Thu Sep 6 21:59:35 BST 2007 - surfraw 2.1.7
* Resumed making upstream releases.
Surfraw is now maintained by the Debian Surfraw-Devel Team. Please
report bugs to <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, and feel
free to join us on the list.
There have been many changes since the last official release.
New elvi: alioth archpkg bbcnews cddb cia codesearch ctan cve
deblists deblogs debpts debsec debwiki discogs dmoz ebay
etym foldoc freedb fsfdir genpkg gutenberg happypenguin
imdb ixquick lastfm leodict musicbrainz opensearch
pgpkeys port rae rfc scholar scpan w3css w3html w3link
w3rdf wayback wikipedia yubnub
Removed elvi: appwatch britannica ftpfind ftpsearch jake
raging swhois
Elvi now live in ${PREFIX}/lib/surfraw
Use surfraw-update-path to add this directory to your path or
prefix elvi with sr or surfraw, eg "sr google foo bar".
Bookmarks can be defined in /etc/surfraw.bookmarks or
~/.surfraw.bookmarks. See /etc/surfraw.bookmarks for the format.
Bookmarks can be used with "sr [options] bookmarkname".
There is now a test suite. "make test" to run it or
see test/README.
For a full list of changes since the last release, see
debian/changelog. From this release onwards, changes will be
logged in ./ChangeLog as normal.
Tur Mar 30 01:21:03 CEST 2004 - surfraw 2.0.2
* Added bash completion support by Justin B Rye
* Do not set $DISPLAY when running in text mode
* Removed sharereactor elvi
Tue Feb 10 04:01:40 GMT 2004 - surfraw 2.0.1
Please note that the elvi have moved again, to /usr/lib/surfraw
If you used surfraw-update-path from version 2.0 to add the elvi
directory to your path, you will need to run it again, first with
-remove to remove the old path, then again with -add. To change your
path you will need to either log out and in again or source the
relevant config files.
* Moved elvi to /usr/lib/surfraw
* Updated docs for new elvi location
* Changed man page section for all elvi to 1sr
* Fixed surfraw help text
* Added man page links for pgpkeys, ebay and sharereactor
* Added linda override (and surfraw.dirs) for usr-lib-in-arch-all
* Added debhelper tokens to prerm/postinst
(they were in released 2.0-1 but not CVS)
* Rewrote man page surfraw.1.in, added man page elvi.1sr.in
Both go via autoconf.
* Removed old debian/surfraw.1
* Updated debian/surfraw.links to point elvi to elvi.1sr.gz
* Updated AUTHORS to hopefully include every contributor, ever.
* Changed a few "def"s to "defyn"s in surfraw.conf.in
* Fixed quoting so sr google foo "bar baz" qux works
* Makefile.am: Added missing files to EXTRA_DIST
* Added a debconf note (only visible if upgrading from 2.0-1)
explaining the elvi have moved again
* configure.in: changed to new AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE format,
specified minimum automake version 1.7
* updated surfraw.lsm with new URLs
* deleted debian/rules.save (old rules backup)
* Removed elvi:
+ britannica: gone subscription-only
+ swhois: all whois sites I can find have anti-harvester features
that stop us using them.
* Fixed elvi:
+ wikipedia - added missing quotes (could've sworn I did this already)
+ cnn - updated url
+ translate - corrected docs
* Moved debian/surfraw.links to links.IN in top dir, now uses autoconf
and is not debian-specific
* Makefile.am: Added install-data-hook to create links
* configure.in, elvi/Makefile.in: fixed ELVIDIR quoting
* added elvi/surfraw_elvi to CLEANFILES & removed it from cvs, as it is
generated on build.
* disabled ifs quoting in elvi that don't like it:
freedb, happypenguin, jake, rhyme, scaleplus,
sharereactor, thesaurus, webster, deblists.
* Added note to HACKING explaining how to disable ifs quoting
* synced NAMESPACE branch with HEAD
Please use the main HEAD branch from now on.
* links.IN: made links relative
* Converted debconf to po-debconf
* Eliminated templates.IN, as it confused po-debconf
* Deautoconfiscated the debian directory, as only templates went through
autoconf
Tue Dec 23 03:19:58 GMT 2003 - surfraw 2.0
New development team, see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/surfraw
* Moved elvi to /usr/bin/surfraw-elvi. (Closes: #209155, #192869, #201175)
* Provided surfraw-update-path to put new dir in path.
* Added sr as alias to surfraw.
* Added bookmark support and /etc/surfraw.bookmarks.
* New elvi: alioth, rfc, scpan, deblists. (Closes: #134498)
plus leodict and happypenguin by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #217799)
and wikipedia, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #223953)
and sharereactor, pgpkeys and ebay, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff
* Fixed elvi: altavista, debcontents, excite, jake, scaleplus,
slinuxdoc, sundocs, swhois, translate.
* amazon: fixed test (Closes: #163903) and -country, removed tag-id stuff.
* debcontents: changed options to SURFRAW_debcontents_*.
* sourceforge: added -type and -exact options.
* webster: added -t (thesaurus) option.
* debbugs: added options.
* Removed elvi: appwatch, ftpsearch, ftpfind, raging (sites defunct).
* Updated Debian Standards-Version to 3.6.1.0
* surfraw.in:
- Applied Brian Nelson's "-remote openURL" patch (Closes: #165967).
- Fixed browser selection (Closes: #118314).
* google -l/-lucky support (Closes: #127078, #128544).
* Added deja patch from Christian Garbs (Closes: #149600).
* debian/rules: changed to use DESTDIR.
* Force default browser to sensible-browser (Closes: #119357)
- This supercedes NMU changes (Closes: #200164, #201229, #149584)
- Change default browser in manpage (Closes: #113148)
* Rename stranslate back to translate (Closes: #141243)
* Make woffle not look for /usr/local/bin/surfraw (Closes: #156466)
* Add lynx to Recommends (Closes: #141242)
* Make surfraw lintian-clean
- Remove '(s)' from copyright
- Remove /etc conffile entries
* Kevin Kreamer <kkreamer@etherhogz.org> did this work.
* Easy bugs first
- fix type in README (Closes: #154304)
- s/README/README.gz/ in manpage (Closes: #164206)
* Added elvi for imdb, cddb, freedb and bbcnews written by Ian Beckwith.
* changed "Author(s)" to "Author" in debian/copyright
* removed debian/conffiles to prevent debhelper being so incredibly
"helpful" as to inlude conffiles *twice*
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
as the INSTALL and DEINSTALL scripts no longer distinguish between
the two types of files. Drop SUPPORT_FILES{,_PERMS} and modify the
packages in pkgsrc accordingly.
have it be automatically included by bsd.pkg.mk if USE_PKGINSTALL is set
to "YES". This enforces the requirement that bsd.pkg.install.mk be
included at the end of a package Makefile. Idea suggested by Julio M.
Merino Vidal <jmmv at menta.net>.
New elvi: freebsd, openbsd, filesearching, ftpfind
Updated elvi: translate (babelfish), ftpsearch, fast, netbsd
Rename linuxdoc elvi to slinuxdoc, to prevent name clash with sgmltools
Use test -r instead of test -e which inexplicably chocked Solaris8
Documentation changes
Makefiles during the build process by touching various auto{conf,make}
source files to make them up-to-date. Packages that require regenerating
the configure script and Makefile.in files should make the appropriate
calls to auto{conf,make} in a pre-configure target. This allows the
various targets listed in ${_CONFIG_PREREQ} to modify the generated files
without triggering the GNU auto* tools and having the modifications be
overwritten.
This value may be customized in various ways:
PKG_SYSCONFBASE is the main config directory under which all package
configuration files are to be found.
PKG_SYSCONFSUBDIR is the subdirectory of PKG_SYSCONFBASE under which the
configuration files for a particular package may be found.
PKG_SYSCONFDIR.${PKGBASE} overrides the value of ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR} for a
particular package.
Users will typically want to set PKG_SYSCONFBASE to /etc, or accept the
default location of ${PREFIX}/etc.
This obsoletes the use of CONFDIR, which was active for only 6 days, so no
need to have a workaround to still accept old CONFDIR settings.
bsd.pkg.install.mk:
* Remove old DEINSTALL/INSTALL scripts.
* Move some text printed at POST-INSTALL time into the MESSAGE file.
* Adjust rc.d scripts to respect rc.conf settings, so that the
script may be directly copied into /etc/rc.d.
Note that SURFRAW_browser was made obsolete in 1.0.4.
SURFRAW_text_browser and SURFRAW_graphical_browser
replace its functionality
STATE EXTRA CLEARLY THE FORMAT OF ~/.surfraw.conf so
even Redhat users get it.
New elvi: debbugs, debcontents, debpackages, swhois, woffle
Dead elvi: ircsearch, newscientist
-g and -t switch between graphical & text browsers
-new opens a new window on -remote comprehending browsers
Fix url space escaping problem
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
* During installation, install a default file, then copy over a real
config file during post-installation if it doesn't already exist.
* During de-installation, remove the real config file if it doesn't
differ from the default config file.
The INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts could probably serve as a model for how other
packages should deal with config files.
Translate elvi didn't correctly parse -from or -to
New elvi: britannica, stockquote (nasdaq, quote.com, yahoo), jake
Updated elvi: freshmeat
Don't open new screen(1)s by default
Zorch usage of local variables (not POSIX)
Sat Aug 12 20:00:45 EST 2000 - Surfraw 0.5.7
New elvi: fast netbsd translate W wetandwild.
Auto detect browser during configure phase.
Built in support for screen(1)
Built in support for netscape-remote
`surfraw' on its own now displays a list of elvi
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