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Author: Thorsten Glaser
Revision Date: 2015-07-08 21:27:51 UTC

* QA upload.
* The “adieu not au revoir” upload
* Update to the next release of the R50-stable branch:
  - [tg] Add a patch marker for vendor patch versioning to mksh.1
  - [tg] Document some more issues with the current history code
  - [tg] Remove some unused code
  - [tg] RCSID-only sync with OpenBSD, for bogus and irrelevant changes
  - [tg] Also disable field splitting for alias 'local=\typeset'
  - [tg] Fix read -n-1 to not be identical to read -N-1
  - [tg] Several fixes and improvements to lksh(1) and mksh(1) manpages
  - [tg] More code (int → size_t), comment and testsuite fixes
  - [tg] Make dot.mkshrc more robust (LP#1441853)
  - [tg] Fix issues with IFS='\' read, found by edualbus
  - [enh, tg] Fix integer overflows related to file descriptor parsing,
    found by Pawel Wylecial (LP#1440685); reduce memory usage for I/O redirs
  - [tg] Document in the manpage how to set ±U according to the current
    locale settings via LANG/LC_* parameters (cf. Debian #782225)
  - [igli, tg] Some code cleanup and restructuring
  - [tg, oksh] Handle number parsing and storing more carefully
* Merge changelogs for forgotten actual uploads:
  - mksh (28.0-3) oldstable (etch)
  - mksh (40.2-2exp1) experimental
* Merge changelogs for potential uploads:
  - mksh (40.9.20120630-8) wheezy
  - mksh (50d-6) jessie
* Improve /etc/skel/.mkshrc structure and make it “set -u”-safer
* Remove the pdksh transitional package; document as NEWS entry
* Tell users that only lksh (and mksh-static, for rescue systems,
  initramfs, etc.) should be used as sh; document as NEWS entry
* Cosmetic improvements to README, control, build scripts, etc.
* Use -DMKSH_SMALL_BUT_FAST when using -DMKSH_SMALL, as this
  benefits almost, if not all, Debian architectures
* Upload to unstable