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+dash (0.4.26) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Disabled fnmatch code again (closes: #240887).
+  * Updated copyright.
+  * Updated German debconf translation (Florian Ernst, closes: #244507).
+  * Fixed obstack corruption in setprompt (closes: #246635).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:48:52 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed use-after-free bug in setvareq (Vladimir N. Oleynik).
+  * Fixed value of expdest after _STPUTC in expandarg (closes: #238265).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:55:57 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed segmentation fault when PWD is undefined.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Mar 2004 19:58:41 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Verify PWD before using it.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon,  8 Mar 2004 20:12:27 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Read PWD from environment (closes: #228659).
+  * Added Danish debconf translation (Claus Hindsgaul, closes: #233756).
+  * Added check_gcc to support gcc 2.95 (closes: #235933).
+  * Perform here-doc expansion on PS1/PS2/PS4 (closes: #230858).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Mar 2004 21:50:04 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed typo that broke ulimit (GCS, closes: #228369).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:02:32 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added Dutch debconf translation (Tim Dijkstra, closes: #218904).
+  * Check existence RLIMIT symbols for ulimit.
+  * Removed table lookup in errmsg.
+  * Restored NULL check in cmdtxt.
+  * Restored ash postrm to purge debconf entries (closes: #221913).
+  * Fixed exit status of exit in EXIT trap (closes: #227734).
+  * Updated Brazilian debconf translation (Andre Luis Lopes, closes: #228095).
+  * Restored goodname check in prehash.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:57:14 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed handling of evalskip in dotcmd (closes: #212975).
+  * Updated Russian debconf translation (Ilgiz Kalmetev, closes: #214333).
+  * Added Portugese debconf translation (Bruno Rodrigues, closes: #216214).
+  * Updated Spanish debconf translation (Carlos Valdivia, closes: #216338).
+  * Fixed length expansion of special variables (closes: #216767).
+  * Replaced umask builtin with pdksh version.
+  * Reverted bogus eval change in 0.3.1-20.
+  * Added vmemory/locks support in ulimit.
+  * Call install -D instead of cp for merged template.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:14:22 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed boundary checks in getopts.
+  * Updated Japanese debconf template (Tomohiro KUBOTA, closes: #192382).
+  * Use -falign-* instead -malign-*.
+  * Use strtoll for parsing integers in arith expansion.
+  * Added support for add-shell/remove-shell (closes: #163131).
+  * Fixed JOBS ifdefs in sprint_status (closes: #211009).
+  * Fixed bit-wise or in arith expansion (Mototoshi KONDO, closes: #212825).
+  * Print PS4 on previous stderr.
+  * Converted debconf templates to gettext (Christian Perrier,
+    closes: #200112).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:26:36 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Reset rehash when recylcing cmd entries.
+  * Fixed null arg0 segfault with -c (closes: #191687).
+  * Relocate job pointers in makejob (closes: #191595).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat,  3 May 2003 20:57:46 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed printf so that exit status is cleared on entry.
+  * Call nextopt() in printf.
+  * Fixed command substitution corruption by grabbing expdest in expbackq
+    (closes: #187896).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Apr 2003 21:21:30 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed octal escapes in echo/printf (closes: #187827).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  6 Apr 2003 20:45:38 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added missing newline when printing in dowait.
+  * Do not print status in dowait when stopped.
+  * Fixed job status display.
+  * Fixed current job setting.
+  * Fixed kill segfault with no arguments (closes: #187189).
+  * Fixed sorting of set output.
+  * Removed setvar builtin.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Apr 2003 20:38:33 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed precision type on 64 bit systems in showvars.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:00:03 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed dash_errno build problem with gcc 3.2.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:28:50 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed unused pgrp field from job structure.
+  * Free jobs when calling wait with no arguments.
+  * Fixed build problem with bison.
+  * Merged changes from NetBSD 20030123.
+   . printf:
+    - Fixed mklong sefault.
+    - Fixed precision/field width with %b.
+   . Improved option parsing of command(1).
+   . Added rudimentary support for PS4.
+  * Moved builtin flags into builtins.def.
+  * Updated Spanish debconf template (Carlos Valdivia Yagüe, closes: #178359).
+  * Fixed ordering of redirection versus assignment substitution.
+  * Fixed potential setvareq memory leaks.
+  * Use bison instead of byacc.
+  * Fixed wait(1) race condition.
+  * Fixed alignment memory corruption bug in growstackblock().
+  * Fixed potential memory corruption in parsing position parameters.
+  * Fixed getopts done check.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:42:29 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed redirection fd leak when execing.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:25:41 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Reset exitstatus in evalsubshell if backgnd is true.
+  * Fixed glibc glob syntax error in expand.c.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:04:02 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed backgnd flag from ncmd due to previous redirection change.
+  * Set lim after the stack stablises in updatepwd (closes: #173884).
+  * Do not clobber the exitstatus after redirection.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:50:06 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Merged clearredir with reset code in redir.c.
+  * Redirect before command search in evalcommand (closes: #168862).
+  * Build binary-all packages in binary-indep (closes: #173191).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:52:37 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Restored code for leaving job control.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Dec 2002 15:21:58 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Optimised doformat so that vsnprintf is usually called only once.
+  * Reset redirlist in clearredir so that popredir can work (closes: #170247).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:09:59 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed duplicate define warnings in init.c.
+  * Set debhelper compat to 4.
+  * Vanishing mail boxes no longer elicit "you have mail" messages.
+  * Function redirection errors no longer abort the shell.
+  * Fixed potential memory leak in redirect.
+  * Only allocate memory if necessary in redirect.
+  * Reap dead here documents.
+  * Do not strdup default values of static shell variables.
+  * Removed unnecessary setprompt(0) calls.
+  * Read in BUFSIZ chunks rather than BUFSIZ - 1.
+  * Documented undefined escape behaviour for echo(1) (closes: #167893).
+  * Do va_copy when we use a va_list twice (closes: #169503).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:48:31 +1100
+
+dash (0.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added manual entry for PPID.
+  * Exporting an unset variable no longer causes it to be set.
+  * Fixed fd0 redirection in asynchronous lists.
+  * Only stat if necessary in cdcmd (see #42880).
+  * Removed extra newline in error message in arith lexer.
+  * Set heredoclist to 0 ASAP in parseheredoc.
+  * Removed BSD advertising clause from copyright file.
+  * Check non-ash diversions as well in dash.postinst.
+  * Duplicated diversion checking in ash.postinst (closes: #166441).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Oct 2002 21:28:33 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Give benefits of dash in templates (closes: #161527).
+  * Fixed signed/unsigned on result of xwrite (closes: #161606).
+  * Removed support for SIG prefixes in kill and trap.
+  * Added -- processing in trap.
+  * Dropped use of unset in postinst (closes: 161868).
+  * Fixed printf(1) %* processing on bad integers and zero.
+  * Use stat64 in test(1).
+  * Allocate group_array with stalloc in test(1).
+  * Disabled alias checking after a pattern in a case statement.
+  * Wait now returns 128 + last trapped signal.
+  * Printf now keeps going after errors.
+  * Empty non-trivial parameter expansions are now removed correctly.
+  * Call reset() before exitshell() is called.  This fixes the bug where
+    returning an error from a function running under set -e caused the exit
+    trap to be taken with evalskip set.
+  * Fixed quoting of empty strings in single_quote().
+  * Show line numbers on all errors.
+  * Function names must be valid identifiers.
+  * Removed unused dependency on groff.
+  * Fixed race condition before entering a function.
+  * Fixed getopts initialisation for functions.
+  * Added memory barriers in INT macros.
+  * Banned empty compound lists in most places.
+  * Keep usage counters on functions (closes: #164234).
+  * Updated copyright file.
+  * Check evalskip in evalstring (closes: #165056).
+  * Merged changes from NetBSD 1.6:
+   . Added intmax support in printf(1).
+   . Implemented set -u.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:23:11 +1000
+
+dash (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed extra new line in command -v output for aliases.
+  * Removed alais prefix in the output of alias.
+  * Recognise octal and hex numbers in arith expansion (closes: #151449).
+  * Added sh(1) entries for echo, printf and test (closes: #156446).
+  * Renamed to dash --- the Debian Almquist Shell.
+  * Cleaned up rules file (Matej Vela).
+  * Check mtime instead of size in chkmail per POSIX.
+  * Added support for LFS (closes: #157884).
+  * Added SuS options to cd and pwd (closes: #145828).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:35:06 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-38) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Turned pre-dependency to dependency in udeb since the former is not allowed
+    (closes: #143749).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:59:05 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-37) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added Japanese debconf translation (Tomohiro KUBOTA, closes: #137431).
+  * Added missing escapes in manual page (Aaron Schrab, closes: #137966).
+  * Added Russian debconf translation (Ilgiz Kalmetev, closes: #137618).
+  * Fixed trap(1) documentation (closes: #140973).
+  * Do not abort if getcwd fails.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Apr 2002 20:58:09 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-36) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added library dependency for ash-udeb.
+  * Handle null case statements correctly.
+  * Fixed alias expansions in case statements (NetBSD).
+  * Disabled unused jobid command.
+  * Corrected documentation about shifting too much.
+  * Added French debconf translation (Denis Barbier, closes: #134625).
+  * Updated Spanish debconf translation (Carlos Valdivia, closes: #136366).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Mar 2002 18:31:22 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-35) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Moved PWD initialisation into var.c (closes: #124032).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:34:55 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-34) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NSEMI must be NOR + 1.
+  * Set exitstatus to zero before evaluating cases (closes: #124066).
+  * Explicitly set default answer of the ash/sh question to false so that
+    people whose debconf priority is set to low and who keeps banging on their
+    keyboards don't accidently end up with ash as /bin/sh.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:30:49 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-33) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added missing inclusion of bltin.h in bltin/times.c.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:46:07 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-32) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Back slashes in expansions are now escaped (closes: #121516).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:15:01 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-31) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Made sure all back slashes are escaped.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:10:27 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-30) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Restored fnmatch(3) code.
+  * Treat escaped slashes correctly while globbing.
+  * Restored missing EV_EXIT check in evalcommand (closes: #120364).
+  * Fixed stack corruption in _rmescapes.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:51:19 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-29) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added missing va_end in fmtstr (NetBSD).
+  * Removed shellproc crap.
+  * Updated Swedish debconf translation (Mikael Hedin, closes: #116097).
+  * Updated German debconf translation (Andreas Metzler, closes: #117160).
+  * Break now treats illegal numbers according to SuS.
+  * Errors in special builtins now rise to the top.
+  * Normal redirection errors no longer abort the shell.
+  * Functions now have the same variable assignment properties as special
+    builtins.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat,  3 Nov 2001 11:36:36 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.8-28) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Local variables are now unset properly in shprocvar() (closes: #114917).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:07:21 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-27) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Kill no longer aborts if it fails to kill someone.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:20:36 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-26) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * The sh.1.gz diversion now agrees with reality (closes: #113831).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:43:27 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-25) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Only read ENV if the shell is interactive (closes: #110421).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:18:53 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-24) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Handle SIGINT when waiting even if there is no trap (closes: #107699).
+  * Protect all makejob/forkshell/waitforjobs sequences from SIGINT.
+  * Work around gcc bug that generates bad ..ng references (closes: #107994).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed,  8 Aug 2001 20:28:28 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-23) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed fence post error in scanleft (closes: #107229).
+  * Removed stunalloc in expname as it interferes with addfname.
+  * Fixed CTLESC skipping in scanright.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu,  2 Aug 2001 20:06:00 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-22) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed trailing back slash bug in echo/printf (closes: #106693).
+  * Some quoted's are meant to be quotes.
+  * Added Brazilian translation (Andre Luis Lopes, closes: #107041).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:21:52 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-21) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed EV_EXIT/redirection bugs that caused core dumps.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:03:28 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't save fd2 if job control is turned off.
+  * Don't push redirections when EV_EXIT is set.
+  * Fixed assignment recognition in the presence of back ticks.
+  * Combined checkkwd and checkalias.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:29:41 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Recompute strings after growing in subevalvar (closes: #106050).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:16:50 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added more space optimisations for udeb on i386.
+  * Set stack mark in patmatch (closes: #106050).
+  * Fixed theoretical bug in expari.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:08:15 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't complain about unknown escape codes in echo and printf
+    (closes: #105659).
+  * Updated build-time dependency on groff-base (closes: #105612).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:33:20 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed backslash bug in new pattern matching code.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:47:39 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added Swedish translation of templates (Martin Sjögren, closes: #103158).
+  * Restored escape code support in echo.
+  * Removed assignment builtins since it is at best undefined by the SuS and
+    also can't be implemented consistently.
+  * Removed extraneous volatile modifier (closes: #104518).
+  * General overhaul of word expansion (closes: #96588).
+  * Redirection prefixes no longer stop assignments from being recognised.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jul 2001 17:27:03 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Divert sh.1.gz to sh.distrib.1.gz (closes: #102251).
+  * Added HETIO support for ^D and ^U (Aaron Lehmann, closes: #102215).
+  * Added Spaniash translation of debconf templates (Carlos Valdivia Yagüe,
+    closes: #103040).
+  * Added versioned build-time dependency on groff.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Jul 2001 19:32:03 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed a bug where errors in pipelines which are part of andor lists were
+    not ignored when -e is in effect.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:40:27 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Rewrote arith_lex.l in C (Aaron Lehmann, closes: #101741).
+  * && and || in arithmetic expansions now return either 0 or 1.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:14:29 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Check for NULL argument in evaltree() (closes: #98865, #98867).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 27 May 2001 17:53:14 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use /bin/ash in postinst to sidestep bugs in other shells (closes: #98739).
+  * Exit status is now tested on non-negated pipelines (closes: #98736).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 26 May 2001 23:56:07 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-9) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * IFS is now fetched using bltinlookup() again in read (closes: #98343).
+  * Divert sh(1) man page as well as /bin/sh (closes: #98525).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 25 May 2001 20:30:06 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed diversion removal in prerm (duh, closes: #98031).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 21 May 2001 20:52:48 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed diversion test in prerm (closes: #98031).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 20 May 2001 12:30:53 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Make sure that fd2 is closed when clearing redirects (closes: #96619).
+  * Fixed memory corruption in stunalloc().
+  * The output of export/readonly/set is now correctly quoted.
+  * Fixed newline eating bug in expbackq().
+  * Set OLDPWD.
+  * Removed ash-medium as neither bf or di uses it.
+  * Wait now waits for all its argument rather than the first one.
+  * Wait will exit with 129 when interrupted by a signal for a which a trap has
+    been set.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 18 May 2001 21:51:41 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added German translation to template file (Sebastian Feltel,
+    closes: #96203).
+  * Added missing initialisation in setalias() (closes: #95433).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  4 May 2001 20:54:31 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Disabled fnmatch code as fnmatch(3) in glibc is broken.
+  * Fixed echo example in man page (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, closes: #96014).
+  * Fixed trailing semicolon bug with eval (NetBSD).
+  * Fixed globbing inconsistency with broken symlinks (NetBSD).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed,  2 May 2001 22:57:16 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Work around broken autoconf scripts (closes: #95430).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue,  1 May 2001 18:27:50 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Save checkalias before calling xxreadtoken() (closes: #95628).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:36:01 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NetBSD-current version as of 20010316.
+  * Removed code that sets IFS.
+  * Fixed memory leak with PWD.
+  * Set PPID.
+  * Fixed inconsistencies in alias expansion.
+  * Restored original output code.
+  * Enabled fnmatch code again.
+  * Added builtin printf.
+  * Offer to divert /bin/sh (closes: #70462).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:32:39 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.7-16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed incorrect default IFS in readcmd (closes: #88950).
+  * Added missing return in hashcmd.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Mar 2001 20:44:40 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Unknown escape codes are now prnted literally by echo (closes: #82869).
+  * Made hetio_read_input() fail if fd is not stdin.
+  * Some uses of VSQUOTE were really meant to be quotes (closes: #88777).
+  * Build different ashes in different subdirectories.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Mar 2001 21:32:28 +1100
+ 
+ash (0.3.7-14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Removed predependency from udeb (closes: #81995).
+  * Added /bin/sh symlink to udeb (closes: #81967).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:23:21 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Renamed the udeb to ash-udeb.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:32:34 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added support for udebs (Randolph Chung, closes: #79237).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:53:28 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Preserve the previous exit status upon entering a function
+    (closes: #78374).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Dec 2000 13:34:27 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Merged changes for GNU from Igor Khavkine.
+  * Minimise the number of sigactions.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Nov 2000 20:31:52 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Predepend on the libraries.
+  * Always save fd 2 when it is redirected (closes: #75302).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:40:40 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-8) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * More redirection fixes (closes: #73613).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu,  5 Oct 2000 18:22:17 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-7) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Added missing break in redirection code (closes: #72956).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Oct 2000 07:58:04 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * command -[vV] no longer displays an error message on stdout.
+  * Redirecting to /proc/self/fd/* now works (closes: #72852).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Oct 2000 12:56:39 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Implemented set -a.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:00:33 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added build-time dependency on debhelper (closes: #69920).
+  * Extended maximum length of arithmetic expansions to match 32-bit integers.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:28:16 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.7-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Switch to the old globbing code since glob(3) is hopelessly broken
+    (closes: #69455).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:37:15 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.7-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Call glob(3) with GLOB_NOMAGIC (ouch).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  6 Aug 2000 17:47:08 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NetBSD-current version as of 20000729.
+  * Use fnmatch(3) and glob(3).
+  * Fixed the use of backslashes in the pattern in parameter substitutions,
+    hopefully for the last time.
+  * Applied HETIO patch and built ash.medium (closes: #50788).  Will do ash.big
+    when readline is fixed so that it doesn't leak anymore.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  4 Aug 2000 21:36:44 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.6-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed manpage entry for read with patch from Kevin Ryde (closes: #62500).
+  * Fixed a file descriptor leak for pipelines.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:56:20 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.6-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed the case of an empty command with redirections.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Apr 2000 12:07:18 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.6-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * ! is now recognised correctly.
+  * Ash is now more strict on the syntax, e.g., a lone ! is no longer accepted
+    as an alternative to ! true.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Apr 2000 10:46:06 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed a problem with fmtstr() which broke getopts.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  2 Apr 2000 10:49:26 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NetBSD-current version as of 20000326.
+  * Added a Build-Depends on groff (closes: #61041).
+  * Implemented noclobber (closes: #59028).
+  * Rewrote output.c to use stream IO.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat,  1 Apr 2000 19:24:31 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-10) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't stat mail boxes in non-interactive mode (closes: #59213).
+  * Added an fflush(stdout) to the times builtin (closes: #59027).
+  * Documented the times builtin.
+  * Added source depends.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:58:44 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Double quotes inside paramater substitutions inside double quotes are now
+    ignored as in bash (the originial behaviour was POSIX compliant too but
+    IMHO this one makes a little bit more sense).
+    This one broke mwm (but it was actually mwm's fault).
+  * Corrected backslash/CTLESC treatment for patterns in parameter
+    substitutions.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat,  6 Nov 1999 18:13:19 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Replaced use of echo -n in manual page with escape codes.
+  * Made FHS compliant (closes: #47978).
+  * Restored echo's option processing ability.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:20:58 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * echo no longer supports options.
+  * Don't quote patterns inside parameter substitutions enclosed by double
+    quotes (closes: #47842).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:28:14 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use getcwd() instead of /bin/pwd -- Zack Weinberg (closes: #46981).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:31:49 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Only test for -e on simple commands (fixes #44559).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed,  8 Sep 1999 22:18:27 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Don't wait for stopped children if job control is disabled (fixes #42814).
+  * Allow an option '(' in a case statement (fixes #42364).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:30:30 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * OK, the fix to the esoteric problem in 0.3.5-1 actually breaks VSASSIGN
+    and VSQUESTION, they should work properly now (fixes #41327).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:47:13 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * PATH search and execution is now correct.
+  * hash no longer shows builtins.
+  * Added kill builtin.
+  * New description from James R. van Zandt reformatted by Josip Rodin.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:51:42 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+  * Adapted to new pmake (fixes #38737).
+  * Fixed behvaiour of backslashes preceding a closing brace for a parameter
+    substituion inside double quotes (even bash messes this one up :).
+  * Fixed command (fixes #34639).
+  * Fixed a pipe bug where stdin may be wrongly closed (fixes #35452).
+  * Revamped getopts (fixes #39694).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Jul 1999 12:19:01 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed a glibc 2.1 compatitibility problem.
+  * Fixed a PWD inconsistency that stuffed up the kernel compilation.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 17 May 1999 23:14:57 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed incorrect -e test due to the last bug fix (fixes #26509).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue,  8 Sep 1998 10:02:46 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Use test_eaccess from bash instead of access(2) (fixes #26110).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:22:49 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Only upload to unstable.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue,  5 May 1998 18:01:02 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Applied sparc patch (fixes #21562).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  1 May 1998 19:48:13 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed the incorrect trap fixes (fixes #20363).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:07:10 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+  * Reverted word splitting change in 0.3.2-1 since the fix was broken and
+    major work (the quote removal is done too quickly at the moment) is needed
+    to fix it properly.
+  * Fixed more trap noncompliance.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:59:12 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed a bug when doing pattern matching in parameter expansions.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:25:40 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Allow ] to be quoted in bracket expressions (fixes #17533).
+  * Move dh_fixperms to second last spot (fixes #18267).
+  * Don't do field splitting in evalfor.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:32:09 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed stupid core dump.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:33:55 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Hack for special builtins (fixes #18055).
+  * Hack for command.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:19:46 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * NetBSD-current version as of 19980209.
+  * Fixed a word splitting problem after parameter expansion thanks to Alexey
+    Marinichev.
+  * Converted to debhelper (fixes #14612, #15005).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Feb 1998 16:53:48 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-20) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed -e problem with eval.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Dec 1997 20:19:00 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed -e problem with command substitution.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Dec 1997 19:44:49 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Do not link with ncurses (#15485).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:00:11 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-17) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Set PATH like bash (#15238).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:17:27 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-16) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed incorrect assignment builtin code.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:19:10 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-15) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * hash now returns error codes (needed by the Linux kernel).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:37:08 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Disabled word-splitting for assignment builtins.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 1997 12:45:15 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-13) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * ! is now recognised even after &&/||.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Nov 1997 22:09:05 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-12) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * More fixes to the handling of SIGINT when forking.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:14:32 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-11) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Ignore SIGINT when forking non-interactively.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Nov 1997 12:00:02 +1100
+
+ash (0.3.1-10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * echo now handles options correctly.
+  * echo nolonger returns 0 if erorrs occured while writing to stdout.
+  * New code from GNU echo merged.
+  * Error messages from test now work.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Wed,  8 Oct 1997 21:47:13 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * ! is recognised at pipeline level like bash.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:13:45 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Old patch regarding SIGCHLD in again.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Aug 1997 11:20:27 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * /bin/sh -e is behaving even better now (for loops within conditionals).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:08:19 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * /bin/sh -e is behaving better now.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:16:26 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * hash -v /dir/command doesn't coredump anymore.
+  * type /dir/command now works correctly.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Aug 1997 20:48:19 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * trap now understands symbolic signal names.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jul 1997 14:04:46 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Added the builtin test command.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Jul 1997 15:00:14 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed a coredump involving $*.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:03:02 +1000
+
+ash (0.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * NetBSD-current version as of 19970715.
+  * Fixed a "use after free" bug (#11294).
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Jul 1997 13:48:09 +1000
+
+ash (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Initial Release.
+
+ -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:29:16 +1000
+