cruft-ng (0.9.67) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add rules for mallard-rng, elpa-notmuch
* Update rules for git, plasma-browser-integration
* Update Standards-Version to 4.7.0
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* Add /var/lib/dpkg/arch-native for dpkg/1.22.16
* Update raspi-firmware
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:10:13 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.66) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add new rules: animals, breeze-cursor-theme, dbeaver-ce,
gnustep-base-common, freesweep, kf6-breeze-icon-theme,
libapache2-mod-php8.4, libpaper2, odoo-18, varnish, vmm,
webmin, wing, xbomb, xletters.
* Update rules: apt, clamav-freshclam, dovecote-core, sddm.
* Archive old rules: breeze-icon-theme, libpaper1, llvm-15-runtime,
jupyter-nbextension-jupyter-js-widgets, qemu-user-static
* Reformat d/control with debputy
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:05:31 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.65) unstable; urgency=medium
* Package is now team maintained by Debian Security Tools team.
It can be used as a forensic tool to investigate systems
messed-up by previous owner/admins.
* Add new rules: pcp, greed, gtkballs
* Update rules: init-system-helpers, ltris, grafana, installation-report
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:18:50 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.64) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix bug found by Ubuntu CI (Closes: #1081002) (LP: #2079840)
* new rules: tango-common, yorick, docbook-xsl-ns, docbook5-xml,
python3.13, kxd, libopenmpi-dev, mecab-ipadic, mecab-ipadic-utf8,
memcached, glx-alternative-nvidia, nvidia-kernel-dkms, octave
* updated rules: LINUX-IMAGE, ocaml, sddm, wtpmdb
* archive rule for python3.11
* update Standards-Version to 4.7.0
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* nolocate: don't inspect /run
* debug: list unused ruleset entries
* Move /var/log/lastlog to base-files
* Update ocaml-base
* Add rules for u-boot-menu and journal-brief
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:55:45 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.63) unstable; urgency=medium
* welcome Jochen Sprickerhof as co-maintainer
* add new rules: gunicorn, gravitywars, ketm, spacearyarya,
live-boot, live-config, swtpm-tools, apparmor, udhcpc
* update existing rules: base-files, python3, raspi-firmware,
sddm, systemd, ofono, libvirt-daemon-config-network,
clonezilla, lightdm, system-tools-backends, gnome-session
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* new "--no-locate" option to make cruft-ng work without locate
(Closes: #1072389)
* new "--root" option to inspect root file systems from outside. Explain
scripts need to check $CRUFT_ROOT to check inside or skip. Only
implemented for "--no-locate".
* add new rules: mpd-sima, fonts-urw-base35, lmodern, alsa-ucm-conf
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:09:49 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.62) unstable; urgency=medium
* run plocate with "--null" option to avoid being confused
by paths containing the newline character (Closes: #1070216)
* add new rules: click, clonezilla, drbl,
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, libvirt-daemon-system,
monsterz, plasma-browser-integration
* update rules: anacron, virtualbox-dkms, zfs-dkms
* 64-bit time transition:
* libglib2.0 -> libglib2.0-t64
* libgtk2.0-0 -> libgtk2.0-0t64
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Sat, 04 May 2024 22:07:25 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.61) unstable; urgency=medium
* add new rules: extrepo, syslog-ng-core, w3c-sgml-lib
* update existing rules: apt-xapian-index, bind9, ghc, snmpd,
VisualStudio code
* add explain scripts to analyse common chroots:
* autopkgtest
* cowdancer/cowbuild
[ cgzones ]
* USERS: ignore mail and crontab files for root
[ Helmut Grohne ]
* Fix FTCBFS: Let dh_auto_build pass cross tools to make.
(Closes: #1059719)
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:13:00 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.60) unstable; urgency=medium
* add new rules for ulogd2, oss-compat,
local-apt-repository, knot, sn
* update smartmontools, exim4,
shared-mime-info
* and many games: astromenace, geki3, hanna,
lbreakout2, lbreakouthd, assaultcube,
rocksndiammords, filler, pyracerz
* derivatives: update kali-themes for Qt6
* backports: fix libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Adapt to libdpkg 1.22.2
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:49:41 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.59) unstable; urgency=low
* make "cruft FILE" faster
* add rules for:
libjs-jquery-flot, geki2, bacula, icinga2,
onak, autoradio, uptimed, samhain
* update rules for:
aide, systemd, apt-listchanges, unbound
* also UsrMerge /lib64
-- Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:15:06 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.58) unstable; urgency=low
* improve existing mode: "cruft FILE",
it will now behave like "dpkg -S" on static files.
(on directories, it will only print the first match)
* add new mode: "cruft --package PACKAGE", to dump
this one package ruleset, so that it can be
re-used/migrated in another tool (debhelper/debputy).
* parse the systemd .service files for
CacheDirectory= / StateDirectory= stanzas that
map respectively to /var/cache and /var/lib.
* add support for running on "Windows Subsystem for Linux 2"
* add rules for : asylum, bastet, pachi,
petris, topper, xjump.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:25:17 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.57) unstable; urgency=low
* cruft will now detected old **/__pycache__/*.cpython-3*.pyc files
that don't match the interpretors in /usr/bin/python3.*
* generic handling of Ruby Gems.
This ecosystem doesn't provide any postrm scripts...
a lot of file will be marked as cruft after each major version bump.
* call updatedb.plocate explicitly, to behave as expected when the old
traditional updatedb.findutils is the default (Closes: #1043209)
* new rules for: wvdial, ofono, sks, painintheapt, deluged,
freedombox, prosody.
* archive rules for old packages: gconf2, libncurses5
* explain: review scripts with shellcheck
* mention %ghost files in description and d/TODO
* compatibility with DebHelper 14 & 15
[ Christian Göttsche ]
* apache: ignore all managed enabled and disabled entries
* postfix: ignore distribution defaults
* php-cgi: add package
* raspi-firmware: ignore /boot/firmware stuff
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:32:24 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.56) unstable; urgency=low
* add explain/catch-all script for binfmt-support
* add rules for deluged, tor, qemu-user-static, angband,
debian-security-support, papirus-icon-theme
* locales: handle /etc/default/locale -> /etc/locale.conf transition
* better automatic tracking of transitional packages:
* mime-support -> mailcap
* proftpd-basic -> proftpd-core
* ntp -> ntpsec
* telnet -> inetutils-telnet
* remove Ubuntu specific rules from the Debian build
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:00:04 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.55) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Göttsche ]
* Misc tweaks to rules: chkrootkit, geoipupdate,
selinux (Closes: #1033804)
[ NicolasJamar ]
* refresh misc filters for Debian, Ubuntu & Pop_OS
[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* move the bulk of Ubuntu rules out of the way,
handle /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*
on Debian only (LP: #2019940)
* add a generic explain script for runit-helper
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:18:27 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.54) unstable; urgency=medium
* fix single file matching feature (Closes: #1030522)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 22:52:47 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.53) unstable; urgency=medium
* Use /usr/share/cruft/rules/ as location for new dh-cruft rules
to avoid that every single package switching to dh-cruft would
also need to Breaks+Replaces on old cruft-commnon. (See #1030024)
* make dh-cruft Multi-Arch: foreign as hinted
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:15:28 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.52) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix FTBFS on buildd: separate -arch and -indep targets.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:28:04 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.51) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upload to Mentors, fixing copyright attribution of mlocate_db.h
as hinted by FTP-Master.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:14:52 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.50) unstable; urgency=medium
* new "dh-cruft" binary package: this DebHelper module is to be used
by source package that wants to provide their own rules.
* update filters for: grafana, npm, python3-pip, cron*, debconf.
* add support for nginx.deb from nginx.org.
* ship documentation in .deb in ASCII and .png formats.
[ Christian Göttsche ]
* new filters for: dovecot, geoipupdate, php-fm, postfix,
quassel-core, redis-server, rspamd, strongswan, unbound.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:11:08 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.49) unstable; urgency=medium
* fix build on Hurd, also add rules for "hurd" and "libc0.3" packages.
* fix rule for dpkg-dev optional files handling
* add rules for isc-dhcp-server, ap-hotspot, linux-sound-base,
menu-xdg, sntp, watchdog, proftpd-basic
* update rules for: lightdm, rabbitmq-server, logrotate, nfs*,
fwupd, atfpd, nginx.
* add filters for independent proprietary software:
Grafana
* add support for Kali Linux derivative, and Debian packages found
in it's default toolkit: stunnel4, ntpsec, rwhod, blueman,
openvpn, iodine, inetsim.
* add support for BeagleBone derivative: bb-customizations,
ti-pru-cgt-installer, doc-beaglebone-getting-started,
bb-node-red-installer, cloud9.
[ NicolasJamar ]
* add/refresh filters for Debian: alsa-base, alsa-utils, apache2, bolt,
chrome-gnome-shell, chrony, command-not-found, fwupd, gdm3,
geoclue-2.0, grub-*, nfs-kernel-server, pcmciatuils, php-dbg,
power-profiles-daemon, resolvconf, sane-utils, shim-signed,
snmp-mibs-downloader, yaru-theme-iconn usbmuxd, pkgconf,
gconf2, docker.io, containerd, phpmyadmin.
* add filters only applicable to Ubuntu and derivatives:
apport, flatpak, ubuntu-advantage-tools, ubuntu-fan,
ubuntu-drivers-common, ubuntu-mono, ubuntu-release-upgrader,
update-manager-core, update-notifier, whoopsie.
* add filters only applicable to Pop_OS:
kernelstub, pop-upgrade.
* add filters for independent proprietary software:
Microsoft Visual Code, MongoDB, Sublime Text, Teamviewer,
VirtualBox extensions package.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:05:14 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.48) unstable; urgency=medium
* rewrite last script that needed the "file" command
(Closes: #1023336, #1024168)
* many more performance improvements by Christian Göttsche
* add rules for: firebird3.0-server
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:38:34 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.47) unstable; urgency=medium
* "cpigs" command now support the new '-c' and '-C' arguments
to generate either a .csv dump of all the volatile files
or with '-C' of the whole system also including static files.
* "cpigs" now also support the new '-e' command switch
to export data in the format expected by NCDU (Closes: #291823)
* list loose files with known bug numbers in "cruft" report.
These bugs needs to be tagged with
user = "cruft-ng@packages.debian.org" and tag = "cruft".
* keep an archive of old rules and make the package easier
to backport.
* remove misleading "broken symlinks" in the report,
it is not implemented (Closes: #1022890).
* many performance improvements by Christian Göttsche
* new rules provided by Christian Göttsche (Closes: #1022542):
ccache, grub-efi-*, fwupd, kde-config-sddm, pbuilder, rkhunter,
policycoreutils-dev, tlp, usbguard, vnstat
* update explain scripts: UCF, ispell
* update ruleset for Python3, apt, dpkg, openssh, util-linux,
emacs, xemacs21
* misc. new rules for: acpid, fail2ban, tix, lynx, powertop, uwf, piuparts,
debci, debian-reference-*, server-xorg-legacy, synaptic, libgvc6, anacron,
nginx, fai-quickstart, pcutils, keyboard-configuration, acct,
installation-report, keyboard-configuration, dialog
* replace php7.4 by php8.1
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:56:28 +0100
cruft-ng (0.9.46) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* implement config file for ignore (Closes: #509414)
* new companion program "cpigs" that works similar
to "dpigs" from Debian Goodies package,
but will instead list the dynamic file usage.
* DPKG data acquisition: also consider packages in 'rc' state
* workaround for plocate's default "PRUNEPATH=/var/spool":
always scan these files ourselves
* work almost as good as non-root, suppress warnings
* new LOGROTATE generic handling script
* pack all the rules into a single file
* update ruleset for Jupyter, npm, base-files,
libdbus-1dev, timgm6mb-soundfont, dlocate,
systemd, init-system-helpers, PolicyKit,
avahi-autoipd, redis-tools, iperf3.
[ Guillem Jover ]
* various build system improvement
* add build dependency on pkg-config to fetch libdpkg flags
* build: Remove unnecessary explicit make rules
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:47:52 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.45) unstable; urgency=medium
* Rewrite most DPKG data acquisition using the
official static C library (Closes: #944926).
This also makes this tool much faster.
* Adding a new build dependency on "libdpkg-dev"
* Fix plocate invocation to also detect
extraneous files without '.' in their name.
Thank you Piotr Engelking (Closes: #1021297)
* Add missing "closedir()" that led to
file descriptor exhaustion.
* Remove extraneous *.pyc filters, now built
into the main engine
* Misc changes to various embedded rules for:
UsrMerge, (b)eid-archive, RabbitMQ, dpkg-cross,
udisks2, virtualbox, util-linux, systemd.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sat, 08 Oct 2022 04:09:13 +0200
cruft-ng (0.9.44) unstable; urgency=medium
* salvages the explain scripts and filters from retired 'cruft-common'
* provides 'cruft' transitional package
* fix regression in diversion handling introduced while fixing #1010362
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 02 Oct 2022 06:24:54 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.54) unstable; urgency=medium
* UsrMerge rollout: also support /lib32 -> /usr/lib32
* bump Standards-Version to 4.6.1.0, no further change needed
* add lintian override "uses-dpkg-database-directly"
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:16:21 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.53) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix segmentation fault when custom dpkg overrides are defined
(Closes: #1010362)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 17 Jul 2022 01:25:30 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.52) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix build on Hurd
* update Python3.x heuristic to also support Python3.xx (e.g. 3.10)
* bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0, no change needed
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:49:39 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.51) unstable; urgency=medium
* Drop depends on transitional mlocate package (Closes: #992742)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:22:59 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.50) unstable; urgency=low
* Also support plocate. (Closes: #976367)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:45:33 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
* /usr/include/mlocate/db.h has vanished,
revert change of 0.4.7 (Closes: #975754)
* Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 02:46:46 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
* Bump debhelper from old 11 to 12. [Debian Janitor]
* Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends. [Debian Janitor]
* Do not read /var/lib/dpkg/diversions directly,
instead call "dpkg-divert --list". (like #944926)
* bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0, no further change needed
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Tue, 19 May 2020 16:22:26 +0200
cruft-ng (0.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
* switch to debhelper compat level 11
* drop our copy of db.h, use the one provided by mlocate instead
* bump Standards-Version to 4.2.1, no further change needed
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:09:58 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.6) unstable; urgency=medium
* consider all intermediates subdirectories under /etc as OK
if those contain some dpkg-managed files
* Declare compliance with Policy 4.1.3
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Tue, 02 Jan 2018 10:17:32 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Declare compliance with Policy 4.1.2
* Enable full hardening
* Only refresh mlocate database when needed
* Switch to DebHelper 10
* Handle filenames longer than 199 bytes (Closes: #867016),
thanks to Stefan Bühler
* set Rules-Requires-Root: no
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:21:32 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
* Add support for systems with UsrMerge
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:16:43 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
* don't report .pyc files if a .py file exist (Closes: #366616)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:51:45 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
* revert ignoring /srv, let admin handle this with their custom rules
* take into account dpkg's path-exclude configuration (Closes: #619086)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:04:38 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
* always ignore contents of /mnt & /srv
* run on a single file (Closes: #432026), this is a very simple implementation
that can be enhanced
* depends on cruft-common instead of "cruft (<< 0.9.20) | cruft-common"
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Thu, 05 Nov 2015 23:52:51 +0100
cruft-ng (0.4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Enable DEBUG all over the place
* Print DEBUG info to stderr
* process uppercase files in /etc/cruft/filters/ like original cruft
* process script files in /etc/cruft/explain/ like original cruft
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:50:37 +0200
cruft-ng (0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix stack-smashing error, replace strcpy by strncpy (Closes: #783723)
* Enable use of 'DEBUG' environment variable
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Mon, 04 May 2015 10:20:24 +0200
cruft-ng (0.2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix license of mlocate_db.h in d/copyright
* fail immediately if can't read mlocate's db
* enable hardening
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:48:56 +0200
cruft-ng (0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Initial release. (Closes: #770445)
-- Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:05:29 +0200