backport patches for RC 1.8.1.5 release

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:43:22AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:42:35PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as you might know security updates will roll quick, so I prepared
> > a patchset that contains backports for fixes that have not been landed
> > in 1.8.0 cvs. The contained fixes are those targetted for the next
> > "distribution-release".
> > 
> > 0. get and extract the patches directory shipped in:
> >    http://people.debian.org/~asac/1.8.1.13~prepatches070716.tar.gz
> 
> I quite don't get this version number. Next 1.8.1 release is 1.8.1.5 and
> next 1.8.0 release supposedly 1.8.0.12. Typo ?
> 
> Anyways, I took a quick look at the patches, and I don't see what
> visibility_gcc_fixes.patch is supposed to be for. We already have
> similar fixes. Or are they workarounds that have been applied upstream
> in 1.8.1.5 to avoid pulling the real fix from trunk ?

visibility and autoconf are just for my development and are not in
series file ... and they won't get applied by quilt push -a.

 - Alexander