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

[Philipp Kern]

Synced 0.17.1-1 into trusty-proposed.

** Changed in: stgit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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

Status in “stgit” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  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.

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