Penguin
Recent Changes

A common documentation file format that includes a list of changes between published (and sometimes unpublished) versions of software.

Debian packages have excellent changelogs. Here is an example of one, for the package of PerrysFirewallingScript that CraigBox maintains:


linuxserver-firewall (0.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add man page (thanks to John McPherson)
  * Update README.Debian to refer to documentation

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Thu, 19 May 2005 10:45:33 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.64) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove ()s from sourcing rules.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Mon,  9 May 2005 13:37:13 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * Set LANG=C in firewall.functions in order to work around
    bash accepting lower case letters in [A-Z].

    Backed out some changes made to fix this.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Thu,  5 May 2005 14:00:10 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Package for Ubuntu.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Thu,  5 May 2005 10:46:41 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed $CONFDIR in firewall.functions such that the per-if rules
    are loaded.
  * Set all rules executable.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Wed,  6 Apr 2005 11:42:04 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuild package due to loss of build source.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Mon,  4 Apr 2005 14:56:45 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.5-REL3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated to upstream REL3 version.
  * Hardcoded more details (bad)

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:47:25 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for TCP ECN disabling and IP accounting

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Mon, 19 May 2003 19:40:53 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now sets +x correctly on rulesets (makes running the firewall
    much less painful)

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Mon, 19 May 2003 19:33:07 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Debian init script
  * Moved classes.d and interfaces.d into /etc

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Mon,  5 May 2003 16:23:31 +1200

linuxserver-firewall (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.

 -- Craig Box <packages@wiki.example.org>  Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:32:24 +1200