From: cjwatson <>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:04:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Catching up
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Catching up
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+Catching up
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+I did a bit of catching up on my Debian backlog over the last week or so. Among the things I got round to:
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+ - 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
man /usr/bin/time display the appropriate manual page rather than the text of the executable. See the NEWS file for more details.
+ - binfmt-support now installs cleanly on non-Linux systems, even if it doesn't do anything useful yet.
+ - I fixed a couple of shell bugs in groff.
+ - halibut now complies with the Debian Vim policy, even though I can't say I entirely agree with it in this case.
+ - I fixed a really odd build failure in troffcvt. Yay imake, or something.
+ - All Debian patches to putty are now upstream, or will be once I upload a new snapshot. Thanks to Simon Tatham and Jacob Nevins.
+ - I did a few bits and pieces of packaging cleanup with an eye on my DDPO list, and added some watch files where they were missing.
+ - Responded to an offer to take over icoutils maintenance.
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+So nothing really earth-shaking, and as ever openssh could use some attention, but I feel a bit better about my backlog now. I do still have a critical bug in makepasswd to fix, and a sponsored upload of parrot; those are the next two things on my to-do list.