[Bug 1298445] [NEW] stgit 0.17.1-1 needs to be synced from Debian sid main

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The package has no Ubuntu changes.  It contains a new upstream release
that fixes a number of bugs (in Debian):

stgit (0.17.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #669664, #465343, #600238, #656804)
  * New maintainer. (Closes: #643801)
  * Install additional documentation. (#Closes: #556525)

 -- Maximiliano Curia <maxy at debian.org>  Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:18:23 +0100

More detail on bugs being closed:
 #669664 - stgit: a CommitData::parse() assertion fails on a mergetag commit
 #465343 - stgit-contrib: please include stgit.el*
 #600238 - stgit: Please update git-core dependency to git | git-core
 #656804 - stgit: new upstream version available (0.16)
 #643801 - ITA: stgit -- manage stacks of patches in a git*
 #556525 - stgit: please ship RELEASENOTES on docs dir

The current version in trusty is 0.15, which dates from 2009.  Version
0.17.1 was released on 2013 and includes several improvements:

>From the 0.16 release notes:
  - Several improvements to the Emacs mode (stgit.el).
  - UI adjustments to better match the Git commands.
    + "stg status" is an alias for "git status".
    + "stg reset --hard" behaves similarly to the corresponding git command
      and option.
  - "stg branch --cleanup" option to remove the StGit metadata for a given
    branch.
  - "stg mail" can use "git send-email" directly.
  - Vim syntax highlighting for StGit commit messages.
  - Many bug-fixes.
 
 From the 0.17 release notes:
- Make refresh warn when the index is dirty 
- Template updates to not hardcode whitespace 
- Properly generate mbox formats when attaching patches 
- Added new option to attach and inline patches when sending mail 

>From the 0.17.1 release notes:
- Fix dirty index errors when resolving conflicts. 
- Test suite improvements. 
- Print tracebacks to stderr. 
- Run test suite in parallel. 
- Fix --authdate date parsing.

** Affects: stgit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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stgit 0.17.1-1 needs to be synced from Debian sid main
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