[announce] October 2019 release: spooky bug squashing and ghosts of POSIX

From: Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:14:38 +0000

  Hello,

  New versions of all the skarnet.org packages are available.

  This is mostly a bugfix release, as shown by the *.1 version numbers.
It just squashes a couple build bugs that prevented proper
cross-compilation.
If you are not cross-compiling skarnet.org packages, you can mostly
ignore
this release.

  The only new features are in skalibs and execline: the latter gets
some improved POSIX compliance.
  A common complaint that some distributions have with execline is that
execline's 'cd' binary isn't POSIX-compliant. To address this complaint,
a new --enable-pedantic-posix option has been added to execline's
configure.
When this option is given, a posix-cd binary is built, and cd becomes a
symlink to posix-cd. (posix-cd is still usable as a regular execline cd:
when a command line is given after the directory to chdir to, posix-cd
chainloads into that command line.)
  I hope this change encourages distributions to properly install
execline binaries into /bin, instead of using broken workarounds.

  The new versions are the following:

skalibs-2.9.1.0
nsss-0.0.2.1
utmps-0.0.3.1
execline-2.5.3.0
s6-2.9.0.1
s6-rc-0.5.1.1
s6-linux-init-1.0.3.1
s6-dns-2.3.1.1
s6-networking-2.3.1.1
s6-portable-utils-2.2.2.1
s6-linux-utils-2.5.1.1
mdevd-0.1.1.1

  Enjoy,
  Bug-reports welcome.

--
  Laurent
Received on Mon Oct 21 2019 - 18:14:38 UTC

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