsc files.
+  * Reorder a bit the fields in output files.
+  * Speed up dpkg-shlibdeps by avoiding doing a dpkg-query for duped
+    libraries. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko. Closes: #421290
+  * Generalize source architecture handling by abstracting it through the new
+    Debian triplet and the new triplettable.
+  * Add armel support to ostable and triplettable. Closes: #414087
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415320
+  * Traditional Chinese (Anthony Wong). Closes: #415230
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Estonian added (Ivar Smolin). Closes: #422404
+  * Kurdish added (Erdal Ronahi). Closes: #418154
+  * Marathi added (Priti Patil). Closes: #416810
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * German (German l10n team). Closes: #418528
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 11:11:50 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix year 2018 in changelog for Michael Alan Dorman's upload in 1998,
+    which was confusing the changelog parsers. Closes: #402526
+  * Document in its man page that update-alternatives requires cooperation
+    from all packages dealing with the specific file. Closes: #396338
+    Thanks to Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>.
+  * Require POSIX inside subprocerr in controllib.pl. Closes: #390636
+    Thanks to Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>.
+  * Support extracting lzma compressed source and binary packages,
+    and add a Suggests on package lzma. Closes: #347715
+  * Add '/emul/ia32-linux' biarch paths to dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: #403216
+  * Remove non-modified /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg configuration file when upgrading
+    from versions 1.9.21 through 1.10.28, to avoid getting prompted about
+    conffile changes. Closes: #398061
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Chinese (Traditional, Asho Yeh).
+  * Korean (Sunjae Park). Closes: #394135, #404938
+  * Norwegian Bokmal (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #391143
+  * Nepali (Shiva Prasad Pokharel).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Catalan (Jordà Polo).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #399343
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Punjabi (A S Alam).
+
+  [ Updated scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Korean (Sunjae Park). Closes: #404943
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Tue,  2 Jan 2007 00:23:57 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.13.24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix dselect segfault by adding a field description matching the
+    dependency field enum position. Closes: #392731, #392724
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Nepali (Shiva Prasad Pokharel). Closes: #373728
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:34:39 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add initial support for the Breaks field, by parsing but rejecting it.
+    Thanks to Ian Jackson <iwj@ubuntu.com>. Closes: #375703
+  * Use dpkg-architecture from the source tree to get the target Debian
+    architecture, instead of duplicating the logic in the m4 files.
+  * Remove comment headers in dselect/helpmsgs.{cc,h} about the files being
+    autogenerated, replace them with a proper license and copyright comment.
+    Closes: #382308
+  * Add a new line at the end of m4/compiler.m4 file, to cope with an
+    autoreconf failure due to the new m4 1.4.7.
+
+  [ Nicolas François ]
+  * Specify --null before the -T tar's option to avoid the "tar: -: file name
+    read contains nul character" warning.
+    Closes: #376351, #375749, #376724, #377279
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Dzongkha (Kinley Tshering).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #375118
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes).
+  * Catalan (Robert Millan, Jordi Mallach). Closes: #383448
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Dzongkha (Tenzin Dendup). Closes: #388192
+  * French (Frédéric Bothamy).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #381409, #381740
+  * Hungarian (SZERVÁC Attila).
+  * Italian (Stefano Canepa, Davide Viti). Closes: #387821
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #386963
+  * Khmer (Khoem Sokhem). Closes: #375099
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo, Rui Branco).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #376746, #391143
+  * Slovak (Peter Mann). Closes: #387282
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino). Closes: #386759
+  * Swedish (Daniel Nylander). Closes: #383643
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #383588
+
+  [ Added scripts translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * French (Philippe Batailler).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes).
+  * Catalan (Robert Millan, Jordi Mallach).
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).
+  * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #384843
+    (Sven is now the new German translation maintainer for dpkg and dselect).
+  * Hungarian (SZERVÁC Attila).
+  * Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto). Closes: #391144
+  * Italian (Stefano Canepa).
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto).
+  * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fr. Nordhaug).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov).
+  * Slovak (Peter Mann).
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #391144
+  * Swedish (Daniel Nylander).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * French (Philippe Batailler).
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #379030
+
+  [ Added man pages translations ]
+  * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
+    Closes: #379286, #379298, #379417, #379433, #379661, #379798, #379825
+    Closes: #379985, #380130, #380239, #380365, #381047, #380660, #380443
+    Closes: #381349, #381488
+  * Japanese (KISE Hiroshi).
+    Closes: #381141, #381865, #384768, #385675, #386965, #388837
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:56:09 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Version the po4a Build-Depends to >= 0.23 as we are using options
+    introduced in that version. Thanks to Sergio Gelato. Closes: #370536
+  * Add '.bzrtags' directory to default dpkg-source -i regex.
+    Suggested by Adeodato Simó. Closes: #370392
+  * Print update-alternatives '--config' listing layout evenly spaced.
+    Closes: #325895
+  * Clarify the legend in update-alternatives '--help' (Andrew Ferrier).
+    Closes: #305318
+  * Add the source version inside parenthesis to the Source field in the
+    generated .changes and binary packages if the binary package version
+    differs (like in binNMUs). Closes: #62529
+  * Add missing comment serving as documentation about abort-remove on
+    removal in dpkg.postinst (Justin Pryzby). Closes: #372145
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-deb manpage (Robert Luberda). Closes: #373999
+  * Clarify dpkg-architecture new options '-e' and '-i' in man page, add
+    backward compatibility information and give some examples.
+    Thanks for the initial suggestions to Junichi Uekawa. Closes: #370830
+  * Modified some strings to be able to merge them in the .pot files.
+  * Add new '--umask' option to start-stop-daemon. Closes: #368003
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * dpkg-source issued spurious warnings about fields defined with
+    XB-. They now get correctly suppressed. Closes: #374154
+  * Give a correct warning when the user requested an unknown
+    sign command that we will default to a pgp style interface.
+    Closes: #133470
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #373107
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Catalan (Guillem Jover).
+
+  [ Added programs translations ]
+  * Nepali (Paras Pradhan). Closes: #373728
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Simplified Chinese (Kov Tchai). Closes: #366260
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Typo fix in update-alternatives ("alternativse"). Thanks to Eddy Petrisor
+    for spotting it. Translations unfuzzied.
+  * Make similar messages in dpkg-statoverride and dpkg-divert exactly similar
+    Thanks to Eddy Petriso for spotting them, again.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:03:29 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Disambiguate error message about conflicting command line actions by
+    providing both long and short option names. Based on a suggestion by
+    Josip Rodin. Closes: #45575
+  * Add '/lib32' and '/usr/lib32' to the dpkg-shlibdeps library path search
+    list. Closes: #367892
+  * Revert usage of English perl non-essential module from install-info.
+    Closes: #369928, #369958, #370157, #370174, #370210
+  * Print the correct file being parsed by dpkg-parsechangelog's debian
+    parser. Closes: #368961
+  * Fix dependency cycle breaking in the case when every link involves
+    a Provides (Ian Jackson). This is a proper fix for #349442.
+    Closes: #370017
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Jun 2006 19:02:44 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add gettext support for the Perl scripts. Based on a patch by
+    Nicolas François. Closes: #165843
+  * Only print usage information of dpkg-scanpackages on stdout
+    if requested explicitly. Use stderr in case of error.
+    Closes: #366659
+  * Add remarks to dpkg-scansources and dpkg-scanpackages
+    man pages about the need to compress the generated files
+    to be able to access them via apt. Closes: #65839
+  * Allow '+' and '.' in distribution names in Debian changelogs.
+    Based on a patch by John Wright.
+    Closes: #361171
+  * Use the Debian keyring in dpkg-source when checking signatures
+    of .dsc files, if available. Closes: #364726
+  * Let dpkg-buildpackage pass through all remotely sensible
+    -sX options to dpkg-source (-s[nsAkurKUR] currently).
+    Closes: #36586
+  * Improve the description of --showformat in dpkg-deb
+    man page and add a pointer to the complete description
+    of the option in dpkg-query.
+  * Don't spew out garbage from dpkg-deb, if the second argument
+    to -I is a absolute filename. Based on a patch by Ian Eure.
+    Closes: #35573
+  * Fix --ignore-depends argument value parsing. Closes: #169125
+  * Completely remove md5sum diversion madness.  Instead, we Pre-Depend
+    on a version of textutils which provides /usr/bin/md5sum.  We rely on
+    the logic in coreutils to remove our diversions. Patch by
+    Ian Jackson. Closes: #315784, #313605
+  * Try harder to detect dependency cycles that contain Provides
+    links. Closes: #349120, #349442
+  * Update archtable to reflect current archive: Add amd64 and remove
+    sh. Closes: #367329
+  * Don't claim in dpkg man page that we set DPKG_OLD_CONFFILE and
+    DPKG_NEW_CONFFILE on sub shells since we actually don't.
+  * Fix printing of user defined fields with --showformat and
+    document the existence of this feature in dpkg-query man page.
+  * Make --forget-old-unavail more reliable by deleting architecture
+    information of removed packages. Patch by Piotr Engelking.
+    Closes: #208532
+  * When building packages with dpkg-deb give a more useful error
+    message in case a conffile entry has leading whitespace. Patch
+    by David Lopez Moreno. Closes: #281562
+  * Don't drop directories that contain our conffiles too early from
+    our file listing. Otherwise we might leave them behind on purge
+    if we share them with other packages.
+    Closes: #174180, #198128, #198522, #318825, #366178
+
+  [ Nicolas François ]
+  * Fix typos in the Russian man pages. Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.
+    Closes: #366587
+  * Honour tabbing requested via --showformat even if the field to
+    be printed is empty. Closes: #361671
+  * Flush the terminal's input before prompting what to do with a
+    configuration file. Closes: #316551
+  * Fix the --force-depends-version option. Closes: #57104
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Standardize scripts usage output format and at the same time make
+    the strings easier for the translators. Add '--help' and '--version'
+    for most of the scripts. Print the usage and version to stdout.
+  * Do not strip the epoch from the source:Upstream-Version substvar.
+    Closes: #366351
+  * Properly check and report lock file existence in install-info.
+    Based on patch by Ben Pfaff. Closes: #368874
+  * Correct default info directory for '--infodir' in install-info man
+    page (Ben Pfaff). Closes: #368875
+  * Print the bogus version and prefix the error message with 'dpkg: '
+    when using '--compare-versions'. Closes: #369177
+  * Remove duplicated string " , at changelog " in dpkg-parsechangelog's
+    debian style parser (Julian Gilbey). Closes: #369205
+  * Update the Section and Priority fields in the status file from the
+    new packages. We assume that the information from the binary package
+    is correct, otherwise it should be fixed there to match the archive
+    override file (Koblinger Egmont).
+    Closes: #54529, #58106, #81171, #230610, #237622, #237626
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.2 (no changes needed).
+  * Add lintian overrides for dpkg, dpkg-dev, dselect and sources.
+  * Replace logrotate installation logic with dh_installlogrotate.
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Hungarian (SZERVÁC Attila).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #366353
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Simplified Chinese (Kov Tchai). Closes: #366985
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * Slovak (Peter Mann).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #366185
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #366187
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Wed, 31 May 2006 07:43:16 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Add -follow (back) to find call in dpkg-scanpackages.
+    Closes: #358011
+  * Fix error in archive.c that lead to a infinite loop when
+    installing files with long, non-ASCII filenames in
+    certain locales. Closes: #346436
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul). Closes: #362317
+  * Czech (Miroslav kure).
+  * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #363264
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #357911
+  * Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #363683, #363679
+  * Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #365334
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Romanian (Eddy Petrişor).
+  * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+  * French (Christian Perrier).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+
+  [ Nicolas Francois ]
+  * Generate the Russian man pages in the KOI8-R charset. Closes: #361987
+  * Document the shlibs.local format in dpkg-source(1). Closes: #316485
+  * Fix a typo in an error message. Thanks to Justin Pryzby. Closes: #364539
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix strings so that they can be more easily translated. Closes: #134358
+  * Add new substvars source:Version, source:Upstream-Version and
+    binary:Version so packages will be able to avoid breaking on binNMUs.
+    Based on a patch by Ken Bloom and Jeroen van Wolffelaar. Closes: #358530
+  * Support binNMU safe packages even when source and binary differ in
+    version.
+  * Rename dpkg:UpstreamVersion to dpkg:Upstream-Version. Make dpkg:Version
+    and dpkg:Upstream-Version get the current dpkg versions instead of the
+    ones from the package being built.
+  * Split usage strings to make it easier for translators when those change.
+    Closes: #323957
+  * Standardize start-stop-daemon usage output format.
+  * Make install-info '--dir-file' option compatible with GNU install-info
+    by renaming the infodir variable to dirfile and not appending the
+    '/dir' string except when initializing from '--info-dir' or
+    '--infodir' (Wayne Davison). Closes: #61640, #67237, #286275
+  * Make install-info add a new line after adding the last entry at the
+    end of the dir file, which makes the info readers able to see those
+    last entries (Nicolas François). Closes: #164495
+  * Use the numerical value of errno instead of a string in install-info
+    when checking if the locking error was due to an already existing
+    file, which is locale dependent, and die accordingly. Based on a patch
+    by Nicolas François. Closes: #199204, #210781
+  * Escape hyphens in man pages.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.1.
+  * Wrapped debian/control fields except Uploaders given current policy.
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Thu,  4 May 2006 14:05:21 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Romanian (Sorin Batariuc). Closes: #356664
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul). Closes: #356188
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #357912
+  * Danish (Claus Hindsgaul). Closes: #356188
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #361415
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Typos corrected in French dpkg-source man page
+    Thanks to Nicolas Bonifas who spotted them
+  * Russian completed. Thanks to Yuri Kozlov.
+    Closes: #361415
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Correct typos in man pages. Thanks to A. Costa for spotting them
+    Closes: #358091, #358092, #358093, #358094, #358095
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add a '[!]' in --force-all help denoting that it is a dangerous option.
+    Closes: #359935
+  * Prefix any chroot path to the exec file name when stating it in
+    start-stop-daemon. Closes: #318771, #333066
+  * Add '-r' to the help output of start-stop-daemon (Jared Spiegel).
+    Closes: #354869
+  * Use mustsetvar when setting the value of the sversion variable in
+    dpkg-buildpackage (Andrew Suffield). Closes: #158953
+  * Pass '--admindir' option over to dpkg-query when passing '--admindir' or
+    '--root' to dpkg (initial patch by Branden Robinson).
+    Closes: #153305, #271041, #282853, #307715, #355915
+  * Support system library directories in dpkg-shlibdeps symlinked from
+    '/lib/ldconfig'. Closes: #356452
+  * Document that 'dpkg --get-selections' and 'dpkg-query -l' without a
+    pattern will not list packages in state purge. Closes: #355633
+  * Obsolete force/refuse 'auto-select' dpkg option.
+  * Add new '--clear-selections' option to dpkg (Andrew Suffield).
+    Closes: #112388
+  * Use '--clear-selections' in the dpkg man page example on how to transfer
+    the status to another installation. Closes: #137442
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:40:22 +0300
+
+dpkg (1.13.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Fix handling of -DArchitecture=foo in dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: #251911
+  * Handle architectures in all dependency fields in debian/control,
+    even those of binary packages. Closes: #252657, #324741, #347819
+  * More dpkg-scanpackages fixes (--arch option handling). Closes: #353506
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add missing parentheses surrounding a man page section reference
+    in the dpkg-source man page (Matt Kraai). Closes: #353731
+  * Fix misspelling of "occurred" in dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source
+    (Matt Kraai). Closes: #353949
+  * Major cleanup of manpages, by using properly the bold and italic
+    attributes and other embellishments.
+  * Add dpkg-query(1) in the SEE ALSO section in dpkg(1). Closes: #354643
+  * Don't try to compile in SELinux support on GNU/kFreeBSD amd64.
+  * Add new quiet option to dpkg-source to suppress warnings. Closes: #355065
+  * Do not expand architecture aliases anymore in .dsc files.
+  * Change start-stop-daemon's --exec behaviour again on GNU/Linux to compare
+    the referred file pointed by the '/proc/<pid>/exe' symlink, stripping
+    any ' (deleted)' string and stating the result. Closes: #354867
+
+  [ Updated man pages translations ]
+  * Polish (Robert Luberda). Closes: #353782
+  * French (Philippe Batailler).
+
+  [ Updated dselect translations ]
+  * Hungarian (Szervác Attila).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+
+  [ Updated programs translations ]
+  * Italian (Lele Gaifax)
+  * Simplified Chinese (Carlos Z.F. Liu).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Dutch (Bart Cornelis).
+  * Hungarian (Szervác Attila).
+  * Czech (Miroslav Kure).
+  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #357724
+
+ -- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:33:03 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.13.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The "not really a brown paper bag needed but it's close" release
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Move auxiliary autotools scripts to config/.
+  * Require gettext 0.14.5.
+  * Move the methods directory to dselect/methods, so the contents will not
+    be installed if dselect is not to be built.
+  * Move dselect gettext strings to its own domain provided now by the
+    dselect package.
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Fix override handling in dpkg-scanpackages which was broken in
+    1.13.14 and .15. Closes: #353305
+  * Make -isp the default behaviour of dpkg-gencontrol as it is
+    always used anyway these days. Suggested by Matthew Vernon.
+    Closes: #215233
+  * Typo fixes in man pages by A. Costa:
+    - dpkg-deb.1 Closes: #353424
+    - dpkg-statoverride.8 Closes: #353425
+    - install-info.8 Closes: #353426
+    - start-stop-daemon.8 Closes: #353427
+    - update-alternatives.8 Closes: #353428
+    - dpkg.1, dpkg.cfg.5 Closes: #353429
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:59:00 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add a missing closing parenthesis in a dpkg string (Jordi Mallach).
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Updated translations:
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes). Closes: #352432
+    - Galician (Jacobo Tarrio). Closes: #352443
+
+  [ Updated translations ]
+  * Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+  * Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+  * Swedish (Daniel Nylander).
+
+  [ Added translations ]
+  * Hungarian (Szervác Attila).
+
+  [ Added man pages translations ]
+  * Hungarian (Szervác Attila): dpkg.cfg.5 and dselect.cfg.5.
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:37:40 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.14) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Make start-stop-daemon print the proper version instead of 'VERSION'.
+  * Set the HOME environment variable when using the --chuid switch in
+    start-stop-daemon. Closes: #295169, #267784
+  * Cleanup and unify program usage and version output, make it more i18n
+    friendly. Fix wrong gettext usage with interparsed macros.
+    Thanks to Changwoo Ryu for noticing. Closes: #237915
+  * Mark some strings as translatable (Changwoo Ryu). Closes: #256387
+  * Remove a trailing 'C' character from update-alternatives manpage.
+  * Use pkg-config to get the proper flags to link against libselinux.
+    Add a Build-Dependency on pkg-config, tighten libselinux1-dev to
+    at least version 1.28-4 which provides a .pc file, and remove
+    libsepol1-dev as libselinux1-dev is Depending on it.
+  * Add command descriptions in the synopsis, and add a usage example for
+    -f in the dpkg-query manpage. Thanks for the initial patch to
+    Philippe Batailler. Closes: #352091
+  * Document about the default log file, the behaviour in case of multiple
+    --log options and add a reference to dpkg.cfg manpage in the dpkg manpage.
+    Thanks to James R. Van Zandt. Closes: #350440
+  * Escape ` and ' in manpages otherwise they are converted to quotation
+    marks, which makes cut and paste not work. Thanks to Denis Barbier.
+    Closes: #349925
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Let dpkg-source ignore comments in the hunk header as used by
+    diff -p (Anand Kumria). Closes: #344880
+  * Let dpkg-buildpackage create a .changes file even if signing the
+    .dsc file failed. This makes it easier to just sign the package
+    later (Julian Gilbey). Closes: #217963
+  * Change heuristics of dpkg-buildpackage's gpg check to allow for
+    more complex setups (Julian Gilbey). Closes: #163061
+  * Add files and dirs used by bzr to default dpkg-source -i regex
+    (maximilian attems). Closes: #345164
+  * Add .git directory to default dpkg-source -i regex.
+    Suggested by Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Closes: #351885
+  * dpkg-scanpackages can now output Packages files with multiple
+    versions of a single package (Don Armstrong). Closes: #229589.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages outputs help when given the --help or -h option
+    (Don Armstrong). Closes: #319541
+  * Document dpkg-scanpackage -m in man page.
+  * Let warn dpkg-source if more than one -sX option was given and
+    document the behaviour in this case in the man page.
+    Closes: #246637
+  * Make dpkg-source -b more robust regarding to existing symlinks
+    by creating new files in a secure manner. Closes: #178839, #338591
+  * Fix some semantic errors in dpkg-shlibdeps due to typos in used
+    variables.
+  * On package configuration, differentiate between modified and
+    deleted configuration files (Ian Jackson). Closes: #351361
+  * Improve processing of disappearing conffiles (Ian Jackson).
+    This is part of the fix for #108587.
+  * Let dpkg-source -x touch all patched files to have the same
+    timestamp to mitigate time-skew problems (Denis Barbier).
+    Closes: #105750
+  * Strip any newlines from Uploaders field on dpkg-source -b.
+    Closes: #254449
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Switch to po4a for manpages translation. Closes: #320122
+    This adds a Build-Depends on po4a.
+  * Add Vietnamese to po/LINGUAS as it was previously missing.
+  * Updated translations:
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #351587
+    - French (Christian Perrier): 1011t.
+    - Galician (Jacobo Tarrio): 1002t. Closes: #351795
+    - Basque (Piarres Beobide): 1002t. Closes: #351845
+    - Slovak (Peter Mann): 1002t. Closes: #352087, #352311
+    - Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall): 1011t. Closes: #352307
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:32:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * dpkg and dselect are now in section admin, not section base.
+    Correct info in the control file.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.6.2 (no changes).
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-architecture man page. Closes: #334330
+  * Honor LD_LIBRARY_PATH in dpkg-shlibdeps. Fixes a regression
+    from 1.13.11 to .12.
+  * Don't recurse into package directories to search for local
+    shlibs files since it is obviously a waste of time. Based
+    on a suggestion by Steve Langasek. Closes: #338725
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Updated translations:
+    - Dutch (Bart Cornelis). Fix error mentioned in #323908 by
+      Stephan Kramer.
+    - Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #349808
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-statoverride manpage. Closes: #348113
+    Thanks to Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>.
+  * Document the --no-debsig option in dpkg manpage. Closes: #316367
+    Thanks to Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>.
+  * Fix typos in dselect manpage. Closes: #310358
+    Thanks to A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>.
+  * Fix typo in start-stop-daemon's help output. Closes: #333673
+    Thanks to Christoph Maser <cm@financial.com>.
+  * Document the correct format string for dpkg-query --showformat option.
+    Update -l example and lower case the program name in the title header.
+    Thanks to Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>. Closes: #174976
+  * Make dpkg-architecture not print the warning about a mismatch between
+    gcc target machine type and GNU target system type if the actions are
+    '-e' or '-i'.
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:16 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.12) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Due to the changes in dpkg-shlibdeps it is not recommended
+    to use this version for building packages intended to be
+    uploaded into an official archive, yet.
+
+  [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
+  * Update AUTHORS and debian/copyright for new maintainer team.
+
+  * Don't use the ldd output in dpkg-shlibdeps. Search for the
+    matching libraries ourself. This fixes problems with both
+    symlinked directories, Closes: #103024, #145714, #164020, #285857
+    and biarch builds. Closes: #317082
+  * Let dpkg-gencontrol bail out with an error if parsedep
+    found an error while parsing a dependency field. Closes: #228125
+  * dpkg-source -x now tries to chown all files extracted from
+    tar files. The temporary directory is now created with mode
+    0700, too. Together this should make it safer to run
+    dpkg-source -x as root. Based on suggestions by Marcus
+    Brinkmann and Colin Watson. Closes: #144571, #238460
+  * Let dpkg-source -b check the build relation fields before
+    putting them into the .dsc. As a side effect they also
+    get normalized. Closes: #254449
+  * Check the gpg signatures of .dsc files before unpacking. See
+    the upstream changelog for a full description of the semantics.
+    Based on a patch by Matt Zimmerman. Closes: #48711
+  * Let dpkg-source ensure (as good as possible) that all
+    build source packages can also be unpacked.
+    Closes: #6820, #7014
+    Also fixed handling of md5sum -b output in dpkg-source on
+    the way. Based on a patch by Ingo Saitz. Closes: #316123
+  * Check for illegal architecture strings in dpkg-gencontrol and
+    dpkg-source. dpkg-gencontrol will only issue a warning while
+    dpkg-source will error out. Closes: #96920
+  * Add support "package types" to dpkg-shlibdeps. Patch by Joey Hess.
+    Closes: #335056, #345475
+  * Fix man page references to dpkg and dselect man pages. Many
+    of them still had a wrong section.
+    Closes: #332826
+  * Let dpkg-source -b warn about special permissions of files added
+    in the diff since these will get lost. Closes: #306125
+  * dpkg-source -x didn't work in case the upstream version or
+    the Debian version ended with ~. Fixed.
+
+  [ Christian Perrier ]
+  * Updated translations:
+    - French (Christian Perrier).
+    - Polish (Bartosz Fenski). Closes: #314237
+    - Norwegian Bokmal (Hans F. Nordhaug). Closes: #315548, #315990
+    - Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #323775, #345347
+    - Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #323821, #335170
+    - Japanese (Kenshi Muto). Closes: #323938
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes). Closes: #325224, #332872
+    - Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #335170, #349151
+    - Swedish (Peter karlsson). Closes: #325990, #344058, #337164, #334063
+    - Norwegian Nynorsk (Håvard Korsvoll). Closes: #315987
+    - Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).
+      Closes: #315461, #323674, #323642, #330021
+    - Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña). Closes: #323662, #315253
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul). Closes: #348575, #323779, #337948, #325687
+    - Dutch (Bart Cornelis). Closes: #323908
+    - German (Michael Piefel). Closes: #323964
+    - Italian (Stefano Canepa). Closes: #324114, #344671, #347225
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach). Closes: #324456
+    - Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #342089, #332698
+    - Tagalog (Eric Pareja). Closes: #337307
+    - Simplified Chinese (Tchaikov). Closes: #338268
+    - Galician (Jacobo Tarrío). Closes: #338904
+    - Romanian (Eddy Petrişor). Closes: #340674
+    - Vietnamese (Phan Vinh Thinh, Clytie Siddall).
+    - Indonesian (Parlin Imanuel). Closes: #344513
+    - Greek (Galaxico). Closes: #344646
+    - Czech (Miroslav Kure). Closes: #345347
+  * Fixed broken translation:
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (James Troup). Closes: #332872
+  * Fix Russian man page for start-stop-daemon(8)
+    Closes: #325804
+  * Fix German man page for update-alternatives(8)
+    Closes: #329908
+  * Fix typo in dpkg online help message. Unfuzzy translations
+    Closes: #349299
+
+  [ Guillem Jover ]
+  * Add armeb to cputable. Closes: #331232
+    Thanks to Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh+debian@wantstofly.org>.
+  * Don't try to compile in SELinux support on GNU/kFreeBSD.  Closes: #313300
+    Thanks to Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>.
+  * When linking statically, explicitly add libsepol, even if its only a
+    transitive library. The proper fix should come with a pkg-config file.
+    Based on a patch by Bart Martens <bart.martens@advalvas.be>.
+    Closes: #347744, #348659
+  * Add support for architecture wildcards, but for now they will only be
+    exposed in debian/control files, not in binary nor source packages.
+    Closes: #291939
+  * Change start-stop-daemon's --exec option behaviour on GNU/Linux to
+    compare the filename pointed by '/proc/<pid>/exe' instead of the inode
+    and device numbers. Thanks to Vasilis Vasaitis <v.vasaitis@sms.ed.ac.uk>.
+    Closes: #337942
+
+ -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:15:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.11.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Change maintainers to new team.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:56:49 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.13.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Good, clean fun" Release.
+
+  * Fixed the always broken error handling so that only the intended
+    cleanup handlers are run, rather than ones that we didn't expect.
+    This corrects the bug when a package's postrm fails and the package is
+    left in an installed state with no files; the package will now be left
+    in a half-installed state, as originally intended.  Found by Marga
+    Manterola while documenting the maintainer scripts.  Closes: #296026.
+  * Fixed removal of files involved in diversions during upgrade, caused by
+    checking whether the "directory" was in use by another package without
+    actually checking whether or not it was a directory.  Closes: #310390.
+  * Fixed package saving to not disappear packages who divert anything from
+    the installing package out of the way.  Closes: #113626.
+  * Improved clean-up of unpack failure during install or upgrade, to leave
+    the system in exactly the same state as it started in.
+    Closes: #47404, #82407, #121173, #170869, #201848, #236733, #268639.
+  * Fixed crash when unpacking a package which has an unversioned Replaces
+    declared on it by another package previously unpacked in the same run
+    (Colin Watson).  Closes: #322595.
+
+  * New install unwinding fixed to ensure we don't leave a version in the
+    status db for a not-installed package.
+  * Corrected error call when encountering a corrupted filesystem tarfile
+    to not print "Success".  Closes: #95570.
+  * Fixed castration of potentially unsafe devices to not follow symlinks.
+    Closes: #169928.
+  * Marked log file descriptor as close-on-exec.  Closes: #320925.
+  * Re-worked dpkg-source -x to allow all manner of strange things maintainers
+    seem to do, unpacking isn't the right place to enforce sanity; we'll
+    do it in -b later on >:-).  Closes: #316470, #317760, #318473, #318745,
+    #322359, #322361, #322362.
+
+  * Corrected dselect synopsis line to match consensus.  Closes: #318659.
+  * Changed dpkg-name to use a shell redirect rather than the /dev/stderr
+    device that may not be writable.  Closes: #318376.
+  * Adjusted various dpkg-query options to avoid outputting a trailing
+    newline.  Closes: #151651, #319781.
+  * Changed references to "statusoverride" file to just "statoverride"
+    to make it match reality.  Closes: #320952.
+  * Fixed several bugs with the default diff ignore list used by dpkg-source.
+  * Added ,,* to the list of default diff ignore list.  Closes: #322917.
+
+  * Fixes to dpkg-dev (Frank Lichtenheld):
+    - dpkg-checkbuilddeps will now exit with an error if it is unable to
+      parse a dependency field.  Closes: #171762, #302229.
+    - dpkg-genchanges will now output a warning if given -sd for a native
+      package, as it's going to ignore it.  Closes: #5571.
+    - dpkg-source fixed to give a more meaningful error message if given
+      a directory as the first argument.  Closes: #306874.
+    - dpkg-source fixed to handle being given an absolute path to -b.
+      Closes: #147574.
+    - Fix controllib.pl to allow whitespace before version operators.
+      Closes: #273489, #310306.
+    - Fix architecture dependency parsing that sometimes generated wrong
+      list of requirements.  Closes: #319816.
+    - Make the default control field name mangling behaviour "nicer" by
+      upper-casing all letters that come after a dash.  Closes: #306474.
+    - Ignore trailing newlines in single paragraph control files.
+      Closes: #57194, #156319
+  * Documentation:
+    - Fixed typo in dpkg-architecture man page.  Closes: #317770.
+    - Documented dpkg-deb -W/--show and --showformat.  Closes: #319784.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:44:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Bully's Special Prize" Release.
+
+  * Removed /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon.  Closes: #313400.
+  * Fixed md5sum diversion removal.  Closes: #313415.
+  * Fixed dpkg-source to handle native tarballs with a Debian revision.
+    Closes: #313381, #313433.
+  * Fixed upgrade from pre-sarge dpkg outside of dselect.  Closes: #314575.
+  * Changed log times to be local rather than UTC.  Closes: #313347.
+  * Changed log writing to be line-buffered.  Closes: #314550.
+  * Moved log creation to postinst, and don't fail if base-passwd hasn't
+    been configured yet.  Closes: #316084.
+  * Don't try to compile in SELinux support on Hurd.  Closes: #313398.
+  * Place code for SELinux support in the right place so it will actually
+    get compiled in and used (Manoj Srivastava).  Closes: #314886.
+
+  * Documentation:
+    - Added missing word to dpkg-architecture manpage.  Closes: #313554.
+    - Reference to dpkg manpage in dpkg.cfg corrected.  Closes: #314262.
+  * Updated translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Basque (Piarres Beobide Egana).  Closes: #313474.
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).  Closes: #313288.
+    - Czech (Miroslav Kure).  Closes: #314431.
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).
+    - French (Christian Perrier).
+    - German (Jens Seidel).  Closes: #314125.
+    - Greek (Greek team).  Closes: #314828.
+    - Italian (Lele Gaifax).
+    - Japanese (Kenshi Muto).  Closes: #313330.
+    - Russian (Yuri Kozlov).  Closes: #313620.
+  * Hebrew translation de-activated on request of the translator until there
+    is better support for RTL languages.  Closes: #313282.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:19:06 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "On like Donkey Kong" Release.
+
+  * Only open the log file when we first need to write to it, this avoids
+    the need to suppress errors when not root which fakeroot defeated anyway.
+  * Stop dpkg-source clobbering an existing .orig directory during unpacking.
+    Closes: #21236.
+  * Allow an alternate output directory to be specified to dpkg-source by
+    giving a second argument to -x.  Closes: #246802, #282323.
+  * Added .arch-inventory to default diff ignore regexp.  Closes: #304297.
+
+  SELinux support (Manoj Srivastava):
+  * On SELinux-enabled systems, try to set the security context when the
+    package is unpacked.  Closes: #193653, #249496, #307139.
+  * Added build-dependency on libselinux1-dev.
+
+  Improvements to dpkg-source (Brendan O'Dea):
+  * Support unpacking of "Wig And Pen" (Format 2.0) source packages.
+  * Multiple pristine upstream tarballs allowed.
+  * Native and upstream tarballs may be bzip2-compressed instead of gzip,
+    as may the debian diff or tarball.
+  * Unsupported format error fixed to output the unsupported format
+    rather than the supported one.  Closes: #156317.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:52:43 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.8) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "In like Flynn" Release.
+
+  * Linux 2.6.12 changed the behaviour of mmap to fail and set EINVAL when
+    given a zero length, rather than returning NULL.  This is POSIXly
+    correct, so handle zero-length package control files (like available).
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:39:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.7) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Maidenhead Creeping Water Plant" Release.
+
+  * Reduced inability to open a log file to a warning, suppressed for
+    non-root operations.  Closes: #312383.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu,  9 Jun 2005 06:12:56 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.6) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Just kidding about the God part" Release.
+
+  * Fixed incorrect installation location of /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg caused
+    by a mis-understanding of dh_install's abilities.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Mon,  6 Jun 2005 05:58:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.5) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Flatulent Elm of West Ruislip" Release.
+
+  * Actions and package states are now logged by default in the
+    /var/log/dpkg.log file.  This file is rotated monthly and can be
+    disabled by commenting the line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.
+  * User decisions about conffiles are now logged.
+  * dpkg-source no longer complains about Enhances field.  Closes: #159642,
+    #159745, #159746.
+  * preinst no longer relies on procps being installed.  Closes: #311808.
+
+  * Architecture Support:
+    - Change DEB_*_GNU_CPU from i386 to i486, to reflect reality.
+      DEB_*_ARCH_CPU remains at i386, you should be checking against that.
+      Closes: #310394.
+    - Fixed order ostable is read to prevent Linux becoming the Hurd.
+      Closes: #309603.
+  * Updated man page translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Syntax error corrected in Swedish man page for dpkg-deb.
+      Closes: #300980.
+    - Syntax error corrected in Spanish man page for dpkg-scanpackages.
+      Closes: #300981
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Mon,  6 Jun 2005 05:34:21 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.4) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Or the Wabbit gets it" Release.
+
+  * Add -L option to dpkg-architecture to list architecture strings
+    we can accept.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:31:15 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.13.3) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Paying off Karma at a vastly accelerated rate" Release.
+
+  * Missing newline added to warning output function.  Closes: #283798.
+  * Fixed prototype warning in dpkg-scansources.  Closes: #213577, #219760,
+    #267505.
+  * Removed trailing line from debian origins file.  Closes: #264904.
+  * Changed dpkg-buildpackage to say "source changed by" rather than
+    "source maintainer is".  Closes: #247313.
+  * Fixed dpkg-gencontrol to allow '-' in architecture names.  Closes: #274677.
+  * Fixed "unknown information field" error to report field that it doesn't
+    know about.  Closes: #275243.
+
+  * Documentation:
+    - Remove "medium-level" from description of dpkg.  Closes: #292454.
+    - Harmonised argument names in update-alternatives(8).
+      Closes: #267095, #284941
+    - Documented what the '+' and '*' mean in update-alternatives --config
+      output.  Closes: #270486.
+    - Mention aptitude alongside dselect in 'dpkg --usage' and
+      'dpkg-deb --help', fix quote style of mention in 'dpkg --help'.
+      Closes: #274800, #278118.
+    - Associate --truename with the description of what it does in
+      dpkg-divert(8).  Closes: #277076.
+    - Removed last remaining references to the packaging manual, replacing
+      with better references.  Closes: #262775.
+    - Documented format of file dpkg --set-selections takes.  Closes: #270043.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:10:27 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.13.2) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Mysteriously Unnamed" Release.
+
+  * md5sum has been removed, the coreutils or textutils version will be
+    diverted to /usr/bin/md5sum.  Closes: #6633, #136110.
+    The following bugs are filed against the dpkg md5sum, so no longer apply.
+    Closes: #95755, #193877, #223381, #264195, #270241, #286632,
+  * Take Replaces into account when installing packages; don't issue a
+    "trying to overwrite" error if the file that already exists is in
+    a package that Replaces the one being installed.
+    Closes: #164595, #184635, #277890.
+  * Allow actions and status changes to be logged to a file.  Disabled by
+    default, uncomment line in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to enable.
+    Closes: #957, #53376, #77109, #143882, #284499.
+  * Don't truncate output of 'dpkg -l' when stdout is not a tty.
+    Closes: #92263, #253860, #258608, #261822, #282790.
+  * Fix further compilation problems with gcc 4.0.  Closes: #299699
+  * Handle tar files without trailing slash in directory names.
+    Closes: #287152.
+  * Output arguments to maintainer scripts with -D2.  Closes: #237684,
+    #296030.
+
+  * Architecture Support:
+    - Added ppc64.  Closes: #263743.
+    - Split archtable into cputable and ostable, archtable is retained
+      for compatibility with other packages that might use it only.
+    - dpkg-architecture no longer canonises -t argument.  Closes: #173205.
+    - dpkg-architecture output includes new DEB_*_ARCH_OS and
+      DEB_*_ARCH_CPU variables that contain the Debian system and CPU
+      names respectively.
+    - dpkg-architecture outputs (mostly) correct GNU system names now,
+      in particular this means that it will output "linux-gnu" instead
+      of "linux".  You should use the new _ARCH_OS variables instead.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Add examples to dpkg-divert(8).  Closes: #291816.
+    - Correct typo in dpkg-architecture(1).  Closes: #299090.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:21:32 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.13.1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Livin' like a good boy oughta" Release.
+
+  * Removed dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture option.  Use variables
+    defined by dpkg-architecture instead.
+  * Soft-deprecated dpkg --print-installation-architecture.  Use
+    dpkg --print-architecture instead, which now does the same thing.
+  * dpkg --print-architecture no longer calls c-compiler.  Closes: #164863.
+  * Removed third field from /usr/share/dpkg/archtable.
+
+  * Now we no-longer pre-depend on dselect, check the upgrade will work
+    in preinst and give the user a chance to abort if they haven't yet
+    installed dselect and need to.  Closes: #282335.
+  * Fix handling of GNU longname and longlink when a tarfile entry has
+    both.  Closes: #128388.
+  * md5sum no longer outputs "-" when no argument is supplied.
+    Closes: #164591, #164889.
+  * Add darcs metadirectory to dpkg-source diff ignore list.  Closes: #289760.
+  * Add new '-f' short option to dpkg-query as equivalent to --showformat.
+    Closes: #281627.
+  * Report conffile conflicts and per-package errors on the status-fd.
+    Closes: #297880.
+  * Correct typo in dpkg-architecture.  Closes: #282701.
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon's support for GNU/kFreeBSD.  Closes: #258051.
+
+  * Architecture Support:
+    - Added kfreebsd-amd64.  Closes: #280963.
+    - Added m32r.  Closes: #280710.
+    - Clean up of archtable.  Closes: #118910, #286898.
+    - Clean up of dpkg-architecture.  Closes: #256323.
+  * Updated translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - French (French Team).
+    - Greek (Konstantinos Margaritis).  Closes: #295922.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu,  3 Mar 2005 12:09:07 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.13.0) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  The "Three banana strategy" Release.
+
+  * Remove the /usr/info or /usr/info/dir symlinks we used to create.
+    Closes: #206063, #288415.
+  * Fix cast in lvalue assignment that gcc 4.0 doesn't like.
+    Closes: #282669, #284797.
+  * Correct bashism in disk method update script.  Closes: #260568.
+
+  * Scorched-earth reimplementation of the build process and control files
+    with debhelper and automake.  Closes: #200683, #217946, #229629, #260568,
+    #266995, #279701, #283640, #292973, #293041.
+  * Remove SGML and POD documentation formats due to both licensing and
+    sanity issues.  Closes: #285806.
+  * The dpkg-doc and dpkg-static packages are no more.
+  * dpkg.cfg cleaned up to remove non-useful examples.
+    Closes: #169618, #305192.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:28:00 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.28) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Awh, yeah?  Ripper!" Release.
+
+  * New translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Romanian (Eddy Petrisor).  Closes: #309714.
+    - Tagalog (Eric Pareja).  Closes: #296407.
+  * Updated translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - French (Christian Perrier).
+    - Greek (Konstantinos Margaritis).  Closes: #295922
+    - Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto).  Closes: #296733
+  * Updated man page translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - French (Philippe Batailler).
+    - Syntax error corrected in Brazilian Portuguese man page for
+      update-alternatives.  Closes: #300646
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 26 May 2005 18:18:10 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.10.27) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Grab your gun and bring in the cat" Release.
+
+  * New Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Indonesian (Arief S Fitrianto).
+    - Norwegian Bokmål (Bjorn Steensrud).
+  * Updated Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Dutch (confusing option corrected by Christian Perrier).
+    - Galician (Jacobo Tarrio).
+    - Korean (Seo Sanghyeon).
+    - Simplified Chinese (Carlos Liu).
+    - Traditional Chinese (Asho Yeh).
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:10:22 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.26) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Captain Tight-Pants" Release.
+
+  * Fix incorrect claim that 'Q' in dselect quits without saving changes
+    (really 'X').
+  * Revert to current 'stable' behaviour of Space/Enter/'Q' in the dselect
+    help screen, Space leaves the help screen and Enter and 'Q' do nothing.
+    It's dangerous to encourage users to press Enter or 'Q' since they
+    commit changes in the package selection screen.
+
+  * New Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Basque (Piarres Beobide Egaña).  Closes: #281245.
+      (Was really added in 1.10.24, but forgotten from ALL_LINGUAS.)
+    - Bosnian (Safir Šećerović).
+    - Slovak (benco).  Closes: #284896, #289341
+    - Traditional Chinese (Asho Yeh).  Closes: #287375.
+  * Updated Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (André Luís Lopes).  Closes: #281228.
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).  Closes: #281333.
+    - Czech (Miroslav Kure).  Closes: #281231.
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).  Closes: #281103.
+    - Dutch (Christian Perrier).  Closes: #282087.
+    - Galician (Héctor Fernéndez López).
+    - German (Michael Piefel).  Closes: #281503.
+    - Italian (Stefano Canepa). Closes: #282543.
+    - Japanese (Kenshi Muto).  Closes: #281144.
+    - Korean (Changwoo Ryu).  Closes: #282246.
+    - Norwegian Nynorsk (Håvard Korsvoll).  Closes: #281456.
+    - Polish (Bartosz Feñski).
+    - Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).  Closes: #281122, #289359.
+    - Russian (Yuri Kozlov).  Closes: #281166.
+    - Simplified Chinese (Tchaikov, Carlos Liu).
+    - Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña).  Closes: #281117.
+    - Swedish (Peter Karlsson).  Closes: #281165.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:26:51 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "你他媽的天下所有的人都該死" Release.
+
+  This release is to correct the mangled Simplified Chinese translation
+  included in 1.10.24 caused by rebellion of the translator's mail client.
+
+  * Updated Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Dutch (Bart Cornelis).  Closes: #278700.
+    - Polish (Bartosz Fenski).  Closes: #280406.
+    - Simplified Chinese (Tchaikov, Carlos Liu).  Closes: #278676.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:06:57 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Donald, where's your troosers?" Release.
+
+  * Add support for uncompressed data.tar archive members and bzip2-
+    compressed data.tar.bz2 members of binary packages.  Closes: #34727.
+
+  * New Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Basque (Piarres Beobide).  Closes: #265491.
+    - Greek (George Papamichelakis).  Closes: #260809.
+    - Hebrew (Lior Kaplan).  Closes: #275267.
+    - Simplified Chinese (Tchaikov, Carlos Liu).  Closes: #265197.
+  * Updated Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes).  Closes: #260964, #273947,
+      #278063.
+    - Czech (Miroslav Kure).  Closes: #255904, #278178.
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).  Closes: #278098.
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).  Closes: #278097.
+    - Dutch (Bart Cornelis).  Closes: #268271, #268886, #274366, #278061.
+    - Galician (Hector Fernandez).
+    - German (Michael Piefel).  Closes: #276462, #278168.
+    - French (Christian Perrier).
+    - Japanese (Kenshi Muto).  Closes: #272456, #278141.
+    - Italian (Lele Gaifax).
+    - Korean (Changwoo Ryu).  Closes: #261528, #278142.
+    - Norwegian Nynorsk (Håvard Korsvoll).  Closes: #275387, #278286.
+    - Polish (Bartosz Fenski).  Closes: #268452, #278064.
+    - Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).  Closes: #268266, #261424, #261519,
+      #278294.
+    - Russian (Yuri Kozlov).  Closes: #268452, #278154.
+    - Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña).  Closes: #277173, #278117.
+    - Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * Updated Manpage Translations (Christian Perrier):
+    - French (Philippe Batailler).  Closes: #268048.
+    - Spanish (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #261807.
+    - Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:25:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.10.23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The "Let the Wookie win" Release.
+
+  * Updated hurd start-stop-daemon support.  Closes: #133640, #254180.
+  * Removed usage of non-POSIX test options.  Closes: #256302.
+
+  * Architecture Support:
+    - Renamed x86-64 to amd64.  Closes: #252346, #254598.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Correct typo in dpkg-divert(8).  Closes: #254175.
+  * New Translations:
+    - Korean (Changwoo Ryu).  Closes: #254590.
+  * Updated Translations:
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).  Closes: #252407.
+    - French (Christian Perrier).  Closes: #252586.
+    - Italian (Lele Gaifax).
+    - Polish (Bartosz Fenski).  Closes: #254209.
+    - Spanish manpages (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #246158, #246159, #246160,
+      #246161, #246162, #246163, #246164.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:52:14 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.10.22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The DebConf4 Release.
+
+  This release is mostly intended to mop up the minor and trivial bug
+  fixes in the list and clear out the documentation changes.  As such,
+  it should be treated with even more suspicion than is normal.
+
+  * Use colouring to break cycles earlier to avoid long loops whilst
+    installing or configuring packages.  Closes: #232445, #246857.
+  * Don't try to configure packages that disappeared in the same
+    run.  Closes: #202997.
+  * Fix segfault when "gcc -dumpmachine" returns a non-matching triplet.
+    Closes: #211850.
+  * Remove restriction that package names be at least two characters long.
+    Closes: #237734.
+  * Fix dpkg-source (actually controllib.pl) to output the field name
+    properly again.  Closes: #226931, #246595.
+  * Make dpkg-scanpackages output Origin and Bugs fields with proper
+    casing.  Closes: #154422.
+  * Add support for DOS line-endings to md5sum.  Closes: #246103.
+  * Fix start-stop-daemon segfault on Hurd.  Closes: #133640.
+  * Allow dpkg-shlibdeps to run as non-root users.  Closes: #96881.
+  * Correct various compiler warnings.  Closes: #229766.
+
+  * Architecture Support:
+    - Added x86-64 (x86_64 / amd64).  Closes: #238483, #241938.
+    - Added i?86-gnu (Hurd).  Closes: #216695, #236331.
+    - Added i386-kfreebsd-gnu and i386-knetbsd-gnu.  Closes: #250176.
+  * Packaging:
+    - Create $(docdir) even when --without-sgml-doc is passed so the
+      ChangeLog can be installed.  Closes: #137719.
+    - Stop hardcoding the list of manual page languages in debian/rules,
+      so we include Spanish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese.  Closes: #245994.
+    - Quote LDFLAGS in debian/rules to allow multiple options.
+      Closes: #230242.
+  * Documentation:
+    - Move dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources to section 1 as they
+      are user tools.  Closes: #114946.
+    - Correct hyphen characters in manpages.  Closes: #212284, #247086, #226800.
+    - Remove obsolete references to the Debian Packaging Manual.
+      Closes: #122910, #140695.
+    - Correct 'n' and 'p' key descriptions in dselect help message.
+      Closes: #120562.
+    - Add --force-bad-verify to dpkg manpage.  Closes: #192812.
+    - Correct dpkg manpage to refer to --force-remove-reinstreq instead of
+      non-existent --force-reinstreq option.  Closes: #232831.
+    - Correct documentation of --compare-versions arguments.  Closes: #232317.
+    - Correct usage of "et al" to "et al.".  Closes: #230751.
+    - Add dpkg-reconfigure(8) to SEE ALSO section of dpkg(8).  Closes: #233282.
+    - Suggest packages that provide additional functionality in the dpkg
+      manpage.  Closes: #81355.
+    - Suggest dselect update in description of dpkg --update-avail.
+      Closes: #206163.
+    - Suggest aptitude as well as dselect.  Closes: #217042.
+    - Suggest fakeroot for dpkg-source -r.  Closes: #175897.
+    - Correct documentation of start-stop-daemon.  Closes: #41554, #211856.
+    - Correct documentation of start-stop-daemon manpage to refer to --retry
+      alongside --stop.  Closes: #204691.
+    - Add note that start-stop-daemon will chdir("/") unless -d is specified.
+      Closes: #217823, #218060.
+    - Correct documentation of dpkg-query --list.  Closes: #232639.
+    - Correct invalid use of &quot; within update-alternatives(8) with .BR.
+      Closes: #244624.
+    - Rewrite description of dpkg-source -i to indicate the intent of the
+      default setting rather than the exact exclusions.  Closes: #227169.
+    - Correct documentation of dpkg-statoverride --update.  Closes: #85079.
+    - Correct documentation of update-alternatives --install.  Closes: #179648.
+    - Documented dpkg:Version and dpkg:UpstreamVersion substvars.
+      Closes: #85815, #85818.
+    - Fix spelling error in utils/md5sum.1.  Closes: #250281.
+    - Replace "&c." with the slightly clearer "etc.".  Closes: #235773.
+    - Correct various typos.  Closes: #219623, #221235.
+  * Updated Translations:
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+    - French (Christian Perrier).  Closes: #246359.
+    - Italian (Lele Gaifax).
+    - Japanese manpages (KISE Hiroshi).  Closes: #248483.
+    - Russian (Nikolai Prokoschenko).  Closes: #249254.
+    - Spanish manpages (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #246158, #246159, #246160,
+      #246161, #246162, #246163, #251830.
+  * New Translations:
+    - German start-stop-daemon and update-alternatives manpages
+      (Helge Kreutzmann).  Closes: #247116, #249454.
+    - Spanish dpkg-scansources manpage (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #246164.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Tue,  1 Jun 2004 18:21:40 -0300
+
+dpkg (1.10.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix incorrect linked list node removal code that caused every second
+    shared or diverted conffile to be deleted by dpkg.
+    Closes: #10879, #33046, #47267, #90623, #98210, #109691, #146167.
+    Closes: #155456, #204275.
+  * Call mknod with the required device type.  Closes: #158916.
+  * Correct the default query output format to be consistent with
+    what the underlying library expects.  Closes: #174973.
+  * Fix missing NULL-termination in dpkg-query -W display of dependency
+    fields.  Closes: #174978
+  * Strip output from md5sum(1) after the first whitespace character.
+    Closes: #200763.
+  * Output a warning if we cannot open a configuration file instead of
+    treating it as a fatal error, in case our home directory is not readable
+    by root.  Closes: #200701.
+  * Set LC_ALL to C before spawning off dpkg --search, to avoid searching
+    on localized strings.  Closes: #244316.
+  * Don't require argument for start-stop-daemon -V.  Closes: #237589.
+  * Correct use of @ARGV within dpkg-scanpackages, allowing -u to work
+    once again.  Closes: #225086, #241503.
+  * Make sure file permissions passed to dpkg-statoverride are numeric.
+    Closes: #161156.
+  * Correctly break out of the loop in install-info.
+    Closes: #124225, #160761.
+  * Add --dir-file option to install-info for GNU install-info
+    compatibility.  Closes: #179192
+  * Refer to debian-policy in dpkg-doc's description instead of the
+    non-existent packaging-manual.  Closes: #120970.
+  * Remove incorrect mention of build-essential from dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+    manpage.  Closes: #219210.
+  * Add a note about diverting shared libraries to the dpkg-divert
+    manpage.  Closes: #214699.
+  * Updated Translations:
+    - Brazilian Portuguese (Andre Luis Lopes).  Closes: #237864.
+    - Catalan (Jordi Mallach).
+    - Danish (Claus Hindsgaul).  Closes: #237624.
+    - Dutch (Pieter-Paul Spiertz, Bart Cornelis, Erwin).
+      Closes: #102094, #151799, #207758.
+    - French (Sam Hocevar).  Closes: #243191.
+    - German (Florian Ernst).  Closes: #109669, #115352, #187952, #244098.
+    - Japanese manpages (KISE Hiroshi).  Closes: #220776.
+    - Polish (Bartosz Fenski).  Closes: #242870.
+    - Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña).  Closes: #166052.
+    - Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
+  * New Translations:
+    - Japanese dpkg-source manpage (KISE Hiroshi).  Closes: #239000.
+    - Norwegian Nynorsk (Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes).  Closes: #233614.
+    - Portuguese (Miguel Figueiredo).  Closes: #240081.
+    - Spanish dpkg-source manpage (Ruben Porras).  Closes: #171489.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:55:10 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.10.20) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Update Japanese translation.  Closes: #224616
+  * Update French translation.  Closes: #218713
+  * Fix spelling error in German md5sum man page.  Closes: #230750
+  * Fix typo in pt_BR po file.  Closes: #192102
+  * Revert fix for #232916, this turns out to be a bug in the pgpgp
+    wrapper, dpkg worked fine with pgp itself.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:24:54 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.19) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Distinguish unmet build dependencies from build conflicts.
+    Closes: #217943, #235266.
+  * Force NULL-termination of all tar file entry names.  Closes: #232025.
+  * Allow dselect to use the full window width.  Closes: #139781.
+  * Pass correct number of arguments for format string when out of disk
+    space.  Closes: #213038, #217286, #213543, #213846.
+  * Remove duplicated entries from ChangeLog.  Closes: #157437.
+  * Fix dpkg-buildpackage when used with PGP.  Closes: #232916.
+  * Update support for Debian FreeBSD.  Closes: #211566.
+  * Store Architecture in the status file.  Closes: #228253.
+  * Don't print offending lines in md5sum.  Closes: #170953.
+  * Check bounds of md5sum lines.  Closes: #168443, #199489, #199693.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Mon,  8 Mar 2004 19:05:32 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.18.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload to fix release-critical bugs.
+  * Terminate string buffer in main/remove.c.  Closes: #228379.
+  * Prevent stashing of hardlinked devices and setuid or setgid binaries
+    by removing permissions on upgrade as well as on remove.
+    Closes: #225692.
+  * Update dpkg conflicts to << 1.10, instead of 1.9.
+    Closes: #190611, #221989, #222760.
+
+ -- Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:17:27 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.10.18) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Rebuild, tagging and releasing correctly from cvs this time.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:39:56 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.10.17) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Make dselect do conflict resolution when dealing with automatically
+    selected recommended package. Thanks to Colin Watson for the analysis
+    and patch. Closes: Bug#151663
+  * Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:
+    s/dpkg-checkbuild/dpkg-checkbuilddeps/ in usage.
+  * dpkg-checkbuilddeps now sets $reduce_arch.  Closes: #212796.
+  * Goswin Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>:
+    Add -u in dpkg-scanpackages.  Closes: #214123.
+    Add -a<arch> command to dpkg-scanpackages.
+  * Add .#* to dpkg-source's default ignore filter.  Closes: #217380.
+  * Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>:
+    Don't assume /usr/info/dir exists if /usr/info does.  Closes: #165770.
+  * Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>:
+    Update Catalan translation.
+  * Fix errors with dependency fields that reference ${dpkg:Version}.
+    Closes: #213108.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:04:57 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.10.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Almost *EVERY* damn file was including config.h in the wrong spot.
+    After making it the first include, then off_t/size_t/etc could actually
+    be redefined to be 64-bit compatible.
+  * Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>:
+    Fix configure to set HAVE_SETLOCALE.  Closes: #211816
+  * "Loïc Le Loarer" <lll_deb@m4x.org>:
+    Add a -d|--chdir option to start-stop-daemon.  Closes: #151802
+  * Split the background block into 2 parts: one that does the fork, and
+    opens /dev/tty and /dev/null, and one that does everything else.  The
+    second block is then moved to be run right before the exec.  This
+    allows error messages to be seen from the child(previously, they were
+    lost), and allows for the chroot to not require the device files.
+    These changes based on the bugs filed by:
+    Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@ens-lyon.fr>: Closes: #155219
+    Loïc Le Loarer <lll_deb@m4x.org>: Closes: #151800
+  * Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>:
+    When --start, --startas and --pidfile are given, print 'process'
+    instead of '(null)' for the process name, if it's already running.
+    Closes: #209355
+  * Imported several translated manpages, from debian-doc cvs:
+    * Spanish: 822-date.1 cleanup-info.8 deb-control.5 deb-old.5
+      deb.5 dpkg-checkbuilddeps.1 dpkg-deb.1 dpkg-divert.8 dpkg-name.1
+      dpkg-scanpackages.8 dpkg-split.8 dpkg-statoverride.8 dpkg.8
+      dselect.8 md5sum.1 start-stop-daemon.8 update-alternatives.8
+      "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <zoso@debian.org>: Closes: #171489
+    * French: deb.5
+      Julien Louis <arthur51@ifrance.com>: Closes: #164906
+    * Portuguese: dpkg.8 dselect.8
+  * Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
+    In dpkg's manpage, -O had an inverted word.  Closes: #111711
+  * Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>:
+    Fix Polish translation of 'conflicts with'  Closes: #112057
+  * Jiri Masik <masik@darbujan.fzu.cz>:
+    Improve Czech translation of: "dpkg - warning: ignoring request to
+    remove %s which isn't installed."  Closes: #117518
+  * Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@prato.linux.it>:
+    Fix missing space in Italian translation when listing files, and the
+    file is diverted.  Closes: #138244
+  * Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>:
+    Update Polish translation.  Closes: #142370
+  * Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr>:
+    Fix missing space in French translation of: "%s - warning: downgrading
+    %.250s from %.250s to %.250s.\n"  Closes: #149142
+  * Hidetaka Iwai <tyuyu@sings.jp>:
+    Fix typo in Japanese translation of dpkg --force-help; downgrade ->
+    downgrade:  Closes: #157819
+  * Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr>:
+    Fix French translation when listing files, and the file is diverted.
+    Closes: #162154
+  * Rune Schjellerup <olberd@odense.kollegienet.dk>:
+    Fix Danish translation of(was missing the leading space): " does not
+    appear to be available\n"  Closes: #192972
+  * Fix md5sum when handling large files.  Closes: #162691
+  * Fix dpkg-checkbuilddeps calling of parsedep.  It wasn't setting
+    use_arch.  Closes: #212796.
+  * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
+    Change formatting of info.dir.  Closes: #167379.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:46:16 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix detection of va_copy.
+  * Back out debian/rules build-arch detection.  It is *not* possible *at
+    all* to detect available targets in a rules file.  Period.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:02:19 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * controllib.pl:
+    * Rewrote the parsedep stuff, so that it wasn't done during control
+      file parsing.  Scripts that need the internal parsed format should
+      call parsedep on the field's value.
+    * Split the substvars parsing into a separate function.
+    * No longer validate dependency fields when reading the control file.
+      Some fields may have vars in them, which breaks the validation.
+    * dpkg-gencontrol calls substvars after parsing the control file, and
+      then validates the substituted depends lines.  Originally,
+      substitution occurred only during writing of the final output file.
+    * Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>:
+      Fix bad regex that didn't allow spaces in dependency field parsing.
+      It now directly matches what the c code expects.  It previously was
+      allowing all of \S, which matched on '('.
+      Closes: #211660.
+  * Remove stale debug in debian/control that would have broken
+    installation on s390.
+  * We were calling our own local copy of dpkg-gencontrol, but the
+    system-installed copy of dpkg-shlibdeps.  Now, both are called from
+    the build directory.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:29:34 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix parsing of deps when both () and [] are specified.
+  * Set $host_arch in controllib.pl:parsedep.
+  * dpkg-checkbuilddeps doesn't output the [] stuff when finding invalid
+    deps.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:23:15 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix dpkg-source output of build-depends lines.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:43:45 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg no longer provides any BYHAND files.  If you need the source
+    tarball, use the orig.tar.gz file available in the pool.  The
+    precompiled tars were hold-overs from when debs were not standard
+    ar/tar files.
+  * Install /usr/share/doc/dpkg/pseudo-tags, which talks about the bug
+    titling we use to mark bugs for filtering in the Debian bts.
+  * Updated ca.po.
+  * Teach dpkg-source that ~ is legal in version numbers
+  * Add build-depends on sgml-base, and increase gettext build-depends to
+    0.12.1-3.
+  * Updated config.sub and config.guess in cvs.
+  * Change use of strncpy in parsedb to memcpy.  Closes: #160447
+  * No longer generate helpmsgs.{cc,h}.
+  * several controllib changes:
+    * Moved dependency parsing logic from dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
+      The dpkg-checkbuilddeps parser didn't support empty fields, while
+      the controllib parser did.
+    * All dependency fields parsed by controllib.pl support [arch]
+      specifiers.  If the arch specifier doesn't apply for the current
+      arch, then the item will not be added to the internal list structure.
+    * Comment lines(that begin with '#') are removed during parsing.
+    * Store the original casing of field names, for use in error reporting.
+    * Store the original field's casing with 'o:' prepended in %fi.
+      * ballombe@merulo.debian.org:
+        dpkg-checkbuilddeps now handles empty fields.  Closes: #111562
+      * Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:
+        support comments(first char on line begins with '#') in
+        debian/control.  Closes: #191810
+      * Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>:
+        Allow for per-arch generated dependency fields.  Closes: #170575
+      * Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:
+        Report the original casing of field names when they are unknown.
+        Closes: #177753
+  * Patch dpkg-buildpackage to call debian/rules -qn build-arch, and if
+    it's available, modify -B handling appropriately.  If build-arch is not
+    available, then when -B was called, do *not* pass -B on to
+    dpkg-checkbuilddeps.  Closes: #203097
+  * Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>:
+    Apply patch, to handle missing infodir.bak, and empty files.  Closes:
+    #196361
+  * Change standard_startup and standard_shutdown into macros.  Closes:
+    #200351.
+  * Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>:
+    Fix inverted test of eof in parsedb, while looking for eof after
+    field name.  Closes: #198218
+  * Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
+    Add set -e to dpkg-doc.postinst.  Closes: #191261
+  * Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org>:
+    dpkg --print-architecture now does gcc -dumpmachine instead of
+    --print-libgcc-file-name.  Closes: #131893, #8241, #106793, #210285
+  * Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>:
+    Apply patch to change hashing function, and increase bin size, for
+    the package database.  Closes: #206416
+  * Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>:
+    Apply patch to make dpkg work with POSIX 1003.1-2001.  Closes:
+    #204894
+  * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
+    Fix "stripping trailing /" message from dpkg-statoverride.  Closes:
+    #203782
+  * Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi>:
+    Increase filesdb bin size, and alter hashing function.  Closes:
+    #179385
+  * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>:
+    Retry removing empty dirs during purge.  Closes: #112386
+  * Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>:
+    Add .cvsignore to dpkg-source's default diff ignore regex.  Also fix
+    missing \ escape for .deps.  Closes: #174013
+  * Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu>:
+    Fix segfault with --status-fd.  Closes: #173618
+  * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>,
+    Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>:
+    Add .svn, {arch}, and .arch-ids to dpkg-source -i default regex.
+    Closes: #169359
+  * Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>:
+    Added alphaev68-linux-gnu to archtable.  Closes: #199360
+  * Elie Rosenblum <fnord@debian.org>:
+    Apply patch to support OpenBSD.  Closes: #154277
+  * Geoff Richards <qef@laxan.com>:
+    Add --config to action section, and add as EXAMPLES section.  Closes:
+    #208014, #115759
+  * Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>:
+    install-info --version and --help now display on stdout.  Closes:
+    #154633
+  * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>:
+    Mention what dpkg and dpkg-query -S will not find.  Closes: #153096
+  * Sebastian Leske <sleske@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de>:
+    Mention in dpkg(8) that downgrading a package can have serious
+    consequences.  Closes: #61156
+  * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>:
+    In dpkg-scanpackages(8), including small note that other tools might
+    use the generated Packages file.  Closes: #208894
+  * Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu>:
+    Fix some typos in dpkg-source(1).  Closes: #207259, #204123, #167426
+  * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>:
+    Alter text in dselect(8), implying that other interfaces are available
+    for installing packages.  Closes: #206164.
+  * Daniel Bonniot <bonniot@users.sourceforge.net>:
+    Note in start-stop-daemon(8) that --nicelevel takes an argument.
+  * Ruben Porras <nahoo82@telefonica.net>:
+    Remove duplicate 'can' in deb-control(5).  Closes: #183840
+  * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>:
+    Fix short description in dpkg-scansources(8).  Closes: #175770
+  * Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>:
+    In dpkg(8), move dpkg-query options to their own subsection, like
+    dpkg-deb.  Closes: #174971
+  * Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
+    Add --dry-run and --simulate as synonyms to --no-act.  Closes:
+    #165099
+  * Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>:
+    Fix wrong reference to DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM on --host in
+    dpkg-architecture(1).  Closes: #163621
+  * Michael Klein <michael.klein@puffin.lb.shuttle.de>:
+    s/Usuaully/Usually/ in deb-control.5.  Closes: #161819
+  * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
+    Removed reference in dselect(8) about recommends not being handled
+    well.  Closes: #157973
+  * Andrew Suffield <aps100@doc.ic.ac.uk>:
+    s/dpkg-source/dpkg-parsechangelog/ in dpkg-parsechangelog -h.
+    Closes: #155822
+  * Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>:
+    Unhighlight "May be repeated multiple times." in dpkg-source(1).
+    Closes: #151845
+  * Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>:
+    Make all actions in dpkg-deb -h lower case.  Closes: #150642
+  * Alexander Hvostov <root@aoi.dyndns.org>:
+    Add -g|--group to start-stop-daemon, and document properly.  Closes:
+    #127342
+  * Szerb Tamas <toma@mlf.linux.rulez.org>:
+    s/THANKS/THANKS.gz/ in dpkg(8).  Closes: #91348
+  * "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt-pc.mitre.org>:
+    In dpkg(8), mention running dselect, install after --set-selections.
+    Closes: #175236
+  * Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>:
+    Remove disabled --command-fd from help.  Closes: #169619
+  * Tobias Burnus <tburnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>:
+    Apply patch to update-alternatives that provides --set and --remove-all
+    commands.  Closes: #133745.
+  * Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>:
+    Add --all to update-alternatives, that calls --config on all
+    alternatives.  Closes: #126621
+  * Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>:
+    Alter --config prompt, to be more clear, that one must 'press' enter to
+    accept the default.  Closes: #203557
+  * Peter Moulder <pmoulder@bowman.csse.monash.edu.au>:
+    Fix some -w issues in update-alternatives.  Closes: #137313
+  * Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>:
+    Apply patch to check whether the target path exists on removing.
+    Closes: #37254
+  * Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>:
+    After opening files, set binmode.  Closes: #175363
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:52:11 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update archtable for hurd.  Closes: #187509.
+  * Make the dpkg-iasearch conflicts versioned.  Closes: #170698.
+  * Surround sed call with '' in Makefile.in.  Closes: #187534.
+  * Strip trailing / from the file args in dpkg-statoverride.  Closes:
+    #184239.
+  * Modified to use autotools-dev.  Closes: #179656.
+  * Add netbsd support.  Closes: #179658, #179659.
+  * Support hyphenated values in dpkg-architecture. Closes: #179661
+  * No longer managed the /usr/doc symlinks.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:10:24 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix dereference in main/help.c:cu_closefd(), which was the cause of
+    close(random number) on most arches, but close(0) on s390x.
+  * Add s390x to archtable.  Closes: #160976.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:21:38 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make the multiline regex have an upper bound, instead of being
+    unbounded, as newer perls have a larger stack frame, which cause them
+    to segfault quicker with larger inputs.  Closes: #159756.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Sep 2002 16:32:01 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix double free in modstatdb_init, in the case that modstatdb_shutdown
+    was called previously.  Closes: #159515.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Sep 2002 18:59:19 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't call nffreeall, in any of the c/c++ programs.  It appears dselect
+    slightly corrupts it's memory enough that it can't be freed without
+    segfaulting.  Closes: #159023.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Sep 2002 00:19:18 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix segfault in md5sum if the file being checked doesn't exist.
+    Closes: #154503.
+  * Fix extraction of md5sum in dpkg-scanpackages.  Closes: #153769.
+  * Handle directories better in md5sum.  Closes: #157453.
+  * Fix read past buffer in lib/nfmalloc.c.  Closes: #157304.
+  * Fix several read pass buffer bugs, and a memleak.  Closes: #155362.
+  * Fix segfault when --auto-deconfigure is given.  Closes: #157762.
+  * Allow spaces between the end of a version, and the trailing ')'.
+    Closes: #154898.
+  * Fixes for HURD:  Closes: #156545
+    * Add i386-gnu0.3 to archtable.
+    * Fix handling of static compiles, with regard to zlib.
+  * Previous install-infos(before 1.10) handled multiple dir file entries,
+    because they would copy the entire stanza unmodified.  The newest
+    version does not do this, as it reformats the options, and thereby
+    only takes the first line.  So, we now split all the lines from the
+    stanza, and process them all.  Closes: #147492.
+  * Fix corruption of available file, caused by use of memory that was
+    previously freed.  Closes: #154257.
+  * Fix several minor memleaks.
+  * Remove /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon.  Closes: #156437.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:43:15 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections.  Closes: #152130.
+  * Install archtable into /usr/share/dpkg/.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:17:56 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Move dselect.cfg to dselect package. Closes: Bug#152132
+  * Install methods into /usr/lib/dpkg/methods, not /usr/lib/dpkg.  Closes:
+    #152161.
+  * Fix test inversion in start-stop-daemon, when checking the pid given in
+    a pid file.  Thanks Thomas Morin <thomas.morin@enst-bretagne.fr>.
+    Closes: #152270.
+  * If in --test mode, and --stop is given, increment n_killed, so that
+    start-stop-daemon returns the proper exit value.  Thanks Thomas Morin
+    <thomas.morin@enst-bretagne.fr>.  Closes: #151992.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:58:43 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make configuration files in $HOME work again
+  * dpkg + dpkg-static conflict with dpkg-dev << 1.9, to fix md5sum error
+    in dpkg-source.  Closes: #151691.
+  * Remove -Z from patch call, in dpkg-source, as it makes patch warn about
+    missing timestamps.  Closes: #151965
+  * Install debian/dselect.conffiles.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Jul 2002 21:08:09 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add conflict with dpkg-iasearch which intruded on our namespace.
+  * Replace manpages-de which includes one of our manpages.  Closes: #151485
+  * Don't always call autoheader when building. Closes: #151471
+  * Fix double conflict in dpkg. Closes: Bug#151581
+  * Move dselect methods to dselect package.
+  * dpkg-checkbuilddeps no longer checks for build-essential. dpkg should
+    not hardcode Debian policy.
+  * Make dpkg-genchanges accept ~ as part of a package filename.
+    Closes: Bug#150739
+  * Move dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg manpages into dpkg package. Closes: Bug#132901
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue,  2 Jul 2002 12:34:07 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg now reorders symlinks when extracting debs.  However, this is also
+    still done when building debs.  After a stable release of Debian has
+    occurred with this modified dpkg, the reordering when building can be
+    removed.
+  * Fixed upper/lowercase problems with package names. Closes: Bug#58091
+    (and 3 others).
+  * Add Russian manual pages
+  * Fix n in dselect package list (performs searchagain now)
+  * Fix layout problem in dpkg-divert manpage. Closes: Bug#103667
+  * When a package is set to hold, and a reinstallation is requested,
+    -E will not properly skip it.  Closes: #45787.
+  * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps use dpkg-architecture. Closes: Bug#104230
+  * Improve dpkg-architecture documentation. Closes: Bug#104232
+  * Update German translation. Closes: Bug#97239
+  * Update Polish translation. Closes: Bug#115783
+  * Update French translation.
+  * Update Brazilian translation.
+  * Update Danish translation.
+  * Update Galician translation.
+  * Update Portuguese translations.
+  * Add Catalan translation
+  * Add German md5sum manpage
+  * Add Brazilian update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#122132
+  * Improve dselect manpage. Closes: Bug#103839
+  * dpkg-name(1) no longer mentions the non-existing dpkg(5) manpage.
+    Closes: Bug#104214
+  * Improve handling of Recommends and Suggests in dselect. Closes: Bug#34942
+  * Add per-user configuration files. Closes: Bug#103845
+  * Split dselect into its own package. dpkg Pre-Depends on it
+    to make sure no weird things happen during an upgrade but this
+    will allow us to make dselect option at some point in the future.
+    Closes: #114249.
+  * Make colours in dselect user-configurable. Closes: Bug#103994
+  * Make Q do an abort in the method selection menu to make things more
+    consistent with the package list
+  * Fix test for nice(2) failure in start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#104561
+  * Improve the dselect helpscreen a bit. Closes: Bug#72634
+  * New version comparison routine that can handle arbitrarily large numbers
+    and accepts `~' as a low-sorting character. Closes: Bug#93386
+  * dselect now accepts regular expressions when searching for packages
+    and can search in package descriptions as well.
+    Closes: Bug#81009,#83139
+  * Move query commands into a separate dpkg-query command. For the old options
+    (-L,-l,-s,-S) dpkg will still call it for you.
+  * Add configurable package listing support to dpkg-query
+  * Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#98275
+  * update-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
+  * Add --showformat and --show options to dpkg-deb and dpkg-query to
+    allow one to customize the output format
+  * several install-info cleanups:
+    * Move /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir.  Closes: #67174.
+    * If /usr/share/info doesn't exist, print a message saying so,
+      instead of the confusing "couldn't lock" error.  Closes: #2531.
+    * If /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, or is empty, try to copy the
+      backup from /var/backups/infodir.bak.  Closes: #121309.
+    * Add a --remove-exactly option, and allow for relative filenames.
+      Closes: #92650.
+    * Use the section from the .info file if --section is not given.
+      Closes: #76100.
+    * Error messages now include the filename being processed.
+      Closes: #66735
+    * /usr/share/info/dir now has it's entries formatted to even widths.
+      Closes: #11228
+    * --calign|--align|--maxwidth are now ignored.
+  * strip enoent as well. Closes: Bug#112378
+  * Fix format error in Dutch translation. Closes: Bug#113120
+  * When parsing stdin, md5sum now displays '-' as the filename, to match
+    textutils md5sum.  Closes: #121489.
+  * Apply patch from bug, to give update-alternatives a --list command.
+    Closes: #120924.
+  * Make dpkg-checkbuilddeps always check for build-essential.
+    Closes: Bug#118420.
+  * Use space separated output instead of comma separated in
+    dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+  * Update default ignore expression in dpkg-source to also match *~ and
+    *.swp in subdirs. Closes: Bug#127458
+  * Handle errors when verifying md5sums. Closes: Bug#102367
+  * dpkg-source now uses reliable timestamps for changed files.
+    Closes: Bug#105750
+  * Fix typo in start-stop-daemon help message. Closes: Bug#131439
+  * update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
+    a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
+  * Use gzip -c in install-info. Closes: Bug#131758
+  * start-stop-daemon works on HP-UX now. Closes: Bug#130130
+  * Fix dselect spin when run without input. Closes: Bug#132476
+  * Update-alternatives now correctly restores an alternative to auto mode
+    when removing a manually selected alternative. Closes: Bug#132632
+  * Copy bugs and origin information into status file. Closes: Bug#132714
+  * Improve wording of update-alternatives --config text. Closes: Bug#133035
+  * Add manpages for dpkg.cfg and dselect.cfg. Closes: Bug#132901
+  * Improve test for illegal packagename for dpkg-gencontrol -p option
+  * Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null.  Closes: Bug#136349
+  * Add Large File Summit extensions. Closes: Bug#130509
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-source manpage. Closes: Bug#141906
+  * Re-fix handling of multiple blank lines in control. Closes: Bug#143117
+  * Document --force-confmiss and --force-bad-verify. Closes: Bug#146855
+  * Drop upgrade compat stuff in dpkg postinst for ancient versions (over
+    5 years old)
+  * Always set CLOEXEC on the lock fd.  Closes: Bug#147872
+  * Clean up tmp files when ctrl-c is sent to dpkg-source.  Closes:
+    Bug#58653.
+  * dpkg-source no longer requires exact case matches for fields in
+    debian/control.  Closes: Bug#139159.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages now gives proper case for Source and Installed-Size.
+    Closes: Bug#119532.
+  * dpkg-architecture: s/build on/built on/; same for 'build for'.
+    Closes: Bug#140441.
+  * cl-debian.pl now recognizes emergency as valid in changelogs.
+    Closes: Bug#138013.
+  * Properly count recursive expansion of variables, instead of just
+    counting all variable expansions.  Closes: #144121.
+  * Add -I<filename> to dpkg-buildpackage and dpkg-source, to excludes
+    files from tar, when building a native package.  Closes: Bug#75947.
+  * Close the old debian/files file, before doing a rename.  Closes:
+    Bug#111503.
+  * Fix documentation of -v<version> for dpkg-parsechangelog, removing the
+    requirement that the version has to be in the changelog.  Closes:
+    Bug#117968.
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-source(1), for '-sU'.  Closes: Bug#126340.
+  * Add dpkg-scansources to dpkg-scanpackages(8).  Closes: Bug#147924.
+  * Change /usr/info into a symlink to /usr/share/info if possible
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:53:15 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.9.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix corrupt Swedish translations that would some error messages display
+    incorrectly.
+  * Enable --force-overwrite by default in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
+  * dpkg.cfg is now no longer a conffile. This means the installer can
+    change defaults depending on how an install is done
+  * Detect truncated debs, and abort the unpack.  Closes: #138569.
+  * Improve dpkg(8) --force documentation
+  * Fix error in Russian dselect translation
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 16 May 2002 19:42:29 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.9.20) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix assertion when --auto-deconfigure is set.  Closes: #137765.
+  * Fix segfault discovered by fixing the above.
+  * Fix segfault when getenv("PATH") returns null.  Closes: #136349
+  * Recompiled against updated zlib, to fix possible security issue.  Also
+    bumped build-depends to match.  Closes: #137931(grave)
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:52:44 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.9.19) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * install-info continues to read all data from a pipe, until EOF.
+    Closes: #99816(grave).
+  * Add Catalan translation
+  * Update Danish translation. Closes: Bug#131869
+  * Update French translation.
+  * update-alternative exits with a non-zero exit code when displaying
+    a non-existing alternative. Closes: Bug#131496
+  * Changed Maintainer to debian-dpkg@lists.
+  * Fix "Up to date installed packages" for polish translation.  Closes:
+    #116398.
+  * Swap updated/up-to-date polish translations(they were reversed).
+    Closes: #117583, #102961.
+  * Mark /etc/alternatives/README as a conffile.
+  * Strip .note, .comment, and /usr/lib/dpkg/enoent.
+  * Make dpkg-gencontrol not warn about Uploaders.  Closes: #111090.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Feb 2002 11:47:34 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.9.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix MD5Sum corruption when upgrading a package.  Closes: Bug#113961.
+  * Add Wichert and I to debian/control:Uploaders.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat,  3 Nov 2001 00:31:00 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.9.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * updated-rc.d moved to the sysvinit package. Closes: Bug#108887,#109282
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:24:52 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.9.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Revert architecture-change to dpkg-source from 1.9.11, see ChangeLog
+    for details.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Jul 2001 22:42:11 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Change policy of handling dscformat in dpkg-source
+  * Fix the arglist construction for maintainer scripts
+  * Revert dscformat to 1.0 since older dpkg-source versions do not have
+    the new policy. In the future (starting at format 2.0 to maintain
+    compatibility with old dpkg-source implementations) minor changes to
+    the dscformat have to be fully backward and forward compatible.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:41:43 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make the Uploaders field in a .dsc file optional.
+  * Disabled sanity checking of source packages.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:22:40 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.13) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add a -W option to dpkg-source(and the other utils, where it is just
+    passed thru), to turn certain errors into warnings(of which, only
+    one is changed, namely, the 'tar doesn't contain preceding directory'
+    error).  Closes: #101813, and partially 101845.
+  * Don't error out if the files in the tar have leading './', for
+    dpkg-source.  (another partial close of 101845).
+  * Handle the case where a single directory exists in the orig.tar.gz, but
+    it is NOT of the form <pkg>-<ver>.  Closes: #101845.
+  * Set LC_ALL in dpkg-source when we call external programs when we are
+    going to parse their output.  Another bug from 101845.
+  * Handle stating of truncated cpio filenames(100 char limit, bah), in
+    dpkg-source.  Another bug from 101845.
+  * Add support for an Uploaders field, which is read from the first
+    paragraph of debian/control, and propagated to the .dsc.  This lists
+    the people allowed to upload a package.  If it is not set, then the
+    value of the Maintainer is placed into this field of the .dsc.  This
+    bumps the .dsc format to 1.1.  Closes: #101815.
+  * Handle symlinks in the tarball, and don't error out if found.
+  * in controllib, make warnerrors default to warnings.  Affects
+    dpkg-source.  This will be changed to be errors in the future.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:48:52 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.12) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix do_script() bug. Closes: Bug#101552
+  * Fix building and extracting of certain kinds of source packages.
+    Closes: #101684.
+  * Added Colin Watson to THANKS.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:27:03 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The "Hang on to your hats, it gets bumpy from here." release.
+  * Trim trailing spaces from package names when checking builddeps.
+    Closes: #101304.
+  * Apply patch from bug to fix logic error that kept everything but
+    Build-Deps from working in checkbuilddeps.  Closes: #101511.
+  * Apply patch to correctly check the output of gcc on hurd, for
+    dpkg-architecture. Closes: #99874.
+  * The internal pod docs in dpkg-architecture were updated to reflect
+    that -f was no longer implied when -q was given, but the build system
+    wasn't generating new documentation.  Closes: #100997.
+  * deb(5) now has a see-also for deb-old(5).  Closes: #99620.
+  * Fix dpkg-shlibdeps infinite directory recursion thru symlinks.
+    Closes: #97622.
+  * Set the Architecture to 'source' only when doing source only uploads
+    in the generated changes files.  Closes: #100144.
+  * Document -nc in the dpkg-buildpackage manpage.  Closes: #101038.
+  * Make dpkg-source work with GNU md5sum.  Closes: #97666.
+  * in dpkg-source, when both arch: all and arch: <arch> packages exist in
+    debian/control, don't promote the source arch: to any, but only list
+    all and <arch>.  Closes: #94608
+  * Apply patch from Colin Watson:  Closes: #89679
+    * Reset SIGPIPE to DEFAULT when forking gzip.
+    * set LANG to C before execing cpio, as we parse its output.
+    * In checktarcpio() and checktarsane(), use the previously open pipes,
+      instead of the opening files on disk(which was the old, ancient way).
+    * Improve the output parsing of tar in checktarsane().
+  * warn instead of die when find returns an error(which happens if there
+    is a dangling symlink, because we use -follow).  Closes: #51479.
+  * Change list of allowed urgencies in debian/changelog to: low, medium,
+    high, and critical.  Closes: #94475.
+  * Error out if an illegal package name is used in dpkg-gencontrol.pl.
+    Closes: #61211
+  * Apply patch from Marcus Brinkmann to dpkg-buildpackage:  Closes:
+    #98201.
+    * Option -a implies option -d.
+    * Set ARCH correctly to host architecture, rather than build arch.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:15:25 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix [arch] parsing, and handle extra spaces better.  Closes: #100512,
+    #101031.
+  * Apply patch from bug, to fix cleanup of dpkg-divert temp files.
+    Closes: #100474.
+  * Swap j/k keys on the main menu, so they function like the package
+    selection screen(and like vi).  Closes: #100502.
+  * Multiple fixes in bug: Closes: #99892.
+    * s/DEAD_JOE/DEADJOE/ in dpkg-source.
+    * Switch to auto mode if alternative symlink is missing.
+  * Update Spanish translation
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:57:45 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The leading and trailing spaces patch in the last upload had some
+    issues with trailing spaces.  This fixes them.  No bug to close, as the
+    bts is still down.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Wed,  6 Jun 2001 22:36:57 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Remove leading and trailing spaces from versions, and check for
+    embedded spaces, inside dpkg.  Closes: #99186.
+  * Handle varied use of spaces in dpkg-checkbuilddeps.  Closes: #98899.
+  * Reset SIGPIPE back to default, in dpkg-source.  Closes: #98563.
+  * Remove bogus $! check from dpkg-architecture.  Closes: #99428.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Jun 2001 15:15:04 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * If a new file doesn't exist on disk, but is a going to be installed as
+    a directory, then don't error out.  Closes: Bug#17381.
+  * Update japanese manpages.  Closes: Bug#97831.
+  * Update it.po.  Closes: Bug#98273.
+  * Fix bad cleanup in dpkg-divert.  Closes: Bug#98578,#98828,#98831.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 28 May 2001 18:59:03 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Oops.  EOF_mmap incorrectly detecting the end of the data block.
+    Closes: Bug#95981.
+  * After fixing the above bug, and using debootstrap to build a sid
+    chroot, I discovered that my previous dependency cycle fix could cause
+    segfaults in some situations.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue,  1 May 2001 23:04:46 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix compiles on ppc. Closes: Bug#95918.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Tue,  1 May 2001 00:29:45 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Recompile, to fix incorrect path 1.9.1/dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#95845
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:21:28 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix segfault with empty status and available, and when missing a
+    trailing new line.  Closes: Bug#95496
+  * Make dpkg-shlibdeps not care if dpkg --search return with an error.
+    Closes: Bug#95568
+  * Fix corruption of user-defined fields in status and available.
+    Closes: Bug#95567.
+  * Changed dpkg.cfg to include no-debsig by default, as no debs are
+    currently signed, and we get false errors when debsig-verify is
+    installed.  This will be removed in the future, when the archive tools
+    support package signatures.  Closes: Bug#95573
+  * dpkg-buildpackage should only check for valid signinterface if the
+    user specifies one. Closes: Bug#95598
+  * Fix removing of diversions.  Closes: Bug#95655
+  * Fix md5sum -c. Closes: Bug#95586
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:28:21 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Things should mostly work OpenBSD 2.8 as well now
+  * Added a --status-pipe option.
+  * Fixed several memleaks.
+  * Profiled dpkg.
+    * Reworked lib/parse.c:parsedb().  Instead of using getc(), then
+      calling varbufaddc(), it now reads the entire file at once into a
+      huge buffer, then moves pointers around, to do the parsing.  This
+      gave a speedup of 33% on a dual celeron 333, when reading status and
+      available.
+    * various other speedups.
+  * Removed all --smallmem code, as smallmem and largemem now actually
+    use about the same amount of memory, and largemem is faster.  Both
+    --largemem and --smallmem are now obsolete options, and will print
+    a warning if used. Closes: Bug#84905, #67528
+  * Initialize uninitialized variables.  This should solve several
+    segfaults. Closes: Bug#25317(plus 9 others, thru the beauty of
+    merges)
+  * Found that when working with dependency cycles, and part of the cycle
+    was a provide, the provider was not being considered, so the cycle
+    could not be broken. Closes: Bug#87985(and 3 others)
+  * Update German translation, Closes: Bug#80529,#80532,#87581
+  * Update French translation, Closes: Bug#65284,#85035,#87238
+  * Update Japanese translation, Closes: Bug#93873
+  * Updated all other translations (but no bugs filed)
+  * Add Danish translation
+  * Remove spurious '%s' in Polish translation, Closes: Bug#74814
+  * Add French manpages, courtesy of Philippe Batailler
+  * Ignore vim swapfiles in dpkg-source, Closes: Bug#81630
+  * remove --import option from dpkg-statoverride, Closes: Bug#81358
+  * Replace nfmalloc implementation with obstack. Added obstack.[ch] to
+    optlib, for non-GNU systems.
+  * dpkg-divert only allows absolute filenames now. Closes: Bug#82419
+  * Handle diffs from non-existing files to existing files. Closes: Bug#82708,
+    #90982.
+  * Small fixes to the buildsystem. Closes: Bug#84361
+  * Fix dpkg-statoverride --update for things other then plain files.
+    Closes: Bug#84449
+  * Fix race with source directory disappearing in dpkg-source.
+    Closes: Bug#45511
+  * Fix manpage for dpkg-gencontrol. Closes: Bug#84625
+  * Add -n option for dpkg-gencontrol to specify a filename. Closes: Bug#75796
+  * Use POSIX glob instead of regexp in debian/rules. Closes: Bug#83042,
+    #84582
+  * fix typo in usage message for dpkg-divert, Closes: Bug#85977
+  * Use full path for argv[0] when calling scripts. Closes: Bug#68783
+  * Add ia64 support to dpkg-architecture.
+  * Minor script changes, Closes: Bug#87485
+  * Stop dpkg-genchanges from complaining about missing packages
+    when doing a source-only build. Closes: Bug#87571,#15644,#25496
+  * Various dpkg-architecture cleanups. Closes: Bug#87505
+  * Modify dpkg-architecture to handle gcc versions containing letters.
+    Closes: Bug#83083
+  * dpkg-buildpackage updates: Closes: Bug#87572,#85847
+    + make -C work properly
+    + fix test for gpg secret keyring
+    + improve source messages
+    + skip signing pause when building unsigned packages
+    + test for invalid signinterface. Closes: Bug#87579
+    + remove debsign support, it's useless and doesn't work
+    + Use correct architecture when naming .changes file. Closes: Bug#88015
+  * Fix wording in dpkg-statoverride manpage for --add. Closes: Bug#85080
+  * Fix typo in start-stop-daemon manpage. Closes: Bug#88225
+  * Add dpkg-checkbuilddeps to check if build dependencies are satisfied
+    and modify dpkg-buildpackage to call it if wanted.
+    Closes: Bug#86453,#83812,#60717,#74372,#67896,#60717,#13961
+  * dpkg-parsechangelog can read a changelog from stdin now. Closes: Bug#80142
+  * Fix confusing wording for dpkg-buildpackage -uc option in manpage.
+    Closes: Bug#83468
+  * dpkg-statoverride now exits with exitcode 1 if we do a --list but don't
+    output anything. Closes: Bug#84328
+  * Remove Linux reference from all scripts, they should run fine on
+    other OSes as well.
+  * Mark last argument in dpkg-scanpackages usage info as optional.
+    Closes: Bug#86658
+  * Fix cache in dpkg-scanpackages version comparison. Closes: Bug#90722
+  * Fix formatting error in dpkg-source.1. Closes: Bug#82723
+  * Change dpkg-gencontrol to fix comma-related syntax errors after
+    processing substvars. Closes: Bug#92908
+  * Verify package signatures if debsig-verify is installed. Closes: Bug#37017
+  * Handle window resize in dselect main menu. Closes: Bug#93559
+  * Initialize all parts of the package record.  This should fix several
+    segfaults people have been seeing in dpkg.  Closes: Bug#90328.
+  * Apply patch from bug#86847, that escapes intl chars in filenames.
+    Closes: Bug#83752, #85040, #86847, #89000.
+  * Errors during dpkg -s(and other similar commands) are now printed
+    on stderr.  Closes: Bug#88987.
+  * Add a --retry option to start-stop-daemon. Closes: Bug#75139
+  * Fix regeps to extract Closes magic from a changelog so the #
+    is really optional. Closes: Bug#94474
+  * Remove useless statement from dpkg-shlibdeps. Closes: Bug#90516
+  * Make the debian changelog parser identify itself with $progname.
+    Closes: Bug#89409
+  * Give a syntax error when we get an unexpected PGP signature in control
+    files. Closes: Bug#75562
+  * Change dpkg manpage to reflect that --force-statoverride is no enabled
+    by default. Closes: Bug#95023
+  * Handle dangling symlinks, by ignoring error code 1 from find, when
+    processing --recursive. Closes: Bug#4784
+  * dpkg -L, -S, -l, -s, and -p now return an error code if any package
+    does not exist. Closes: Bug#4974, #72406
+  * dselect has a configuration file as well now
+  * Get ENOENT value at runtime in dpkg-divert instead of hardcoding it.
+    Closes: Bug# 31620
+  * Fix wrong ENOENT test in dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#95088
+  * Add support for more SuperH variants (sh[34]{,eb}-linux-gnu)
+  * Fix formatting and a typo in the dpkg manpage
+  * Document the dpkg.cfg configuration file in dpkg(8)
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:39:16 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.8.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Revert change to nfmalloc.c that was causing SIGBUS on sparc.
+
+ -- Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:52:11 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.8.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Do chown before chmod in dpkg-statoverride, Closes: Bug#81943
+  * Fix recursion in dpkg-shlibdeps, Closes: Bug#81322
+  * Really completely revert dpkg-source patches which broke backwards
+    compatibility
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:02:22 -0800
+
+dpkg (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't attempt to read from an input source when we only want 0 bytes.
+    Also handle buggy systems that return EAGAIN instead of EINTR.  Closes:
+    #81881.
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:43:50 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Apply patch from bug to fix badly generated diffs(in some
+    circumstances).  Closes: #81152
+
+ -- Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  Sat,  6 Jan 2001 16:07:33 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make --name a valid option.  Closes: #31206, #51953.
+  * dpkg-deb -I <pkg> <control> works again
+  * Update Swedish translation
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Jan 2001 19:31:13 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add -k|--symlink option to dpkg-name.  Closes: #35040
+  * Made the accelerator keys in dselect's main menu separate options, so
+    that they can be translated separately.  Closes: #50955.
+  * Added depends on sysvinit (>= 2.72), so that we can make sure that
+    /etc/rcS.d exists.  Closes: #55037.
+  * update-rc.d: Changed documentation and help, as -f only applies during
+    remove.  Closes: #55049.
+  * Added a --force-all option.  Closes: #61354.
+  * Format help string for --abort-after like other option help strings.
+    Closes: #62464.
+  * Fix dselect methods to pass admindir to dpkg from dselect.
+  * Minor tweak so that when patch 2.5.4 is manually used to apply a diff,
+    it doesn't get applied multiple times.  Closes: #65021
+  * Add --nicelevel to start-stop-daemon, to alter a programs priority
+    before starting.  Closes: #65191.
+  * Document that --largemem is the default, and that the test point is
+    24 megs.  Closes: #65607.
+  * Document that --set-selections does not actually install any
+    packages.  Closes: #65340.
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-deb.1.  Closes: #65945.
+  * Add --truename option to dpkg-divert.  Closes: #68489.
+  * Documented COLUMNS in dpkg(8).  Closes: #77001.
+  * Modified DPKG_C_GCC_TRY_WARNS() to call AC_SUBST, so that we can
+    use the result of the test during build time.  Closes: Bug#75138
+  * Added description for "suggests" in main/depcon.c:describedepcon().
+    Closes: Bug#74113
+  * Removed bashing from dpkg.postinst.
+  * Make '#' optional in Closes: tags.  Closes: Bug#63137.
+  * Add -t to -h output in dpkg-buildpackage:  Closes: Bug#49598.
+  * Fix typo in --compare-versions error message.  Closes: Bug#66474.
+  * -R doesn't mean --root.  Closes: Bug#66068, #72013
+  * Add armv3l to archtable.  Closes: Bug#72125
+  * Fix two memory leaks, and lesson the memory foot print a tad.  Hints
+    taken from 74259.
+  * Fix some things perl5.6 complains about. Closes: Bug#77337
+  * Fix references to dpkg-deb manpage. Closes: Bug#77855
+  * Update Galish translation
+  * Add new --import option to dpkg-statoverride to make it easy to
+    import suidmanager settings.
+  * Speedup patches by Adam Heath
+  * statoverride fixes by Robert Luberda, Closes: Bug#78436
+  * Add Linux S/390 support. Closes: Bug#79063
+  * Using libz to decompress data instead of calling gzip.
+    Closes: Bug#49581
+  * Add gettext to build-depends
+  * Fix warning when trying to remove a non-existing statoverride.
+    Closes: Bug#79352
+  * Be more paranoid with file permissions when extracting files
+  * Apply statoverrides to more then just files
+  * Update update-alternatives manpage to use FHS instead of FSSTND.
+    Closes: Bug#80237
+  * List descriptions for udebs in .changes
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:19:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.7.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix parsing of configuration files
+  * Add new powerpc-linux-gnu entry to archtable. Closes: Bug#76522
+  * No longer bother to install emacs things. I don't use emacs myself
+    and can't support that properly.
+  * scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl: Make it parse soname's in the format of
+    "libfoo-X.X.so" (e.g. libdb-3.1.so) and use it. Also make it give a
+    warning if there is a NEEDED line in the objdump output that we cannot
+    grok.
+  * scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl: resolve library paths using a combination
+    of the libc major version, and ldconfig -p output. Solves problems
+    with errant libc5 deps.
+  * Correct name of .changes file when doing source-only builds
+  * Fix -ap option for dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: Bug#77305
+  * Fix typo in update-alternatives manpage. Closes: Bug#77829
+  * Fix typo in script-regexp update-rc.d. Closes: Bug#76029
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:55:50 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix a typo in the dpkg-statoverride manpage
+  * dpkg-statoverride reads and writes the right file now
+  * Make update-alternatives use the right dir for alternatives again
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Nov 2000 01:16:39 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Allow the administrator to override file mode and ownership using the
+    new dpkg-statoverride tool.
+  * Use objdump instead of ldd in dpkg-shlibdeps
+  * Fix logic in dpkg-shlibdeps so it looks for dependencies as specified
+    in its documentation
+  * Make update-alternatives update slave links with --config and properly
+    switch the alternative to manual mode
+  * HURD updates, Closes: Bug#57753,#57754,#57755
+  * dpkg-architecture: -q should not imply -f, Closes: Bug#57761
+  * add dpkg:UpstreamVersion and dpkg:Version substvars in dpkg-genchanges
+    and dpkg-gencontrol.  Closes: Bug#62069,#64774
+  * dpkg-genchanges: add new Changed-By field to .changes with the last
+    person who made a change, and modify the Maintainer-field to be the
+    actual maintainer. Update the format-version to 1.7 to reflect this.
+  * dpkg-genchanges: allow a space between # and a to-be-closed bugnumber
+  * dpkg-deb: reorder files when building a package
+  * dpkg-statoverride: new tool to override ownership and modes for files
+  * Check COLUMNS environment for dpkg -l output. Closes: Bug#65536
+  * Add Origin and Bugs fields to the control file
+  * Install new /etc/dpkg/origins/debian file
+  * Corrections and updates to Swedish translation.
+  * Add Galician, German, Dutch and Brazilian translations
+  * archtable: add ia64 and sh; revert sparc64 so that it turns into sparc.
+    There won't be a full binary-sparc64 port. Closes: Bug#70788
+  * dselect/main.cc: small fixups to get it to compile with gcc-2.96
+  * Clean up fd handling in some places. Closes: Bug#69359,#69360,#69361
+  * Document -k option for dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: Bug#71808
+  * Install commented dummy shlibs.default and shlibs.override files
+  * Give dpkg a configurationfile
+  * dpkg-scanpackages now uses the most recent version if multiple versions
+    of a package are found.
+  * don't rename a file to itself in dpkg-source. Closes: Bug#75060
+  * Fix buffer overflow in cmdname handling in start-stop-daemon.
+    Closes: Bug#75103
+  * Don't abort if start-stop-daemon tries to read a non-existing pidfile.
+    Closes: Bug#75105
+  * Update formatting of start-stop-daemon manpage. Closes: Bug#75110
+  * Make a missing package a warning instead of an error in dpkg-genchanges
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Nov 2000 17:28:39 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.13) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add Format-flag to .dsc format: we know we are going to change the
+    format in the next release, this change will make dpkg-source abort
+    with a reasonable error instead of doing unexpected things.
+  * Fix error in gettext'ized string
+  * Updated Czech, French, Polish and Spanish translations. Closes: Bug#63663
+  * debian-changelog-mode.el: fix documentation string for
+    debian-changelog-finalise-last. Closes: Bug#63003
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon,  8 May 2000 16:08:53 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.6.12.99) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Pre-release for 1.6.13. which will only feature translation updates
+  * Fix typo in dpkg-divert, Closes: Bug#60243
+  * dpkg-genchanges: recognize non-deb packages (tarballs, such as
+    dpkg-non-deb and boot-floppies disk tarballs). This makes sure that we
+    include them when figuring out the Arch field in the .changes
+  * mark another string as translateable, Closes: Bug#62543
+  * fix location of --abort-after in --help output, Closes: Bug#62464
+  * fix allocation error in checkpath(), Closes: Bug#62364
+  * add Hold to list of desired package states in -l output, Closes: Bug#58765
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:52:59 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.6.12) frozen unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Fix test for gpg/pgp in dpkg-buildpackage. You can now build
+    unsigned packages again. Closes: Bug#60395
+  * Updated Spanish and Swedish translations. Closes: Bug#41735
+  * Merge patch from Joel Klecker to remove emacsen-common stuff from dpkg-dev
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Apr 2000 16:50:02 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.6.11) frozen unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Oops, missed one case where the libc/ncurses conflict reared its
+    ugly head and broke dselect miserably.
+  * fix syntax error in dpkg-divert. Closes: Bug#60050
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:52:07 +1100
+
+dpkg (1.6.10) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The `it rains in Sydney' release
+  * Mark another string in dselect as translateable, Closes: Bug#58618
+  * Fix typos, Closes: Bug#58619
+  * Change dselect keybindings slightly so `n' really does searchagain
+  * Updated Czech and Spanish translations, Closes: Bug#58617
+  * dpkg-divert.pl: reinstate last writeability-patch. Modified
+    to not abort on ENOENT: this indicates a directory does not (yet)
+    exist. If this happens don't try to rename. This should fix all
+    current dpkg-divert problems. Closes: Bug#59207,#58596
+  * update-alternatives: switch back to auto-mode when manually selected
+    alternative is removed, Closes: Bug#54933
+  * dselect no longer segfaults on SIGWINCH but does The Right Thing
+    instead. Closes: Bug#54303,#58697,#59419
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Mar 2000 15:09:47 +1100
+
+dpkg (1.6.9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix typo in update-alternatives manpage
+  * dpkg-architecture: -q should not imply -f, Closes: Bug#57761
+  * Cleanup bits of install-info to make it more stable
+  * Fix Build-Dependency for ncurses, Closes: Bug#58073
+  * Some more documentation updates, Closes: Bug#57985
+  * Revert patch to check for writeable filesystems in dpkg-divert,
+    Closes: Bug#57840
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:11:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Turn --force-overwrite on by default
+  * Fix a couple of small buildsystem errors
+  * Support multiple adjacent newlines in control-style files, Closes: Bug#56056
+  * Updated Czech and Swedish translations
+  * Revert patch to change order of things when purging a package,
+    Closes: Bug#56374
+  * Handle failed open of /dev/tty in dpkg -l, Closes: Bug# 55041
+  * Update Japanese translations, Closes: Bug# 56641, #57494, #57595
+  * Update extended description for dpkg-dev, Closes: Bug# 56675
+  * Implement verbose option for update-alternative
+  * Fix conflicts handling
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:31:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.7) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg compiles on HP-UX, Solaris and IRIX now
+  * start-stop-daemon can chroot now, Closes: Bug#54513
+  * Allow space between # and the bugnumber in the changelog
+  * Display package description with waddnstr, Closes: Bug#54313
+  * Updated Japanese manpages, Closes: Bug#54690, #55080
+  * Upload full source for packages with version *-0.1, Closes: Bug#54651
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:36:10 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage supports debsign, Closes: Bug#58333
+  * fix update-alternatives manpage, Closes: Bug#53859
+  * Updated Polish translation
+  * Pass admindir to dpkg, Closes: Bug#54039
+  * Fix dpkg -l output
+  * Remove dpkg-safelist again, it had issues
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Jan 2000 19:51:45 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Update Spanish translation
+  * Don't strip 8th bit in dselect packagelists, Closes: Bug# 49061
+  * Don't use \z in dpkg-scansources, Closes: Bug# 53182
+  * Correctly unregister internals manual, Closes: Bug# 53200
+  * dselect helpessages can be translated now, Closes: Bug# 51381
+  * dselect UI tweaks, including a new --expert mode
+  * Added build-depends, Closes: Bug# 53394
+  * Added THANKS-file with people who have contributed to the code
+  * Use full width of tty in packagelisting, Closes: Bug# 53395
+  * Add -z option to dpkg-deb to set compressionlevel when building
+    packages, Closes: Bug# 53398
+  * Fix segfaults when producing a diff between current and new conffile,
+    Closes: Bug# 52197
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:47:09 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * No longer byte-compile for emacs
+  * Add Swedish translation
+  * start-stop-daemon: honour --oknodo if we fail to kill a process
+    Closes: Bug#52580,#52185,#52457
+  * Fix dselect program description, Closes: Bug#52328
+  * Fix architecture-detection in dpkg-gencontrol, Closes: Bug#52616
+  * Accept single-number values in update-rc.d, Closes: Bug#46810
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:27:48 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.3) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Comment dselect changes from 1.6.2, they seem to have a problem
+    Closes: #52043,52058,52088,51437
+  * Really fix emacs-stuff. Hopefully. Closes: #51919,51525
+  * Fix copyright display in dselect menu, Closes: #52093
+  * Fix uid/gid-changes in start-stop-daemon, Closes: #52081
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Dec 1999 17:06:00 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New dpkg-scansources, Closes: #51888
+  * Fix default for elispdir, Closes: #51919,51525
+  * New manpages for cleanup-info and dpkg-divert, Closes: #51539, 46657
+  * Buildsystem updates, Closes: #51525, 51855, 51914
+  * Modify dselect behaviour for suggests and recommends
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Dec 1999 19:29:50 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix some slight packaging errors
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:18:48 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Major overhaul of the buildsystem
+  * Update Standards-Version to 3.1.0
+  * Move to version 1.6 to reflect the amount of changes made
+  * Fix mixup with Czech and Polish translations, Closes: Bug# 48986
+  * utils/start-stop-daemon.c: Added ability for user.group arg to
+    --chuid. Also, always call initgroups() when using --chuid.
+  * utils/start-stop-daemon.8: Document above change, also add note to the
+    --make-pidfile option concerning its problem with daemons that fork
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Nov 1999 04:30:01 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix replaces for dpkg-dev
+  * Add gettext-support to dselect
+  * Added Czech and Polish translations for dpkg
+  * Fixed incorrect patch for --print-architecture (oops, oh well
+    it was already broken when there was no gcc anyway :)
+  * Fixed missing mipseb that was supposed to be in the archtable
+  * Better output in update-alternatives --config, now shows the
+    current, and the preferred choices.
+  * dpkg-name: ignore epoch when getting version
+  * 50dpkg-dev.el: add it as a conffile for dpkg-dev
+  * internals.sgml: Removed references to the versions of build tools,
+    they date the document.
+  * debian-changelog-mode.el: added hint for better log-email handling
+  * Added recognition for new source-depends fields for policy
+    referenced in bug #41232
+  * dpkg-buildpackage: add -ap option to force a pause prior to starting
+    the sign process. This helps for people who don't keep their signatures
+    on the filesystem (on a floppy perhaps, then mount as needed).
+  * minor script corrections
+  * dpkg-dev control: Change gcc to c-compiler in the recommends field, and
+    move cpio, patch and make to the depends line
+  * Leave file info intact in available when installing packages. MD5sum,
+    Filename, and MSDOS-Filename used to get lost when installing a
+    package.
+  * Added armv4l to archtable
+  * Added 'D' to the list of choices for conffile handling, closes: #48137
+  * Converted internals.sgml to debiandoc format. Also added a dpkg-doc
+    package that contains the generated output from this file (.ps, .html
+    and .info), includes doc-base support. Internals.sgml is also not
+    generated on the binary-arch target, and is no longer "byhand"
+  * dpkg-gencontrol: add "Source" to the fields placed in the control file
+  * dpkg-parsechangelog: fixed loop for parsepath (#48526)
+  * main/{processarc.c,depcon.c}: added new structure for conflictors,
+    which contains a struct for conflicts. This is used to create an array
+    of conflicting packages, which are going to be replaced. Allows for
+    multiple conflicts and replaces. All conflictor handlers were
+    converted to loops to handle each one (processarc.c).
+  * dpkg-divert: Fix check for writable filesystem, closes: #48646
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:14:40 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Backout dep check patch
+
+ -- Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:39:24 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Add support for long filenames, along with --assert-longfilenames
+  * Added --chuid option to start-stop-daemon to allow switching to
+    a different uid when starting a process
+  * Add mipseb and mipsel to the archtable too, since mips and mipseb are
+    both viable names for the mips big endian arch, and mipsel is also needed
+  * Update dpkg-architecture's archtable
+  * Added --config option to update-alternatives to allow easy changing
+    of the registered alternatives for a specific name
+  * Updated the deb-control(5) man page with all the current fields
+    and uses
+  * Made the large info screen show 5 lines of the pkglist so that
+    it scrolled properly, and still showed the cursor in dselect
+  * Removed references to dpkg(5) which seems to not exist anymore
+  * Fixed `dpkg-deb --help' and dpkg-deb(1) from reporting --no-check
+    when it's actually --nocheck (went with the hardcoded option, so
+    this is just a documentation fix).
+  * Added better check in disk.setup for a working NFS server. Makes
+    it compatible with other non-Linux servers.
+  * Corrected dpkg(8)'s example of using dpkg -i (showed it used with
+    a .tar.gz instead of a .deb)
+  * Applied patch to correct improper TMPDIR handling in dpkg-deb
+  * When encountering an error in extracting the tar archives in the
+    packages, we should abort the install, not simply give an error
+    and continue.
+  * Make dpkg give the builtin arch if there was an error while exec()'ing
+    the C compiler with --print-architecture. We still fail if the
+    output from gcc was bad in some way, since they may be of importance.
+  * Removed the maintainer-configure portion in debian/rules, since
+    we should be shipping the source with all the auto* stuff
+    already generated anyway
+  * Removed the ltconfig patch, and resort to a debian/rules fix
+    to libtool itself after running configure
+  * Removed shlibs.default.i386. It's now a template for arch porting to
+    Debian/dpkg, we install it still, if there exists a file matching the
+    arch
+  * Reimplemented a better *stat cache for the removal checking code,
+    this helps a lot when doing upgrades where the packages are a lot
+    different in layout
+  * Increased largemem auto detection to >= 24megs, since it's not uncommon
+    for dpkg to actually use 16megs of ram all on its own when using the
+    largemem setting (old minimum was 16megs)
+  * debian/rules: chmod -x everything in /usr/lib to make lintian happy.
+    in the clean phase just rm -rf $(BUILD), we don't need to run
+    distclean and all that other stuff. Don't run "make dist", we
+    simply copy the .tar.gz that dpkg-source creates for the byhand
+    source.
+  * Make start-stop-daemon exit(1) when we don't find one of the
+    pid's we are trying to kill, in accordance with the man page.
+  * When running --configure on an already installed package, just
+    say it's installed, and not that it is in an unconfigurable
+    state
+  * Fixed some compiler warnings
+  * Make dpkg check for uid 0 requirement, before checking the path
+    since not being root, is probably the reason that the PATH is
+    borked in the first place
+  * Make -p short for --print-avail, and -P short for --purge
+  * Fix typo in md5sum(1) man page
+  * start-stop-daemon: Add --background and --make-pidfile options
+  * update-alternatives: make sure we remove "old" symlinks when they
+    are no longer pertinent. Add /etc/alternatives/README that refers
+    to the update-alternatives(8) man page.
+  * dpkg-divert: Add check for being able to write to the old/new
+    destination before doing a rename. We fail on this, without
+    changing the diversion registry
+  * Fix bad regex in update-rc.d
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:49:03 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Hardcode ENOENT again since the errno-part of the POSIX module
+    isn't in perl-*-base. sigh.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:01:14 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * non-maintainer release.
+  * Move dselect into its own package
+  * Remove conffiles before directories when purging
+  * Check if integrity from other packages will broken when processing
+    an archive
+  * dpkg-deb can handle package made with Linux ar.
+  * Add check to update-alternatives to see if the sequencecode is between
+    0 and 99
+  * Fix failed assertion, which was actually two bugs: a logic error in
+    checkforremoval and a wrong assumption in findbreakcycle
+  * dselect doesn't die when you resize the terminal
+  * check if a file is also in a new package before removing it when upgrading
+  * offer to show a diff between the old and new conffile
+  * dpkg-scanpackages: don't abort but only skip a package if we can't
+    open it
+  * Add HURD-support to  start-stop-daemon
+  * Reinstate patch to not read available when doing --list-files
+  * Add a couple of --force options to handle changed conffiles
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:20:56 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * non-maintainer release.
+  * dpkg-source works again on empty diffs, Closes: Bug# 46159
+  * Install locale-files in /usr/share, Closes: Bug# 46631
+  * Make /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev a symlink to /usr/share/doc/dpkg
+  * Actually include fix to make update-alternatives works filesystems (oops!)
+  * Check if codenumber is between 0 and 99, Closes: Bug# 46810
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue,  5 Oct 1999 19:19:05 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * NMU number 13, lets see what breaks :)
+  * update-alternatives works across filesystems now
+  * Make -sgpg work in dpkg-buildpackage (typo)
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 01:26:19 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Fix typo in chmodsafe_unlink that made dpkg chmod files that
+    weren't setuid or setgid
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Sep 1999 02:41:30 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Added sparc64 to archtable
+  * Added entries for newer alpha architectures to the archtable
+  * Always run patch and diff with LANG set to C.
+  * Handle diff warning for files with no newline at the end of file
+    Closes: Bug#45642
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 03:23:54 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Build dpkg-scansources manpages using pod2man
+  * dpkg-buildpackage changes:
+    + fix signinterface-detection
+    + use gpg by default if $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg exists
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:36:43 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Updated dpkg-scansources to current version from Roderick Schertler
+  * Update location of GPL in internals-manual
+  * Update location of GPL and dpkg copyright in all manpages
+  * Include patch from Roman Hodek for dpkg-source to handle diffs of files
+    with lines that begin with two dashes.
+  * Move dpkg-scansources to dpkg-dev package
+  * Move dpkg-scansources manpage to section 8
+  * Fix error that moved a lot of manpages to the dpkg package.
+  * It looks like not reading the available-file for listfiles was not greeted
+    with much enthiousiasm, so reverse the change.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:45:07 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Merge dpkg-doc-ja
+  * Add patch from Raphaël Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> for dpkg-scansources
+    to skip comments in signatures. This allows packages to also use GnuPG.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:16:33 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * Use /usr/share/doc
+  * Merge changes from dpkg-iwj tree:
+    + change section in dpkg-deb.1 to 1
+    + Use COPYINGFILE instead of hardcoded GPL-location in showcopyright()
+    + varbufprintf (used for some error messages) vsnprintf return value
+      assumption changed to correspond to reality rather than glibc-doc.
+    + Don't read available-info when not needed (slightly improved from
+      dpkg-iwj: don't read for listfiles either :)
+    + Cleanup --assert-* code
+    + Assume largemem on systems without sysinfo(2).
+    + modify preexec-script for easier script execution
+    + Do not chmod(".../path/to/symlink",0600) causing many bad perms.
+    + Sanity-check numbers for parameters
+    + Move some logic from process_archive into wantinstall
+    + Print '0' in dpkg-scanpackages if no packages found.
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 04:06:32 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl: Update to latest version.
+  * scripts/dpkg-architecture.1: Likewise.
+
+ -- Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:24:21 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release.
+  * (dpkg-dev): Use emacsen-common for debian-changelog-mode.el
+    (closes:Bug#20776,#31030).
+  * Removed references to the packaging and policy manuals from debian/control.
+  * Put debian-changelog-mode.el in dpkg-dev and remove from dpkg (closes:Bug#29271).
+  * Fix paths in 50dpkg-dev.el using Roderick Schertler's patch
+    (closes:Bug#28270,#29702,#26876,#29184,and others).
+  * Note that bug number 17367 was fixed in 1.4.0.26.
+  * Add Zack Weinberg's install-info patch for GNU install-info
+    compatibility (closes:Bug#28965).
+  * Add dpkg-architecture stuff from Marcus Brinkmann.
+  * Remove debian-keyring suggests from dpkg.
+  * Add -k<keyid> flag to dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * --textmode works in gpg, remove kluge from dpkg-buildpackage.
+  * Cleanup configure.in slightly (stop using tl_ macros, fix gettext stuff).
+  * Attempt to make Debian source useful for non-Debian systems
+    (i.e. distclean tree instead of maintainer-clean tree).
+  * Sync with wichert's 1.4.1.4.
+  * Add my ltconfig-1.3.2.diff (RPATH workaround).
+  * Add dpkg-scansources program and man page.
+  * Man pages in /usr/share/man.
+
+ -- Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:12:15 -0700
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Also change developer-keyring to debian-keyring for dpkg-dev package
+  * Include spanish translation from Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
+  * Depend on perl5 instead of perl
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Jul 1999 00:04:14 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Modify tarobject() so it does not complain if we are creating a
+    directory that replaces a removed file. This works around the
+    problem that the filedatabase doesn't remember what filetype a
+    file was by assuming it already was a directory
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon, 31 May 1999 23:49:23 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload
+  * Rebuild, so this is glibc2.1 (unless you're on m68k), which is rumoured
+    to also fix the i8n-problems.
+  * Incorporate 1.6 format of .changes, patch from Guy Maor
+  * Fix bug in section-handling of dpkg-scanpackages, patch from Guy Maor
+  * Disable force-overwrites again, since we're in unstable
+  * Assume largemem on systems for which sysinfo is not available, Bug# 33658
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Wed, 26 May 1999 15:50:17 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload
+  * Install emacs-startup scripts with mode 0644 (lintian)
+  * Incorporate changes in NMU 1.4.0.32 made by Vincent Renardias
+    <vincent@waw.com> for slink:
+    + Apply patch from Jim Pick for update-alternatives.pl to
+      fix 'Important' bugs #30891 in dpkg and (#27382, #27383, #27696,
+      #27703, #27736, #27097(merged bugs)) in jdk1.1.
+  * Incorporate changes in NMU 1.4.0.33 made by me for slink:
+    + Fix illegal perl construct (Bug# 30985)
+    + Initialize oialtname->useinstead and oicontest->camefrom to 0 (Bug# 30397)
+    + Update shlibs.default for libncurses 4 (Bug# 30332)
+    + Suggest debian-keyring instead of developer-keyring (Bug# 27376, 30248)
+    + Abort dpkg-divert when attempting to divert a directory (Bug# 30126)
+    + Make dpkg-deb.1 aware that it is in section 1, not 8
+    + Fix section in reference to dpkg-deb in dpkg.8 (Bug# 29740)
+    + Fix typo in --force-help (Bug# 26193)
+    + Correct path for debian-changelog-mode.el (Bug# 24606)
+    + Make disk-method for dpkg use /var/run instead of /tmp to fix
+      symlink-attacks (Bug# 21399)
+    + Document -n and -f options for update-rc.d in manpage (Bug# 15913)
+    + Add --abort-after option to change after how many errors we abort and
+      change the default to 50 (Bug# 22940)
+    + Fix controllib.pl: don't check debian/substvars unless needed, and
+      don't depend on language settings (Bug# 31508)
+    + Allow a - in the architecture-field (Bug# 25537)
+
+ -- Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Feb 1999 00:44:01 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Maintainer release by IWJ.
+  * Changed Maintainer: field description.
+  * Various changes to make the damn thing build.
+  * Add .cvsignore files.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>  Sun,  1 Nov 1998 17:33:38 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg/processarc.c: Make newfileslist static like the other arguments
+    for register_cleanup's cu_* functions.
+  * N-th fix for controllib.pl (simulate old behavior by trying stdin,
+    stdout, and stderr for getlogin()).
+  * Enable --force-overwrite for slink release, and comment where to do
+    so (dpkg/main.c).
+  * Recompile against ncurses4.
+
+ -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:37:23 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg-dev isn't allowed to have a Recommends: debian-keyring (as that's
+    in contrib), so it's now lowered to a Suggests: . Thanks to James Troup
+    for pointing this out.
+
+ -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:59:23 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * For now, prefer PGP over GPG.
+
+ -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:38:09 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added gpg (GNU Privacy Guard) support:
+    * scripts/buildpackage.sh: default to GPG (unless no GPG, but only a PGP
+      secret key file is found), as GPG, unlike PGP, is DFSG-free.
+    * Updated dpkg-source(1), and added gpg(1) and pgp(1) to the SEE ALSO
+      section.
+    * Worked around broken textmode implementation in GPG.
+    * dpkg-dev now Suggests: gnupg .
+  * No longer includes developer-keys.pgp . Instead, dpkg now Suggests: and
+    dpkg-dev now Recommends: developer-keyring.
+  * Compiled with latest libstdc++ (2.9).
+
+ -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:17:14 +0200
+
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * REALLY fixed dpkg-dev, and new attempt to placate installer on internals.
+
+ -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Jul 1998 15:58:04 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.26.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Binary-only upload for x86 and fixed dpkg-dev
+
+ -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:58:04 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+
+  * Make --root work with maintainer scripts (Patch by Scott Barker,
+    bugs #4863 and #3170).
+  * Fix $(lispdir) bug if compiling without emacs (noticed by Joey Hess).
+
+ -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:02:04 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+
+  * Add the requested -nc option to dpkg-buildpackage (Do
+    not clean source tree, useful in debugging cycles).
+  * controllib.pl: Again by popular acclamation, fix the getlogin() warnings.
+    I redirected STDERR onto fd 0 before calling getlogin().
+  * tools.m4: Fix display of whether c++ works.
+  * dpkg-deb/extract.c: glibc 2.1 and some kernels want to make
+    fflush() move the current fpos.  Until someone can fix that,
+    protect with seek.
+  * Add an extra 0, to dselect/{pkg,meth}keys.cc so it compiles again.
+  * Start using lchown() if available.
+  * Really fix #20353. (aclocal.m4 was the wrong place; that's a generated
+    file.  The correct place is in tl_canon.m4.)
+
+ -- Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Jul 1998 03:14:14 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+
+  * dpkg/main.c: Turn --force-overwrite off as default.
+  * dpkg/main.c: don't list --force-overwrite as default in --force-help,
+    noticed by Peter Weiss <Peter.Weiss@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> and
+    others. [#23542, part of #17409].
+  * dpkg/dpkg.8: replaced with a newer version from Jim Van Zandt
+    <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>. [#21061]
+
+  * dpkg-deb/build.c (do_build): add missing \n and improve error message
+    when conffile name is too long. [#7057]
+
+  * scripts/update-alternatives.8: replaced with better man page from
+    Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>. [#17283]
+  * scripts/dpkg-source.1: corrected logic error in documentation for
+    dpkg-gencontrol's -p option, as noticed by Oliver Elphick
+    <olly@linda.lfix.co.uk>. [#14655]
+  * scripts/controllib.pl (findarch): correct typo in error message,
+    noticed by Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>. [#22106]
+  * scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.sh: fix typo for 'source maintainer',
+    noticed by Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>, Adam P. Harris
+    <apharris@onshore.com> and others. [#10175, #15559]
+  * scripts/dpkg-genchanges.pl: applied patch from Roman Hodek
+    <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> which solves problems with
+    architecture specific packages in mostly architecture independent
+    multi-binary source packages. [#14341, #20192].
+
+  * doc/Makefile.am: remove any reference to the packaging manual, as it is
+    now provided by the separate "packaging-manual" package.
+  * doc/packaging.sgml: removed.
+  * doc/developer-keys.pgp: updated to the current debian keyring.
+
+  * aclocal.m4: applied patch from Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> to handle
+    egcs' --print-libgcc-file-name output. [#20353]
+
+  * debian/copyright: correct FSF address.
+  * debian/rules: add code from lesstif's debian/rules to make libtool
+    less of a fool (i.e. not use -rpath and to link shared libraries
+    against libraries it depends on).  Code by Richard Braakman
+    <dark@xs4all.nl> and Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>.
+  * debian/rules: remove all reference to the packaging manual as it is
+    now provided by the separate "packaging-manual" package. [#21581,
+    #21186, #22698, #23342]
+  * debian/rules: link dpkg-divert.1.gz to undocumented.7.gz as the lack
+    of a real manpage has been reported in #11093.
+  * debian/README.compile: removed gawk and bogus comment about gettext
+    being in experimental, as reported by Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
+    [#23344].  Added libpaperg (debiandoc2ps needs paperconf).
+  * debian/shlibs.default.i386: updated for glibc, reported by Herbert Xu
+    <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>. [#13140]
+  * debian/control (dpkg-dev): depend on perl as POSIX (not a part of
+    perl-base) is needed by most of the perl dpkg-* scripts, noticed by
+    Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>. [#22115]
+
+ -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:38:52 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.23.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * dpkg/main.c: Turn --force-overwrite back on as default.
+
+ -- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:19:26 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.23.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * No real changes, only a new version code to make this go to frozen too.
+
+ -- Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:29:58 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.23) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer bug-fix release
+  * Update the disk method to the hamm directory structure (Bug#21000)
+
+ -- Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Jun 1998 19:14:51 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.22) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer bug-fix release
+  * Install main changelog file as `changelog.gz' instead of
+    `changelog.dpkg.gz' (Debian Policy, section 5.8) (Bug#6052,15157)
+  * Avoid use of /tmp/*.$$ in preinst and postinst (Bug#19712)
+  * Make sure diversions file is always created with mode 0644 (Bug#19494)
+  * When removing a file, chmod it to 000 if it's a char or block
+    device or remove its s[ug]id bits, if any (Bug#6006)
+  * Minor fixes in the programmer's manual (Bug#6206)
+  * Always create readable status and available files
+    (Bug#9869,11887,14636,15786,19146)
+  * Make dpkg-gencontrol honour -DArchitecture=xxxx (Bug#9893)
+  * Allow different archs for the same binary in debian/files (Bug#9894)
+  * Added workaround in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
+    to avoid bash warning (Bug#10111,10131)
+  * Recognize old .deb packages with other locales (Bug#12232)
+  * Added `SHELL=bash' to debian/rules: it uses bash-specific structs
+  * Move some files from dpkg to dpkg-dev (part of Bug#13295)
+  * Minor fix in packaging manual regarding to Standards-Version (Bug#14696)
+  * Fixed --altdir and --admindir in update-alternatives (Bug#15332)
+  * Strip /usr/lib/libdpkg* (Bug#15671)
+  * dpkg: send output of --help, --force-help and -Dhelp to stdout
+    (Bug#16051,18574)
+  * send correct signals with start-stop-daemon (Bug#17258)
+  * Make `dpkg-divert --test --remove' work as expected (Bug#19531)
+  * Determine properly the architecture if gcc is egcs (Bug#20353)
+
+ -- Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Apr 1998 17:37:01 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer release to include a new update-rc.d
+  * Fixed date on files in the archive from 2017 and 2018 by running
+    touch foo; find . -newer foo | xargs -r touch; rm foo
+  * Changed start-stop-daemon message "No <program> found; none killed." to
+    "No <program> found running; none killed."
+
+ -- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>  Thu,  5 Mar 1998 14:19:46 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Disabled --force-overwrites.
+  * Removed core file from source
+
+ -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Jan 1998 03:34:28 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Changed methods/disk.setup to use output of
+    'dpkg --print-installation-architecture' instead of hard-coded
+    '1386' (fixes #10995).
+  * Patched dpkg-source to properly quote metacharacters in strings
+    before using them in pattern-matching expressions (fixes #10811).
+  * Fixed several documentation typos (fixes #10764).
+  * dpkg-source now works around 100-character filename limitation of cpio
+    (fixes #10400).
+  * dpkg-source now properly handles '\ no newline in source' message from
+    patch (fixes #5041).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Jul 1997 19:28:22 -0700
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg-source now uses new -z option to GNU patch (still needs to be
+    changed to detect and use old version as well) (fixes #9904, #10005, #10007).
+  * Added i686 to archtable.
+  * shlibs.default now uses xlib6 instead of elf-x11r6lib (fixes #9926).
+  * debian-changelog-mode now uses interruptible completing type-in fields
+    instead of the previous 'select-a-letter method'.  I consider this
+    better and more standard than the previous way, but I'd welcome
+    opinions to the contrary.  Consider this a 'probationary' change for
+    now (fixes #9873, #9874).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sun, 25 May 1997 09:56:08 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * All of the dpkg binaries (but not dpkg-dev or dselect) now speak
+    french, thanks to patches from Christophe Le Bars <clebars@teaser.fr>
+  * Fix leading spaces before day in 822-date.
+  * Changes from Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> to better support
+    building on non-Debian systems; minor Makefile fixes.
+  * Added 'ppc powerpc powerpc' to archtable.
+  * Changed documentation paper size to US/Letter instead of A4 (A4
+    may be better, but it's easier to print US/Letter on A4 than it is
+    to print A4 on US/Letter).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Tue,  13 May 1997 15:24:31 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.16) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Added generated sources to GNU-format source archive so it no longer
+    requires perl to build.
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sat, 10 May 1997 17:34:29 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.15) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Changed dpkg-genchanges to check for ($arch == $substvar{'Arch'}), not
+    ($arch ne 'all') (fixes #9688).
+  * Fixed bug in start-stop-daemon.c (was using optarg after argument
+    parsing was over) (fixes #9597, #9603, #9364).
+  * Provide 50dpkg-dev.el for xemacs as well as emacs.
+  * Explicitly provide path for debian-changelog-mode in 50dpkg-dev to use
+    .el file as workaround until xemacs can read emacs19 .elc files.
+  * Pass top_distdir explicitly to 'make dist' to accommodate bug in
+    automake_1.1o-1.
+  * Fix debian/build to make html documentation without including
+    directories in tar archives (fixes #9348).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Fri,  9 May 1997 13:17:18 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.14) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed buglet in install-info.pl (fixes #9438).
+  * Re-write of update-rc.d.pl, primarily by Miquel van Smoorenburg
+    <miquels@cistron.nl> (fixes #9434, #9436).
+  * Renamed "dpkg Programmer's Manual" to "dpkg Internals Manual".
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Tue,  6 May 1997 22:01:07 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.13) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix to start-stop-daemon so that it still takes numeric arguments (had
+    been broken in 1.4.0.12) (fixes #9598).
+  * Fix 822-date to sanity-check localtime() output (seconds must be the
+    same as GMT).
+  * Patch from Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> to dpkg-source.pl to support
+    pristine (MD5-equivalent) upstream sources.
+  * Patch from Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> to
+    update-rc.d.pl to fix handling multiple start/stop entries on a single
+    line.
+  * Several fixes to dpkg-genchanges to support -B option (added in
+    1.4.0.12) (fixes #9340).
+  * Handle errors from 822-date in debian-changelog-mode.el.
+  * Changed cl-debian.pl to correctly handle extra whitespace in changelog
+    datestamps.
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Mon,  5 May 1997 18:12:43 -0400
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.12) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Re-wrote 822-date for clarity and to support timezone offsets >= 12h
+    (New Zealand in DST is +1300, for example) (fixes #7130).
+  * Patch from Juergen Menden <menden@morgana.camelot.de> to support
+    archdependent-only builds (fixes #8912, #9245, #5359).
+  * Fix archtable entry for powerpc (fixes #8794).
+  * Strip /sbin/* and /usr/sbin/* in debian/rules (fixes #8853).
+  * Moved start-stop-daemon to /sbin (fixes #8669).
+  * Set sharedstatedir and localstatedir for $(MAKE) install in
+    debian/rules (fixes #8852).
+  * Fixes for update-rc.d(8) from Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
+    (fixes #8576).
+  * No longer do variable substitutions when generating change file (fixes
+    #5862).
+  * Support symbolic signal names in start-stop-daemon (fixes #7715).
+  * Add autoload for debian-changelog-mode to /etc/emacs/site-start.d
+    (fixes #4519, #5841).
+  * Add recommendation for gcc and make in dpkg-dev (gcc is needed for dpkg
+    --print-architecture, used by dpkg-gencontrol; make is needed for any
+    debian/rules file) (fixes #8470).
+  * Minor changes to packaging manual section on source package
+    conversion (fixes #6801).
+  * Renamed "programmer's manual" to 'packaging manual'.
+  * Start of new "programmer's manual" containing information on dpkg
+    internals and build information.  This manual uses the new
+    TeXinfo-SGML format, currently included in doc/.
+  * dselect/pkgdepcon.cc now checks for debug not NULL, not just depdebug.
+  * Changed makefiles to support building outside of source directory.
+  * Include GNU-format source distribution with other non-debian packages.
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sun,  4 May 1997 11:08:19 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.11) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Patches for alpha and libc6 from Michael Alan Dorman
+    <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>.
+  * Fixed minor problems in dpkg-shlibdeps regular expressions for libc6.
+  * Fix regex to detect directory creation in dpkg-source.pl.
+  * Minor changes for automake-1.1n.
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:09:33 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed bug in controllib.pl (@fowner was entire passwd entry,
+    not just [uid, gid] as it should have been).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:06:52 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Check fputs() return values for (ret >= 0), not (ret != 0) (fixes #7522).
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps no longer gives error for Java and statically linked
+    binaries (fixes #4988).
+  * Change 'details of the old format' to 'details of the new format' in
+    deb-old.5 (fixes #7605).
+  * dpkg-source -b now warns (was previously silent) if maintainer changes
+    create new subdirectories.  dpkg-source -x now warns (previously gave
+    error) if maintainer changes create new subdirectories (partially
+    fixes #6866, #6671, #5045, #6482).
+  * Added manual page for start-stop-daemon (8).
+  * Added C version of start-stop-daemon by
+    Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> (fixes #1670).
+  * Converted to use GNU automake for the build process by Tom Lees
+    <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>.<
+  * Preliminary support for dpkg functions as a shared library (now
+    provides libdpkg.so, but much work needs to be done in better
+    segregating and defining the interface).
+  * Preliminary internationalization support by Galen Hazelwood
+    <galenh@debian.org>.  Only the library, dpkg-deb, md5sum, and dpkg
+    have been converted so far.  No translations have yet been
+    constructed.
+  * Handle 'libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40010000)' format from libc6
+    ldd (fixes #7603, #7926, #8688, #9179, #9134, #8516).
+  * Removed policy.sgml (it has been moved to the debian-policy package).
+  * Include patch from Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com> for
+    dpkg-buildpackage to choose PGP key based on Maintainer: field of
+    package being built (or -m<maintainer> option, if present) (fixes
+    #7898).
+  * Changed controllib.pl to use $ENV{LOGNAME}, getlogin(), and $<
+    (in that order) to determine the intended ownership of
+    debian/{files,substvars},  (fixes #7324, #6823, #5659, #5965, #5929,
+    #9239, #5366).
+  * Don't sign .dsc file in dpkg-buildpackage if building a binary-only
+    release (fixes #7260).
+  * Updated developer-keys.pgp to latest revision (fixes #6134).
+
+ -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:11:24 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Corrected update-rc.d for bash 2.0
+  * Updated developer-keys.pgp from
+    http://www.iki.fi/liw/debian/debian-keyring.tar.gz
+
+ -- Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>  Mon, 3 Feb 1997 04:05:01 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.7) stable unstable; urgency=HIGH
+
+  * Fixed --assert-support-predepends failing between unpack & configure.
+  * Added --assert-working-epoch option.
+
+ -- Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:02:11 -0600
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.6) stable unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Patched lib/vercmp.c to hopefully fix dselect epoch processing
+    (Bug#6204), (Bug#4590).
+  * Patched scripts/dpkg-buildpackage, scripts/dpkg-genchanges,
+    scripts/dpkg-gencontrol for epoch processing, courtesy of Loic Prylli
+    <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr> (Bug#6138, Bug#5225).
+  * Patched dpkg-genchanges to actually honor the -u switch to specify
+    directory (Bug#5564).
+  * Applied patch to main/archive.c to correct problems setting set[gu]id
+    binaries, courtesy of Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>
+    (Bug#5479).
+  * Applied patch to dpkg-source to correct debian-only package names,
+    courtesy of Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> (Bug#5355).
+
+ -- Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>  Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:36:09 -0500
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.5) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Distribution for frozen too.
+
+ -- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>  Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:13:42 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.4) stable unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bug2962 fixed: patch from Ian Jackson applied
+    (cursor keys won't work after search)
+  * Manuals 2.1.2.2
+
+ -- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>  Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:21:18 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * dpkg-source -x: created bad permissions (set x-bit for
+    all files pointed to by a symlink)
+
+ -- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>  Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:32:06 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage.sh: reverted the quoting change -- (you
+    should use super, sudo, really, but not su.  Or write a wrapper
+    around su)
+  * dpkg-buildpackage.sh: passing -m, -C, -v options to dpkg-genchanges
+    more the way Ian likes ;-)
+  * dpkg-source.pl: new function deoctify() as replacement for eval()
+    (turn \ddd into the corresponding character) [rem: probably better
+    solution would be to convert cpios output names into complete \ddd
+    representation as well tars output names]
+  * dpkg-source.pl: fixed 2 typos in failure message on creating
+    $origtargz.tmp-nest.
+  * main/main.c: typo for `treat'
+  * main/enquiry.c: fixed the ignorance for some relations in --compare-versions
+  * main/enquiry.c: missing version is now handled as described in `dpkg --help'
+    (or at least as I understood `dpkg --help' PLEASE TRY IT)
+  * lib/parsehelp.c: fixed parsing of epoch information
+
+ -- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>  Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:27:47 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * dpkg-source: doesn't get screwed up from hardlinks
+    in the archive now
+  * dpkg-source: doesn't get screwed up from `unprintable' characters
+    in file names (e.g. from the kbd package)
+  * controllib.pl: $varlistvile -> $varlistfile (thanx Karl Sackett)
+  * dpkg-buildpackage: quoting for $rootcommand (thanx  Michael Meskes)
+    and `eval' as default $rootcommand
+  * dpkg-*, controllib.pl: created debian/files and debian/substvars
+    are chown'ed to `getlogin()' and its group
+  * doc/: mv changed to mv -f
+  * dpkg-buildpackage: added an option -a for overriding the
+    architecture in the changes _file_name_
+  * dpkg-buildpackage: pass -m* -v* .. options to dpgk-genchangelog
+  * dpkg-name moved to dpkg-dev
+
+ -- Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>  Sat, 21 Sep 1996 22:06:01 +0200
+
+dpkg (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low (HIGH for new source format)
+
+  * Corrected buffer overrun when dpkg-deb generates filename.  (Bug#4467.)
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps works with DEBIAN/shlibs (thanks Heiko Schlittermann).
+  * Added libm.so.5 to shlibs.default for i386/m68k.
+
+  * Split binary package into two: dpkg and dpkg-dev.
+  * dpkg-source(1) documents mode and ownership setting during extraction.
+
+  * dpkg-scanpackages moved to /usr/bin.
+  * Include /usr/bin/dpkg-deb, not dpkg-deb.dist; don't rename in scripts.
+  * Copyright file changed slightly.
+  * debian-changelog-mode uses magic key substitution strings.  (Bug#4419.)
+  * Changed email address in control file to <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.
+  * Manuals and own Standards-Version: updated to 2.1.1.0.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:13:33 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage new -tc (clean source tree) option.
+
+  * Formatted documentation removed by `make clean' and so not in source.
+  * Manuals and own Standards-Version: updated to 2.1.0.0.
+  * Distribute {policy,programmer}.{html.tar,ps}.gz with each upload.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 1 Sep 1996 20:43:40 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.13) unstable; urgency=low (HIGH for building new src X programs)
+
+  * X shared libraries added to shlibs.default (=> `elf-x11r6lib').
+  * dpkg-source tar invocation fixed so that TAPE env var doesn't break it.
+  * dpkg-source copes better with missing final newline messages from diff.
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage usage message fixed: -si is the default.  (Bug#4350.)
+  * dpkg-source error message about src dir mismatch typo fixed.  (Bug#4349.)
+
+  * dpkg-source(1) has suggestions for dpkg-buildpackage -r option.
+  * dpkg-source change date fixed.  (Bug#4351.)
+  * More developers' keys.
+  * Manual updates, own Standards-Version updated.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:08:18 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.12) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * dpkg prints old version number when upgrading.  (Bug#4340.)
+  * dpkg-deb tries to detect and flag corruption by ASCII download.
+
+  * dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage say what source is included.
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage passes +clearsig=on to PGP (or pgpcommand).  (Bug#4342.)
+
+  * dpkg-source prints better error for cpio not honouring -0t.
+  * control file Suggests cpio >= 2.4.2, rather than just cpio.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:31:51 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * EBUSY when dpkg removes a directory is only a warning.
+
+  * dpkg-genchanges generates sensible warning (not confusing error
+    about mismatch) for missing Section/Priority in binary packages.
+
+  * Added dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture option.
+  * shlibs.default for m68k provided, as a copy of i386 version.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:05:02 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.10) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * dpkg-source(1) manpage alias symlinks are not dangling.
+  * dselect selects things by default if they are installed.
+  * Added `pentium' as alias for `i386' architecture.
+  * Added `Suggests: cpio, patch' and explanatory text to Description.
+    (Bugs #4262, #4263.)
+
+  * More developers' PGP keys.
+  * Manual updates, new source format released.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:30:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.9) unstable; urgency=low (high for new source format)
+
+  * dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections added.
+  * New dpkg --force-not-root flag.
+
+  * Don't replace directory with another package's file.  (Bug#4202.)
+
+  * All manpages now installed compressed.
+  * Copyright file moved to /usr/doc/dpkg/copyright.
+  * Standards-Version updated (0.2.1.1).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:09:30 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.8) unstable; urgency=low (high for new source format)
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage -sa, -si options work correctly.
+
+  * update-rc.d(8) updated to reflect design and reality.
+  * Programmers' and policy manual updates.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.7) unstable; urgency=low (medium for source pkg docs)
+
+  * dselect +/-/_/= on lines for all broken, new, local or whatever
+    packages do not affect _all_ packages.  (Bug#4129.)
+
+  * Support for diff-only uploads in source packaging tools.
+  * dpkg-genchanges -d<descripfile> option renamed to -C.
+  * dpkg-buildpackage understands -m, -v, -C (for dpkg-genchanges).
+  * Support for debian/shlibs.local added to dpkg-shlibdeps.
+  * Shared library files' search order defined in dpkg-source(1), and
+    relevant files added to the FILES section.
+
+  * Programmers' manual describes source packaging tools.
+  * Policy manual mentions shared library control area file.
+  * dpkg-source manpage includes dpkg-shlibdeps in title line.
+  * Manuals have changelog and automatic version numbering.
+  * changelogs (for dpkg and for manuals) installed.
+  * binary target split into binary-arch and binary-indep in manual.
+  * Manpages should be compressed.
+  * Copyright file is moved to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright.
+  * Changelogs must be installed in /usr/doc/<package>.
+
+  * dpkg-deb(8) moved to dpkg-deb(1).
+
+  * binary target split into binary-arch and binary-indep in source.
+  * changelog entry for 1.2.14 copied from that (forked) release.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:36:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.6) experimental; urgency=low (HIGH for new source format)
+
+  * dpkg-source now has broken argument unparsing for tar.  (Bug#4195.)
+
+  * dpkg-gencontrol writes to debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control by default.
+  * dpkg-shlibdeps script added.
+
+  * Back to old sh update-rc.d, and removed manpage, because new Perl
+    version and the manpage have different syntax and semantics.
+  * update-rc.d prints usage message for missing terminal `.'.  (Bug#4122.)
+
+  * Use rm -rf instead of just rm -r in dpkg-deb --info &c.  (Bug#4200.)
+
+  * Added support for Installed-Size to dpkg-gencontrol, and documented.
+  * Source packaging substitution variables and name syntax rationalised.
+  * dpkg-source scripts' usage messages improved slightly.
+  * dpkg-source works with non-empty second (orig dir) argument.
+
+  * Added rationale for copyright policy to manual.
+  * More developers' PGP keys.
+  * Control database handling cleanups (usu. Source field blanked).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:39:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.5) experimental; urgency=low (high for debian-changelog-mode)
+
+  * 822-date script included.  (Bug#4136.)
+  * debian-changelog-add-version works on empty file.
+  * debian-changelog-mode mode-help works properly.
+
+  * dpkg-source tells patch not to make numbered backups.  (Bug#4135.)
+
+  * More developers' PGP keys.
+  * Paragraph on uucp -a and -g options removed from policy manual.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:46:47 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed debugging output from dpkg-source -x.  Oops.
+  * Removed section on source package permissions from policy manual -
+    dpkg-source now sorts these out.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 11 Aug 1996 13:25:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Programmers' & policy manuals in source tree; HTML in /usr/doc/dpkg.
+  * Old guidelines.info and text files in /usr/doc/dpkg removed.
+
+  * dpkg-source sets permissions on extracted debianized source tree
+    and does not copy ownerships out of archive even if running as root.
+
+  * Emacs mode `dpkg changelog' renamed to `Debian changelog'.
+  * Default changelog format renamed from `dpkg' to `debian'.
+
+  * debian-changelog-mode sets fill-prefix correctly.
+  * debian-changelog-mode urgencies except HIGH lowercase by default.
+  * debian-changelog-mode displays keymap in doc string and so mode help.
+
+  * More maintainers' PGP keys.
+
+  * Remove built changelog parsers with `clean' target in source.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:35:51 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.2) experimental; urgency=LOW (MEDIUM for dpkg-source)
+
+  * Faster update-rc.d written in Perl by Miquel van Smoorenburg.
+  * install-info --test doesn't lock dir.  (Bug#3992, thanks Darren).
+
+  * dpkg-source doesn't break in the presence of any symlinks.
+
+  * More developers' keys added to doc/developer-keys.pgp.
+  * Install developers' keys in /usr/doc/dpkg/developer-keys.pgp.
+  * dpkg-source documents undefined substvar behaviour.
+  * minor debian/rules cleanups.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 10 Aug 1996 02:13:47 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.1) experimental; urgency=LOW
+
+  * manpage for dpkg-source et al now available.
+  * dpkg-changelog-mode.el installed in site-lisp, but still no autoload.
+
+  * dpkg-source prints correct string for not-understood tar -vvt output.
+  * dpkg-source parsing of tar -vvt output made more robust.
+
+  * dpkg-buildpackage prints usage message on usage error.
+  * dpkg-gencontrol can print usage message.
+  * -T<varlistfile> option added to dpkg-source.
+  * Description of -f<fileslistfile> corrected in dpkg-distaddfile usage.
+  * -m<maintainer> synopsis changed in dpkg-genchanges usage.
+  * debian/substvars may now contain blank lines.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 8 Aug 1996 02:36:04 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.3.0) experimental; urgency=LOW
+
+  * dpkg can install named pipes.
+  * dpkg-deb supports directory for destination, generates filename.
+  * dpkg-{source,gencontrol,genchanges,parsechangelog,buildpackage},
+    dpkg-distaddfile scripts to support new source package format.
+  * a.out build no longer supported.
+  * Changed to new source package format.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:31:52 +0100
+
+
+dpkg (1.2.14) stable unstable; urgency=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect +/-/_/= on lines for all broken, new, local or whatever
+    packages do not affect _all_ packages.  (Bug#4129.)
+
+  * NOTE - THE HISTORY FORKS HERE.  1.2.14's change appears in 1.3.7.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 22 Aug 1996 00:39:52 +0100
+
+
+dpkg (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=LOW
+
+  * dpkg --search produces correct output for diversions.
+  * dpkg-name remove unnecessary arch missing warning.  (Bug#3482.)
+
+  * dpkg-deb --build warns about uppercase chars in package name.
+
+  * dpkg-scanpackages error messages updated and manpage provided
+    (thanks to Michael Shields).
+  * dpkg-scanpackages warns about spurious entries in override file.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages `noverride' renamed to `override' everywhere.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages field ordering to put Architecture higher.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages field names capitalised appropriately.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages invokes find with -follow.  (Bug#3956.)
+
+  * guidelines say #!/usr/bin/perl everywhere, not #!/bin/perl.
+  * Many developers' PGP keys added.
+
+  * configure script uses ${CC} instead of $(CC) (again :-/).
+  * developers' keys included in dpkg source tree and /usr/doc.
+  * configure remade using autoconf 2.10-3 (was 2.4-1).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 1 Aug 1996 02:46:34 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.12); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg --search and --list understand and comment on diversions.
+  * dpkg-divert displays diversions more intelligibly.
+
+  * Guidelines are somewhat clearer about descriptions.
+  * deb(5) describes new format; old moved to deb-old(5).  (Bug#3435.)
+  * deb-control(5) carries a warning about being out of date.
+
+  * Added 1996 to dselect version/copyright.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:04:49 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.11); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect had dependency bug if installed package newer than avail.
+  * Added `replaces' to dselect's list of package relationship strings.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 02:51:11 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.10); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Fixed bug in old-style version/revision number parsing.  (Bug#3440.)
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 29 Jun 1996 03:32:45 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.9); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Fixed status database updates reading bug.
+  * `Setting up' message includes version number.
+  * `existence check' message changed to say `cannot access archive'.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:39:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.8); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg --record-avail puts data in Size field.
+  * strip / for rmdir(2) in cleanup to work around kernel bug.  (Bug#3275.)
+  * dpkg-split --msdos no longer allows `-' and other chars in filenames.
+
+  * manual dpkg-split(8) written.
+  * dpkg-split minor typo in --auto usage error message fixed.
+  * dpkg-deb(8) very minor cosmetic fix to --build option.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 25 Jun 1996 03:00:14 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.7); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg-scanpackages syntax errors fixed.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:10:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.6); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * NFS, CDROM and partition dselect methods include mountpoint
+    in paths given to dpkg in [I]install, so they should now work.
+
+  * Removed some leftover files from source tree.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:35:19 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.5); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Allow, but do not create, packages in half-installed state
+    with no version number.  (Aargh.)
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:55:43 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.4); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * New dpkg-name from Erick (<pkg>_<version>_<arch>.deb convention).
+  * Disappeared packages can't own conffiles any more !  (Bug#3214.)
+  * install-info creates Miscellaneous sections with a newline
+    following the heading.  (Bug#3218.)
+  * cleanup-info script installed in /usr/sbin; called as appropriate
+    by postinst.  Thanks to Kim-Minh Kaplan.  (Bug#3125.)
+  * Allow superseded Essential packages to be purged after they've
+    been removed (clear the Essential flag on removal, and ignore it
+    on packages that are in stat_configfiles).
+
+  * dselect disk methods understand `y' as well as `yes' for using
+    development tree.
+  * dselect doesn't make packages appear as `new' again if update
+    of available packages fails.
+  * dselect places method selection cursor over option last selected.
+
+  * dpkg-scanpackages doesn't die when repeated packages are found.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages allows many old maintainers (`//'-separated).
+
+  * `Version' field is now mandatory (some operations already
+    wouldn't work right anyway if it wasn't there).
+
+  * update-rc.d(8) now says you must remove the script.  (Bug#3215.)
+  * dpkg --force-help says that --force-overwrite is on by default.
+  * dpkg-deb manpage rewritten.
+  * debian.README (= /usr/doc/copyright/dpkg) edited slightly.
+
+  * Some database parsing grunge removed (pdb_preferversion, &c).
+  * Source tree doc/sgml contains some embryonic manuals.
+  * Leftover files in lib directory in source tree deleted.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 10 Jun 1996 03:52:01 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.3); priority=HIGH
+
+  * install-info doesn't replicate section headings (Bug#3125, #2973).
+  * New dpkg-name manpage broken off from script (oops!).
+  * dselect help screens made consistent with new strings, flags, &c.
+  * dselect error flag column labelled E (Error), not H (Hold).
+  * `Escape' no longer bound to `exit list without saving' in dselect.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 28 May 1996 02:14:57 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.2); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Fixed dselect coredump found by Erick Branderhorst (thanks).
+  * Sort obsolete removed packages separately, not under Available.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 23 May 1996 21:31:05 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.1); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * `=' key in dselect really does `hold' rather than `unhold'.
+  * dselect dependency processing now interacts better with `hold'.
+  * dselect `I' key (not `i') modifies display of the info window.
+  * dselect shows unavailable packages as being unavailable.
+  * dselect main menu headings and many other strings changed to try to
+    discourage people from deselecting every package and using [R]emove.
+    Notably, `select' changed to `mark' throughout.
+
+  * dselect disk methods now print a few fewer double slashes.
+  * dselect disk access methods will offer to use dpkg --record-avail
+    to scan the available packages, if no Packages file is found.
+
+  * New dpkg --compare-versions option, for the benefit of scripts &c.
+  * New dpkg --clear-avail option forgets all available packages info.
+  * New dpkg --print-avail option, prints `available' data (from Packages, &c).
+  * dpkg usage message is more informative, but no longer fits on screen.
+  * dpkg --avail option renamed --record-avail.
+
+  * Latest dpkg-name from Erick Branderhorst.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages has more sensible problem reporting.
+  * postinst configure now gets null argument (not <unknown> or <none>)
+    when there is no previously configured version.
+
+  * Guidelines say that postinst configure is given previous version.
+  * Guidelines don't refer to maintainer-script-args.txt in main text.
+  * Guidelines (Texinfo source) uploaded separately.
+
+  * Own version of strcpy (used for debugging) removed.
+  * Interface to access methods document in source (doc/dselect-methods.txt).
+  * debian.buildscript moves changes file into parent directory.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 22 May 1996 01:26:31 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.2.0); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect can sort packages by available and installed states, and
+    display their version numbers.  (Use O, o and V.)
+  * Hold is properly integrated as a real `wanted state', rather than
+    a separate flag.
+  * Epochs in version numbers implemented, using the syntax
+    <epoch>:<version>-<revision>.  (Epoch not usually displayed.)
+  * dselect disk method is architecture-independent (uses dpkg's
+    installation architecture, and looks in the right part of the tree).
+
+  * dselect disk method doesn't try to satisfy the predependencies of
+    packages which are on hold.
+  * Fixed conflict-related assertion failure.  (Bug#2784.)
+  * conffiles do not cause file conflicts if the conflicting package
+    is in the `configuration only' state.  (Bug#2720.)
+  * Fixed messages where available version number was reported as installed
+    version in conflict and dependency messages.  (Bug#2654, Bug#2974.)
+
+  * New format .deb files are default even for a.out compiles (but
+    a.out version of dpkg is in old format).
+  * Characters @:= (at colon equals) in package names now strictly
+    forbidden everywhere (_ is still allowed in existing packages).
+  * New dpkg --print-installation-architecture option prints installation
+    architecture (compiled in), rather than build architecture (determined
+    from gcc -print-libgcc-file-name).
+
+  * Version messages show whether compiled a.out or ELF (i386 only).
+  * Fixed missing space in version syntax error messages.
+  * Manpage dpkg.8 installed with warning about inaccuracy.
+
+  * Guidelines don't say to stop and restart daemons in runlevels 2345;
+    instead they say to start in 2345 and stop in 016.
+  * Guidelines and version messages say just Debian Linux.
+  * Guidelines typo fix for '"stop"'.  (Bug#2867.)
+
+  * doc/Makefile.in clean properly deletes various guidelines.info* files.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 16 May 1996 00:01:21 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.1.6); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Check virtual dependencies when removing (ouch! - thanks SDE.)
+  * Fixed bug in internal database validity management that could
+    make dselect and dpkg dump core.  (Bug#2613.)
+  * Fixed two coredumping bugs when using local diversions.  (Bug#2804.)
+  * Fixed disappearance of overwritten packages.  (Bug#2696.)
+  * install-info won't modify dir file before start of menu.
+  * install-info will create Miscellaneous heading if no sections yet.
+
+  * Only alphanums and +-. allowed in package names - enforced by
+    dpkg-deb --build and documented in Guidelines.
+  * dselect doesn't display packages unless they are installed, selected
+    or available.
+  * dselect doesn't show spurious section and priority headings.
+  * dselect has a few extra keybindings (from Lee Olds).
+  * --force message changed to `--force enabled' so that default is OK.
+
+  * dpkg-name now includes architecture component in .deb filename,
+    and translates - in package name to _.
+  * .deb file has architecture component in filename.
+
+  * Guidelines changed to say Pre-Depends is for experts only.
+  * Guidelines say to provide a unidiff (-u) rather than an old context diff.
+  * Guidelines say 755 root.root for shared libraries.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 1 May 1996 00:47:22 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.1.5); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for diversions users)
+
+  * Fixed coredump when using diversions.  (Bug#2603.)
+  * Fixed typo in dpkg-divert which could lose diversions.  (Bug#2662.)
+
+  * --force-overwrite is the default.
+  * diversions.text provides better examples.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:59:30 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.1.4); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Allow overwriting of conflicting packages being removed.  (Bug#2614.)
+
+  * a.out control file says Pre-Depends: libc4 | libc.  (Bug#2640.)
+  * ELF control file and libc dependencies changed to use finalised scheme.
+  * ELF control file and libc dependencies for i386 only.  (Bug#2617.)
+
+  * Guidelines say use only released libraries and compilers.
+  * Install wishlist as /usr/doc/dpkg/WISHLIST.
+  * Remove spurious entries for Guidelines in info dir file.
+
+  * dpkg-deb --build checks permissions on control (DEBIAN) directory.
+
+  * Spaces in control file fields not copied by dpkg-split.  (Bug#2633.)
+  * Spaces in split file part control data ignore.  (Bug#2633.)
+
+  * Portability fixes, including patch from Richard Kettlewell.
+  * Fixed minor configure.in bug causing mangled GCC -W options.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 4 Apr 1996 01:58:40 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.1.3); priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect disk methods support Pre-Depends installation ordering.
+  * When dpkg fails and --auto-deconfigure would help it says so.
+  * dpkg --search output lists several packages with same file on one line.
+  * Improved dpkg usage message somewhat.
+
+  * dpkg-deb --build checks permissions and types of maintainer scripts.
+  * dpkg-deb --build treats misspecified conffiles as error, not warning.
+  * dpkg --print-architecture prints compiler's architecture while
+    dpkg --version (&c) print system's arch (this to help cross-compiling).
+  * More minor guidelines changes, including dir entry fixup.
+
+  * configure script caches more values.
+  * Changed maintainer email address to ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:18:08 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.1.2); priority=LOW
+
+  * Packaging guidelines installed properly (and as guidelines
+    rather than debian-guidelines).
+  * ELF version has more checks to stop you wrecking your dpkg installation.
+  * dselect disk methods now look for a `local' tree as well, for
+    people who want locally-available software of various kinds.
+  * dpkg-divert has debugging message removed.
+  * Minor guidelines changes.
+
+  * Various makefile cleanups, mainly to do with ELF vs. a.out support.
+  * debian.rules cleans out ~ files itself, as well as calling make clean.
+  * debian.rules names .nondebbin.tar.gz file ELF too, if appropriate.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 14 Mar 1996 03:38:29 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.1.1elf); priority=LOW
+
+  * Added /usr/lib/dpkg/elf-executables-ok and elf-in-kernel.
+  * Replaces field now allows automatic removal of conflicting packages.
+  * Replaces field now required to overwrite other packages' files.
+  * Architecture field, and dpkg --print-architecture, supported.
+  * build new format archives by default when compiled with ELF compiler.
+
+  * symlinks are now installed atomically (good for shared libraries).
+  * create /var/lib/dpkg/diversions in postinst if necessary (Bug#2465.)
+  * Pre-Depends now correctly fails if package never configured.
+  * dselect disk methods mount with -o nosuid,nodev.
+  * update-rc.d defaults doesn't add both K and S in any one runlevel;
+    dpkg postinst fixes up this situation if it sees it.
+
+  * Assorted fixups to the Guidelines, which are now in one piece.
+  * dpkg --list prints version string in one piece.
+  * dpkg-scanpackages doesn't produce notice on output with list of
+    packages with Section and/or Priority control file fields.
+
+  * control file and debian.rules work both for ELF and non-ELF compiles.
+  * most files compiled with -O2 (-O3 only for some critical files) -
+    this fixes ELF build.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 11 Mar 1996 04:25:28 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.1.0); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg supports Pre-Depends.
+  * postinst script gets most-recently-configured version as $2.
+
+  * lib/tarfn.c #includes <errno.h> (portability fix).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 11 Feb 1996 21:07:03 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.17); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg --recursive follows symlinks (useful for devel tree).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 10 Feb 1996 15:58:46 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.16); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg-deb much faster reading new format archives.  (Bug#2256.)
+  * Developers' documentation in /usr/doc/dpkg/, /usr/info/.
+
+  * Fixed typo in control file Description.
+
+  * configure script tries to improve matters wrt sysinfo.
+  * any debian-tmp.deb is deleted by `./debian.rules clean'.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 4 Feb 1996 15:51:59 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.15); priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect disk methods should never unmount things they didn't mount.
+  * debian.README aka /usr/doc/copyright updated.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:05:39 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.14); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * fixed file descriptor leak in dpkg introduced in 1.0.11.
+  * included dpkg-name in this package (conflicts with dpkg-name).
+
+  * redraw in dselect main menu changed to use clearok (like in lists).
+  * sa_restorer in struct sigaction no longer used (portability fix).
+  * removed Guidelines from source package.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:52:29 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.13); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect partition and mounted methods work again.
+  * dpkg-deb --no-act in usage message.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 26 Jan 1996 18:37:03 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.12); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for users of 1.0.11)
+
+  * Fixed frequent dpkg coredump introduced in 1.0.11.  (Bug#2219.)
+  * dpkg-deb ensures version numbers start with alphanumerics.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 24 Jan 1996 00:42:31 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.11); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * corrected potentially serious problem with dpkg low-memory in-core
+    files database.
+  * dpkg-split --msdos puts output files in right directory.  (Bug#2165.)
+
+  * diversions implemented - see `dpkg-divert --help'.
+
+  * dselect shows and uses (for dependencies) currently installed
+    version of a package if that is more recent.
+  * dpkg --force-... options are in separate help screen.
+  * better error messages for corrupted .deb archives.  (Bug#2178.)
+  * dselect NFS method will unmount correct copy of NFS area if mounted
+    twice.
+
+  * removes some ELF compilation warnings.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 19 Jan 1996 02:41:46 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.10); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg-deb option parsing unmuddled (-I option was removed
+    in 1.0.9 and broke dpkg-deb).  (Bug#2124.)
+
+  * dpkg-split will work when ELF `ar' is installed, and is faster.
+
+  * nfs dselect method now available.
+  * disk methods don't prompt spuriously for Packages files.
+  * cdrom+harddisk methods can find Packages files.
+
+  * dpkg-scanpackages (creates Packages files) now in /usr/sbin.
+
+  * various changes to help compilation of dpkg-deb, dpkg-split
+    and md5sum on non-Debian systems.
+  * <sys/fcntl.h> replaced by <fcntl.h> throughout.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 14 Jan 1996 02:55:19 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.9); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect uninitialized variable coredump fixed (thanks Carl).
+
+  * version numbers printed by --version fixed.  (Bug#2115.)
+  * disk method problem with missing Packages files fixed.  (Bug#2114.)
+  * dependency version relationships now <= >= << >> =.  (Bug#2060.)
+
+  * install-info is in /usr/sbin, not /usr/bin.  (Bug#1924.)
+  * dpkg regards Revision field as obsolete.
+
+  * <asm/unistd.h> changed to <linux/unistd.h> (for m68k port).
+  * scripts/Makefile.in `clean' target deletes scripts.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:51:20 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.8); priority=LOW
+
+  * update-alternatives slightly more helpful message.  (Bug#1975.)
+  * cosmetic improvements to disk installation method.  (Bug#1970,1956.)
+  * mounted filesystem and unmounted partition separate methods.  (Bug#1957.)
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:07:47 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.7); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH to upgrade syslogd)
+
+  * dselect harddisk/CDROM method script handles multiple package
+    areas.
+  * Everything has a manpage, though many are very unhelpful indeed.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 30 Nov 1995 03:59:14 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.6); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH to upgrade syslogd)
+
+  * conffiles can now be taken over properly from one package by
+    another which replaces it.  (Bug#1482.)
+  * dpkg will not deconfigure essential packages when --auto-deconfigure
+    is set (this bug was fairly unlikely ever to be exercised).
+
+  * dpkg checks for the presence of certain important programs on the PATH.
+  * dselect is now more informative when a dependency is missing, saying
+    "<package> does not appear to be available".  (Bug#1642, 1705).
+
+  * `make distclean' fixed; config.* &c removed from source archive.
+  * lib/lock.c now uses fcntl rather than flock, for better portability.
+
+  * `Package_Revision: 0' removed from control file.
+  * Some inaccuracies and bad formatting in various messages corrected.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 20:15:18 +0000
+
+dpkg (1.0.5); priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg-split allows some space for the header.  (Bug#1649.)
+  * dpkg-split now has --msdos option for 8.3 filenames.
+  * dpkg-split --join &c will not complain about trailing garbage.
+
+  * dselect & dpkg will no longer ignore SIGHUP will running subprocesses.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:59:51 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.0.4); priority=MEDIUM (HIGH for dselect users with 1.0.3)
+
+  * fixed bug which prevented dselect from displaying the bottom line of
+    any listing screen.  This was introduced in 1.0.3, sorry !
+
+  * a conffile will never cause a prompt if the package maintainer
+    distributes a file identical to the user's, even if the file has
+    been edited by both the user and the maintainer or is a
+    newly-registered conffile.  (Bug#1639.)
+
+  * dselect disk/cdrom method script says where to get Packages file.
+  * dselect help has better descriptions of the functions of Return and Q.
+
+  * postinst now warns about some problems with /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/hd.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 12 Oct 1995 01:45:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.0.3); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect: fixed segfault when doing some multiple (de)selections.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 10 Oct 1995 03:21:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.0.2); priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * problem with screen refresh after `o' (change order) corrected.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:11:04 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.0.1); priority=LOW
+
+  * much better dpkg performance on low-memory systems.
+  * start-stop-daemon --name should now work. (oops!)
+  * fixed typo which could turn into memory overwriting bug sometime.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:12:29 +0100
+
+dpkg (1.0.0); priority=LOW
+
+  * Version 1.0.0: dpkg is no longer beta.
+
+  * tar extractor no longer looks up an empty string using getgrnam
+    (this causes the libc to coredump when using NIS).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:07:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.80); priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect help screen intro changed to remove `much' before `help'.
+
+  * update-alternatives.pl contains hardcoded ENOENT value, instead
+    of requiring POSIX.pm to be present.
+
+  * Makefiles changed to strip when installing instead of when building.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 30 Sep 1995 01:44:12 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.79) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * DPKG_NO_TSTP environment variable which stops dpkg sending the
+    process group a SIGTSTP (Bug#1496).
+  * End key should work in dselect lists (Bug#1501).
+  * various message typos (missing \n's) fixed (Bug#1504).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 29 Sep 1995 03:27:01 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.78) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect keystrokes help file typo fix.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:31:02 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.77) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg --remove --pending will purge things when appropriate.
+
+  * fixed failure to null-terminate dpkg conflict problem messages.
+  * fixed bug in formatting of dependency version problem messages.
+
+  * Conffiles resolution prompt for new conffile: typo fixed.
+  * Changed dpkg usage error to suggest `-Dhelp' instead of `--Dhelp'.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:44:35 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.76) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg --auto-deconfigure option (used automatically by dselect) allows
+    `important' packages which many others depend on to be split.
+  * dpkg should no longer fail an assertion during complicated
+    multiple configurations involving packages which are on hold.
+
+  * update-alternatives supports negative priorities.
+  * /etc/alternatives is included in the .deb archive.
+
+  * Package priorities changed: Required (Req), Important (Imp), Standard (Std),
+    Optional (Opt) and Extra (Xtr).  For backward compatibility Base is an
+    alias for Required, and Recommended is kept as a level just below Standard.
+
+  * dselect shows introductory help screen when entering package lists (both
+    main and recursive).
+  * dselect help messages made more friendly.
+  * dselect package list `quit, confirm, and check dependencies' key is
+    now Return rather than lowercase `q'; likewise method list `select this
+    one and configure it' key.
+  * dselect selects packages with priority `standard' or better by default.
+  * dselect `v=verbose' becomes `v=terse' when in verbose mode.
+
+  * hard disk method unmounts /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt on failure.
+  * disk methods' install message uses `stty' to find out what the
+    interrupt character is, and uses that in the prompt (rather than ^C).
+  * dpkg now tolerates ^Z characters in Packages files.
+  * harddisk method doesn't display extra slash when updating packages file.
+  * harddisk method burbles less if it doesn't have a good default.
+
+  * dpkg-deb now supports new flexible format, but old format still default.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 20 Sep 1995 02:49:41 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.75) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect no longer segfaults when you try to modify the last item.
+
+  * dselect Makefile compiles with -g, and links without -s, but installs
+    with -s, so that built source directory has debugabble binary.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:59:29 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.74) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg-split implemented and installed in /usr/bin/dpkg-split.
+    (NB this is not compatible with Carl Streeter's old dpkg-split script.)
+  * dpkg uses dpkg-split.
+  * floppy disk method available - NB this is a first attempt only.
+
+  * hard disk method uses --merge-avail rather than --update-avail.
+  * installation by default of `standard' packages removed again.
+    (I don't think this is the right place to do this.)
+  * update-alternatives --remove correctly deletes all slave links;
+    minor cosmetic improvements.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 02:06:05 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.73) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect multi-package selection now done by `divider' lines
+    actually in the package list, rather than horizontal highlight
+    movement.
+  * dselect help available, and keybindings rationalised.
+
+  * postinst removes /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/hd if upgrading from
+    0.93.42.3 or earlier.
+  * `hold' flag changed to be settable by the user only, and
+    made orthogonal to the `reinstallation required' flag.
+  * dpkg will install by default any packages with priority of
+    `standard' or better unless they're explicitly deselected.
+
+  * dselect dependency/conflict resolution will suggest marking absent
+    packages for `purge' rather than `deinstall'.
+  * disk method script produces message about invoking dpkg.
+  * dpkg produces warning, not error, when it gets EPERM trying to
+    remove a directory belonging to a package being removed.
+  * dpkg, dpkg-deb usage error reporting improved.
+  * dselect detects too-dumb terminals and stops.
+  * dpkg-deb(8) updated a little (thanks to Bill Mitchell).
+
+  * dselect debugmake script uses -O0.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:23:05 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.72) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * /usr/sbin/update-alternatives added.
+
+  * New names for certain control file fields (old names work
+    as aliases): Optional -> Suggests, Recommended -> Recommends,
+    Class -> Priority.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 3 Sep 1995 16:37:41 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.71) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg doesn't silently overwrite `new' conffiles (Bug#1283).
+  * case now not significant in Essential, Status and Class (Bug#1280).
+  * dselect checks method scripts for execute, not for write.
+
+  * spelling fixes in lib/dbmodify.c and dselect/helpmsgs.src.
+
+  * dselect `clean' target deletes helpmsgs.cc and helpmsgs.cc.new.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:56:08 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.70) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dselect unmounted harddisk method has many silly bugs fixed.
+
+  * dpkg --root option restored (was removed by mistake in 0.93.68).
+  * minor cosmetic change to dselect subprocess failure message.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:18:55 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.69) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg --configure and --remove should work properly when
+    they have to defer processing (this tends to happen when many
+    packages are processed at once).  (Bug#1209.)
+
+  * dpkg --configure and --remove work better when `processing'
+    several related packages with --no-act.
+
+  * dpkg --auto is now two options, --pending or -a (for configure,
+    remove, &c) and --recursive or -R (for install, unpack, &c).
+
+  * dpkg debug options in usage message, and values available (-Dh).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:18:55 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.68) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg won't get an internal error if you try to use the default
+    conffiles response (ie, if you just hit return).  (Bug#1208.)
+
+  * dselect hard disk and CD-ROM methods - the real thing, but ALPHA.
+
+  * dselect allows you to go straight to `update' or `install' if
+    you have already set up an access method.
+  * new dpkg options --yet-to-unpack, --merge-avail and --update-avail.
+  * dpkg -G is an abbreviation for dpkg --refuse-downgrade.
+  * dpkg -R alias for --root withdrawn, pending reuse with different meaning.
+  * dpkg --help message rationalised somewhat.
+
+  * Obsolete `examples' and `dpkg-split' directories removed from
+    source tree.  The `hello' package is a better example.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 7 Aug 1995 02:16:25 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.67) BETA; priority=LOW for C dpkg alpha testers, HIGH for others
+
+  * dpkg no longer statically linked and -g.
+  * calls to abort() changed to print string, file and line number first.
+  * removed unused variable from dpkg source.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 4 Aug 1995 01:39:52 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.66) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg will correctly remove overwritten files from the lists of
+    the package(s) that used to contain them.
+
+  * dpkg --purge is now an action, rather than a modifier for --remove,
+    and the -P alias for it is withdrawn.
+
+  * dpkg --unpack/--install filenames in messages are now more sensible
+    about when to use .../ (show as many trailing components as possible
+    in 40 characters, or the whole path if that the last component is
+    longer than that).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 3 Aug 1995 02:11:03 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.65) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg --remove should, when a package being removed is depended-on
+    by another that is also queued for removal, defer the depended-on
+    package rather than aborting it.  (Bug#1188.)
+
+  * dpkg will not attempt to configure or remove a package more than
+    once in the same run.  (Bug#1169.)
+
+  * dpkg cosmetic fix to dependency problems message (this bug
+    hasn't been triggered to my knowledge).
+
+  * perl-dpkg no longer installed in /usr/bin.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:02:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.64) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg marks a package as no longer `to be configured in this run'
+    when an error occurs, so that other packages which depend on it
+    will fail (rather than causing a loop and an assertion failure,
+     packages.c:166: failed assertion `dependtry <= 4').
+
+  * dselect initial selection granularity is single-package.
+  * dpkg --no-also-select option renamed to --selected-only (old option
+    still accepted, but no longer in --help).  Changed -N to -O.
+
+  * dselect `update' option changed to `install' (and other options
+    renamed too).  NB: old access methods will not work, because
+    the `update' script should now be an `install' script.
+
+  * dselect `installation methods' renamed to `access methods'.
+  * dpkg --skip-same-version and --refuse-downgrade produce friendlier
+    messages when they skip packages.
+  * --licence option now properly mentioned in all programs' --version
+    messages.
+
+  * bad fix for ELF compile problem involving myopt.h removed (compile
+    problem turned out to be a GCC bug.)
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 1 Aug 1995 03:03:58 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.63) ALPHA; priority=LOW
+
+  * preinst works around shell bug/misfeature involving `trap'.
+
+  * dpkg --skip-same-version doesn't skip packages which have
+    an error flag set or which aren't in a standard `installed' state.
+
+  * dpkg --search now does a substring search if the string doesn't
+    start with a wildcard character (*, [ or ?) or slash.
+
+  * problem with C/C++ linkage of stuff in "myopt.h" fixed, to help
+    with compiling with GCC 2.7.0.
+
+  * dselect Makefile.in `clean' deletes curkeys.inc &c, so that they are
+    not shipped in the distribution source and will be rebuilt on the
+    target system.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:38:47 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.62) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg purges leftover control scripts from /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci,
+    rather than associating them with the wrong package.  (Bug#1101.)
+
+  * dpkg won't `disappear' packages containing no files or directories,
+    nor a package required for depends/recommended.  (Bug#1128.)
+
+  * dpkg follows directory symlinks.  (Bug#1125.)
+
+  * dselect fixups for ELF/GCC2.7.0 compilation.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 21 Jul 1995 21:43:41 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.61) ALPHA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect keybindings and status characters and descriptions changed
+    (in pursuance of Bug#1037, user interface problems, still open.)
+
+  * Some cleanups to fix mistakes discovered by ELF-GCC 2.7.0, and fixup
+    for newer C++ draft standard (`for' variable declaration scope change).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 18 Jul 1995 01:42:51 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.60) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg doesn't think packages have `disappeared' if you install
+    several packages at once.  (later reported as Bug#1132.)
+
+  * usage error messages tidied up.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 16 Jul 1995 17:56:56 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.59) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg doesn't break maintainer scripts &c if package `foo' exists
+    when processing package `foobar'.  (Related to Bug#1101.)
+
+  * dpkg implements `disappear' functionality.
+  * dpkg/dselect remove dead entries from /var/lib/dpkg/status.
+
+  * dpkg --list now sorted correctly and output somewhat improved.
+  * some debugging messages moved from dbg_stupidlyverbose to dbg_scripts.
+  * dpkg prints `Removing foo' message even if foo is not configured.
+  * dpkg only prints `serious warning: files list file ... missing'
+    once for each package.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 16 Jul 1995 02:32:11 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.58) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg should write out status even for packages which it has only
+    encountered in the `available' file so far.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:19:21 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.57) ALPHA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg does chroot when running maintainer scripts (--instdir
+    should work right now, though I haven't been able to test it).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:32:30 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.56) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg can now overwrite symlinks to directories, and will
+    do correct handling of symlinks to plain files.
+  * dpkg should not replace any directory with a symlink.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 13 Jul 1995 02:43:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.55) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg can now extract hardlinks.
+  * dpkg configuration/removal works in the presence of dependency cycles.
+  * dpkg should no longer fail an assertion at processarc.c:193.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:34:44 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.54) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg and dselect no longer throw away all Class and Section
+    information in /var/lib/dpkg/available.  (Oops.)
+  * dpkg --refuse-<something> now works (this broke some dselect
+    method scripts' attempts to use --refuse-downgrade).
+  * dpkg --audit and --list implemented.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:35:13 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.53) ALPHA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dpkg --install/--unpack only skips on-hold packages with --auto.
+  * dpkg doesn't fclose() the --fsys-tarfile pipe twice.
+  * dpkg error handling and reporting cleaned up.
+  * dpkg now lists any failed packages/files just before exiting.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 9 Jul 1995 16:31:36 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.52) ALPHA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * dpkg won't segfault due to missing (Package_)Revision fields.
+  * dpkg --search works.
+  * dpkg will set execute permissions on scripts if necessary.
+  * dpkg prints filenames in --unpack and --install.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 8 Jul 1995 12:41:39 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.51) ALPHA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * dpkg --status and --listfiles now work.
+
+  * dpkg --remove --auto won't try to remove everything (!)
+  * dpkg --unpack doesn't coredump after unpacking the first package.
+  * dpkg won't fail an assertion if it bombs out of --configure
+    or --remove because of too many errors.
+
+  * Support for `Essential' in dpkg (not yet in dselect).
+  * `available' (Packages) file class and section override those
+    from package control files.
+  * `Essential: yes' added to control file.
+
+  * Locking strategy changed, now uses flock (no more stale locks).
+  * preinst now more helpful about conffiles upgrade problem.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 8 Jul 1995 01:15:26 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.50) ALPHA
+
+  * C dpkg now in service.
+
+  * dselect now installs in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin.
+  * Improved `explanation of display' help and changed HSOC to EIOW.
+  * dselect goes back to top of info display when you move the
+    highlight.
+
+  * Added <sys/types.h> to md5sum/md5.c, for the benefit of FreeBSD.
+  * --admindir doesn't append `var/lib/dpkg' to its argument.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 19 May 1995 21:03:08 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.42.3) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * Rebuilt using ncurses 1.9.2c-0.
+  * Silenced `subcritical error' message if errno == ENOENT.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:09:24 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.42.2) BETA; priority=HIGH
+
+  * install-info --remove properly removes multi-line entries.
+  * Slightly changed ^L redraw code in dselect package list.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sat, 10 Jun 1995 14:06:01 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.42.1) BETA; priority=HIGH esp. for new installations
+
+  * update-rc.d default no longer adds K entries in runlevels 2345.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 6 Jun 1995 18:56:23 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.42) BETA; priority=LOW; HIGH for dselect users
+
+  * Fix uninitialized variable reference bug in dselect (#890).
+  * Fix problem with wordwrapping package and method descriptions.
+  * Create /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 19 May 1995 21:03:08 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.41) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * Create /var/lib/dpkg/methods.
+  * dpkg.pl noisily ignores --skip-same-version rather than barfing.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 16 May 1995 13:28:27 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.40) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect's subprogram failure message made to stand out more.
+
+  * When switching out of curses, always move the cursor to the
+    bottom right corner of the screen.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Tue, 16 May 1995 01:03:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.39) BETA; priority=LOW
+
+  * dselect can now:
+    - allow you to select and configure an installation method;
+    - invoke installation method scripts to update the available file
+      and unpack packages;
+    - invoke dpkg to configure and remove packages.
+    There are no installation methods available yet.
+
+  * Search feature in dselect works (it was purely an ncurses bug).
+
+  * dpkg-*.nondebbin.tar.gz now available (built by debian.rules).
+
+  * The target directory for dpkg-deb --extract (also available as
+    dpkg --extract) is no longer optional.  dpkg-deb suggests the use
+    of dpkg --install if you omit it.
+
+  * Added <errno.h> to lib/lock.c and fixed ref. to `byte' in
+    md5sum/md5.c, for portability to Solaris 2.
+
+  * Rebuilt `configure' and `config.h.in' using autoconf 2.3.
+  * Revised function attribute support checking in configure script.
+  * Removed obsolete `dselect.pl' from scripts directory.
+  * New option --licence on all the C programs.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 14 May 1995 18:05:38 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.38) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+  * Version number comparisons (in dpkg and dselect) now >= <=
+    as documented (Bug#831; thanks to Christian Linhart).
+
+  * dselect now has a non-superuser readonly mode.
+  * dselect doesn't pop up unsatisfied `Optional's when quitting.
+  * `unable to delete saved old file' message fixed dpkg_tmp to dpkg-tmp.
+
+  * Made dpkg convert `revision' to `package_revision' when reading
+    (eg) the `status' file.  libdpkg.a has `revision' as a synonym
+    for `package_revision' and writes the former.
+
+  * Major improvements and many changes to C option parsing, database
+    management, error handling, Makefiles &c to support dpkg.
+  * dpkg-deb should now work if sizeof(void*) < sizeof(void(*)()).
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 24 Apr 1995 12:34:39 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.37) BETA; priority=LOW (MEDIUM for dselect users)
+
+  * Fixed segfault if no description available (Bug#735);
+    thanks to Peter Tobias for the bug report.
+  * Fixed other assorted minor bugs in description displays.
+
+  * Changed dpkg-deb --info short option from -i to -I, to make
+    it unique across dpkg and dpkg-deb (-i still works with
+    dpkg-deb for backwards compatibility).
+
+  * Produce more sensible error when main package list is empty.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Fri, 7 Apr 1995 02:24:55 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.36) BETA; priority=LOW (MEDIUM for dselect users)
+
+  * All the C code (including dselect) updated to support `provides'
+    (virtual packages).
+  * Revamped dselect's related package selection/deselection
+    algorithms.
+  * Everything can now handle arbitrary `class' values (as well
+    as the predefined ones which we understand and can interpret).
+  * Fixed bug that prevented display update when moving down a small
+    recursive package list in dselect.
+  * Column heading characters corrected from `SHOC' to `HSOC'.
+
+ -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:48:13 +0100
+
+dpkg (0.93.35) BETA; priority=MEDIUM
+
+ * Preserve ownerships and permissions on configuration files.
+ * Fix bug in conffile updating that could leave a hardlink
+   <foo>.dpkg-new to the conffile <foo>.
+
+ * Improved dselect's package list help messages.
+ * Highlight now moves on after (de)selecting just one package.
+ * Better algorithm for scrolling up/down when moving highlight.
+ * Fixed bug in display of `preformatted' extended Description lines.
+   (dselect is still ALPHA, but is fairly stable.)
+
+ * Improved dpkg's message when configuring a package that doesn't
+   exist, and when selecting or skipping a package that isn't
+   currently selected (during unpack processing).
+
+ * Description in control file expanded.
+
+ * Scroll back to top when changing what is in the `info' area.
+
+dpkg (0.93.34) BETA; priority=LOW (HIGH for dselect users)
+
+ * dselect: Fixed bug which caused a coredump if you exited the
+   package list if you'd made any changes.  Ouch !
+
+ * dselect: Improved selection algorithm to show fewer extraneous
+   packages; improved display for unavailable packages.
+
+ * dpkg: Improved progress messages during unpacking somewhat.
+
+dpkg (0.93.33) BETA; priority=LOW (HIGH for dselect users)
+
+ * dselect now has a main menu.
+
+ * Fixed nasty uninitialized data bug in dselect.
+
+ * dselect now locks and unlocks the packages database.
+
+Mon, 27 Mar 1995 03:30:51 BST  Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Alpha dselect released and installed in
+	                  /usr/sbin/dselect.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Many portability enhancements: should now
+	                  compile using GCC 2.6.3, and dpkg-deb should
+	                  compile better on non-Linux systems.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): dpkg will not loop if its stdin disappears
+	                  and it needs to prompt.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Fixed removal dependency error to show
+	                  correct package (Bug #648).
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Tidied up copyright notices.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): First draft of update-rc.d manpage, not yet
+	                  installed in /usr/man.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Changes to top-level Makefile.in to improve
+	                  error trapping.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Improved Makefile `clean' and `distclean'
+	                  targets.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Deleted irrelevant `t.c' from lib and
+	                  dselect directories.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): Added vercmp.c with version comparison code.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): varbufextend message changed - varbufs not
+	                  just for input buffers.
+	* dpkg (0.93.32): varbuf has C++ member functions in header
+	                  #ifdef __cplusplus.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.31:
+
+* start-stop-daemon --pidfile now works (Bug#571).
+* Fixed dependency processing bugs which could require a rerun of
+  dpkg --configure (Bug#566).
+* Fixed garbage output for `language' of control file in dpkg-deb --info.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.30:
+
+* Added /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.09:
+
+* Made postinst scripts really be run when dpkg --purge used.
+* Added new --force-extractfail option - VERY DANGEROUS.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.28:
+
+* Removed undef of 0x_p21 in read_database_file, which caused the
+  the whole status database to become trashed when any update files
+  were read.
+* Make infinite-loop prevention and cycle detection work.
+* Made findbreakcycle work (ie, break properly when cycle detected).
+* New script, update-rc.d, to update links /etc/rc?.d/[KS]??*.
+* dpkg.pl now sets the umask to 022.
+* Cosmetic error message fix to dpkg-deb.
+* Deleted OLD directory altogether.
+* Improved error-trapping in top-level Makefile loops.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.27:
+
+* Make version number specifications in Depends &c work.
+* Added AC_PROG_CXX to autoconf.in for dselect.
+* Changed myopt.h not to have cipaction field in cmdinfo (this was
+  specially for dpkg-deb) - now we have a generic void*.
+* Renamed `class' member of `pkginfoperfile' to `clas' [sic].
+* Much work in `dselect' subdirectory.
+* Deleted executables, objects and libraries from OLD tree !
+* Minor changes to various copyright notices and top-of-file comments.
+* Don't install nasty Perl dselectish thing as /usr/bin/dselect.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.26:
+
+* Added --no-also-select instead of not auto-selecting on --unpack
+  but doing so on --install; removed --force-unpack-any.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.25:
+
+* Fixed duplicate output (failure to flush before fork) bug.
+* More clarification of md5sum.c copyright.
+* Corrected typo in ChangeLog in 0.93.24 source package.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.24:
+
+* dpkg could copy conffiles info from one package to another.  Aargh.
+  Bug #426.
+* dpkg failed to initialise status if you tried to remove or
+  configure a nonexistent package.  Bug #419.
+* install-info now handles START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entries like:
+   * Gdb::                         The GNU debugger.
+  Previously it would only accept (Bug #407):
+   * Gdb: (gdb).                   The GNU debugger.
+* When installing a new foo.info[.gz], install-info now replaces
+   * Foo: (foo.info).              The Gnoo Foo.
+  as well as just * Foo: (foo). ...
+* Moved option parsing out of dpkg-deb into libdpkg.
+* Assorted minor source code rearrangements.
+* Fixed assorted copyright notices, clarified md5sum copyright.
+* Corrected typo in 0.93.23 source package's ChangeLog.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.23:
+
+* `dpkg-deb' --build now does a syntax check on the control file.
+* `dselect' is now no longer called `debian', spurious copy removed
+  from package top-level source directory.
+* C control information parsing complete and somewhat tested.
+* Moved `global' include files into $(srcdir)/include from ../lib,
+  added some files to the lib Makefile, and arranged for pop_cleanup().
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.22:
+
+* Fixed bug which caused dpkg to see failures of md5sum where there
+  were none (would also have caused dpkg to miss a real failure).
+* Fixed failure to update some `status' database fields.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.21:
+
+* Fixed error-handling bug which could corrupt database.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.20:
+
+* Fixed bug which ran old (/var/adm/dpkg) postinst scripts.
+* Fixed dpkg usage message which claimed -i => both --install & --info.
+* Use Colin Plumb's MD5 code - faster, and better copyright.
+* Manpages: dpkg-deb(8), deb-control(5), deb(5) - thanks to Raul
+  Deluth Miller.  Also, an xfig picture of some C program innards.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.19:
+
+* Don't delete the `list' file from the dpkg database.
+* Fixed various bugs in the conffile handling.
+* Conffiles that are symlinks will now be treated as if the
+  `dereferenced' name of the file was listed in conffiles.  This means
+  that /etc/foo -> /usr/etc/foo will cause all conffile updates of
+  /etc/foo to create /usr/etc/foo.dpkg-tmp &c instead.  However, the
+  link will be removed if --purge is used to delete all the conffiles.
+* When doing a new installation, or when updating a conffile that
+  wasn't listed as a conffile in the old version of the package, don't
+  do any prompting but just install the version from the archive.
+* Corrected error message if exec of dpkg --vextract failed
+  and --instroot or --root specified.
+* Added new --force-unpack-any option.
+* Extra newline after --status output.
+* Added -W options to CFLAGS.
+* Fixed mistake in previous ChangeLog entry.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.18:
+
+* Fixed invocation of dpkg-deb --vextract if --root or --instdir
+  not specified.
+* Create /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.17:
+
+* install-info --remove exits with status 0 if it doesn't find the
+  thing to remove, instead of status 1.
+* Error handling functions have __attribute__((format...)) if GCC.
+* push_cleanup its arg takes void **argv instead of char **argv.
+* Top-level Makefile.in has set -e before `for' loops.
+* dpkg-deb --info not-an-existing-file produces fewer error messages.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.16:
+
+* Made --root= option really extract to $instroot instead of `/'.
+* install-info clears the 0444 bits in its umask.
+* Fixed a few database handling bugs which cause dpkg always to fail,
+  and usually to corrupt the status database in various ways.
+* dpkg-deb completely rewritten, now doesn't tinker with
+  /var/{adm,lib}/dpkg.  Should be faster.
+* Directory structure and Makefiles in source package reorganised.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.15:
+
+* Added `debian' (dselect), still very primitive.
+* Database format changed, and moved from /var/adm to /var/lib.
+* Added dpkg --avail mode, --list, --status and --search.
+* Set of dpkg => dpkg-deb pass-through operations changed (but
+  dpkg-deb not yet updated).
+* Added --root, --admindir and --instdir, as well as --isok &c.
+* Moved much stuff into /usr/lib/dpkg-lib.pl, rewritten status
+  database handling.
+* Put packages in `purge' state even if `deinstall' requested if
+  they have no postrm and no conffiles.
+* Version number comparisons fixed.
+* insert-version.pl now installs lib.pl filename too.
+* Strip trailing slashes when reading files from file lists.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.14:
+
+* Fixed parsing of DEPENDS &c fields with trailing whitespace.
+* postinst now fixes up broken ispell.control file.
+* Cyclic dependency/multiple package removal processing: don't consider
+  packages we've just removed when looking for a reason not to go ahead.
+* Added call to postinst with `purge' argument for expunging old
+  configuration etc. that aren't listed in conffiles.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.13:
+
+* sub S_ISREG defined in dpkg.pl.
+* Checking of DEPENDS &c fields was too lax, causing an internal error
+  if you fed it certain kinds of broken control file.
+* Fixed misleading message from bogus installationstatus call.
+* New -u and -U options to dpkg-deb which don't unpack the /DEBIAN
+  directory, and use these in dpkg.pl; clean up /DEBIAN in postinst.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.12:
+
+* No longer needs *.ph files, since these appear to be broken.
+* Postinst fixes up *.control files with curly brackets.
+* embryo of dselect.
+
+Changes in dpkg 0.93.11:
+
+* New --ignore-depends option.
+* This ChangeLog changed format here.
+
+Wed Nov 30 15:38:21 GMT 1994  Ian Jackson  <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+
+	* dpkg 0.93.11 released.
+
+	* conffile updating fixed.
+
+	* Message `upgrade' in dpkg changed to `replace'.
+
+	* install-info now copes with multi-line entries.
+
+	* version numbers now done automatically in dpkg and install-info.
+
+	* more debugging around conffiles updates.
+
+	* *.hash files not deleted so soon.
+
+	* adds brand new packages to status array so we can install them.
+
+	* postinst does h2ph for {sys,linux}/{stat,types}.ph if required.
+
+Mon Nov 28 02:00:13 GMT 1994  Ian Jackson  <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.10 released.
+
+        * dpkg.pl completely rewritten.
+
+        * dpkg-deb: removed dabase-processing and --install option.
+
+        * Makefiles reworked, debian.rules added.
+
+        * Don't install anything in /usr/doc/examples.
+
+        * dpkg-*.deb contains /usr/bin/dpkg-deb.dist, fixed up by postinst.
+
+Thu Oct 20 13:22:20 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.9 released.
+
+        * dpkg.pl: Use $argument, not $package, with `--build'.
+        Make sure that saved postinst scripts are executable.
+
+Tue Oct 18 09:40:57 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.8 released.
+
+        * deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Do not report an error from rmdir ()
+        when `errno' is ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty), because in this
+        case we have found the highest-level directory in the package and
+        are ready to exit the loop (i.e., it is a normal occurrence).
+
+Mon Oct 17 10:44:32 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * Makefile.in: Adapted all Makefiles to the GNU Coding Standards.
+
+        * deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Make sure that parent directories are
+        removed LAST!  This will result in complete removal of packages
+        when --remove is called.  dpkg 0.93.7 (and earlier) had problems
+        with this because it tried to remove directories in order, which
+        will work most of the time, but not necessarily all of the time.
+
+        * deb/list.c (pkg_list): Output is sorted by package name.
+
+Tue Oct  4 12:27:10 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): When a list file cannot be
+        opened, silently fail and let the front-end explain the problem.
+
+        * deb/util.c (return_info): When a control file cannot be opened,
+        silently fail and let the front-end explain the problem.
+
+        * deb/search.c (pkg_search): Exit 0 if the regular expression is
+        matched and 1 if it is not.
+
+Mon Oct  3 18:38:53 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg.pl: New file.  Replaces dpkg.sh.
+
+        * deb/Makefile.in: Renamed `dpkg-util.deb' to `dpkg-deb'.
+
+        * deb/build.c (pkg_build): `--build' is less verbose, instead
+        letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
+
+        * deb/install.c (pkg_install): Ditto.
+
+        * deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): Ditto.
+
+        * deb/search.c (pkg_search): Ditto.
+
+        * deb/describe.c (pkg_describe): `--describe' is less verbose,
+        instead letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
+        The ``Description:'' label has been removed.
+
+        * deb/version.c (pkg_version): `--version' is less verbose,
+        instead letting the front-end add verbosity where appropriate.
+        The ``Version:'' label has been removed, as has the maintainer
+        information.
+
+Mon Sep 12 14:22:04 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * deb/version.c (pkg_version): `--version' now reports the
+        version number of dpkg if no argument is specified.
+
+Thu Sep  1 13:31:37 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.7 released.
+
+        * deb/build.c (pkg_build): check status and exit if non-zero.
+
+        * deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): ditto.
+
+        * deb/install.c (archive_extract): ditto.
+
+Thu Sep  1 13:20:08 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * deb/version.c (pkg_version): indent to the same point as
+        pkg_describe.
+
+Thu Sep  1 12:21:11 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * Makefile.in (dist): added debian.rules binary, source and
+        dist targets to make final distribution easier to make.
+        (install): install programs to /usr/bin.
+
+        * deb/Makefile.in (install): install programs to /usr/bin.
+
+        * deb/list.c (pkg_list): enforce a maximum limit of ten characters
+        for the package name in the output.
+        (pkg_list): left-justify the version number to make it easier for
+        the front-end to parse the output.
+        (pkg_list): replace first '\n' character in packages[n].description
+        with '\0'.
+
+        * deb/install.c (archive_extract): use the `p' option to `tar' to
+        ensure that permissions are preserved.
+
+Sat Aug 27 09:53:37 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.6 released.
+
+        * deb/util.c (return_info): only unlink CONTROL if ARCHIVE_FLAG is
+        true!
+
+Fri Aug 26 15:38:22 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * dpkg 0.93.5 released.
+
+        * deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): merged function archive_contents
+        into function pkg_contents.
+
+        * deb/contents.c (pkg_contents): use lstat (rather than stat) so
+        that symbolic links are recognized.
+        (pkg_contents): print the usual `<path> -> <link_to>' now that we
+        recognize symbolic links.
+
+        * deb/util.c (return_info): create a FIFO to pipe the needed
+        information to the ``formatter'' rather than creating a directory
+        in /tmp for the package information, which is what we used to do.
+
+Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994  Ian Murdock  (imurdock@debra.debian.org)
+
+        * lib/fake-ls.c (mk_date_string): return a pointer to malloc'ed
+        area.
+        (mk_mode_string): ditto.
+
+        * dpkg.sh: make sure the control information is extracted to a
+        uniquely-named temporary directory during package installation.
+
+        * dpkg.sh: execute the pre- and post-removal scripts during
+        package removal.
+
+        * dpkg.sh: exit immediately if dpkg-util.deb reports failure.
+
+        * deb/install.c (pkg_control): make sure that `package' exists and
+        is a Debian archive before doing anything.
+
+        * deb/install.c (pkg_extract): make sure that `package' exists and
+        is a Debian archive before doing anything.
+
+        * deb/install.c (pkg_install): unlink `extract_output' when done.
+
+        * deb/remove.c (pkg_remove): use lstat (rather than stat) so that
+        --remove does not get confused and think that a symbolic link to a
+        directory is actually a directory, which results in the symbolic
+        link never being removed at all.
+
+ChangeLog begins Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994 for dpkg 0.93.5.
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4de394
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+11
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63b5c7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+Source: dpkg
+Section: admin
+Priority: required
+Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
+Uploaders: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
+Vcs-Browser: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git
+Vcs-Git: https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git
+Standards-Version: 4.3.0
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+Build-Depends:
+ debhelper (>= 11),
+ pkg-config,
+# Needed for ITS support.
+ gettext (>= 0.19.7),
+# Needed for --porefs.
+ po4a (>= 0.43),
+ zlib1g-dev,
+ libbz2-dev,
+ liblzma-dev,
+ libselinux1-dev [linux-any],
+ libncurses-dev (>= 6.1+20180210) | libncursesw5-dev,
+# Needed for the functional test.
+ bzip2 <!nocheck>,
+ xz-utils <!nocheck>,
+
+Package: dpkg
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Essential: yes
+Pre-Depends:
+ ${shlibs:Depends},
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+# Needed for --clamp-mtime in dpkg-deb -b.
+ tar (>= 1.28-1),
+Suggests:
+ apt,
+ debsig-verify,
+Breaks:
+# Due to --status-fd not duplicating output.
+ libapt-pkg5.0 (<< 1.7~b),
+# Due to removal of dpkg-divert compat symlink.
+ amule (<< 2.3.1+git1a369e47-3),
+# Due to removal of dpkg-statoverride compat symlink.
+ acidbase (<= 1.4.5-4),
+ beep (<< 1.3-4),
+ im (<< 1:151-4),
+ netselect (<< 0.3.ds1-27),
+ pconsole (<< 1.0-12),
+ phpgacl (<< 3.3.7-7.3),
+ pure-ftpd (<< 1.0.43-1),
+ systemtap (<< 2.8-1),
+ terminatorx (<< 4.0.1-1),
+ xvt (<= 2.1-20.1),
+# Due to renaming of triplettable to tupletable.
+ libdpkg-perl (<< 1.18.11),
+# Due to s-s-d requiring secure usage of --pidfile.
+ lsb-base (<< 10.2019031300),
+Description: Debian package management system
+ This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the
+ installation and removal of Debian software packages.
+ .
+ For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.
+
+Package: libdpkg-dev
+Section: libdevel
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ zlib1g-dev,
+ liblzma-dev,
+ libbz2-dev,
+Description: Debian package management static library
+ This package provides the header files and static library necessary to
+ develop software using libdpkg, the same library used internally by dpkg.
+ .
+ Note though, that the API is to be considered volatile, and might change
+ at any time, use at your own risk.
+
+Package: dpkg-dev
+Section: utils
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ ${perl:Depends},
+ libdpkg-perl (= ${source:Version}),
+# Needed for --clamp-mtime.
+ tar (>= 1.28-1),
+ bzip2,
+ xz-utils,
+# Needed for git-style diff support.
+ patch (>= 2.7),
+ make,
+ binutils,
+Recommends:
+ build-essential,
+ gcc | c-compiler,
+ fakeroot,
+ gnupg | gnupg2,
+ gpgv | gpgv2,
+# Used by dpkg-mergechangelogs.
+ libalgorithm-merge-perl,
+Suggests:
+ debian-keyring,
+Breaks:
+# Force R³ support, w/o requiring debhelper users to depend on dpkg-dev.
+ debhelper (<< 10.10.1~),
+Description: Debian package development tools
+ This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source)
+ required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.
+ .
+ Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build;
+ for example, most packages need make and the C compiler gcc.
+
+Package: libdpkg-perl
+Section: perl
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ perl:any,
+# Needed for arch tuples.
+ dpkg (>= 1.18.11),
+Recommends:
+# Used by Dpkg::File.
+ libfile-fcntllock-perl,
+# Used by Dpkg::Gettext.
+ liblocale-gettext-perl,
+ bzip2,
+ xz-utils,
+Suggests:
+ debian-keyring,
+ gnupg | gnupg2,
+ gpgv | gpgv2,
+ gcc | c-compiler,
+ binutils,
+ patch,
+# Used (if available) by Dpkg::Source::Package::V2.
+ sensible-utils,
+# Needed by Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Git
+ git,
+# Needed by Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::Bzr
+ bzr,
+Breaks:
+# Needed for git-style diffs.
+ patch (<< 2.7),
+# Uses the private Dpkg::Shlibs::SymbolFile module with no API stability
+# guarantees! Which obviously broke with 1.19.0.
+ pkg-kde-tools (<< 0.15.28~),
+# Uses Dpkg::Compression::Process imported from Dpkg::Source::Package in
+# versions prior to 1.19.0.
+ dgit (<< 3.13~),
+Description: Dpkg perl modules
+ This package provides the perl modules used by the scripts
+ in dpkg-dev. They cover a wide range of functionality. Among them
+ there are the following public modules:
+ .
+  - Dpkg: core variables
+  - Dpkg::Arch: architecture handling functions
+  - Dpkg::Build::Info: build information functions
+  - Dpkg::BuildFlags: set, modify and query compilation build flags
+  - Dpkg::BuildOptions: parse and manipulate DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
+  - Dpkg::BuildProfiles: parse and manipulate build profiles
+  - Dpkg::Changelog: parse changelogs
+  - Dpkg::Changelog::Entry: represents a changelog entry
+  - Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: generic changelog parser for dpkg-parsechangelog
+  - Dpkg::Checksums: generate and parse checksums
+  - Dpkg::Compression: simple database of available compression methods
+  - Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle: transparently (de)compress files
+  - Dpkg::Compression::Process: wrapper around compression tools
+  - Dpkg::Conf: parse dpkg configuration files
+  - Dpkg::Control: parse and manipulate Debian control information
+    (.dsc, .changes, Packages/Sources entries, etc.)
+  - Dpkg::Control::Changelog: represent fields output by dpkg-parsechangelog
+  - Dpkg::Control::Fields: manage (list of known) control fields
+  - Dpkg::Control::Hash: parse and manipulate a block of RFC822-like fields
+  - Dpkg::Control::Info: parse files like debian/control
+  - Dpkg::Control::Tests: parse files like debian/tests/control
+  - Dpkg::Control::Tests::Entry: represents a debian/tests/control stanza
+  - Dpkg::Deps: parse and manipulate dependencies
+  - Dpkg::Deps::Simple: represents a single dependency statement
+  - Dpkg::Deps::Multiple: base module to represent multiple dependencies
+  - Dpkg::Deps::Union: list of unrelated dependencies
+  - Dpkg::Deps::AND: list of AND dependencies
+  - Dpkg::Deps::OR: list of OR dependencies
+  - Dpkg::Deps::KnownFacts: list of installed and virtual packages
+  - Dpkg::Exit: push, pop and run exit handlers
+  - Dpkg::Gettext: wrapper around Locale::gettext
+  - Dpkg::IPC: spawn sub-processes and feed/retrieve data
+  - Dpkg::Index: collections of Dpkg::Control (Packages/Sources files for
+    example)
+  - Dpkg::Interface::Storable: base object serializer
+  - Dpkg::Path: common path handling functions
+  - Dpkg::Source::Format: manipulate debian/source/format files
+  - Dpkg::Source::Package: extract Debian source packages
+  - Dpkg::Substvars: substitute variables in strings
+  - Dpkg::Vendor: identify current distribution vendor
+  - Dpkg::Version: parse and manipulate Debian package versions
+ .
+ All the packages listed in Suggests or Recommends are used by some of the
+ modules.
+
+Package: dselect
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Depends:
+ ${shlibs:Depends},
+ ${misc:Depends},
+Suggests:
+ perl,
+Description: Debian package management front-end
+ dselect is a high-level interface for managing the installation and
+ removal of Debian software packages.
+ .
+ Many users find dselect intimidating and new users may prefer to use
+ apt-based user interfaces.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a47b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Upstream-Name: dpkg
+
+Files: *
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 1994 Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1994 Matt Welsh <mdw@sunsite.unc.edu>
+ Copyright © 1994 Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>
+ Copyright © 1994-1999, 2008 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+ Copyright © 1995 Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
+ Copyright © 1995-1996 Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl>
+ Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
+ Copyright © 1996 Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1996 Kim-Minh Kaplan <kkaplan@cdfhp3.in2p3.fr>
+ Copyright © 1996-1998 Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
+ Copyright © 1997-1998 Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1997-1998 Juho Vuori <javuori@cc.helsinki.fi>
+ Copyright © 1998 Koichi Sekido <sekido@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>
+ Copyright © 1998 Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
+ Copyright © 1998 Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1998 Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1998 Heiko Schlittermann <hs@schlittermann.de>
+ Copyright © 1998-1999, 2001, 2003, 2006 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+ Copyright © 1999 Roderick Shertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Copyright © 1999 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1999 Richard Kettlewell <rjk@sfere.greenend.org.uk>
+ Copyright © 1999-2001 Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1999-2002 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2001, 2007, 2010 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2010 Canonical Ltd.
+ Copyright © 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
+ Copyright © 2006-2008 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2006-2015 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2007-2012 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2007 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+ Copyright © 2007 Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
+ Copyright © 2007 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2007, 2008 Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
+ Copyright © 2008 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
+ Copyright © 2008 Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2009 Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2009-2010 Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2009-2011 Kees Cook <kees@debian.org>
+License: GPL-2+
+
+Files:
+ lib/compat/getopt*
+ lib/compat/gettext.h
+ lib/compat/obstack.*
+ lib/compat/strnlen.c
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 1987-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License: GPL-2+
+
+Files:
+ dselect/methods/Dselect/Ftp.pm
+ dselect/methods/ftp/*
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 1996 Andy Guy <awpguy@acs.ucalgary.ca>
+ Copyright © 1998 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+ Copyright © 1999-2001, 2005-2006, 2009 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+License: GPL-2
+
+Files:
+ scripts/Dpkg/Gettext.pm
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 2000 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2007, 2009-2010, 2012-2015 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+License: BSD-2-clause
+
+Files:
+ utils/start-stop-daemon.c
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 1999 Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
+ Copyright © 1999 Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>
+ Copyright © 1999 Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1999 Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 1999-2002 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2000-2003 Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2001 Sontri Tomo Huynh <huynh.29@osu.edu>
+ Copyright © 2001 Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>
+ Copyright © 2001 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+ Copyright © 2004-2005 Scott James Remnant <keybuk@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2006-2014 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2008 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+ Copyright © 2008 Andreas Påhlsson <andreas.pahlsson@xcerion.com>
+ Copyright © 2009 Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@googlemail.com>
+ Copyright © 2012 Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>
+ Copyright © 2014 Nir Soffer <nirs@hyperms.com>
+License: public-domain-s-s-d
+ Written by Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>,
+ public domain.  Based conceptually on start-stop-daemon.pl, by Ian
+ Jackson <ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.  May be used and distributed
+ freely for any purpose.  Changes by Christian Schwarz
+ <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>, to make output conform to the Debian
+ Console Message Standard, also placed in public domain.  Minor
+ changes by Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>, also placed in the Public
+ Domain.
+ .
+ Changes by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, added --chuid, --background
+ and --make-pidfile options, placed in public domain as well.
+
+Files: lib/compat/md5.*
+Copyright:
+ Copyright © 1993 Colin Plumb
+License: public-domain-md5
+ This code implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
+ The algorithm is due to Ron Rivest.  This code was
+ written by Colin Plumb in 1993, no copyright is claimed.
+ This code is in the public domain; do with it what you wish.
+ .
+ Equivalent code is available from RSA Data Security, Inc.
+ This code has been tested against that, and is equivalent,
+ except that you don't need to include two pages of legalese
+ with every copy.
+
+License: GPL-2+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+ .
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+Comment:
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
+ can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2’ or in the dpkg source
+ as the file ‘COPYING’.
+
+License: GPL-2
+ This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ .
+ This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+License: BSD-2-clause
+ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ are met:
+ 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ .
+ THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+ ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+ IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+ FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+ DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+ OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+ HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+ LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+ OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+ SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/debian/dpkg-dev.docs b/debian/dpkg-dev.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c141789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg-dev.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+AUTHORS
+THANKS
+debian/usertags
+doc/README.api
+doc/README.feature-removal-schedule
+doc/frontend.txt
+doc/rootless-builds.txt
+doc/triggers.txt
diff --git a/debian/dpkg-dev.install b/debian/dpkg-dev.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ed6d65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg-dev.install
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+../shlibs.default etc/dpkg
+../shlibs.override etc/dpkg
+
+usr/bin/dpkg-architecture
+usr/bin/dpkg-buildflags
+usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage
+usr/bin/dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+usr/bin/dpkg-distaddfile
+usr/bin/dpkg-genbuildinfo
+usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges
+usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol
+usr/bin/dpkg-gensymbols
+usr/bin/dpkg-mergechangelogs
+usr/bin/dpkg-name
+usr/bin/dpkg-parsechangelog
+usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
+usr/bin/dpkg-scansources
+usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps
+usr/bin/dpkg-source
+usr/bin/dpkg-vendor
+usr/share/dpkg/*.mk
diff --git a/debian/dpkg-dev.manpages b/debian/dpkg-dev.manpages
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d48a2b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg-dev.manpages
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-buildinfo.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-changelog.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-changes.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-control.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-conffiles.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-src-control.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-src-files.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-src-rules.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-version.7
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-substvars.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-origin.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-override.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-extra-override.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-shlibs.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-split.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-symbols.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-postinst.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-postrm.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-preinst.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-prerm.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-triggers.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb-old.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/deb822.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dsc.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-architecture.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-buildflags.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-buildpackage.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-checkbuilddeps.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-distaddfile.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-genbuildinfo.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-genchanges.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-gencontrol.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-gensymbols.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-mergechangelogs.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-name.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-parsechangelog.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-scanpackages.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-scansources.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-source.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-vendor.1
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.alternatives.logrotate b/debian/dpkg.alternatives.logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41c8a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.alternatives.logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/var/log/alternatives.log {
+	monthly
+	rotate 12
+	compress
+	delaycompress
+	missingok
+	notifempty
+	create 644 root root
+}
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.cfg b/debian/dpkg.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba898ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# dpkg configuration file
+#
+# This file can contain default options for dpkg.  All command-line
+# options are allowed.  Values can be specified by putting them after
+# the option, separated by whitespace and/or an `=' sign.
+#
+
+# Do not enable debsig-verify by default; since the distribution is not using
+# embedded signatures, debsig-verify would reject all packages.
+no-debsig
+
+# Log status changes and actions to a file.
+log /var/log/dpkg.log
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.cron.daily b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62da817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+dbdir=/var/lib/dpkg
+
+# Backup the 7 last versions of dpkg databases containing user data.
+if cd /var/backups ; then
+    # We backup all relevant database files if any has changed, so that
+    # the rotation number always contains an internally consistent set.
+    dbchanged=no
+    dbfiles="arch status diversions statoverride"
+    for db in $dbfiles ; do
+        if ! cmp -s "dpkg.${db}.0" "$dbdir/$db"; then
+            dbchanged=yes
+            break;
+        fi
+    done
+    if [ "$dbchanged" = "yes" ] ; then
+        for db in $dbfiles ; do
+            [ -e "$dbdir/$db" ] || continue
+            cp -p "$dbdir/$db" "dpkg.$db"
+            savelog -c 7 "dpkg.$db" >/dev/null
+        done
+    fi
+
+    # The alternatives database is independent from the dpkg database.
+    dbalt=alternatives
+
+    # XXX: Ideally we'd use --warning=none instead of discarding stderr, but
+    # as of GNU tar 1.27.1, it does not seem to work reliably (see #749307).
+    if ! test -e ${dbalt}.tar.0 ||
+       ! tar -df ${dbalt}.tar.0 -C $dbdir $dbalt >/dev/null 2>&1 ;
+    then
+        tar -cf ${dbalt}.tar -C $dbdir $dbalt >/dev/null 2>&1
+        savelog -c 7 ${dbalt}.tar >/dev/null
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.docs b/debian/dpkg.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6392497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+AUTHORS
+THANKS
+debian/usertags
+doc/README.feature-removal-schedule
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.install b/debian/dpkg.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..108ca54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.install
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+../dpkg.cfg etc/dpkg
+
+etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d
+etc/alternatives
+sbin/start-stop-daemon
+usr/bin/dpkg
+usr/bin/dpkg-deb
+usr/bin/dpkg-divert
+usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper
+usr/bin/dpkg-query
+usr/bin/dpkg-split
+usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride
+usr/bin/dpkg-trigger
+usr/bin/update-alternatives
+usr/share/dpkg/*table
+usr/share/lintian/profiles
+usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
+usr/share/polkit-1/actions
+var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
+var/lib/dpkg/info
+var/lib/dpkg/parts
+var/lib/dpkg/updates
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides b/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ee72d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dpkg: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile b/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44f2614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.lintian-profile
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# This is the dpkg pseudo-vendor profile.
+Profile: dpkg/main
+# It has all the checks and settings from the "debian" profile.
+Extends: debian/main
+# Except the ones that are bogus for the non-Debian distributions.
+Disable-Tags:
+ package-uses-vendor-specific-patch-series,
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.logrotate b/debian/dpkg.logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf36f08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/var/log/dpkg.log {
+	monthly
+	rotate 12
+	compress
+	delaycompress
+	missingok
+	notifempty
+	create 644 root root
+}
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.manpages b/debian/dpkg.manpages
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fb92ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.manpages
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-deb.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-divert.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-query.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-split.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-statoverride.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg-trigger.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg.cfg.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dpkg.1
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/start-stop-daemon.8
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/update-alternatives.1
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.postinst b/debian/dpkg.postinst
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7b2582d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# See deb-postinst(5).
+
+set -e
+
+# Create the database files if they don't already exist
+create_database() {
+    admindir=${DPKG_ADMINDIR:-/var/lib/dpkg}
+
+    for file in diversions statoverride status; do
+	if [ ! -f "$admindir/$file" ]; then
+	    touch "$admindir/$file"
+	fi
+    done
+}
+
+
+# Create log file and set default permissions if possible
+create_logfile() {
+    logfile=$DPKG_ROOT/var/log/dpkg.log
+
+    if [ ! -f "$logfile" ]; then
+        touch "$logfile"
+        chmod 644 "$logfile"
+        chown root:root "$logfile" 2>/dev/null || chown 0:0 "$logfile"
+    fi
+}
+
+
+case "$1" in
+    configure)
+	create_database
+	create_logfile
+	;;
+
+    abort-upgrade|abort-deconfigure|abort-remove)
+	;;
+
+    *)
+	echo "$0 called with unknown argument '$1'" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+	;;
+esac
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+exit 0
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.postrm b/debian/dpkg.postrm
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..175080e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dpkg.postrm
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# See deb-postrm(5).
+
+set -e
+
+# Remove log file when dpkg is purged
+remove_logfile() {
+    logdir=$DPKG_ROOT/var/log
+
+    rm -f "$logdir"/dpkg.log "$logdir"/dpkg.log.* 2>/dev/null
+    rm -f "$logdir"/alternatives.log "$logdir"/alternatives.log.* 2>/dev/null
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+    remove)
+	;;
+
+    purge)
+	remove_logfile
+	;;
+
+    upgrade)
+	;;
+
+    failed-upgrade|disappear|abort-install|abort-upgrade)
+	;;
+
+
+    *)
+	echo "$0 called with unknown argument '$1'" 1>&2
+	exit 1
+	;;
+esac
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+exit 0
diff --git a/debian/dselect.cfg b/debian/dselect.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d69691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dselect.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# dselect configuration file
+#
+# This file can contain default options for dselect.  All command-line
+# options are allowed.  Values can be specified by putting them after
+# the option, separated by whitespace and/or an `=' sign.
+#
diff --git a/debian/dselect.docs b/debian/dselect.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8ead95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dselect.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+AUTHORS
+THANKS
+debian/usertags
+dselect/methods/multicd/README.multicd
diff --git a/debian/dselect.install b/debian/dselect.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0ab24a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dselect.install
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+../dselect.cfg etc/dpkg
+
+etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d
+usr/bin/dselect
+usr/lib/dpkg/methods usr/lib/dpkg
+usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
+usr/share/perl5/Dselect
+var/lib/dpkg/methods
diff --git a/debian/dselect.manpages b/debian/dselect.manpages
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b49942d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/dselect.manpages
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dselect.cfg.5
+debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/dselect.1
diff --git a/debian/libdpkg-dev.docs b/debian/libdpkg-dev.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53cee93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libdpkg-dev.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+AUTHORS
+THANKS
+debian/usertags
+doc/README.api
diff --git a/debian/libdpkg-dev.install b/debian/libdpkg-dev.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ba6e9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libdpkg-dev.install
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+usr/include/dpkg/*.h
+usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/libdpkg.pc
+usr/lib/*/libdpkg.a
diff --git a/debian/libdpkg-perl.docs b/debian/libdpkg-perl.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7eeafe8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libdpkg-perl.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+AUTHORS
+THANKS
+debian/usertags
+doc/README.api
+doc/README.feature-removal-schedule
diff --git a/debian/libdpkg-perl.install b/debian/libdpkg-perl.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d50081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libdpkg-perl.install
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+usr/share/dpkg/*.specs
+usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg-dev.mo
+usr/share/man/man3/Dpkg*.3perl
+usr/share/perl5/Dpkg*
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a542193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# debian/rules for the dpkg suite.
+# Copyright © 2004 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
+# Copyright © 2006-2012 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+
+WFLAGS := \
+	-Wall -Wextra \
+	-Wno-missing-field-initializers \
+	-Wno-nonnull-compare \
+	-Wno-unused-parameter \
+	$(nil)
+
+# Use the in-tree dpkg-buildflags
+dpkg_buildflags = \
+	DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS="hardening=+all" \
+	DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND="$(WFLAGS)" \
+	DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND="$(WFLAGS)" \
+	$(CURDIR)/run-script scripts/dpkg-buildflags.pl
+
+DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
+DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS    ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS)
+DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
+
+# Support cross-compiling.
+ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
+	confflags += --build=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+else
+	confflags += --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+endif
+
+# Do not enable everything on all platforms.
+ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),linux)
+	confflags += --with-libselinux
+endif
+ifeq (,$(filter terse,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	confflags += --disable-silent-rules
+	testflags += TESTSUITEFLAGS=--verbose
+endif
+
+# Enable parallel test suite
+NUMJOBS = 1
+ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+  NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+  MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS)
+endif
+
+D := $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
+
+# Create configure script if necessary, automake handles rebuilding it.
+configure:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	./autogen
+
+# Configure the build tree
+build-tree/config.status: configure
+	dh_testdir
+
+	install -d build-tree
+	cd build-tree && ../configure $(confflags) \
+		$(shell $(dpkg_buildflags) --export=configure) \
+		--prefix=/usr \
+		--mandir=\$${datadir}/man \
+		--infodir=\$${datadir}/info \
+		--sysconfdir=/etc \
+		--sbindir=/sbin \
+		--localstatedir=/var \
+		--libexecdir=\$${exec_prefix}/lib \
+		--with-devlibdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) \
+		--without-libmd \
+		--with-libz \
+		--with-liblzma \
+		--with-libbz2
+
+# Build the package in build-tree
+build-indep build-arch build: build-tree/config.status
+	dh_testdir
+
+	cd build-tree && $(MAKE)
+
+# Run the test suites
+check: build
+	dh_testdir
+
+ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	cd build-tree && $(MAKE) $(testflags) TEST_PARALLEL=$(NUMJOBS) check
+endif
+
+# Install the package underneath debian/tmp
+install: check
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_prep
+	dh_installdirs
+
+	cd build-tree && $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(D) install
+
+	# Special-case the lintian profile, as dh cannot rename on install.
+	mkdir -p $(D)/usr/share/lintian/profiles/dpkg
+	cp debian/dpkg.lintian-profile \
+	   $(D)/usr/share/lintian/profiles/dpkg/main.profile
+
+define dpkg-installmanl10n
+for f in `sed -e 's:\*:*/*:' debian/$(1).manpages`; do \
+	test -e $$f && \
+	install -D $$f `echo $$f | sed -e 's:^debian/tmp:debian/$(1):'`; \
+done
+endef
+
+# Put together the dpkg and dselect packages
+binary-arch: install
+	dh_testdir -a
+	dh_testroot -a
+	dh_install -a
+	dh_installcron -a
+	dh_installlogrotate -a
+	dh_installlogrotate -a --name=alternatives
+	dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog*
+	dh_installdocs -a
+	$(call dpkg-installmanl10n,dpkg)
+	$(call dpkg-installmanl10n,dselect)
+	dh_installman -a
+	dh_link -a
+	dh_bugfiles -a -A
+	dh_lintian -a
+	dh_strip -a
+	dh_compress -a
+	dh_fixperms -a
+	dh_installdeb -a
+	dh_shlibdeps -a
+	dh_gencontrol -a
+	dh_md5sums -a
+	dh_builddeb -a
+
+# Put together the dpkg-dev package
+binary-indep: install
+	dh_testdir -i
+	dh_testroot -i
+	dh_install -i
+	dh_installcron -i
+	dh_installchangelogs -i ChangeLog*
+	dh_installdocs -i
+	$(call dpkg-installmanl10n,dpkg-dev)
+	dh_installman -i
+	dh_link -i
+	dh_bugfiles -i -A
+	dh_lintian -i
+	# The perl modules should not depend on a specific interpreter.
+	dh_perl -i -Nlibdpkg-perl
+	dh_compress -i
+	dh_fixperms -i
+	dh_installdeb -i
+	dh_gencontrol -i
+	dh_md5sums -i
+	dh_builddeb -i
+
+binary: binary-arch binary-indep
+
+
+# Clean up the mess we made
+clean:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
+	rm -rf build-tree
+	dh_clean
+
+
+.PHONY: build check install binary-arch binary-indep binary clean
diff --git a/debian/shlibs.default b/debian/shlibs.default
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..661a889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/shlibs.default
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# dpkg shlibs defaults file
+#
+# This file contains shlibs entries that are used as a last resort when
+# no matching entries are found elsewhere.  For more information see the
+# dpkg-shlibdeps(1) manual page. 
+#
+# <library name>	<version/soname>	<dependencies>
diff --git a/debian/shlibs.override b/debian/shlibs.override
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbdb68d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/shlibs.override
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# dpkg shlibs override file
+#
+# Entries in this file will override all others, only use if you
+# are really sure that is what you want!
+# 
+# For more information see the dpkg-shlibdeps(1) manual page. 
+#
+# <library name>	<version/soname>	<dependencies>
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89ae9db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)
diff --git a/debian/tests/control b/debian/tests/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bba379d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/control
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Tests: test-not-root
+Depends: build-essential, autoconf, pkg-config, file
+Restrictions: superficial skippable rw-build-tree
+
+Tests: test-root
+Depends: build-essential, autoconf, pkg-config, file
+Restrictions: superficial rw-build-tree needs-root breaks-testbed
diff --git a/debian/tests/test-not-root b/debian/tests/test-not-root
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..211de1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/test-not-root
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+if [ "$(id -u)" = '0' ]; then
+  # Skip, we cannot declare we do not want root.
+  exit 77
+fi
+
+t=test-not-root
+
+mkdir -p $t
+cd $t
+../configure --disable-nls --disable-dselect
+make installcheck
diff --git a/debian/tests/test-root b/debian/tests/test-root
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3cb1c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/test-root
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+if [ "$(id -u)" != '0' ]; then
+  # Fail, we declared needing root as a restriction.
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+t=test-root
+
+mkdir -p $t
+cd $t
+../configure --disable-nls --disable-dselect
+make installcheck
diff --git a/debian/usertags b/debian/usertags
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d5f9ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/usertags
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+To make management of bugs against the dpkg suite easier we add as many of
+the following usertags as apply to the bug.
+
+When filing bugs, please do the same to aid triage, by including in the
+bug report pseudo-header:
+
+	User: dpkg@packages.debian.org
+	Usertags: <usertag...>
+
+These are the currently used usertags:
+
+Generic tags
+============
+
+usertag			description
+-------			-----------
+
+segfault		Errors that cause segmentation faults.
+conffile		Issues with configuration file handling.
+symlink			Issues related to symlink handling.
+diversion		Issues related to diversions.
+depends			Issues with dependency relationship handling.
+maint-script		Errors related to maintainer scripts.
+db			Issues handling the database.
+file-metadata		File metadata tracking (perm, acl, cap, hash).
+trivial			Bug should be trivial to fix.
+perf			Performance problems.
+new-field		Request for new control file fields.
+new-option		Request for new command line option.
+deb-format		Changes to the binary (.deb) format.
+dsc-format		Changes to the source (.dsc) format.
+arch			Updates to ‘cputable’, ‘ostable’ and porting patches.
+vendor			Vendor support and needed modifications.
+frontend		Issues or request affecting or required by frontends.
+build			Project build system issues.
+i18n			Conversion to the UTF-8 encoding.
+i18n			Internationalization problems.
+l10n			New or updated translations and bugs affecting
+			  translation. Include the language code in the tag,
+			  e.g. [INTL:cy_GB].
+doc			Documentation bugs, including --help, program output
+			  and manpages.
+
+Program tags
+============
+
+usertag			description
+-------			-----------
+
+dpkg
+dpkg-architecture
+dpkg-buildflags
+dpkg-buildpackage
+dpkg-checkbuilddeps
+dpkg-deb
+dpkg-distaddfile
+dpkg-divert
+dpkg-genbuildinfo
+dpkg-genchanges
+dpkg-gencontrol
+dpkg-gensymbols
+dpkg-maintscript-helper
+dpkg-mergechangelogs
+dpkg-name
+dpkg-parsechangelog
+dpkg-query
+dpkg-scanpackages
+dpkg-scansources
+dpkg-shlibdeps
+dpkg-source
+dpkg-split
+dpkg-statoverride
+dpkg-trigger
+dpkg-vendor
+make-fragment		*.mk
+s-s-d			start-stop-daemon
+u-a			update-alternatives
+
+Current categories
+==================
+
+,--- Definition ---
+user dpkg@packages.debian.org
+
+usercategory dpkg-status [hidden]
+ * Status [pending=]
+   + Outstanding with Patch Available [0:pending+tag=patch]
+   + Outstanding and Confirmed [1:pending+tag=confirmed]
+   + Outstanding and More Info Needed [pending+tag=moreinfo]
+   + Outstanding but Will Not Fix [pending+tag=wontfix]
+   + Outstanding and Unclassified [2:pending]
+   + From other Branch [absent]
+   + Pending Upload [pending-fixed]
+   + Fixed in NMU [fixed]
+   + Resolved [done]
+   + Unknown Pending Status []
+
+usercategory dpkg-program [hidden]
+ * Dpkg by Program
+  + dpkg program [tag=dpkg]
+  + dpkg-deb [tag=dpkg-deb]
+  + dpkg-divert [tag=dpkg-divert]
+  + dpkg-query [tag=dpkg-query]
+  + dpkg-split [tag=dpkg-split]
+  + dpkg-statoverride [tag=dpkg-statoverride]
+  + dpkg-trigger [tag=dpkg-trigger]
+  + dpkg-maintscript-helper [tag=dpkg-maintscript-helper]
+  + update-alternatives [tag=u-a]
+  + start-stop-daemon [tag=s-s-d]
+  + libdpkg [package=libdpkg-dev]
+  + dpkg-architecture [tag=dpkg-architecture]
+  + dpkg-buildflags [tag=dpkg-buildflags]
+  + dpkg-buildpackage [tag=dpkg-buildpackage]
+  + dpkg-checkbuilddeps [tag=dpkg-checkbuilddeps]
+  + dpkg-distaddfile [tag=dpkg-distaddfile]
+  + dpkg-genbuildinfo [tag=dpkg-genbuildinfo]
+  + dpkg-genchanges [tag=dpkg-genchanges]
+  + dpkg-gencontrol [tag=dpkg-gencontrol]
+  + dpkg-gensymbols [tag=dpkg-gensymbols]
+  + dpkg-mergechangelogs [tag=dpkg-mergechangelogs]
+  + dpkg-name [tag=dpkg-name]
+  + dpkg-parsechangelog [tag=dpkg-parsechangelog]
+  + dpkg-scanpackages [tag=dpkg-scanpackages]
+  + dpkg-scansources [tag=dpkg-scansources]
+  + dpkg-shlibdeps [tag=dpkg-shlibdeps]
+  + dpkg-source [tag=dpkg-source]
+  + dpkg-vendor [tag=dpkg-vendor]
+  + Dpkg perl modules [package=libdpkg-perl]
+  + Dpkg make fragment [tag=make-fragment]
+  + dselect [package=dselect]
+  + Other [0:]
+
+usercategory dpkg-class [hidden]
+ * Dpkg by Classification [tag=]
+  + Segfault [segfault]
+  + Dependency relationship handling [depends]
+  + Conffile handling [conffile]
+  + Symlink handling [symlink]
+  + Diversion handling [diversion]
+  + Database handling [db]
+  + File metadata tracking [file-metadata]
+  + Maintainer script handling [maint-script]
+  + Performance issue [perf]
+  + Trivial fix [trivial]
+  + New control field [new-field]
+  + New command line option [new-option]
+  + Binary package format [deb-format]
+  + Source package format [dsc-format]
+  + Architecture specific issue [arch]
+  + Vendor specific issue [vendor]
+  + Frontend features [frontend]
+  + Own build system [build]
+  + Internationalization [i18n]
+  + Localization [l10n]
+  + Documentation [doc]
+  + Other [0:]
+
+usercategory dpkg-program-view
+ * status
+ * dpkg-program
+ * severity
+ * classification
+
+usercategory dpkg-class-view
+ * status
+ * dpkg-class
+ * severity
+ * classification
+
+usercategory dpkg-detail-view
+ * dpkg-status
+ * severity
+ * dpkg-program
+ * dpkg-class
+
+# Change default view
+usercategory normal
+ * status
+ * dpkg-program
+ * severity
+ * classification
+
+usercategory old-normal
+ * status
+ * severity
+ * classification
+`---