Bug#479824: progress

[Jonathan Nieder]

I have been working on getting gpm to be quiet about the lack of /dev/gpmctl,
and, while I'm at it, using the latest stable upstream gpm version. My progress
so far is at http://home.uchicago.edu/~jrnieder/gpm.bdl as a git bundle.

(To use it:

   wget http://home.uchicago.edu/~jrnieder/gpm.bdl
   mkdir gpm && cd gpm && git init
   git bundle verify ../gpm.bdl
   git fetch ../gpm.bdl refs/*:refs/*
   git checkout build
   gitk --all

and go from there.)

It works for me. Please let me know if you have any advice. By tomorrow I
should have some reasonable patches to look at. (I am mentioning the changes
now just as a heads up.) I hope this is helpful and that I have not stepped
on anyone's toes.