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Wed Sep 17 14:10:23 UTC 2025 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.39
* Fix model name Endian for Sandisk-SunDisk drives by
@PartialVolume in #643
* Implement Bruce Schneier 7-Pass wiping method by @Knogle in
v #648
* Some cleanup in options.c, added missing xoroshiro256_prng
argument i… by @Knogle in #651
* fix: some declaration changes to satisfy gcc 15 by @Knogle in
#663
* Removed EXPERIMENTAL! comments for ALFG and Xoroshiro due to
their ma… by @Knogle in #652

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Thu Jan 09 12:14:47 UTC 2025 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.38
* Fixes type error, relevant to i686 (32 bit) only. Fixes a
compile error on some distros. #588 Thanks @Knogle
* Added feature relevant to ShredOS only, the f key will toggle
the font size, standard size to double size, has no action for
other xorg/wayland distributions. The f key is available in the
drive selection and progress screens only. Note that in earlier
commits in this release the d key was programmed however this
is now the f key to toggle font size. #589 #635 Thanks
@PartialVolume
* Fixes a issue where SAS drives always respond with hidden
sectors = ???, i.e warning. This patch fixes the problem so
that a SAS drive responds with hidden sectors = not applicable.
A SATA drive connected to a SAS interface should still respond
with yes or no subject to the interface passing HPA and
DCO-identify commands. #605 Thanks @PartialVolume
* On some distros, nwipe may not be able to find hdparm or
smartctl even when they are installed. This is due to a
symbolic link issue with the distro. The patch fixes this issue
by adding a new search location when looking for hdparm and
smartctl. The new search location is /usr/sbin/. Previously we
searched /sbin/ and /usr/bin/ but /sbin is symbolically linked
to /usr/sbin/ so just in case there was some issue with the
symbolic link we also now search /usr/sbin/ #606 Thanks
@PartialVolume
* The hidden sector check for SAS drives has been disabled as it
is believed that SAS drives do not support the SCSI commands to
adjust the drives size as reported to the O.S. #607 Thanks
@PartialVolume
* Some USB adapters report the model name and serial number with
the incorrect endian, so adjacent characters in the model name
are swapped with each other. This patch detects and fixes model
names for Hitachi, Toshiba, WDC Western Digital Corporation and
Seagate/ST drives. Mainly some older adapters and drive
interfaces might have this issue. #630 Thanks @PartialVolume
* Fixes the s shift s bug as reported here
PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64#301 To summarize, if no drives
are selected and then the user presses s (lower case) a warning
appears indicating that the user should press S (upper case) to
start the wipe. This warning appears for about 3 seconds but
during this time if the user presses S (upper case) nwipe would
immediately complete, having wiped no drives and requesting the
user to press the spacebar to exit. The is incorrect behaviour.
The bug doesn't appear if the user pressed S after the 3
seconds elapsed and the warning message disappeared. This patch
fixes this so that it does not exit but displays the warning
for 3 seconds and then waits for input. #636
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Sat May 11 18:48:38 UTC 2024 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.37
* Added the XORoshiro-256 pseudo random number generator (PRNG).
Thanks to Fabian Druschke @Knogle #555
* Added the Lagged Fibonacci PRNG generator. Thanks again to
Fabian Druschke @Knogle #556
* Changed the default method from "DOD Short" to "prng stream",
using the XORoshiro-256 prng
* Added missing help for HMG IS5 enhanced. Thanks to @AndCycle
#569
* Fixed an issue in configure.ac which was producing an error
while running ./configure, mentioning libconfig, however the
presence of libconfig had already been checked for, earlier in
configure.ac. Although this error did not cause ./configure to
abort prematurely and therefore make would build the source
correctly, it did cause a issue for inclusion into Debian Sid.
Thanks to @Polynomial-C #574
* Minor change to nwipe's man page filename, nwipe.1 to nwipe.8
to fix a Debian warning. #577

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Fri Mar 08 13:24:45 UTC 2024 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.36
* Added the abbreviation MMC for mmcblk devices such as SD and
microSD cards and some low budget laptops. #526
* Fixed some serial numbers that were displaying garbage. #527
* Fixed auto power off and nowait when the screen has been blanked
by the user. #529
* Fixed nwipe not auto exiting on completion when in non gui
mode. #531
* Fixed smart page titles so they have a consistent format with
page 1 in the PDF report. #532
* Fixed some of the config help messages that displayed incorrect
information. #533
* Inserted a space between temperature and model. #534
* Fixed incorrect footer on return to organisation/customer
preview screen. #535
* Made footer completion message more informative. #538
* Fixed hidden sector detection for devices with logical/physical
size of 4096/4096. #543 #546
* Fixed some strcpy compiler warnings. #548

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Tue Nov 07 09:44:36 UTC 2023 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.35
* Nwipe will now optionally create a multi-page PDF certificate
that shows details of a specific discs erasure. The first page
forms the certificate of erasure and subsequent pages show the
drives smart data. Two related options have been added to
nwipe's command line options -P, --PDFreportpath=PATH Path to
write PDF reports to. Default is "." If set to "noPDF" no PDF
reports are written. From the drive selection screen you can
now press 'c' for config. This takes you to the configuration
screen where you can select various PDF certificate related
options such as enabling PDF, entering customer or company data
for entry onto the certificate and enabling a preview of
customer/company info prior to the drive selection screen
starting.
* Nwipe now supports HPA/DCO detection, aka hidden sector
detection. This is where the drive has been configured to
report a smaller size to the operating system (O.S.) than it
actually is. The HPA/DCO status is reported on the main drive
selection screen as [HS? N/A] for drive that does not support
HPA/DCO such as NvMe. [HS? YES] for a drive that is reporting a
size smaller than it actually is, i.e has hidden sectors and
[HS? NO] where the drive is reporting it's actual size
correctly to the O.S. And finally [HS? ???] where nwipe cannot
determine the HPA/DCO status as the drive is not responding to
the ATA commands used to detect HPA/DCO. This might be because
the drive does not support HPA/DCO or the interface adapter
does not support ATA passthrough as is the case with a lot of
the USB adapters on the market, but not all USB adapters. Nwipe
does not currently allow removal of the HPA/DCO so you will
still need to use hdparm to reset the drive so it reports its
correct size before using nwipe to wipe the drive. HPA/DCO
reset may be added in the next version. Thanks to @mdcato for
the help testing the code and HPA/DCO results as displayed in
the report.
* This bug only applies to ones wipe and one or zero's
verification. A very rare occurrence of a incorrect percentage
on completion. The actual wipe was completed correctly it was
just that the percentage calculation was wrong. #459
* Nwipe now supports a configuration file /etc/nwipe/nwipe.conf.
Currently it supports settings related to the PDF certificate
but more options will be added in the future.
* If you are running nwipe within the KDE konsole terminal and
you resize the window by pulling on the corners, occasionally
nwipe will exit with the error message:
"GUI.c,nwipe_gui_select(), loop runaway, did you close the
terminal without exiting nwipe? Initiating shutdown now" The
loop runaway detection has been made less sensitive, i.e 32
iterations per second of the GUI update can now be completed
before a loop runaway is detected. previously it was 8. In
practise when sizing the konsole window, anywhere between 1 and
17 iterations will occur.#467
* Nwipe now provides better temperature support for SAS drives.
Thanks to @ggruber for all the code and testing he contributed.
* Disc sizes are now shown differently to provide more
information about their size. For instance a 1.2TB drive was
shown as 1TB, now it is shown as 1200GB. Thanks to @ggruber for
his code contribution.
* Interface/bustype type was reported as UNK fo SAS drives, now
reported correctly as SAS. Thanks to @ggruber for his code
contribution.
* Interface/bustype type has been enhanced to show SAS-SSD when a
SSD drive is present. Thanks to @ggruber for his code
contribution.
* Nwipe's temperature retrieval code has been placed in it's own
thread. This was done because it was found that any delays in
obtaining the temperature resulted in a momentary freeze in the
GUI wipe screen updating it's stats. This wasn't noticable if
you were erasing a small number of drives but become apparent
when wiping ten or twenty drives simultaneously.
* Nwipe now automatically sorts drives alphabetically by device
name that are the same length. i.e /dev/sda - /dev/sdz will be
in order, followed by drives /dev/sdaa - /dev/sdaz in order
followed by nvme or loop being at the end of the list.

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Sat Jul 09 11:21:32 UTC 2022 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.34
* Fix a compiler warning -Wformat-zero-length string

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Sun Mar 20 19:43:19 UTC 2022 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.33
* Fixes a slight screen corruption on 80 column display. When
highlighting the verify ones option the first two digits of DoD
5220.20-M disappear. This patch fixes that issue.@PartialVolume
#348
* For some controllers/drivers the readlink method of obtaining
the bus type for GUI display does not work. If we haven't
already resolved the bus type, we then also check smartctl for
the transport protocol for SAS. @PartialVolume #350
* Check smartctl for unresolved bus types SATA @PartialVolume
#358
* Changed message from (No ATA pass-thru) to (S/N: unknown) as
the reason the serial number is unknown is because there is no
ATA pass through for the chipset being used by the USB to SATA
adapter, basically we are making the message more meaningful
for the end user rather than for the engineer/programmer that
may understand the previous terminology used. @PartialVolume
@Firminator #356
* Add drive temperature monitoring and display temperature in
degrees Celsius in the GUI. Requires the kernel drivetemp
module and makes use of the hwmon sub system in the kernel to
extract drive temperatures. Nwipe will automatically load the
drivetemp module if it's available. @PartialVolume #360 #361
#364
* Remove /dev/ from gui for long device names. This fixes column
alignment issues in the gui with nvme drives i.e. nvme0n1 etc.
If the drive name including path exceeds 8 characters the
/dev/ is removed and prefixed with spaces to a total max length
of 8 characters. @PartialVolume #365
* Add -q --quiet option - anonymize serial numbers and SMBIOS-DMI
data. This anonymizes serial numbers and related identifiable
information for drives and hardware but does not remove model
information in both the GUI and the log displayed by stdout at
the end of a wipe and also in the log file if enabled in
options. This feature is useful for uploading logs when
submitting bug reports. @PartialVolume #366 #367 #371 #379 #383
* Fixes a intermittent FAILED message that is displayed in the
summary table when the message should have been UABORTED. The
incorrect FAILED message only occurred when using control-C to
abort a wipe. @PartialVolume #373
* When many verification or pass errors are detected the status
line can wrap on a 80 column display. This patch makes the
error message more succinct which will free up about 10
characters & prevents the line wrapping. @PartialVolume #374
* Fixes a problem that occurs with a unresponsive drive that
causes the ETA to grow to an enormous value. We now do not
calculate an individual drives ETA when the throughput of the
drive is zero so avoiding the overall ETA being incorrect for
drives that are working correctly when multiple drives are
being simultaneously wiped. While a individual drives ETA is
calculated it is not displayed but only used to determine the
overall ETA when all drives have completed. @PartialVolume #375
* Add temperature monitoring and display with NVMe drives.
@PartialVolume #377 #380 #381
* When one of the two verify only methods are selected change the
drive selected text from WIPE to VRFY to indicate the drive is
not being wiped, but is only being verified. @PartialVolume
#378
* Fixes a incorrect sector, block and device sizes in 32 bit
builds only as displayed in the nwipe log. This problem had no
affect on the wipe as the issue was caused by a incorrect
format specifier that affected the log text only.
@PartialVolume #387 #388
* Fixes a issue where temperatures may not have been available on
Debian systems due to the location of modprobe. Particularly
relevant to Debian which when logged in as root doesn't put
/sbin in the $PATH environment setting. This issue was not
necessarily relevant for Linux distros based on Debian, for
instance, Ubuntu where nwipe would have found the modprobe
command. @PartialVolume #390 #391
* Improve wipe thread cancellation error checking.
@PartialVolume #392
* Improve GUI thread messaging if a pthread_join fails.
@PartialVolume #393
* Fixed a missing serial number on SAS drive.@PartialVolume #394
* Added ISAAC-64 for 64 bit systems. Thanks @chkboom #398 #401
* Fixes a problem with the Gutmann wipe where the random passes
at the beginning and end were being re-arranged when only the
inner passes should be rearranged. Thanks @chkboom #399
* Fixes a obscure incorrect summary table status, while the log
text correctly reports the failure. If the drive becomes non
responsive during the wipe, the MB/s throughput will slowly
drop towards 0MB/s and will display a FAILURE -1 error. The
logs will correctly display errors and nwipe's return status
will be non zero, however the summary table may display erased
rather than FAILURE, this is because the wipe thread exited
prematurely without setting the pass error. This fixes the
error by checking the context's result status, i.e non zero on
failure and if pass equals zero it makes pass equal to one.
This is then picked up by the summary table log code which then
marks the status correctly as FAILURE in the summary table.
@PartialVolume #400
* Fixes a spurious message on abort before wipe.This patch fixes
a minor display issue that occurs when a user aborts a wipe
before a wipe has started. It only occurs if the user had
selected one or more drives for wipe and then aborted before
starting the wipe. The spurious message only occurs in a
virtual terminal, i.e. /dev/tty1, /dev/tty2, /dev/console It
does not occur in terminal applications such as konsole, xterm,
terminator etc. The spurious message that appears in the main
window, states that "/dev/sdxyz 100% complete" along with
garbage values in the statistics window. The message appears
for a fraction of a second before being replaced with the
textual log information that correctly states that the user
aborted and no wipe was started. Basically the gui status
information update function tries to update the data when the
wipe hasn't even started. The fix is to only update the
statistics information only if a wipe has started by checking
the 'global_wipe_status' value which indicates whether any wipe
started. '1' indicates that a wipe has started, else '0' if no
wipe has started. @PartialVolume #406
* Fixes temperature update in drive selection window. This fixes
a problem where the drive temperature is not updated
automatically in only the drive selection window. The
temperature is however updated correctly every 60 seconds
during a wipe in the wipe status window. This bug would
probably never be noticed by most people as usually the drive
temperature changes slowly and only rises once a wipe has
started. The only time I imagine it would have been noticed
would have been if the drive temperature was already high and
you were trying to reduce the temperature by cooling before
starting a wipe. This has now been corrected so that the
temperature in the drive selection window is updated every 60
seconds. @PartialVolume #407
* Fixes a zombie nwipe process running at 100% CPU on one core
but only on a Konsole based terminal. This only occurred when
the Konsole terminal is exited while nwipe is sitting at the
drive selection screen but nwipe did not exit when the konsole
terminal was closed. If nwipe is exited normally on completion
of a wipe or aborted by using control C then this problem would
not be seen. Also occurs during a wipe if the konsole terminal
is closed without exiting nwipe first, again only on Konsole
based terminals. @PartialVolume #408 #409
* Fixes a obscure segfault when --logfile option used with a non
writable directory. @PartialVolume #410

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Fri Oct 29 22:06:32 UTC 2021 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.32
* Add ones (0xFF) wipe to the methods. Renamed Zero Fill to Fill
with Zeros and the new ones wipe, is called Fill with Ones.
* Add ones verication to the methods. Renamed Verify Blank to
Verify Zeros (0x00) and the new verification is called Verify
Ones (0xFF).
* Move method information from below the list of methods to the
right of the method list. This allows better use of the screen
space by allowing more methods to be added to the list,
especially relevant to nwipe running as a standalone
application on small distros such as shredos 2020 in frame
buffer mode.
* Removed the old DBAN syslinux.cfg configuration hints as not
relevant to nwipe. See nwipe --help or man nwipe for command
line options.
* Add fdatasync errors to the error summary table.
* During a wipe, you can now toggle between dark screen, blank
screen and default blue screen by repeatedly pressing the b
key. Dark screen, which is grey text on black background has
been introduced to prevent TFT/LCD image persistence on
monitors that are sensitive to that issue. However, according
to this article grey text on a white background may be
preferable. I will probably add that option in the next release
along with possibly powering off the display as an additional
option.

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Mon Jul 12 13:59:17 UTC 2021 - enzokiel@kabelmail.de

- Update to version 0.31
* Blanking disabled in GUI for OPS2 (mandatory requirement of
standard). #326
* Total bytes written/read for ALL passes or verifications are
now logged. #326
* Final blanking being enabled is no longer required for
verification passes. GUI Fix. #326
* Add a summary table to the log that shows totals for pass &
verification errors. #325
* Fix the missing 'Verifying' message on final blanking. #324
* Fix prng selection always using mersenne irrespective of
whatever prng the user selected. #323
* Fix a non functional Isaac prng. (May have never worked even
in DBAN/dwipe 2.3.0). #322
* Log whether the prng produces a stream, if not log failure
message. #321
* Log the specific prng that is initialised. #320
* Log selection details to the log. #319
* Improve log messaging. #317
* Fix auto shutdown option for some distros. #315
* Fix build for musl. #301
* Fixes to summary table & fix final status message. 311
* Updates to --help options #309
* Updates to manpage. #300

- Version 0.30
* Add auto power off option on completion of wipe
( --autopoweroff ) (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fixed --nowait option that wasn't working.
(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add verbose option. -v, --verbose.
* Add a spinner to the GUI for each drive being wiped. When nwipe
is syncing the percentage completion pauses, having a spinner
gives a clear indication that the wipe is still running. Each
devices spinner disappears on completion of a given devices
wipe. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Make log messages, especially the ones with the tag 'notice'
succinct and less than 80 characters including the timestamp.
This is of more importance when nwipe is used on a 80x30
terminal (ALT-F2, Shredos etc) but generally makes the logs
more readable. While doing this all information was still
etained. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add a summary table to the log that shows each drives status,
i.e. erased or failed, throughput, duration of wipe, model,
serial no etc. In particular it benefits those that wipe many
drives simultaneously in rack servers. At a glance any failed
drives can be seen without having to browse back through the
log. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add ETA to --nogui wipes status when SIGUSR1 (kill -s USR1
(nwipes PID) is issued on the command line.
* Fixed misleading throughput calculation. Throughput now shows
average throughput calculated from start of wipe.
* Fixed system info not being displayed in Debian Sid. #229
(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add serial number display for USB to IDE/SATA adapters. This
only works if the USB to IDE/SATA adapter supports ATA pass
through. See #149 for further details (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fixed disk capacity nomenclature, width and padding on drive
selection screen. See #237 (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add bus type, ATA or USB, amongst others to drive selection and
wipe windows. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add --nousb option. If you use the option --nousb, all USB
devices will be ignored. They won't show up in the GUI and
they won't be wiped if you use the --nogui --autonuke command.
They will even be ignored if you specifically name them on the
command line.
* Miscellaneous GUI fixes, throughput display format, percentage
display format to improve column alignment when wiping multiple
discs. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Improve visibility of failure messages with red text on white
background. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add NVME and VIRT (loop etc) devices to device type table for
display in GUI and logs. NVME devices now show up as NVME
devices rather than UNK (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fixed very obscure segmentation fault going back to at least
0.24 in drive selection window when resizing terminal vertical
axis while drive focus symbol '>' is pointing to the last drive
of a multi drive selection window. See #248 for further details
(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Warn the user if they are incorrectly typing a lower case s to
start a wipe, when they should be typing a capital S #262
(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Warn the user if they are typing capital S in order to start a
wipe but haven't yet selected any drives for wiping #261
(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add ctrl A that toggles drive selection, all drives selected for
wipe or all drives deselected. #266
* Fixed compilation issue with NixOS with broken musl libc error
due to missing header #275
* Fixed status bar message showing incorrect information #287
* Right Justify log labels to maintain column alignment #280
* Added nwipe version & OS info to log #297

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Sun Oct 11 14:41:21 UTC 2020 - Tuukka Pasanen <tuukka.pasanen@ilmi.fi>

- v0.28
* Fix premature exit when terminal resized on completion of wipes (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix GUI when terminal is resized, currently not handled correctly causing missing
or incorrectly sized ncurses windows/panels (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix GUI screen flicker under various situations. #200 Fixes #115 (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix responsivness of screen during wipe when resized.
Info is updated every 10th/sec. Key presses are more responsive. (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix compiler warning regarding buffer overflow. Fixes #202 (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix Man page (Thanks martijnvanbrummelen)
* Fix individual device throughput. On completion of a wipe instead
of the throughput calculation stopping for a completed wipe, it would
continue to calculate resulting in a particular drives throughtput
slowly dropping until eventually it reached zero. The overall
throughput was not affected. (Thanks PartialVolume)

- v0.27
* Add verify method to verify a disk is zero filled #128 (Thanks Legogizmo)
* Add new HMG IS5 enhanced wipe method #168 (Thanks infrastation)
* Fix percentage progress and show on completion of wipe (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Implement clang-format support (Thanks louib)
* Implement more frequent disk sync support (Thanks Legogizmo)
* Format command line help to 80 character line length #114 (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix nwipe message log and missing messages that was causing
segfaults under certain conditions (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Add the Github build CI service and update Readme with build status labels (Thanks louib)
* Miscellaneous smaller fixes

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Wed Oct 16 07:20:39 UTC 2019 - Tuukka Pasanen <tuukka.pasanen@ilmi.fi>

- Update to release 0.26
* New release
* Add exclude drive option(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Log hardware (Thanks PartialVolume)

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Thu Mar 14 08:50:52 UTC 2019 - Tuukka Pasanen <tuukka.pasanen@ilmi.fi>

- Update to version 0.25 and start using Github tar files not
fetched version.
* Correct J=Up K=Down in footer(Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix segfault initialize nwipe_gui_thread (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix memory leaks (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Check right pointer (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix casting problem (Thanks PartialVolume)
* Fix serial number
* Fixes uninitialized variable warning ( Thanks PartialVolume)

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Tue Dec 05 15:12:36 UTC 2017 - opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org

- Update to version 0.22:
* include version.h
* fix 32bit issues
* add gitignore file
* add friendly disk size
* remove testfile
* update version in manpage
* change spelling fixes github bug #31
* change version year to 2017
* add test file
* place files in normal location

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Tue Dec 5 13:34:01 UTC 2017 - erico.mendonca@suse.com

- 0.22: updating to latest version.

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Mon Apr 18 12:57:18 UTC 2016 - erico.mendonca@suse.com

- panel_library_check.patch: there is no need to check for panel.h, as it is part of the ncurses library already.
- autoconf_version_required.patch: lowering the required autoconf version so it can be compiled on as much distros as possible.
- fix_function_returns.patch: fix missing function returns.
- nwipe-fix-uninitialized.patch: c2 was random sized as the variable is only set later.

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Mon Mar 16 17:16:10 UTC 2015 - emendonca@suse.com

- Initial version based on latest source.

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