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Bug#593147: unblock: tcsh/6.17.02-3



Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: freeze-exception

Please unblock package tcsh.

Compared to the version in testing (6.17.00-3), tcsh 6.17.02-3 has quite a lot
of changes, but many of them were the result of me adopting the package and
pushing many Debian bugs and patches upstream.

>From the changelog:
  * Merged patches:
     + 01_build.1.patch
     + 06_man.patch
     + 10_hurd.patch
   * Removed patches:
     + 02_fix.patch - no longer needed
     + 12_unknown_lscolors.patch - upstream says:
         "rejected - will not apply now, I'd rather see the error and
          fix $LS_COLORS than eat it up silently."
   * Bug fixes:
     + "Crash with autoexpand and no histchars" (LP: #96490)
     + "tcsh history file fails to save commands with "!" properly" (LP: #139537)
     + "tcsh's sending of HUPs to children is broken" (Closes: #314641)
     + "tcsh doesn't support CR/LF end-of-lines in some cases, contrary to csh"
       (Closes: #462346)
     + "complete.tcsh bug in postmap" (Closes: #552632)

Version 6.17.02-1 was uploaded to experimental on 2010-05-18, because it was
supposed to be an upstream prerelease that would be followed by a new "real"
upstream release. This never happened, so I finally uploaded 6.17.02-3 to
unstable.

I think that 6.17.02-3 should go to testing, because:
- it will be much easier to support due to the reduced number of Debian patches
- it fixes quite a lot of bugs, some of them important
- it already received some testing (3 months in experimental, then unstable)
- users are usually quick to report tcsh bugs, as it's quite critical software
for them :-) It's very likely that we can shake out all the bugs before the
release.

unblock tcsh/6.17.02-3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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