how-can-i-help (17) unstable; urgency=medium [ Paul Wise ] * Switch from `dpkg -l` to dpkg-query * Add an option to disable updating the cache when it is populated * Add an option to disable opportunities for packages installed locally * Add an option to hide autoremovals too far in the future (Closes: #826935) * Use the canonical value for salsa in the Vcs-Browser field * Switch from debian/compat to debhelper-compat Build-Depends * Switch from debhelper compat 11 to 12, no changes needed * Set Rules-Requires-Root to no * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.4.0 [ lintian-brush ] * Set Homepage field in Source rather than Binary package. * Update standards version to 4.4.1, no changes needed. [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0; no changes needed. * debian/copyright: Bump years to include 2020. -- Tomasz Nitecki Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:07:33 +0200 how-can-i-help (16) unstable; urgency=medium [ Paul Wise ] * Correct the home directory handling (Closes: #859380) [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * debian/control: Use salsa.debian.org in Vcs-* fields. how-can-i-help repository was moved to salsa.debian.org. * debian/copyright: Bump years to include 2018. * d/compat d/control: Bump debhelper version to 11. * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.3; no changes needed. -- Tomasz Nitecki Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:12:16 +0100 how-can-i-help (15) unstable; urgency=medium [ Nicolas Braud-Santoni ] * Use a stable sort order. Closes: #835653 * Use the sort_by idiom where needed, for clarity and consistency [ Paul Wise ] * Wrap and sort the Debian packaging * Drop unneeded ${shlibs:Depends} variable * Correct the dpkg filtering in the manual page [ Daniel Shahaf ] * Fix typo in manual page command * Add support for 'help' tag. Closes: #825349 [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Clarified title of a section displaying package bugs tagged 'newcomer'. Closes: #842353 * Gracefully handle SIGPIPE. Closes: #845265 -- Tomasz Nitecki Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:04:30 +0100 how-can-i-help (14) unstable; urgency=medium [ Paul Wise ] * Exit with an error for download errors, actually Closes: #823193 [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Minor changelog adjustment (unnecessary dot removed). -- Tomasz Nitecki Tue, 17 May 2016 12:38:45 +0200 how-can-i-help (13) unstable; urgency=medium [ Paul Wise ] * Replace gift in the package description with newcomer [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Added an option to define exit code handling. Closes: #823193 * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (no changes required). * Minor code cleanup. -- Tomasz Nitecki Tue, 10 May 2016 00:47:05 +0200 how-can-i-help (12) unstable; urgency=medium [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Defend against invalid encoding in package descriptions (in the output of dpkg -l). We only care about the first two columns anyway. Closes: #791515 [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Sort bug numbers for RC bugs. Closes: #810757 * Added an option to output data in JSON format. Closes: #794238 * Double quotes replaced with single quotes where applicable. * Updated manpages (added --json flag description). * Updated copyright statements. * debian/compat, debian/control: Bumped compat level to 9. * debian/control: Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.7 (no changes required). * debian/control: Switched Vcs-* fields to https. -- Tomasz Nitecki Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:22:32 -0300 how-can-i-help (11) unstable; urgency=high * Allow hcih to download data through https. Closes: #787471 Patch from Stephen Kitt -- Tomasz Nitecki Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:26:30 +0200 how-can-i-help (10) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Added support for 'newcomer' tag. Closes: #769640 - Added support for 'newcomer' option - Updated manual and help - Added 'gift' tag depreciation warning [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Fix a few typos in the manpage. + Re-generated the manpage from ascii. The generated format changed slightly, causing a rather huge diff. -- Tomasz Nitecki Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:24:27 +0100 how-can-i-help (9) unstable; urgency=medium [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Step down from the Maintainer role and add Tomasz. He has been doing all the great work lately anyway. [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Bump standards version to 3.9.6 (no changes required). * Added an option to show pseudo-packages tagged as 'gift'. Pseudo-packages tagged as 'gift' will appear in a new 'infrastructure' section, regardless of the fact if they are installed or not. They can be hidden using 'ignore' file. Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the idea! -- Tomasz Nitecki Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:44:12 +0200 how-can-i-help (8) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * how-can-i-help can be configured to show only specific types of opportunities. Closes: #742245 * Updated manpage and --help output. * Added two more links to 'see also' section. [ Paul Wise ] * Use https instead of http where possible. -- Tomasz Nitecki Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:48:23 +0200 how-can-i-help (7) unstable; urgency=medium * Minor update to a TODO file. * Gracefully exit when there is a problem with $HOME. Closes: #746780 * Reported links use https instead of http. Closes: #755425 * how-can-i-help will now use tracker.d.o instead of old PTS interface. Closes: #756834 * how-can-i-help will always exit with a return code 0. Closes: #747490 -- Tomasz Nitecki Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:19:07 -0700 how-can-i-help (6) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * If an error occurs while trying to download data file it is now correctly attributed to how-can-i-help. Closes: #740677 [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Use dir.home instead of ENV['HOME']. This raises an exception if the HOME directory could not be found. Closes: #741326 -- Lucas Nussbaum Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:43:49 +0100 how-can-i-help (5) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Levsen ] * Lower versioned depends on ruby-debian and ruby-json so that backporting the package requires no changes. Thanks to . (Closes: #738826) [ Antonio Terceiro ] * Fix call to `dpkg -l` with C.UTF-8 locale * Add space between blocks of opportunities [ Tomasz Nitecki ] * Added an option to hide some types of opportunities. Closes: #738169 * Added an option to list opportunities in all packages. Closes: #738170 Patch from Matt Kraai -- Tomasz Nitecki Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:48:27 +0100 how-can-i-help (4) unstable; urgency=medium * Add support for listing RFS bugs. Closes: #731510 -- Lucas Nussbaum Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:16:08 +0100 how-can-i-help (3) unstable; urgency=medium * Add support for listing testing autoremovals. * Sort all information using sorting orders that try to make sense. * Add a (undocumented) -v option. Closes: #735915. -- Lucas Nussbaum Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:24:13 +0100 how-can-i-help (2) unstable; urgency=high * Drop alternative dependency on ruby-interpreter, and add versioned dependencies to limit future problems due to the switching between Ruby releases. Closes: #734156 -- Lucas Nussbaum Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:23:48 +0100 how-can-i-help (1) unstable; urgency=low [ Christophe Siraut ] * Fix WNPP description. * Remove obsolete sudo instructions. [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Also look at RFH bugs. Closes: #730293 * Another attempt at fixing the WNPP description. * Reduce gem2deb build-dep to 0.3.0. Closes: #728655 * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5. No changes needed. -- Lucas Nussbaum Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:44:11 +0100 how-can-i-help (0.9) unstable; urgency=low * Avoid using Dir.home as it is ruby1.9-specific. Future uploads should really be tested with all ruby versions. Closes: #728356 -- Lucas Nussbaum Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:54:34 +0100 how-can-i-help (0.8) unstable; urgency=low * Document how to run how-can-i-help in a cronjob. Closes: #720981. Thanks to Joseph Herlant for the help, and to Christophe Siraut for the review! -- Lucas Nussbaum Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:46:41 +0100 how-can-i-help (0.7) unstable; urgency=low [ Christophe Siraut ] * Support providing a list of additional packages. Closes: #720982 * Remove non-root differentiation. Closes: #720980 * Cache opportunities list. Closes: #720985 [ Arthur de Jong ] * Remove data directory op purge (Closes: #722594) [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Adding the support of proxy, honoring the http_proxy environment variable. Patch from Joseph Herlant . Closes: #726403 * List packages removed from testing. Closes: #725819. * Also remove datadir on upgrade, as its content now lives in the user home directory. -- Lucas Nussbaum Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:19:16 +0100 how-can-i-help (0.6) unstable; urgency=low * Add --quiet option. Contributes to fixing #720981. -- Lucas Nussbaum Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:03:27 +0200 how-can-i-help (0.5) unstable; urgency=low [ Paul Wise ] * Correct the comment in the apt configuration file [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Upload to unstable. -- Lucas Nussbaum Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:18:17 +0200 how-can-i-help (0.4) experimental; urgency=low [ Holger Levsen ] * Add manpage, thus add asciidoc to build-depends. [ Lucas Nussbaum ] * Force encoding of output of 'dpkg -l' to UTF-8. It seems that dpkg -l outputs UTF-8 even when the locale is a non-UTF-8 one (e.g. C), which breaks with Ruby 1.9. Closes: #720928 * Document how to generate the manpage in debian/rules, and drop asciidoc from build-depends. a2x actually requires a whole docbook installation (200+ MB). -- Lucas Nussbaum Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:12:35 +0200 how-can-i-help (0.3) experimental; urgency=low * Test for existence of /usr/bin/how-can-i-help in the APT hook, in case the package was removed but not purged, or in case purge is in progress. Thanks to Shawn Landden for reporting. Closes: #720857 -- Lucas Nussbaum Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:16:42 +0200 how-can-i-help (0.2) experimental; urgency=low * Use the production URL to list opportunities, not the debugging one. -- Lucas Nussbaum Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:22:44 +0200 how-can-i-help (0.1) experimental; urgency=low * Initial release. -- Lucas Nussbaum Sat, 24 Aug 2013 17:29:45 +0200