python (1.5.2-10potato11) stable; urgency=high

  * To the release manager: -11 includes a security fix to the
    tempfile module, which was vulnerable to a symlink attack.
    Apart from that, it contains an important fix for a long outstanding
    obscure bug in the signal handling code, and a few small
    modifications to fix some other bugs. 

    This revision is a recompile of the unstable package for potato
    (one minor modification to mpzmodule was necessary to compile).
    
    I would think this revision should be included in the next point
    release of potato.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:06:02 +0000

python (1.5.2-11) unstable; urgency=high

  * Long outstanding bugfix to the signal handling code, backported from
    2.0 CVS tree (closes: #45929). ^C should now work again as expected.
  * Security fix for tempfile.py, backported from CVS tree. tempfile was
    vulnerable to a symlink attack (fixes: #78577).
  * urllib.py now gives a meaningful error message if the proxy variable
    can not be parsed (fixes: #42318).
  * rfc822.py: __getitem__ now returns an element of addresslist
    (fixes: #50197).
  * rfc822.py: a small fix to the parser: Whitespace behind the colons is
    not mandatory (fixes: #72354).
  * Fix includes in mpzmodule in order to compile with libgmp2-dev.
  * debian/control: python-base replaces python-curses
  * debian/rules: fix dh_installdocs call not to add excess code to
    postinsts (fixes: #68677).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:49:22 +0100

python (1.5.2-10) frozen unstable; urgency=high

  * Fixing two important bugs:
  * Made dependencies for idle, python-examples and python-regrtest less
    strict (closes: #61176 idle: dep on python-tk it too stringent to allow
    binary only NMU's).
  * configure erroneously added "-lnet" to LIBS if libnet0-dev was installed
    on compile time. This made /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile unusable
    without libnet0-dev (closes: #61475).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Apr 2000 12:41:26 +0200

python (1.5.2-9) frozen unstable; urgency=high

  * Fixing a grave bug: Recompiled with libc6 2.1.3-6 to fix broken
    dependency on libdb1.85 which hosed the upgrade
    (closes: #59967, #60029, #60033, #60112).
  * Remove remaining obsolete stdwin files from python-base (they got in
    there accidentely in 1.5.2-7 as a leftover from python-stdwin's
    removal).
  * Lib/mailbox.py: Change value of _Mailbox from /usr/mail to /var/mail
    as mandated by the FHS (closes: #59880).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:59:16 +0100

python (1.5.2-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * "Don't trust the changelog" release: This release makes python-elisp's
    emacsen-install script recognize xemacs21 (and therefore now really
    closes: #48145, #52067, #54964).
  * Change to configure.in so that Python won't get linked with the
    completely useless static library libieee. This will help building 
    stuff like the Gnumeric Python plugin.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Mar 2000 15:12:09 +0100

python (1.5.2-7) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * To the archive maintainer: Please do *not* install this package in
    frozen if you decide not to accept python-doc 1.5.2p1-4 for frozen!
    The mechanism used to create the /usr/doc/python symlink only makes
    sense if a similar scheme is used in all of python-doc, python-base
    and python-examples:

  * FHS transition: Create a symlink from /usr/share/doc/python to
    /usr/doc/python. 
    python-examples (cf. #58668: python-doc: Missing documentation link...!)

  * Remove the obsolete python-stdwin package. python-stdwin has no
    reverse dependencies, and the package never worked anyway, since
    forgot to build the necessary binary module. It's therefore no risk
    and no loss to remove this package in frozen.
  * Linked against libreadline4 and libncurses5 (instead of libreadline2
    and libncurses4).
  * FHS manpage transition: Move python.1 into /usr/share/man/man1.
  * Compress /usr/share/doc/python-examples/{README,changelog}.Debian:
    removes the last lintian error.
  * Make python-elisp work with xemacs21 and with emacs19 + custom
    (closes: #48145, #52067, #54964).
  * Make python-tk depend on tk8.0 (unversioned), to that it works with
    tk8.0 as well as tkstep8.0 (closes: #56400: python-tk: should depend
    on tk OR tkstep).
  * Update python-mode.el to version 3.105 (closes: #43011).
  * Build-Depends listed in debian/control.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:24:07 +0100

python (1.5.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * IMPORTANT NOTE:

      If you're upgrading manually using dpkg, please first run

         dpkg -r python-misc python-net
      
      to remove those obsolete packages. If you have installed packages
      with (broken) dependencies to python-misc or python-net, you may
      have to remove them first (e.g. linbot, cf. #41345). dpkg seems to be
      uncapable to remove two obsolete packages ot once. apt and hopefully
      dselect should work fine, though.

  * Package elimination, second step: python-misc and python-net have
    been removed, as I have announced in 1.5.2-4.

  * IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MAINTAINERS OF PYTHON MODULES:

      Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> pointed out that Python violates
      the Debian Policy, since it used -fpic to compile extension modules.
      This revision changes /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile.pre.in
      to use -fPIC instead, which is a difference from the upstream.

      If you're the maintainer of a package with binary Python modules,
      please check if the module was compiled with -fPIC. If not, recompile
      the package with python-dev (>=1.5.2-6) installed. If your package
      doesn't use /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile.pre.in, make sure
      the its own Makefiles are using -fPIC.

  * configure.in: Debian policy mandates to use CCSHARED=-fPIC
    (closes: Bug#43934: python: pythons makesetup gives -fpic as option).
  * Uses symlinks in accordance with tech ctte. decision, as implemented
    by debhelper 2.0.40.
  * Therefore better FHS compliance; upgraded to Standards-Version 3.0.1.1.
    Strictly spoken, Python is not yet FHS compliant, since a lot
    architecture-independent things are installed in /usr/lib instead
    of /usr/share.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:38:32 +0200

python (1.5.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Important changes to the dbm modules (see also README.dbm):
    - Two new modules db1hash and bsddb1 that work with legacy DB 1.85
      databases, while dbhash/bsddb use DB 2.X Hash databases.
    - whichdb now identifies databases in DB 2.X Hash format as "dbhash",
    - "db1hash" is used for legacy DB 1.85 Hash files,
    - and whichdb now finally identifies "dumbdbm" database files.
    - anydbm can read any format, it defaults to creating DB2 Hash databases
    - As a consequence, the dbmmodule is now built with gdbm and has been
      moved to python-gdbm.
    (closes: Bug#41355: python_1.5.2-: doesn't build with glibc 2.0).
  * As a side effect, python now again builds on slink systems.
  * python-base's postrm was broken (closes: Bug#40761: python-base
    post-removal script doesn't seem to work, closes: Bug#41074:
    cannot remove/purge python-base).
  * Lib/compileall.py: Still a silly indentation error, finally fixed,
    this time thanks go to Chris Lawrence! (closes: Bug#38268:
    python-base: compileall.py with -q does the wrong thing).
  * Makefile.in: libpython1.5.so.0 is now linked against the shared
    libraries it uses. The rule is silly and needs to be cleaned up ASAP
    (closes: Bug#40060: libpython1.5.so.0 should link against shared
    libraries).
  * debian/rules: Drop dh_makeshlibs. For now, we provide a hand-crafted
    shlibs file for python-base.
  * debian/{rules,control}: Found a better way to correct wrong
    libreadlineg2 dependency (it's due to the broken libreadlineg2 shlibs
    file): run a sedscript to fix substvars.
  * debian/control: python-base now replaces python-misc and python-net.
    Without this, dpkg may complains about duplicate files during the
    upgrade.
  * The new xemacs21 packages had a problem that was triggered by
    python-elisp. Silently, our part of the problem was already fixed
    in -4: We now use mkdir -p. In the meantime, the bug was reassigned
    to xemacs21 (Bug#39970: Use mkdir -p instead of mkdir).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:14:53 +0200

python (1.5.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * IMPORTANT NOTE:

      If you're upgrading manually using dpkg, please first run

         dpkg -r python-curses python-bsddb
      
      to remove those obsolete packages. dpkg seems to be uncapable to
      handle this situation. apt and hopefully dselect should work fine,
      though.

  * Big package elimination: python-misc, python-net, python-bsddb and
    python-curses are merged into python-base. For this revision, we provide
    empty python-net and python-misc packages to satisfy versioned
    dependencies. In a future revision, these packages will be removed!
  * New package idle.
  * Menu entries for python-base and idle (closes: Bug#39308: Menu entries).
  * Various changes in the descriptions in debian/control.
  * debian/control: handcraft dependency on libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-13.3).
    We need this for smooth upgrades until #38087 is resolved by
    libreadlineg2.
  * Fix really bad nesting error in compileall.py (closes: Bug#38268:
    python-base: compileall.py with -q does the wrong thing). Thanks,
    Rob, for the report!
  * New emacsen install, remove scripts for python-elisp (adopted from
    gnus). Will now compile with --no-site-file (closes: Bug#38243:
    python-elisp: fails to install with emacs-20.2).
  * nismodule has to be linked against libnsl (closes: Bug#38000:
    python-net nis module displays ImportError).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:36:31 +0200

python (1.5.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Lib/compileall.py: Fatal bug in `quiet' code that made compileall.py
    fail when an optional directory argument was provided
    (closes: Bug#36590: Error in /usr/lib/python1.5/compileall.py).
  * Make python-net conflict with mailman (<< 1.0b11-2): An change to 
    smtplib.py's interface in 1.5.2 broke mailman (closes: Bug#36687:
    python-base: esmtp broken in smtplib.py).
  * Again, make python-elisp depend on xemacs20-bin. There's still no
    virtual xemacs20 package (closes: Bug#37195: Dependage of xemacs20).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:17:26 +0200

python (1.5.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Python/Makefile.in: getplatform.pic_o, importdl.pic_o need their
    own rules (closes Bug#36249: python-base: sys.platform has value
    'unknown').
  * libpython1.5 is now built as shared library (closes Bug#7696:
    python should be built with thread / shared library support and
    close Bug#29324: python-base: missing libpython.so). [This
    was really done in 1.5.2-1.]
  * Removed Tools/Pynche/X. Modified Pynche/Main.py to try 
    /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt as requested by FSSTND.
    Patch submitted to Pynche's author Barry Warsaw.
  * Python/getversion.c: Enlarge compile name output field to 80 chars:
    I guess Guido didn't think some compiler might call itself
    "GCC egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)"
    This fixes the startup message, which was cut off.
  * Minor fixes to make the packages lintian-error-free:
    fix debian/python-examples.compress.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:44:16 +0200

python (1.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version. We're finally at 1.5.2.
  * Tkinter.Scale now has an identify method upstream (closes Bug#24625).
  * mpz.mpz was fixed upstream to correctly support characters above 128
    in the argument (closes Bug#30238).
  * debian/control: python-net now depends on python-misc (closes Bug#31339).
    IMHO it's necessary to rethink the split in python-net, python-misc
    python-base anyway.
  * debian/control: python-tk now depends on tk8.0 (>= 8.0.3) | tkstep8.0
    (closes Bug#33483).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:19:54 +0200

python (1.5.1.999c1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version: 1.5.2c1 (i.e. release candidate 1).
  * Fix the shared library libpython1.5.so: getpath now is in there.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:51:01 +0200

python (1.5.1.999b2-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Recompile with glibc2.1.
  * dbmmodule is now compiled with ndbm.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Mar 1999 15:18:25 +0100

python (1.5.1.999b2-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (upstream name is 1.5.2b2).
  * Python is now built with a shared library.
  * dbmmodule is back again, linked with libndbm.
  * poly.py and zmod.py now obsolote; have been moved to lib-old upstream.
  * "compileall -q" is now very quiet.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:06:45 +0100

python (1.5.1-7) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: binary-arch must depend on install (close Bug#29573).

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:29:06 +0100

python (1.5.1-6) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuilt without tkstep8.0 installed, so that python-tk now depends on
    tk8.0 (closes Bug#28048)
  * Rebuilt python-curses to use libncurses4.
  * debian/rules: Use rules.multi template from debhelper 1.1.22.
    Really use target binary-indep for architecture-independent
    packages (closes Bug#28445).
  * new file README.maintainers with guidelines for maintainers of
    Python-related packages. Hopefully this helps to work around bugs like
    #28217.
  * README: mention debian-python@lists.debian.org.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:01:25 +0100

python (1.5.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Maintainer upload inclugin nmu patches (closes Bug#25916).
  * README: correct path for documentation (closes Bug#27463).
  * Don't let python-elisp byte-compile with emacs19 at all. This is
    a workaround. Otherwise installation fails when there is
    emacs19 and another flavor of emacs but no custom (also closes
    Bug#21889).
  * Remove boot-deb target from Makefile.pre.in (was a very bad idea,
    I have to come up with a better solution).
  * Apply eight more official bug fixes (imaplib.3, stringobject.1,
    sgmllib.2, classobject.1, SocketServer.1, bltinmodule.3,
    longobject.1 and stropmodule.1). All official fixes for 1.5.1 up
    to this date have been applied in this revision.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:17:08 +0200

python (1.5.1-3.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non maintainer upload.
    On a glibc2.1 system (which the Arm is), the defines for HASHINFO
    etc is located in the <db_185.h> instead of <db.h>.

 -- Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:26:19 -0400

python (1.5.1-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Reintroduce incremental compilation into compileall.py (closes
    Bug#22783).
  * Add remark to python-elisp description regarding emacs19, add a
    README for python-elisp.
  * Apply two more official bug fixes (imaplib.2.txt, import.1.txt).
  * In README, add a pointer to http://master.debian.org/~flight/python/.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Fri, 29 May 1998 10:06:36 +0200

python (1.5.1-2.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed tkstep dependency for python-tk.

 -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Mon, 18 May 1998 09:54:00 +0200

python (1.5.1-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Recompiled so that included getopt is used (closes Bug#22520 and
    Bug#22515).
  * Make prerm scripts work more silently.
  * Fix "make clobber" to avoid endless loop during rebuild. Submitted
    to upstream maintainer.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sun, 17 May 1998 20:31:13 +0200

python (1.5.1-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release incorporating all bug fixes applied to 1.5-1,
    applied all official bug fixes for 1.5.1 as of 05/14/98
    (Closes Bug#22319 and Bug#20688).
  * Changed site.py to use local directories (Closes Bug#22237), this
    is required to be really FSSTND compliant.
  * Removed non-threaded version.
  * Removed obsolete TESTPATH from COREPYTHONPATH in Modules/Setup.in.
  * Changed python-elisp dependencies (Closes Bug#21880). python-elisp
    does only work for emacs19 if the (non-existant) custom-elisp
    package is installed.
  * According to lintian, changed permissions of various .py files
    in Lib. Submitted to upstream maintainer.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:38:54 +0200

python (1.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:30:44 +0100

python (1.5-0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Try to move documentation into /usr/doc/python.
  * Applied official patch pcre.1.txt.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:56:21 +0100

python (1.5-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer release.
  * New upstream version.
  * Recompiled for libc6.
  * lintian-0.3.1 clean: No errors. Warnings related to included scripts:
    executable-not-elf-or-script and unusual-interpreter #!/usr/bin/env.
  * Converted package to debhelper.
  * Applied official patches for 1.5final from www.python.org:
    versioncheck.1.txt, re.1.txt, re.2.txt, urllib.1.txt, urllib.2.txt,
    random.1.txt, tokenizer.1.txt, tokenizer.2.txt, rfc822.1.txt,
    pypcre.1.txt, listobject.1.txt.
  * Due to a bug report in comp.lang.python, changed Lib/test/test_dl.py
    to load /lib/libc.so.6 instead of /usr/lib/libc.so
  * Dropped symlink for /usr/lib/python.
  * All packages have a /usr/doc/package directory pointing to 
    /usr/doc/python-base, which holds the real documentation.
    /usr/doc/python is a symlink to python-base.
  * Dropped dbmmodule (problem with dbm_firstkey). Use bsddb instead.
  * New package python-regrtest for the regression test files.
  * Compiled with threading support (fixes #10866: Not thread support
    in Debian version of python).
  * Changes to compileall.py and py_compile.py so that .py files can
    be compiled `out of place'.
  * The following bugs can be closed:
      #12862: python-base: python doesn't read from stdin,
      #14136: python-dev: No config.h file for python,
      #7885: python-mpz: Incorrect library settings when compiling Python,
      #6967: python-mpz 1.4.0-3 : Dependency problems,
      #10926: Python's NNTP code is buggy for leading dots in article 
              body lines,
      #12312: python-tk: Python-tk should be compiled against tcl/tk 8.0,
      #7500: python-tk: Bug in python-tk Version: 1.4.0-1
  * New files README.Debian and TODO.

 -- Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Mar 1998 00:37:19 +0100

python (1.4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Split off documentation to python-doc source package (see comment in
    python-doc).

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:43:11 -0500

python (1.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Interim release (1.4.0-2 never got installed for some reason).
  * New release expected soon to fix minor packaging problems and to
    provide shared and debug version of python libraries.

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:21:50 -0500

python (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * removed thread support (crashes a number of add-on modules)

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:24:48 -0700

python (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * upgraded to new upstream version

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:33:25 -0700

python (1.4beta3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * upgraded to new upstream version

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Mon, 2 Sep 1996 15:55:33 -0700

python (1.4beta2-1) unstable; urgency=LOW

  * changed to new packaging format; upgraded to new upstream version

 -- Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>  Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:59:37 +0700

Thu Feb 22 15:37:44 MST 1996 Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com>

	* Updated to version 1.3 of python.

Sun Sep 24 23:40:12 1995  Bernd S. Brentrup  <bsb@uni-muenster.de>

	* Misc/python.man: Debianized the FILES section

	* Doc/Makefile (lib.texi): removed -kill from emacs invocation
	  (was causing an IOT Abort with emacs 19.29-1)

Sat Sep 23 22:12:44 1995  Bernd S. Brentrup  <bsb@uni-muenster.de>

	* Doc/tut.tex: Added footnotes telling debianized locations

Tue Sep 19 03:14:32 1995  Bernd S. Brentrup  <bsb@uni-muenster.de>

	* python-quickref.html: File retrieved from python's home
	  ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python/ 

	* debian.rules (binary): Install quickref in /usr/doc/python

	* debian.prerm: new file removes info directory entry

	* debian.postinst: new file adds info directory entry

	* debian.README (Changes): Changes maintainer address, noted major
	  changes. 

	* Doc/Makefile: Modified to allow building *.dvi files without
	  invoking dvips by default.

Mon Sep 18 21:32:04 1995  Bernd S. Brentrup  <bsb@uni-muenster.de>

	* debian.rules (build): make python info files, ignoring lots of
	  error messages! The upstream maintainer classifies them as
	  `debugging output' (see /usr/doc/python/README.gz).
	  (binary): Don't change flags on executable files after copying
	  them to their debianized locations (fixes Bug#977 as a side effect).
	  (binary): install info files, python-mode.el

	  (DIRECTORIES): Added /usr/info /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp

Sun Sep 17 16:56:28 1995  Bernd S. Brentrup  <bsb@uni-muenster.de>

	* Modules/makesetup (NL): replaced "\\\n" with '\\\n' (Bug#1347)

	* debian.control (MAINTAINER): updated

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