Added debian/NEWS.

Documented the changes required by the switch to libpango.

Closes: #493575, #493594

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..62dec04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+rrdtool (1.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  Starting with version 1.3, RRDtool uses libpango for handling text in
+  graphs. When specifying fonts (e.g. using the --font option of rrdgraph(1))
+  a Pango font description (e.g. "Times 20") has to be used instead of
+  specifying truetype font files as in version 1.2. See the rrdgraph(1)
+  manpage for details.
+
+  Also, Pango expects strings to be encoded in UTF-8. RRDtool tries to take
+  care of that but for it to work correctly the string's encoding has to match
+  the locale settings or has to be UTF-8 encoded already. E.g. this might be a
+  problem if rrdtool is called from a script whose encoding does not match the
+  local settings.
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:07:32 +0200
+

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f7cc2964704dcb08ff7b85a03d021b3b55fc4212..6d14f094c1adeab03f6a7db8aaf7b84144f48eb1 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ rrdtool (1.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
       valuable debugging information (Closes: #498183).
     - Added upstream patch bts496847-error-handling to fix error handling of
       syscalls in rrdtool(1) (Closes: #496847).
+  * debian/NEWS:
+    - Added. Documented the changes required by the switch to libpango
+      (Closes: #493575, #493594).
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:50:18 +0200
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:07:32 +0200
 
 rrdtool (1.3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low