Catching up

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+Catching up
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+<p>I did a bit of catching up on my Debian backlog over the last week or so.  Among the things I got round to:</p>
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+<ul>
+ <li>I released man-db 2.5.7.  This was mostly an "I've been meaning to do this for ages" kind of thing to reduce the bug list a bit, closing ten Debian bugs, but there were a few interesting things in there as well, such as always saving cat pages in UTF-8 and recoding to the user's locale at display time (long overdue), adjusting the search order for localised manual pages by request of quite a few non-native English speakers to prefer a page in the right section over a page in the right language, and a cute gimmick to make things like <code>man /usr/bin/time</code> display the appropriate manual page rather than the text of the executable.  See the <a href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/man-db/trunk/annotate/head%3A/NEWS">NEWS file</a> for more details.</li>
+ <li>binfmt-support now <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/565109">installs cleanly on non-Linux systems</a>, even if it doesn't do anything useful yet.</li>
+ <li>I fixed a couple of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/256226">shell</a> <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/547750">bugs</a> in groff.</li>
+ <li>halibut now <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/464821">complies with the Debian Vim policy</a>, even though I can't say I entirely agree with it in this case.</li>
+ <li>I fixed a <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2010/02/msg02219.html">really odd build failure in troffcvt</a>.  Yay imake, or something.</li>
+ <li>All Debian patches to putty are now upstream, or will be once I upload a new snapshot.  Thanks to Simon Tatham and Jacob Nevins.</li>
+ <li>I did a few bits and pieces of packaging cleanup with an eye on my <a href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php">DDPO</a> list, and added some watch files where they were missing.</li>
+ <li>Responded to an offer to take over icoutils maintenance.</li>
+</ul>
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+<p>So nothing really earth-shaking, and as ever <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2010/01/msg00017.html">openssh could use some attention</a>, but I feel a bit better about my backlog now.  I do still have a <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/564559">critical bug in makepasswd</a> to fix, and a sponsored upload of parrot; those are the next two things on my to-do list.</p>