acct (6.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Marcos Fouces ]
  * Revert to previous init.d script. (Closes: #865223)
  * Bump to Standards-version 4.0.0
  * New upstream version 6.6.4

  [ Lukas Schwaighofer ]
  * improve init.d script: accton is not a daemon, call it directly (without
    start_daemon) so the exit code can be interpreted properly

 -- Marcos Fouces <marcos.fouces@gmail.com>  Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:10:26 +0200

acct (6.6.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * Restrict shutdown on non-systemd init systems
    (See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Teardown )

  [ Marcos Fouces ]
  * New upstream version 6.6.3
  * Add gpg upstream signing-key to watch file
  * Update uploader email address
  * Rewrite init script and add status option
  * Update depends field content in control file.
  * Fix man page installation
  * Add 04_Fix-spelling-errors.patch
  * Add two patches in order to install debianized versions
    of dump-utmp and dump-acct manpages.
  * Fix reproducible build. Thanks to Chris Lamb (Closes: #862179)
  * Set a more suited directory name for html docs (Closes: #862180)

  [ Raphaël Hertzog ]
  * Drop install-info from Depends, it's no longer needed.

 -- Marcos Fouces <marcos.fouces@gmail.com>  Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:53:33 +0200

acct (6.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 6.6.2 (Closes: #678448, #746317, 
    Closes: #528864, #615015)
  * More robust cron-daily script. Thanks to Osamu Aoki 
    (Closes:#581990)
  * Fix cron.monthly script. Thanks to Fabian Pietsh and 
    Dominique Brazziel (Closes:#405134)
  * Rework patches for new upstream release
  * Set maintenance to pkg-security team
  * Remove build-depends on obsolete texi2html
  * Add dependency on lsb-base (>=3.0-6)
  * Bump to standards-revision 3.9.8
  * Update to debhelper 10
  * Avoid initial article in description
  * Fix dep-5 issues on copyright file
  * Add hardening options
  * dh 10 already implies build-depends on dh-autoreconf
  * Update copyright holders

 -- Marcos Fouces <mfouces@yahoo.es>  Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:33:28 +0200

acct (6.5.5-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Fix preprocessor syntax mistake is files.h.in to prevent FTBFS on
    kFreeBSD (Closes: #736949)

 -- Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:20:41 +0000

acct (6.5.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Update to use dh. (Closes: 647015)
    - Run dh_autoreconf properly (Closes: 696204)
  * debian/compat: update to compat 9.
  * debian/control:
    - Bump debhelper build-depends to >= 9.
    - Update to Standards-Version 3.9.4.
    - Add a Build-Depends on dh-autoreconf.
    - Drop Build-Depends for autoconf, automake, autotools-dev.
  * debian/patches/isoc11_drops_gets.patch: don't try to warn for use of gets,
    it's not actually used in acct and no longer in C11, which causes the
    attempt to set a warning to fail the build. (Closes: 701386)
  * debian/patches/fix-texi-warnings.patch: fix warnings when building
    documentation from texi source. Thanks, Dimitry Ledkov.
  * debian/patches/cross-build-support.patch: fix cross-building by removing
    the unnecessary configure checks that run a program to attempt to determine
    accounting file locations. Thanks to Steve Langasek for the patch.
    (Closes: 696204)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:17:38 +0000

acct (6.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Acknowledge NMU.
  * New upstream release: 6.5.5
  * debian/patches/03-acct-file.patch: update for new release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.
  * debian/control: Drop quilt Build-Depends (not needed in 3.0 quilt format).
  * debian/rules: Drop the usage of quilt.mk (and calls to patch/unpatch).
  * debian/patches/581421-sa-hz-division.patch: update to unbreak specifying
    --other-acct-file for 'sa', remove other unnecessary hunks as well.
  * debian/patches/12-ftbfs-kfreebsd.patch: apply patch to fix builds
    on kfreebsd, with some adjustements due to parts of the patch already
    applied upstream. Many thanks to Mats Erik Andersson for the patch.
    (Closes: 600284)
  * debian/patches/441927-accton-without-args.patch: slightly update docs
    to have it agree with accton, which can't be called without arguments.
    (Closes: 441927)
  * debian/control: update Maintainer entry for GPG key change.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>  Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:31:15 -0500

acct (6.5.4-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * NMU with maintainer's blessing.
  * Call autoreconf in debian/rules, add autoconf and automake to
    build-dependencies.
    Thanks to Mats Erik Andersson for the hint to how to solve this.
    (closes: #579483).

 -- Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:06:24 +0200

acct (6.5.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Re-add patch 03-acct-file.patch applied upstream in 6.5.1, seems the
    change is no longer there in 6.5.4. (Closes: 579483)
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.9.0.
  * Revert to division by CURR_AHZ rather sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) (Closes: 581421)

 -- Mathieu Trudel <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>  Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:58:38 +0200

acct (6.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release: 6.5.4
  * Updated patch to remove last from the documentation.
    - updated debian/patches/01-last.patch
  * Drop lastcomm's strict-match documentation patch, applied upstream.
    - deleted debian/patches/06-lastcomm-manpage-strict-match.patch
    - updated debian/patches/series
  * Drop manpage updates to remove PD macros.
    - deleted debian/patches/07-manpage-PD-macros.patch
    - updated debian/patches/series
  * Drop lastcomm manpage update for typos (B macro).
    - deleted debian/patches/08-lastcomm-manpage-hyphen-as-minus-sign.patch
    - updated debian/patches/series
  * Update field descriptions for lastcomm's reports (Closes: #414300)
    - added debian/patches/414300-lastcomm-fields-descr.patch
  * Update FILES section in lastcomm's manpage (Closes: #512729)
    - added debian/patches/512729-lastcomm-files.patch
    - updated debian/patches/series
  * Correct default unit in sa manpage, thanks Dominique Brazziel
    (Closes: #488731)
    - added debian/patches/488731-sa-manpage-default-unit.patch
    - updates debian/patches/series
  * Update acct init.d script to use lsb init-functions (Closes: #457976)
    - updated debian/acct.init.d
  * Create debian/source/format, switch to format 3.0 (quilt).
    - added debian/source/format
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4
    - update debian/control
  * Drop dircategory/direntry additions to accounting.texi, applied upstream.
    - deleted debian/patches/09-info-dir-entry.patch
    - updated debian/patches/series

 -- Mathieu Trudel <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>  Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:08:23 -0400

acct (6.5.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (Closes: #543825)
  * New upstream release.
    - Drop patch 02-manpage.patch, applied upstream.
    - Drop patch 03-acct-file.patch. applied upstream.
    - Drop patch 04-lastcomm-forwards.patch, applied upstream.
    - Drop changes to accounting.info from 01-last.patch, file is rebuilt.
  * Updated dump-acct.8 manpage (Closes: #401597)
  * Sync strict-match documentation with reality (Closes: #401904)
  * Add format, byteswap and ahz swiches to dump-acct manpage (Closes: #401597)
  * Re-adding watch file.
  * Fixed minor errors in manpages: PD macros.
  * Fixed minor typo in lastcomm manpage.
  * Use invoke-rc.d in daily crontab.
  * Fixed depends for triggerized install-info directory building.
  * Set doc-base section to System/Security.
  * Added README.source
  * Updated copyright to reflect licence and new upstream maintainer.
  * Added dircategory and direntry entries in texinfo source. 
  * Install all files individually from debian/tmp using acct.install.
  * Don't split HTML documentation in multiple files.
  * Conversion to keep packaging in Bzr source control.

 -- Mathieu Trudel <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>  Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:35:01 -0500

acct (6.4~pre1-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * QA upload.
  * Changed Makefile.in to avoid /usr/share/info/dir.gz. Closes: #543911.

 -- Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:14:50 +0200

acct (6.4~pre1-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updating package to standards version 3.8.3.
  * Sorting depends.
  * Removing vcs fields.
  * Orphaning package.

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:44:02 +0200

acct (6.4~pre1-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reverting config.guess and config.sub to upstream.
  * Upgrading package to debhelper 7.
  * Upgrading package to standards 3.8.0.
  * Adding vcs fields in control file.
  * Rewriting copyright file in machine-interpretable format.
  * Removing watch file.
  * Using patch-stamp rather than patch in rules file.
  * Replacing obsolete dh_clean -k with dh_prep.
  * Prefixing debhelper files with package name.
  * Updating year in copyright.
  * Updating standards version to 3.8.2.
  * Using quilt rather than dpatch.
  * Reordering rules file.
  * Adding pid and ppid in dump-acct.8, thanks to Justin Pryzby
    <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> (Closes: #511425).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:41:35 +0200

acct (6.4~pre1-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Adjusted lsb header of init script, thanks Petter Reinholdtsen
    <pere@hungry.com> (Closes: #466279).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:04:00 +0100

acct (6.4~pre1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bumped to new policy.
  * Using new homepage field in control.
  * Don't hide make errors in clean target.
  * Removing historic changes entries in the first lines of changelog
    entries, they are present in the actual entries anyway but are
    causing lintian noise.

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:45:00 +0100

acct (6.4~pre1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Minor cleanups.
  * Bumped to debhelper 5.
  * Added lsb header to init.d.
  * Added the remaining things to cron.monthly, other things were solved
    different already (Closes: #378359).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:27:00 +0200

acct (6.4~pre1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Adapted the patch from Dean Gaudet <dean-debian@arctic.org> to add
    lastcomm -f - stdin and --forwards support to current acct
    (Closes: #262583).
  * Fixed cron.monthly to not process the non-rotated logfile twice if the
    rotated one isn't existing (Closes: #51796).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:55:00 +0100

acct (6.4~pre1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Forgot to remove unused var in init.d (Closes: #397134).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:55:00 +0100

acct (6.4~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New email address.
  * Hardcoding location of the log files, using environment variables does not
    work for all binaries (Closes: #377835, #380744, #385626, #392045, #396444).
  * Adjusted init.d script to log to syslog directly as suggested by
    Gian Piero Carrubba <gpcarrubba@libero.it> (Closes: #208939).
  * Updated sort call in cron.monthly to new syntax as found out by
    Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@free.fr> and others
    (Closes: #375712, #381492).
  * Updated ac call in cron.monthly to process both $WTMP and /var/log/wtmp.1
    (Closes: #324910).
  * Fixed spelling mistake in default (Closes: #392023).
  * Fixed spelling mistake and incompleteness in dump-acct.8 (Closes: #392134).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>  Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:10:00 +0100

acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in init.d (Closes: #361109, #361109).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:37:00 +0200

acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Storing logging information for a month instead of a week (Closes: #271466).
  * Rewritten init.d and fixed accton call in init.d (Closes: #361109, #361109).
  * Using /etc/default/acct now to store settings
    (Closes: #219194, #353034, #361111).
  * Fixed manpage error (Closes: #360098, #364589)

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:53:00 +0200

acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed useless debconf message (Closes: #358698).
  * Removed last documentation (Closes: #360302).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>  Sun, 28 May 2006 05:36:00 +0200

acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (Closes: #357362).
  * New upstream release:
    - supporting v3 file format (Closes: #289648, #291154, #327134)
  * Redone debian directory:
    - added watch file.
    - corrected copyright file (Closes: #290052).
    - fixed debconf depends (Closes: #331731).
    - removed references to non-existing pacct in dump-acct.8 (Closes: #293837).
    - removed dpatches: one was merged upstream, manpages are broken-out, and
      /usr/bin/last ist removed after compilation (less intrusive).
    - added Czech debconf translation (Closes: #282320, #287291).
    - added Finnish debconf translation (Closes: #303851).
    - added Vietnamese debconf translation (Closes: #307597).
    - updated Dansk debconf translation (Closes: #241243).
    - updated German debconf translation (Closes: #314136).
  * Acknowledge NMU:
    - fixed gzipped logfile handling in cron.monthly
      (Closes: #187538, #208220, #212961).
    - adjusted logfile path for logger call in init.d (Closes: #208939).

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>  Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:38:00 +0100

acct (6.3.5-39) unstable; urgency=low

  * Acknowledging NMU's. Thanks. (closes: #187539, #198581, #198581)
  * Added Co-Maintainer (me) to Uploaders field.
  * Added/updated polish, greek, portuguese, japanese translations.
    (closes: #208954, #229531, #216200, #222063, #229499, #229523)
  * Bumped Standars-Version to 3.6.1.

 -- AndrÃ©s RoldÃ¡n <aroldan@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:02:22 +0000

acct (6.3.5-38.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix gzip support in cron.monthly to not delete/recreate the wtmp file
    (gunzip: /var/log/wtmp.1 already exists; not overwritten)

 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:00:00 -0800

acct (6.3.5-38.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * NMU with maintainer consent
  * Handled gzipped wtmp file. Closes: #187539. Thanks Tero Tilus
  * Switch to po-debconf templates. Closes: #198581
  * Added danish templates translation (converted to gettext). Closes: #174728

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:32:05 +0200

acct (6.3.5-38) unstable; urgency=low

  * New maintainer (closes: #177233).
  * Package builded from the scratch.
  * Fixed danish debconf template.
  * Fixed broken output on ia64 and alpha (closes: #169099).

 -- Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com>  Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:26:12 -0500

acct (6.3.5-37) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/dump-acct.8: Clarified meaning of time field (Closes: #177020)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:22:55 -0600

acct (6.3.5-36) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/template: Added new debconf text in Danish (Closes: #174727)
  * debian/control: Upped debconf versioned Depends to ">= 1.2.9" (lintian)
  * debian/control: Small editing in Description (lintian)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 01 Jan 2003 08:56:23 -0600

acct (6.3.5-35) unstable; urgency=low

  * etc/init.d/acct: Applied patch by ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de to rely
    only on 'uname -r' as 'uname -a' fails on hppa (Closes: 165535)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:17:43 -0500

acct (6.3.5-34) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: s|Debian Linux|Debian GNU/Linux| (Closes: #150886)
  * debian/rules: Move #DEBHELPER# to end so that /etc/init.d/acct is
    called after modes/owner chg on /var/account/pacct (Closes: #153905)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:44:05 -0500

acct (6.3.5-33) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/cron.monthly: Test for /var/log/wtmp.1 (Closes: #146918)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 18 May 2002 12:20:57 -0500

acct (6.3.5-32) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Updated Russian debconf template (Closes: #136918)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 18 May 2002 12:20:10 -0500

acct (6.3.5-31) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Updated French debconf template (Closes: #134624)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:49:57 -0600

acct (6.3.5-30) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: New debconf text in russian (Closes: #112535)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:55:33 -0600

acct (6.3.5-29) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Changed Type from text to note (Closes: #106327)
  * debian/templates: New debconf text in spanish (Closes: #106935)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:17:49 -0500

acct (6.3.5-28) unstable; urgency=low

  * sa.c: Applied patch by LaMont Jones which enables compilation by
    gcc-3.0, the default compiler on the parisc architecure (Closes: #103147)
  * debian/prerm: Don't call "/etc/init.d/acct stop" explicitly as
    debhelper's dh_installinit also adds a call.

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 02 Jul 2001 21:40:05 -0500

acct (6.3.5-27) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/{cron.daily,postinst}: change pacct to mode 0640,root.adm.
    Thanks to Manuel López Moreno <mlm@luname.net> (Closes: #86045)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 01 May 2001 22:21:27 -0500

acct (6.3.5-26) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Added text for pt translation (Closes: #89439)
  * debian/{pre,post}{inst,rm}: lintian cleanups

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:54:36 -0500

acct (6.3.5-25) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added Standards-Version: back in (Closes: #86925)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:01:50 -0600

acct (6.3.5-24) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added Build-Depends on texinfo (Closes: #85073)
  * For good measure, added a few more suggested by dpkg-genbuilddeps

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:29:02 -0600

acct (6.3.5-23) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Added non-English debconf text text for sv, nl, es
    and a new one for fr. (Closes: #83478, #83583, #84017, #84411)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:56:09 -0600

acct (6.3.5-22) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Build-Depends on texi2html and no longer on tetex-bin

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 04 Jan 2001 20:42:54 -0600

acct (6.3.5-21) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/cron.monthly: Special case for logrotate (Closes: #68043)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Aug 2000 16:15:23 -0400

acct (6.3.5-20) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Add texi2html to Build-Depends (Closes: #67531)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:22:55 -0400

acct (6.3.5-19) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Install dump-acct.8 and dump-utmp.8 which were
    contributed by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:08:13 -0400

acct (6.3.5-18) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/templates: Apply Italian debconf text (Closes: #64160)
  * debian/templates: Also added German and French text

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 27 May 2000 16:28:13 -0400

acct (6.3.5-17) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added Build-Depends: information (Closes: #51840)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:42:48 -0500

acct (6.3.5-16) unstable; urgency=low

  * postinst: Added db_stop upon Joey Hess' advice (Closes: #50043)
  * control: Upgraded to Policy 3.1.0

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:39:17 -0500

acct (6.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ah, the joys of new technology. Helping out with the whirlwind upgrade
    to the new debconf, we were bitten by a simple mistake in the config
    file. Thanks again to Joey Hess for a quick fix  (Closes: #48861)
  * control: Require debconf >= 0.2

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 01 Nov 1999 20:45:05 -0500

acct (6.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=low

  * preinst: Test for install-docs (fixes Lintian error)
  * postinst, config: Small debconf changes, kindly supplied by Joey Hess

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:14:32 -0500

acct (6.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Integrated Joey Hess' changes for debconf.

  * debian/rules: Adapted to use /usr/share/ following the recommendation
    on FHS transition from the Technical Committee
  * debian/control: Upgraded to Debian Policy 3.0.1

  * debian/control: Removed obsolete note about required kernel patch

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:35:22 -0400

acct (6.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upgraded to new Debian Perl Policy

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:19:41 -0400

acct (6.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Recompiled on a 2.2.* system

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 30 May 1999 11:59:22 -0400

acct (6.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Define -DHAVE_LINUX_ACCT_H=1 in order to use acct.h from
    the 2.2.9 kernel and not sys.h from glibc-2.0
  * debian/acctdump: No longer installed as it works neither with
    linux/acct.h, nor with sys/acct.h (and there still is dump-acct)
  * compare_kernel_version:
    -- changed to use POSIX::uname, not `uname`
    -- added run-time flag -d for debug mode
    -- corrected return value logic (fixes #37421)
  * compare_kernel_version.8: added a simple manual page

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 16 May 1999 21:52:52 -0400

acct (6.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Recompiled under 2.2.* kernel (#18314, #24085)

  * Added a simple script /usr/sbin/compare_kernel_version to test the
    running kernel against a command-line argument specifying a minimum
    kernel version
  * postinst: test for kernel >= 2.2 and, if needed, display a message
    suggesting the slink version of the package
  * /etc/init.d/acct: test for kernel >= 2.2 and exit early with short
    mesage if installed kernel does not match (ie < 2.2)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 04 May 1999 20:44:34 -0400

acct (6.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/prerm: Call /etc/init.d/acct to stop accounting as this more
    robust against missing Accounting support in the kernel. (fixes #32711)
  * debian/control: Added note that Accounting support has to be compiled
    into the kernel for this to work.

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:30:56 -0500

acct (6.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Deleted stale text errenously left over (fixes #32616)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:38:28 -0500

acct (6.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/{rules,postinst,postrm}: Removed support for html documentation
    through menu as it is now provided by doc-base

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:50:25 -0500

acct (6.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for doc-base

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:43:16 -0500

acct (6.3.5-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * [cron.daily, cron.monthly] Added tests for the existence of
    /usr/sbin/accton. This helps for cases where acct is removed, but not
    purged, and these conffiles are still around. (fixes #29340)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:32:37 -0500

acct (6.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected typos in console messages in /etc/init.d/acct (fixes #23480)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:57:14 -0400

acct (6.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed /etc/init.d/acct by adding two 'set +e; ... set -e' blocks
    so that missing accounting support is properly recognised in all
    branches of the script  (fixes #23282)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 09 Jun 1998 21:36:16 -0400

acct (6.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3.5 (fixes #3249)
  * This version does not work under 2.1.* kernels which the upstream
    author is trying to rectify.

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 27 May 1998 18:43:08 -0400

acct (6.3.2-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed debian/rules to not install last.1 as we don't install the
    last(1) command from acct (but rather sysvinit's) (fixes #22215)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Thu, 07 May 1998 20:19:05 -0400

acct (6.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed the note regarding accounting patch for kernels younger than
    1.3.72 from debian/copyright and debian/control. Thanks to Richard
    Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> for pointing this out (fixes #21334)
  * Added the 'acctdump' program which was provided by Ian Jackson
    <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> (fixes #20839)
  * Upgraded debian/rules to debhelper
  * Upgraded to Debian Policy 2.4.1

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:12:41 -0400

acct (6.3.2-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Really changed /etc/init.d/acct so that logger reports to
    /var/log/daemon.log and not to /var/adm/daemon.log (fixes #18763)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:34:07 -0500

acct (6.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3.2

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:46:34 -0500

acct (6.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed /etc/init.d/acct so that logger reports to /var/log/daemon.log
    and not to /var/adm/daemon.log (fixes #18763)
  * Fixed FSF address in copyright (lintian)
  * Redirect update-rc.d call to /dev/null in postrm (lintian)
  * Added force-reload and restart targets to /etc/init.d/acct (lintian)
  * Created links to ../man7/undocumented.7.gz in lieu of manual pages
    for the two utility programs dump-acct and dump-utmp (lintian)
  * Upgraded to Debian Policy 2.4.0.0

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Mar 1998 20:24:05 -0500

acct (6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3 (which has been promoted from
    alpha.gnu.mit.edu to the brave GNU world of prep.ai.mit.edu)
  * Compiled with GNU libc2 aka libc6
  * Now ships the unmodified upstream source as acct_6.3.orig.tar.gz
  * Changed debian/rules to also create accounting.html via texi2html
  * Added menu entry for html documentation

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:11:21 -0400

acct (6.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a variable to /etc/init.d/acct so that acct is installed but
    not started automatically if this variable is unset (fixes bug #11126)
  * Changed /etc/cron.daily/acct to call acct via /etc/init.d/acct and not
    directly so that the new variable is tested (fixes bug #11126)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:18:30 -0400

acct (6.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * The preinst no longer stops accounting during an upgrade as this is
    already done by the the postrm of the replaced packaged (fixes bug#7320)

  * No longer installs acct.5 which is provided by the manpages package

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:57:37 -0500

acct (6.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use logger(1) to report unexpected return calls from accton(8) as
    suggested by Russell John Coker <rjc@snoopy.virtual.net.au>

  * Converted to Debian Standard 2.1.2.2 (fixes #7121)
  * Changed maintainer email address to <edd@debian.org>

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>  Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:00:42 -0500

Tue Jul  9 22:33:18 1996  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-6.2-2 release

	* debian.rules: fixed copyright installation (fixes bug#3738)

Mon Jul  8 11:07:01 1996  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-6.2-1 release

	* acct.rc: /etc/init.d/acct tests for accton (fixes bug#3513)

	* debian.rules: compress man pages with gzip -9
	
	* debian.postrm: "purge" now deletes /var/account directory

	* debian.control: changed description

Sat Apr 20 22:30:46 1996  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-6.2-0 release: updated to new upstream version acct-6.2

Wed Apr 10 19:38:37 1996  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-6.1-0 release

	* converted to new upstream version acct-6.1 (fixes bug#2069)

	* added man pages for the acct commands that were provided by
	  Susan G. Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net> and a simple acct.5 man
	  page (fixes bug#1737)

	* ac.c: added a space to printf format (should fix bug#2283)
	
	* debian.rules: provide only acct, last is now provided by sysvinit

	* debian.control: added Architecture: field

	* acct.daily: exit(0) so that cron doesn't get the errno from accton.c

Sat Dec  2 14:00:19 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-5-13 and last-5-13 release

	* debian.control: ELF release, depends on libc5

Fri Oct 13 09:41:36 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-5-12 and last-5-12 release

	* uid_hash.h (NAME_LEN): fixed bug#1651 reported and patched by
	  Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>

Wed Oct 11 08:53:29 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-5-11 and last-5-11 release

	* debian.postinst: call update-rc.d (fixes bug #1622)

Mon Oct  2 16:39:00 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* dropped `alpha' from package names, now acct-5-10 and last-5-10

	* accton.c: exit() now returns value of `errno' and /etc/init.d/acct
	  examines that value; this gives better messages
	  
	* accounting.texi: added a missing formatter for @item

	* last.1 man page addded

Wed Sep 27 10:59:55 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* debian.control, debian.README: fixed bug #1486 by adding a note
	  that 'sa' is unavailable due to missing support in the current 
	  kernel patch 

Thu Sep 21 15:52:14 1995  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca>

	* acct-alpha-5-8 and last-alpha-5-8

	* first separate release of 'last' package

	* changed control file for acct (fixes bugs #1415, #1131 and #969)

	* silent when accton fails during installation (fixes bug #1415)

	* new maintainer


[edd: Changes made by Ian Murdock follow]

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files
 * added scripts to rotate process accounting file (daily), to perform
   monthly login accounting, and to start process accounting at system
   start time
 * added __linux__ definitions to files.h (we use /var/account/pacct
   as ACCT_FILE, /var/account/wtmp as WTMP_FILE, /var/account/savacct
   as SAVACCT_FILE, and /var/account/usracct as USRACCT_FILE)
 * changed last to truncate ftp entries by default (as Unix does it)
 * fixed a typo in accounting.texi
