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11. By Colin Watson on 2012-06-23

Build-depend on dpkg (>= 1.16.4) | sgml-base (<< 1.26+nmu2) to ensure
that #675613 does not cause incorrect generation of documentation
(closes: #678570).

10. By Colin Watson on 2012-06-22

* users-and-groups: Document historical meaning of sys user/group (thanks
  to Mantas M. for the tip).
* Use dpkg-buildflags to enable hardening options (based on a patch from
  Moritz Muehlenhoff; closes: #655501).
* Update users-and-groups documentation of the sudo group to describe
  current behaviour and mention pkexec (thanks, Luca Capello; closes:
  #650553).

9. By Colin Watson on 2011-11-26

Mark base-passwd Multi-Arch: foreign.

8. By Colin Watson on 2011-07-16

* Convert to source format 3.0 (native).
* Update to current DEP-5 copyright proposal (thanks, Kyle Nitzsche; part
  of LP #610108).
* Remove unused Lintian overrides.
* Add translations of update-passwd(8):
  - Spanish (thanks, Omar Campagne; closes: #604455).
  - Japanese (thanks, KURASAWA Nozomu; closes: #614377).
  - German (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #625898).
* Allocate gid 64040-64044 (grsec-tpe, grsec-sock-all, grsec-sock-clt,
  grsec-sock-srv, grsec-proc) for linux-grsec-base, by request of
  Yves-Alexis Perez.
* Update Vcs-Bzr field for Alioth changes.
* Allow cross-building (thanks, Peter Pearse and Wookey; closes: #631954).
* Add build-arch and build-indep targets.
* Fix typo in description of -v in update-passwd(8), and unfuzzy
  translations (thanks, Helge Kreutzmann; closes: #625900).

7. By Colin Watson on 2009-09-07

* Compress files using gzip -n (cf. debhelper 6.0.6).
* Remove explicit calls to install-docs (cf. debhelper 7.2.3).

6. By Colin Watson on 2009-03-17

* Set up the root user without a password by default, rather than giving
  it an empty password. In this day and age the latter is not really a
  defensible default (LP: #296841).
* Update description of dip group, based on a suggestion by Osamu Aoki
  (closes: #512938).

5. By Colin Watson on 2009-02-06

Document that the staff group is typically root-equivalent (thanks, Guy
Hulbert).

4. By Colin Watson on 2008-09-06

* Allocate uid/gid 64035 for hacluster/haclient (Horms, closes: #494070).
* Moved to bzr.debian.org; add Vcs-Bzr control field.

3. By Colin Watson on 2005-12-15

* Update GPL notices with the FSF's new address.
* Add po4a infrastructure and French translation of update-passwd(8)
  (thanks, Nicolas François; closes: #326550).
* Fix syntax error in ssh group documentation.

2. By Colin Watson on 2004-12-04

Add and document static group plugdev, gid 46, for use by pmount and
similar tools to allow local users to mount removable devices without
the need for entries in /etc/fstab (closes: #283233).