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- Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
- Author(s): Andres Mejia
- Date: 2011-09-18 10:25:34 UTC
- mfrom: (8.1.5 sid)
- Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20110918102534-kmke53ir9v21ooxu
Tags: 2.8.5-3
* Fix upgrade breakage because of manpages being moved from libarchive1 to
libarchive-dev. (Closes: #641978)
* Make short descriptions for packages unique.
* Explicitly set config options to be used during builds.
libarchive-dev. (Closes: #641978)
* Make short descriptions for packages unique.
* Explicitly set config options to be used during builds.
- files added:
- .pc/0003-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2514.patch
- .pc/0003-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2514.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0004-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2520.patch
- .pc/0004-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2520.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0005-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2521.patch
- .pc/0005-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2521.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0006-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2537.patch
- .pc/0006-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2537.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0007-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2888.patch
- .pc/0007-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2888.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0008-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2940.patch
- .pc/0008-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2940.patch/libarchive
- .pc/autoreconf.patch
- .pc/autoreconf.patch/build
- .pc/autoreconf.patch/build/autoconf
- files removed:
- .pc/0003-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2516.patch
- .pc/0003-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2516.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0004-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2514.patch
- .pc/0004-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2514.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0005-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2520.patch
- .pc/0005-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2520.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0006-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2521.patch
- .pc/0006-Patch-from-upstream-rev-2521.patch/libarchive
- .pc/0007-Ignore-ENOSYS-error-when-setting-up-xattrs.-Closes-5.patch
- .pc/0007-Ignore-ENOSYS-error-when-setting-up-xattrs.-Closes-5.patch/libarchive
- build/windows
- build/windows/vc71
- build/windows/vc80
- build/windows/vc80/libarchive_test
- build/windows/vc90
- build/windows/vc90/libarchive_test
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