[darcs-users] darcs weekly news #75

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

News and discussions
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1. Reiner releases the release candidate 1 and the packager's preview 1
   of Darcs 2.5:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025466.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025473.html

2. Florent and Ganesh volunteered to be the next co-release managers:

   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025499.html
   * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-October/025537.html

3. Finally, the Darcs Hacking Sprint took place last week in Orleans.
   We will soon post a report.


Issues resolved in the last week (3)
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issue1942 Dmitry Astapov
 * fix the fix which ended up too strict due to unsealing.
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1942

issue1948 Eric Kow
 * send BTS update emails as noreply@
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1948

issue1951 Reinier Lamers
 * refuse to add files outside repository
 * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1951


Patches applied in the last week (22)
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2010-10-18 Eric Kow
 - Test for issue1923.

2010-09-17 Adolfo Builes
 - Solve issue1923: cache mechanism warns about sources outside your control

2010-10-16 Eric Kow
 - Resolve issue1948: send BTS update emails as noreply@
 - Distinguish between --context with and without arguments.

2010-10-01 Simon Michael
 - hook env vars: haddock improvement
 - hook env vars: add some haddocks

2010-10-01 Eric Kow
 - Remove misleading debug output.

2010-10-02 Reinier Lamers
 - Haddock fixSubPaths
 - Make annotate handle fixSubPath's rejecting paths
 - Make issue1951 test clean up (needed for 2.5 branch)
 - Mark issue1951 test as passing
 - Don't act like user gave no file arguments to add when he gave only
invalid ones
 - Elaborate issue1951 test (for adding files outside the repository)
 - resolve issue1951: refuse to add files outside repository

2010-10-01 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - clean up OPTIONS_GHC usage
 - fix warning about tab character

2010-09-14 Simon Michael
 - require regex-posix >= 0.94.4 on windows to avoid link errors with
with HP 2010.2.0.0

2010-09-09 Eric Kow
 - Improve error message when _darcs/inventory fallback check fails.
 - HLint: use notElem.
 - Haddock confusing naming for lastWord.

2010-10-04 Ganesh Sittampalam
 - write out tag before trying to optimize inventory

2010-09-11 Dmitry Astapov
 - Resolve issue1942: fix the fix which ended up too strict due to unsealing.