2.4.4 => 2.4.8
2.5.2 => 2.5.4
2.6 => 2.6.1
Python 2.4 and 2.5 lose their build knobs to match 2.6.
Removes no longer needed Python 2.5 security patches backported
from the release25-maint SVN branch.
Remove the -bz2 subpackage from all three versions. It is silly
to make a subpackage to avoid depending on something tiny and
compatibly licensed.
Python 2.4 and 2.5 lose their -expat subpackages; expat has been
in base for some time.
Python 2.5 loses its sqlite subpackge. Again, sqlite is tiny,
compatibly licensed and is depended upon by more and more
applications. This brings it into line with the 2.6 version.
Rework all three version's handling of setup.py. Rather than regex
replacing LOCALBASE and X11BASE into setup.py post-configure, these
are passed in though environment variables. Will save hours of
frustrated cursing familiar to anyone who has accidently used the
update-patches target after configure and had to go back and redo
all the substitutions.
Rework the patching of setup.py for 2.4 and 2.5 to be more like
what we do for 2.6. I.e. keep the diff minimal and avoid deleting
huge blocks of code, so the diff has a chance of applying without
massive hand-editing each patch release.
Fix .py paths in installed .pyc files (patch from eric@)
feedback from several, particularly eric@, ajacoutot@ and Ingo
Schwarze; "get it in" ajacoutot@
package has been renamed. Unfortunately there is no smooth upgrade
path. Packages have to be deleted and added manually.
discussed with bernd@ and sturm@
This is a replacement for p5-IO-INET6 as the upstream cpan package
has been renamed.
IO::Socket::INET6 provides an object interface to creating and using
sockets in either AF_INET or AF_INET6 domains. It is built upon the
IO::Socket interface and inherits all the methods defined by IO::Socket.
ok sturm@
X11::Protocol is a perl module that provides an interface that is
roughly equivalent to Xlib. Its low-level approach is intentional
as the author is working on a higher-level interface that will be
more object-oriented and easier to use, so as to allow this low
level access to eventually be replaced by an XS interface to Xlib.
ok ajacoutot@
OnionCat creates a transparent IP layer on top of Tor's hidden services.
It transmits any kind of IP-based data transparently through the Tor
network on a location hidden basis. You can think of it as a
point-to-multipoint VPN between hidden services.
Comments and guidance from ajacoutot@.
faubackup uses a filesystem on a hard drive for incremental and full backups.
All backups can easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools. Later backups
to the same filesystem will automatically be incremental, as unchanged files
are only hard-linked with the existing version of the file.
from Sebastian Trahm <basti at schleifi.com>
