Bug#597456: unblock: dpkg/1.15.8.5

[Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

We made a new dpkg release, it contains:
- the dependency fix for RC bug #596417
  http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d6c43090715ea4ed74b376bdc7bff73faaa569a
- important bug fixes
   * Fix dpkg-genchanges to not split the short description in the middle of a
     UTF8 character. Closes: #593442
     http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=f42344b5fb3fda487eb1b7583bd1bd2ec84f2334
   * Drop -k parameter from the tar call used by dpkg-source to extract
     tarballs. Upstream binary files modified by the packager were not properly
     installed due to this. Thanks to James Westby for the report.
     Closes: #594440
     http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d2b04f3e62d02a223e12eea1947fde1e3695334
   * Do not print a warning when parsing status or status log files on
     half-installed packages w/o a Description or Maintainer field, as
     this happens normally when the package was never installed before.
     Closes: #594167
     http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=672b0664cbb8fd7fd5eea7ab10af1bbf6871833f
   * Fix possible but improbable segfault in update-alternatives in case
     the master file name contains a format string specifier. Reported by
     Sandro Cazzaniga.
     http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=dbbd15fe8d972b4f8f3a4d94934a99c507cf0596
- many translations updates
- small doc updates

Note that #594167 can confuse users with invalid warnings during package installation.

Note that the commit "Fix realloc usage on compat scandir() implementation."
does not affect Debian since we have scandir in the libc AFAIK.

You can review all the changes here:
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sid

unblock dpkg/1.15.8.5

Thanks in advance.

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