binfmt-support (2.2.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Debian Janitor ] * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster: + binfmt-support: Drop versioned constraint on lsb-base in Depends. -- Colin Watson Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:11:08 +0000 binfmt-support (2.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/upstream/metadata: Update for upstream move to GitLab. * New upstream release. - Run binfmt-support.service after systemd-binfmt.service (thanks, Michael Biebl; closes: #1012154). * Add Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}, since dh_installinit relies on that for "invoke-rc.d --skip-systemd-native". -- Colin Watson Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:45:44 +0100 binfmt-support (2.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] * debian/watch: Update signature suffix to .asc rather than .sig. * debian/watch: Upgrade to version 4. * Remove maintainer script code for upgrades from before 2.0.0. [ Debian Janitor ] * Remove constraints unnecessary since buster: + Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on debhelper. + Remove 1 maintscript entries from 1 files. * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 13. * Set upstream metadata fields: Repository, Repository-Browse. * Drop unnecessary dh arguments: --parallel -- Colin Watson Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:35:11 +0000 binfmt-support (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Fix wrongly-documented "fix_binary" format entry (closes: #945020). - Fix build with gcc -fno-common (closes: #957038). * Use debhelper-compat instead of debian/compat. * Re-export debian/upstream/signing-key.asc without extra signatures. -- Colin Watson Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:46:23 +0100 binfmt-support (2.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Update Homepage field to use HTTPS. -- Colin Watson Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:25:58 +0000 binfmt-support (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Sort formats by name in the output of "update-binfmts --display". - Add a new --unimport action, which is the inverse of --import. - Don't enable formats on import or disable them on unimport unless /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is already mounted. This avoids causing cleanup problems in chroots (closes: #847788, LP: #534211). - "--fix-binary yes" is incompatible with detectors. Warn the user if they try to use both at once (closes: #918901). * Document recommended maintainer script use of --unimport in README.Debian. * Stop building with V=1; debhelper configures with --disable-silent-rules as of 9.20150501. -- Colin Watson Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:25:54 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.8-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. [ Colin Watson ] * Switch debian/watch to HTTPS. * Chase Vcs-Git redirection. [ Bastian Blank ] * Remove support for ancient unused procfs support. (closes: #910952) -- Bastian Blank Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:27:20 +0100 binfmt-support (2.1.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Set Rules-Requires-Root: no. * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9.20160709~) rather than dh-systemd. * Move VCS to salsa.debian.org. -- Colin Watson Sat, 10 Feb 2018 03:15:46 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Add --disable-upstart and --disable-systemd configure options. * Stop installing the Upstart job. -- Colin Watson Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:53:07 +0100 binfmt-support (2.1.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Add an "update-binfmts --fix-binary yes" option, mapping to the 'F' flag in Linux binfmt_misc's flags field (thanks, Dan Nicholson; closes: #853820). * Policy version 4.0.0: use HTTPS form of copyright-format URL. -- Colin Watson Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:15:55 +0100 binfmt-support (2.1.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Policy version 3.9.8: no changes required. -- Colin Watson Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:53:50 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Always install database entry even if /proc entry exists (closes: #750245). - Implement a stop action for the systemd service (closes: #739085). -- Colin Watson Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:25:51 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium * Use HTTPS for Vcs-Git URL. * Build with all hardening options. -- Colin Watson Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:20:44 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Update Vcs-Browser URL for alioth cgit. * Policy version 3.9.6: no changes required. -- Colin Watson Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:47:08 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Add an "update-binfmts --preserve yes" option, mapping to the 'P' flag in Linux binfmt_misc's flags field (thanks, Riku Voipio; closes: #758200). -- Colin Watson Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:17:03 +0100 binfmt-support (2.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. - Make the Upstart job be a service, not a task (closes: #743018). -- Colin Watson Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:05:53 +0100 binfmt-support (2.1.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Move debian/init.d to just debian/init, which dh_installinit supports just as well. * Remove dead code from debian/rules. * Remove code related to non-dependency-based sysv-rc ordering, since that is no longer supported (closes: #738505). -- Colin Watson Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:01:12 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. * Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required. * Refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 in debian/copyright rather than plain GPL. * Support parallel builds. -- Colin Watson Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:39:46 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. * Set VERBOSE=1 when running tests so that Automake will print test logs on failure. * Move upstream signing key to debian/upstream/signing-key.asc (armoured). Requires devscripts 2.14.0. * Add a Homepage field. * Remove now-unnecessary debian/dirs file. -- Colin Watson Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:10:47 +0000 binfmt-support (2.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * Convert to a non-native package. * New upstream release. - Add a systemd unit file (closes: #716812). * Switch to git; adjust Vcs-* fields. * Add a watch file. -- Colin Watson Sun, 29 Dec 2013 23:42:11 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low * Use dh-autoreconf to keep autotools output up to date, especially for new ports. * Upgrade to Automake 1.14 and Gnulib 20130805-stable. gnulib/gets.patch is no longer needed. -- Colin Watson Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:04:25 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 9~) directly rather than requiring a Lintian override for use of 8.9.0. * Upgrade to Automake 1.13.2 and autotools-dev 20130515.1. -- Colin Watson Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:38:48 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low * Install Upstart job on Debian as well, following new recommendations in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpstartCompatibleInitScripts. -- Colin Watson Wed, 22 May 2013 09:23:42 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low * Drop python build-dependency; fuse is hardly ever available in autobuilding environments anyway, so it's ineffective. The test suite is still useful for manual testing. -- Colin Watson Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:55:37 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low * Fix ineffective --find test. * Don't show disabled formats in --find output (closes: #689247). -- Colin Watson Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:25:11 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low * Backport Gnulib commit 66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c807348 to stop assuming gets. -- Colin Watson Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:05:32 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low * If a binary format is already enabled according to the kernel, which can happen in chroots if it was installed in the host system, then continue as gracefully as we can manage rather than exiting non-zero (closes: #680349). * Upgrade to Automake 1.11.6. -- Colin Watson Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:36:59 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.9) unstable; urgency=low * Make src/tests/binfmt_misc.py compatible with Python 3. * Build with V=1 so that tools such as blhc can scan more effectively for missing build flags. * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0. * Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69, Automake 1.11.5, and Gnulib 20120404-stable. gnulib/lib/argp-parse.patch is no longer needed. -- Colin Watson Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:22:20 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.8) unstable; urgency=low * Only print informational messages on non-Linux systems if stderr is a terminal. This allows saving a couple of processes from the Upstart job. * Convert to dpkg-buildflags, using debhelper v9. -- Colin Watson Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:24:19 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.7) unstable; urgency=low * Fix display tests to actually test the output of --display. * Upgrade to Gnulib 20110908-stable. * Display a useful error message rather than crashing if asked to display a non-existent binary format (closes: #643756, LP: #792601). -- Colin Watson Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:38:22 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.6) unstable; urgency=low * Remove /var/lib/binfmts on purge (closes: #635449). -- Colin Watson Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:41:55 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.5) unstable; urgency=low * Update Vcs-Bzr field for Alioth changes. * Add an Upstart job, installed only on Ubuntu-derived distributions. * Upgrade to Autoconf 2.68 and Gnulib 20110609-stable. * Remove temporary test directory when skipping a test. -- Colin Watson Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:15:31 +0100 binfmt-support (2.0.4) unstable; urgency=low * Add a basic test for --find. * Use 'fusermount -u' rather than umount when running tests. -- Colin Watson Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:39:11 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.3) unstable; urgency=low * Mark binfmt-support Multi-Arch: foreign. -- Colin Watson Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:26:13 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Upload to unstable. -- Colin Watson Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:22:00 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.1) experimental; urgency=low * Add a --find option to print the list of interpreters for an executable. Requested by Loïc Minier. * Fix crash if get_import returns NULL (LP: #686115). * Fix hexadecimal expansion to ensure that we only ever parse exactly two hex digits. * Use mem* functions rather than str* on binary data when finding interpreters. -- Colin Watson Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:30:52 +0000 binfmt-support (2.0.0) experimental; urgency=low * Rewrite in C (closes: #602920). * Upgrade to GPLv3 or later, mostly due to Gnulib. * Use a separate build directory. * Add a test suite. This does nothing useful during a default Debian package build as it currently requires FUSE, but it can be run by hand. * Add option parsing to run-detectors, mainly so that we can have an --admindir option for use by the test suite but also to provide a useful --help. * Remove cache directory hack, no longer necessary now that we aren't pulling in Perl at boot time. -- Colin Watson Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:15:58 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.20) experimental; urgency=low * Fix =~ operator typo in Binfmt::Format. -- Colin Watson Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:57:31 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.19) experimental; urgency=low * Drop error/warning wrapping; it was cute in 2000, but I find it annoying now. Use the 'say' feature from Perl 5.10. * Convert from 'perl -w' to 'use warnings'. * Strip trailing whitespace from values in database and format files. * Upgrade to debhelper 8. -- Colin Watson Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:16:09 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=low * Convert to source format 3.0 (native). * Only warn about corrupted files in /var/lib/binfmts/ when we can't continue without their contents (LP: #547052). -- Colin Watson Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:30:40 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Exit cleanly on non-Linux systems, rather than causing inconvenient knock-on errors (closes: #565109). [ Loïc Minier ] * Add a new optional field "credentials" which when set to "yes" corresponds to the binfmt-misc "C" flag; this allows running setuid root binaries with the interpreter; LP: #519228. -- Colin Watson Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:06:05 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low * Check whether modprobe is available before using it, this time in the init script too (closes: #567979). -- Colin Watson Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:40:51 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low * Ignore modprobe failures in init script (thanks, Philipp Weis; closes: #549113). -- Colin Watson Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:18:10 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low [ Tormod Volden ] * Maintain a cache of binary format registration instructions, and use them from shell at boot time if possible to avoid the Perl slow path (LP: #320822). -- Colin Watson Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:37 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low * Upgrade to debhelper 7. Uses override targets, so requires 7.0.50. * Check that /etc/default/rcS exists before sourcing it. * Stop hardcoding path to update-binfmts. * Remove Default-Stop from init script; cf. changelog entry for 1.2.8. -- Colin Watson Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:19:38 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low * Moved to bzr.debian.org; add Vcs-Bzr control field. * Some packages (hi, mono) occasionally seem to try to remove formats that weren't installed and thus don't have an entry in the administration directory. Make this non-fatal, since the state is already as requested. -- Colin Watson Tue, 26 May 2009 10:13:28 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low * Recommend POSIX-compliant shell fragments in README.Debian. * Remove stray 'closedir ADMINDIR' in act_display (closes: #482482). -- Colin Watson Fri, 23 May 2008 09:20:19 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low * Fix brown-paper-bag syntax error in Binfmt::Format (thanks, Bastian Kleineidam; closes: #418343). * Suppress perl warning about commas within qw(). -- Colin Watson Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:49:57 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low * Mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc nodev, noexec, and nosuid, to guard against possible future kernel security vulnerabilities. * Suppress warning on --test --import if the given format file has no detector line (closes: #383287). -- Colin Watson Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:32:00 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low * Disabling binfmt-support on system shutdown is rather pointless, so stop doing it. * Move debhelper from Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (for clean target). * Use debhelper v4. -- Colin Watson Tue, 2 May 2006 23:27:09 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low * Remove outdated skeleton comments in init script, since there's very little of the skeleton left. * Add LSB info to init script. * Use log_daemon_msg from lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) for more policy-compliant init script output. -- Colin Watson Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:17:31 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low * Mount binfmt_misc filesystem as 'binfmt_misc' rather than 'none' (thanks, Roucaries Bastien; closes: #328827). -- Colin Watson Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:18:38 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Stop the postinst/prerm from exiting non-zero if update-binfmts fails, for example if you're running something other than Linux (closes: #322193). * Policy version 3.6.2. No changes required. * Update GPL notices with the FSF's new address. [ Scott James Remnant ] * Use lsb functions in init script. -- Colin Watson Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:48:51 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.4) hoary; urgency=low * Move binfmt-support to start at 90 rather than 20 -- Thom May Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:19:02 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low * Convert binfmt-support(8) to the -mdoc macro set. -- Colin Watson Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:49:02 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low * Document the 'detector' option in format files. * Don't bother trying to unload the binfmt_misc kernel module when stopping, since (a) it means we run into a kernel bug, (b) it means we have to keep track of whether the module was loaded by the administrator before starting, and (c) it's unimportant anyway. Reassigns #155570 to kernel. * Policy version 3.5.9: no changes required. -- Colin Watson Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:07:39 +0100 binfmt-support (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Cosmetic improvements to debian/rules. * Make update-binfmts(8) render properly under groff's utf8 device: in particular, use '\-' rather than '-' where a real dash is needed. -- Colin Watson Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:48:43 +0000 binfmt-support (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low * Support for userspace detectors, at the request of the Mono folks. See /usr/share/doc/binfmt-support/detectors for the rationale and design. This involved substantial rearrangements of the code, so we now have a couple of Perl modules in the Binfmt:: namespace. They don't have a published interface, so writing code using them directly is a bad idea. * Check that interpreters (and the new detectors) are executable. * Localize all filehandles. * Policy version 3.5.8: drop /usr/doc symlink. -- Colin Watson Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:46:12 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low * Check (again - how did I lose this?) for the existence of $register, not $procdir, when deciding whether to try loading the kernel module (closes: #134206). -- Colin Watson Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:37:32 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low * The "phone me if you want a bug fixed" release. :-) * Apply more careful logic to loading and mounting binfmt_misc on newer kernels (thanks, Daniel Silverstone; closes: #131236). * Remove emacs local variables from this changelog. -- Colin Watson Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:37:30 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low * Recommend in README.Debian that packages using --import conflict with binfmt-support (<< 1.1.2). -- Colin Watson Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:05:34 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix thinko that meant some warnings weren't printed. * Make much more careful use of return codes throughout. * When deciding whether to load the binfmt_misc module, check for the existence of /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register, not merely the directory. It seems that recent kernels can leave the directory hanging around even after the module is removed (closes: #129400, #129621). -- Colin Watson Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:14:58 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Return non-fatally if binfmt_misc couldn't be loaded (see #129170). -- Colin Watson Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:52:32 +0000 binfmt-support (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low * Implement an --import option to allow packages to install format files without depending on binfmt-support. All format files will be imported by binfmt-support when it's eventually installed (closes: #119694). * Update lots of documentation in line with this. * Install the directory /usr/share/binfmts for format files. * Don't attempt to load and unload the binfmt_misc kernel module in --test mode. * Use Text::Wrap rather than my own wrap() function. * General code cleanup. * get_binfmt() now returns a hash, not an array. * Apply better nroff style to the man page. * Policy version 3.5.6. * Perl policy version 1.20. -- Colin Watson Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:58:51 +0000 binfmt-support (1.0.6) unstable; urgency=low * Check whether modprobe is available before using it (closes: #106090). -- Colin Watson Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:18:10 +0100 binfmt-support (1.0.5) unstable; urgency=low * Updated to policy version 3.5.2: no changes required. * Remove duplicate conffiles entry. * Support recent -ac kernels which require binfmt_misc to be mounted as a filesystem. For now, it seems neatest to mount it over /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, but that may change (especially as it's not clear whether that directory will always exist). * If disabling all binary formats, also unmount the filesystem if necessary, and unload the kernel module. This will help upgrading in the future if the kernel interface is changed again. -- Colin Watson Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:58:01 +0100 binfmt-support (1.0.4) unstable; urgency=low * Uploaded to Debian (closes: #78872). * New maintainer address. * Standards-Version: 3.5.1: no changes required. * Use debhelper v3. * Updated to new Perl policy. * This is Architecture: all, so use the binary-indep target in debian/rules rather than the binary-arch target. * Started updating the version number automagically. * Pointed URL in copyright file to the package pool. * --display can now be called without an argument to display all known binary formats and whether they are enabled; its output looks better, too. * Improved --test option. * Don't hardcode ENOENT any more, anticipating future Hurd support. * Print an error message on startup if the operating system isn't Linux (although the package can still be installed). * Recoded the option parsing and the actions into dispatch tables. * Really test for existence of /usr/sbin/update-binfmts in init script. * Fixed formatting error in man page (\x is an escape sequence). * "Debian GNU/Linux" -> "Debian GNU". -- Colin Watson Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:38:55 +0000 binfmt-support (1.0.3) unstable; urgency=low * D'oh. update-binfmts should have been in /usr/sbin all along. Updated README.Debian to account for this. * Included the GPL in the source package. * Improved --install/--remove logic: - Remove entries even if their interpreter has changed, otherwise deliberately changing interpreters becomes rather awkward. We only need to make sure that the package is the same. - --install will now disable existing /proc entries as long as /var/lib/binfmts is consistent. Without this, you could sometimes end up with multiple entries in /proc with the same name, due to a kernel bug. Added some extra checking to make this even less likely. - Don't warn about there being no /proc entry when removing. This can easily happen on upgrades, and it also helps maintainer scripts to be idempotent. * Running --enable and/or --disable multiple times now doesn't create multiple entries in /proc with the same name either. -- Colin Watson Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:24:18 +0000 binfmt-support (1.0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Standards-Version: 3.2.1: no changes required. * Build-Depends-Indep: rather than Build-Depends:. * Use debhelper DH_COMPAT=2. * debian/rules: cleanup. * Don't 'use diagnostics'; it's slow. * Some additions to the man page. * Oops, remember to update $VERSION this time. * Added debian/TODO. * Added note in README.Debian about requiring binfmt_misc. -- Colin Watson Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:45:44 +0000 binfmt-support (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low * Improved long description (sysadmins can use update-binfmts too). * Standards-Version: 3.1.1, Build-Depends: line. -- Colin Watson Tue, 30 May 2000 23:18:58 +0100 binfmt-support (1.0) unstable; urgency=low * Initial Release. -- Colin Watson Tue, 16 May 2000 23:46:15 +0100