Prepare NEWS file for 2.2.1 release

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Adam Spiers 2015-11-09 09:16:32 +00:00
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News file for Stow. News file for Stow.
* Changes in version 2.2.1
** Small improvements to documentation
*** The README has been revamped.
*** Some index points have been added to the manual.
*** Some typos were fixed.
*** @VERSION@ substitution was fixed in the stow(8) man page.
** Fix Perl warnings
Stow no longer emits "v-string in use/require non-portable" and
"Possible precedence issue with control flow operator" warnings
with newer Perl versions. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36478
and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2014-06/msg00000.html
for full details.
** Fix "Undefined subroutine &main::error" error
See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75349 for details.
** Failed system calls now include error description
This should make errors easier to understand.
** Default ignore list now ignores top-level README.*, LICENSE.*, and COPYING
These files are by definition specific to a given package, so if
they exist in the top-level directory, they should not be stowed.
** Correctly handle the stow/target directories as non-canonical paths
Fix the case discovered by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki where stowing fails if
the stow / target directories are non-canonical paths. For
example, on FreeBSD /home is a symlink pointing to 'usr/home', so
running with the stow directory as /home/user/local/stow and the
target directory as /home/user/local previously resulted in the
stow directory path being calculated as
../../../usr/home/user/local/stow relative to the target.
See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs/8820 for details.
** Fix stowing of relative links when --no-folding is used.
With a tree like this:
.
|-- stow
| `-- pkg
| `-- lib
| |-- itk-current -> itk4.0.0
| `-- itk4.0.0
| `-- libitk4.0.0.so
`-- target
`-- lib
|-- itk4.0.0 -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0
`-- libfoo-1.2.3.so
stowing pkg with the --no-folding option resulted in itk-current
being "unpacked":
.
`-- target
`-- lib
|-- itk-current
| `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current/libitk4.0.0.so
|-- itk4.0.0
| `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0/libitk4.0.0.so
`-- libfoo-1.2.3.so
This commit fixes it so that it gets stowed as a symlink:
.
`-- target
`-- lib
...
|-- itk-current -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current
...
Thanks to Gabriele Balducci for reporting this problem:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.stow.general/6676
** Internal code cleanups
*** aclocal was updated.
*** automake files were removed.
*** Trailing whitespace was removed.
*** Comments were added.
*** Debug messages were improved.
* Changes in version 2.2.0 * Changes in version 2.2.0
** New --no-folding option ** New --no-folding option