Change log for less package in Ubuntu

less (590-2) sid; urgency=medium

  * d/control: set standards version to 4.6.2
  * d/watch, d/upstream/signing-key.asc: check upstream release signature
  * d/tests/control: add autopkgtest
  * clarify CVE-2022-46663 patch upstream status

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:18:18 -0400

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  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * End OSC8 hyperlink on invalid embedded escape sequence (CVE-2022-46663)
    (Closes: #1030825)

 -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <email address hidden>  Sun, 12 Feb 2023 11:17:35 +0100

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• diff from 590-1.1ubuntu0.1 (in Ubuntu) to 590-1.2 (1.4 KiB)

less (590-1.1ubuntu0.1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: fix OSC8 hyperlinks with invalid escape sequence
    - d/p/CVE-2022-46663.patch: End OSC8 hyperlinks on invalid embedded
      escape sequence
    - CVE-2022-46663

 -- David Lane <email address hidden>  Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:26:32 +1100

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less (590-1ubuntu0.22.10.1) kinetic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: fix OSC8 hyperlinks with invalid escape sequence
    - debian/patches/CVE-2022-46663: End OSC8 hyperlinks on invalid embedded
      escape sequence
    - CVE-2022-46663

 -- David Lane <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:04:28 +1100

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less (590-1ubuntu0.22.04.1) jammy-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: fix OSC8 hyperlinks with invalid escape sequence
    - debian/patches/CVE-2022-46663: End OSC8 hyperlinks on invalid embedded
      escape sequence
    - CVE-2022-46663

 -- David Lane <email address hidden>  Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:39:19 +1100

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less (590-1.1) sid; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload
  * d/copyright: Convert to machine-readable format (closes: #1019289)

 -- Bastian Germann <email address hidden>  Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:27:37 +0100

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less (590-1build1) jammy; urgency=high

  * No change rebuild for ppc64el baseline bump.

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>  Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:09:24 +0100

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less (590-1) sid; urgency=low

  [ Milan Kupcevic ]
  * new upstream release (closes: #983599, #995984)
    - avoid spurious empty lines (closes: #763631)
    - remove erroneous free() (closes: #990035)
  * debian/lesspipe.1: list zstd related file types
  * debian/lesspipe: redo lessfilter handling
    (closes: #788438, #992354)(lp: #1915568)
  * debian/lesspipe: safeguard from possible improper delete
    (closes: #1002301)
  * refresh quilt patches
  * update copyright notice
  * set standards version to 4.6.0

  [ Adam Borowski ]
  * lesspipe: support zstd-compressed files (closes: #964930)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:54:19 -0500

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• diff from 551-2build1 (in Ubuntu) to 590-1 (143.7 KiB)

less (551-2build1) impish; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to build packages with zstd compression.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:13:50 +0200

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• diff from 551-2 (in Debian) to 551-2build1 (325 bytes)

less (551-2) sid; urgency=medium

  * remove /bin/less pager alternative before upgrade
    (closes: #962590) (lp: #1874953)
  * debian/lesspipe: use mktemp instead of tempfile (closes: #961690)
  * do not install empty /bin/ directory
  * remove unsafe mime mailcap placeholder entry quotes
  * set standards version to 4.5.0

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:36:33 -0400

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• diff from 551-1ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 551-2 (1.6 KiB)

less (551-1ubuntu0.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * On upgrade from packages that shipped less in both /bin and /usr/bin,
    call update-alternatives in preinst, such that after unpacking,
    /usr/bin/pager remains operational. This should resolve dpkg failing
    to invoke pager by dpkg. LP: #1874953

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden>  Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:25:13 -0700

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• diff from 551-1 (in Debian) to 551-1ubuntu0.1 (880 bytes)

less (551-1ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * On upgrade from packages that shipped less in both /bin and /usr/bin,
    call update-alternatives in preinst, such that after unpacking,
    /usr/bin/pager remains operational. This should resolve dpkg failing
    to invoke pager by dpkg. LP: #1874953

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>  Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:18:51 +0100

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• diff from 551-1 (in Debian) to 551-1ubuntu1 (874 bytes)

less (551-1) sid; urgency=low

  * many thanks to Anibal Monsalve Salazar for a decade worth of contributions
    to this package
  * new maintainer (closes: #925018)
  * new upstream release (closes: #925008, #892879, #178276, #473227, #922185,
    #839103, #626348, #330241, #914197, #707824)
    - don't count lines in initial screen if using -X with -F (closes: #906261)
    - update unicode tables to 2017-03-08 (closes: #597918, #881350)
    - mark truncated lines with a special character (closes: #547257)
  * set standards version to 4.4.0
  * set debhelper compatibility to 12
  * build depend on libncurses-dev
  * add VCS repository URLs
  * gbp import pristine-tar
  * move binaries back to /usr/bin (closes: #500092)
  * update less-is-more patch
  * update lesspipe man page (lp: #1839533)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <email address hidden>  Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:28:16 -0400

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less (487-0.1build1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild for ncurses soname changes.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Thu, 03 May 2018 14:16:28 +0000

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less (487-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * New upstream version. Closes: #848336, #843541.
  * Build depend on libncursesw5-dev.
  * debian/lesspipe:
    - Add snap support (Adam Collard).
    - Fix typo that broke ddeb support (Adam Conrad). Closes: #832121.
    - Add Support for .whl and .egg files (John T. Wodder). Closes: #862048.
  * debian/patches/lp-1562308-fix_mkutable.patch:
    - Fix east asian width problem (Mitsuya Shibata).
  * CVE-2014-9488 fixed upstream in 475. Closes: #780247.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>  Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:11:09 +0100

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less (481-2.1ubuntu3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/lesspipe:
    - add snap support, thanks to Adam Collard

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden>  Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:22:35 +0100

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• diff from 481-2.1ubuntu2 to 481-2.1ubuntu3 (602 bytes)

less (481-2.1ubuntu1.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp-1562308-fix_mkutable.patch:
    - Fix east asian width problem (LP: #1562308)

 -- Mitsuya Shibata <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:00:03 +0900

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less (481-2.1ubuntu0.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp-1562308-fix_mkutable.patch:
    - Fix east asian width problem (LP: #1562308)

 -- Mitsuya Shibata <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:00:03 +0900

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less (481-2.1ubuntu2) zesty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp-1562308-fix_mkutable.patch:
    - Fix east asian width problem (LP: #1562308)

 -- Mitsuya Shibata <email address hidden>  Sat, 25 Mar 2017 03:00:03 +0900

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  * debian/lesspipe: Fix typo that broke ddeb support (LP: #1606640)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:55:50 -0600

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less (481-2.1ubuntu0.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/lesspipe: Fix typo that broke ddeb support (LP: #1606640)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>  Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:55:50 -0600

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less (481-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Reconcile multiple postinst scripts so that less registers a pager
    alternative again (closes: #812252).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:51:48 +0000

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• diff from 481-2ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 481-2.1 (635 bytes)

less (481-2ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Reconcile multiple postinst scripts so that less registers a pager
    alternative again (closes: #812252, LP: #1548477).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>  Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:18:22 +0000

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  * Fix "files with the same name installed in / and /usr"
    Patch by Marco d'Itri
    Closes: #767928

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>  Mon, 11 Jan 2016 12:12:37 +0000

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• diff from 458-3ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 481-2 (85.7 KiB)

less (458-3ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * d/p/03-707824-fix_double_free_with_multiple_regex_groups.patch:
    - Cherry-pick upstream fix for double free in regular expression
      code.  (Closes: #707824; LP: #1521043)

 -- Richard Hansen <email address hidden>  Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:40:34 -0500

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  * debian/control:
    Priority: important
    Standards-Version: 3.9.5
  * debian/postinst: add (after adding the /bin/less alternative):
    update-alternatives --quiet --remove pager /usr/bin/less
    This change needs to get into one stable release.
    Patch by Andreas Beckmann.
    Closes: #694051.
  * debian/rules:
    export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
  * Refresh patches.

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>  Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:35:17 +0100

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less (458-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Merge 458-1ubuntu1 
    - debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does debs
      and udebs (LP: #1180013).

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>  Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:52:36 +1000

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• diff from 458-1ubuntu1 (in Ubuntu) to 458-2 (610 bytes)

less (458-1ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1180013). Remaining changes:
    - debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does debs
      and udebs.
 -- Logan Rosen <email address hidden>   Tue, 14 May 2013 21:32:29 -0400

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less (456-1ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does debs and udebs.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Wed, 08 May 2013 17:18:44 -0600

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• diff from 456-1ubuntu1 to 456-1ubuntu2 (636 bytes)

less (456-1ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Add Multi-Arch: foreign meta-data to allow cross-dependencies
    (LP: #1081611).
 -- Wookey <email address hidden>   Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:09:54 +0000

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  * New upstream
    Upload to unstable
    Major differences between version 451 and version 456:
    - Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable.
    - Don't quit if syntax errors are found in command line options.
    - Increase sizes of some internal buffers.
    - Fix configure bug with --with-regex=none.
    - Fix crash with "stty rows 0".
  * Standards version is 3.9.4

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>  Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:30:57 +1100

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  * New upstream
    Major changes between versions 444 and 451:
    - Add ESC-F command to keep reading data until a pattern is found.
    - Use exit code of LESSOPEN script if LESSOPEN starts with "||".
    - When up/down arrow is used on the command line immediately after
      typing text, the next command starting with that text is found.
    - Add support for GNU regex.
    - Add configure option --with-regex=none and fix compile errors
      when compiling with no regex library.
    - Fix possible crashes caused by malformed LESSOPEN or LESSCLOSE
      variables.
    - Fix bug highlighting text which is discontiguous in the file due
      to backspace processing.
    - Fix bug in displaying status column when scrolling backwards with
      -J and -S in effect. 
  * Sync to 444-4ubuntu1
    - Revert to gzip compression for the package's data tarball.
  * Standards version is 3.9.4
  * Configure less with --with-regex=gnu
    Closes: #656694

 -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <email address hidden>  Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:59:50 +1100

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less (444-4ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
    - Revert to gzip compression for the package's data tarball.

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less (444-2ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian.  Remaining changes:
    - Revert to gzip compression for the package's data tarball.

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less (444-1ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Revert to gzip compression for the package's data tarball.  Packages in
    the base system may not use bzip2.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden>   Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:21:54 +0100

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  * New upstream
    These are the differences between version 443 and version 444:
    - Fix bug in unget handling that can cause strange effects on the
      command line.
    - Remove vestiges of obsolete -l option that can cause a crash.
  * Fix debian-rules-missing-recommended-target
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Fri,  17 Jun 2011 22:56:28 +0000

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less (443-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream. Upload to unstable
    Major changes between "less" versions 436 and 443
    - Change search behavior such that when a search is given an explicit 
      pattern, the entire displayed screen is included in the search and 
      not just the portion after the target line.
    - Add -A option to change search behavior to the old way: only
      the portion of the screen after the target line is searched.
    - Add %F formatting to prompt strings, replaced by the last component
      of the input file.
    - Control-G while editing a command exits the command.
    - Less now exits with status 2 if control-C is pressed and -K is in effect.
    - Fix "ungetc overflow" when passing long commands via the -p option.
    - Fix bug in using line filtering via the & command 
      in combination with -i and -I.
    - Fix bug in handling negative arguments to the -j option.
    - Fix bug in handling %t in prompt strings.
    - Improve handling of long option names.
    - Improve percentage calculation for very large files.
  * Debian policy version is 3.9.2

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less (436-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream; upload to unstable 
    These are the differences between version 429 and version 436:
    - Don't pass "-" to non-pipe LESSOPEN unless it starts with "-".
    - Allow a fraction as the argument to the -# (--shift) option.
    - Fix highlight bug when underlined/overstruck text matches at
      end of line.
    - Fix non-regex searches with ctrl-R. 

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less (429-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop 02-178276-empty_file_isnt_binary.patch; closes: #524779 

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less (418-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream
  * Removed debian/patches/02-446894-csi.patch, merged upstream
  * Updated debian/copyright

less (409-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * 02-446274-segfaults-searching-dvb-scan-output.patch was merged upstream.

less (406-0) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Fixed the following lintian messages:
    - W: less source: debian-rules-sets-DH_COMPAT line 11
    - W: less source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 47

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Fri,  20 Jul 2007 10:59:48 +0100

less (394-4build1) feisty; urgency=low

  * Rebuild for changes in the amd64 toolchain.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Mon,  5 Mar 2007 01:19:39 +0000

less (394-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer.
  * Set DH_COMPAT to 5.
  * Added ${misc:Depends} to dependency list.

less (394-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Closes: #350252: less does not show .ear files
  * debian/rules: switched to dh_installman from dh_installmanpages.
  * debian/watch: added watch file.
  * debian/lesspipe: support .7z archives.
    Closes: #347237: lesspipe: please add 7-Zip format support

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden>   Thu,  15 Jun 2006 14:30:48 +0100

less (394-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream version.
  * Closes: #297763: less: invokes nano as editor even though EDITOR
    and VISUAL not set
  * Closes: #338815: less: Missing prompt

 -- Thomas Schoepf <email address hidden>  Fri,  9 Dec 2005 23:36:49 +0100

less (382-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/lesspipe: refuse to create temporary files in case 'tempfile'
    is not installed, which does not happen on a sane Debian system.
    Closes: #272267: Critical TMPFILE/root exploit in lesspipe
  * debian/rules: Run configure with '--host' option on cross build.
    Closes: #285413: less: [PATCH] cross build

 -- Thomas Schoepf <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:08:26 +0100

less (381-3) unstable; urgency=low


  * debian/control: Standards-Version: 3.6.1. No changes required.
  * debian/lesspipe.1: Put quotes around the command line examples
    Closes: #201901: lesspipe: man page update for zsh
  * Changed short description from
    "A file pager program, similar to more(1)" to
    "Pager programm similar to more".
    Closes: #218836: poor short description
  * debian/lesspipe: Support *.iso, *.raw, *.bin files.
    Closes: #230556: lessfilter to list contents of ISO files (CD images)

 -- Thomas Schoepf <email address hidden>  Wed,  4 Feb 2004 15:25:37 +0100