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gnulib (20140202+stable-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * fake sync from Debian

gnulib (20140202+stable-2+deb8u1) jessie-security; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload by the LTS team.
  * Fix CVE-2018-17942:
    Ben Pfaff disvovered that the convert_to_decimal function in the GNU
    Portability Library contains a heap-based buffer overflow because memory is
    not allocated for a trailing '\0' character during %f processing.

 -- Mike Salvatore <email address hidden>  Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:56:02 -0400

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Uploaded by:
Mike Salvatore
Uploaded to:
Xenial
Original maintainer:
Ian Beckwith
Architectures:
any all
Section:
devel
Urgency:
Medium Urgency

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git-merge-changelog: git merge driver for GNU ChangeLog files

 ChangeLog files *always* foul up most version control systems in
 their default configuration.
 .
 git-merge-changelog is a tool from gnulib designed to help with this
 for the case of GNU-style ChangeLogs; it can be used with at least
 git, bzr, and hg.

git-merge-changelog-dbgsym: debug symbols for package git-merge-changelog

 ChangeLog files *always* foul up most version control systems in
 their default configuration.
 .
 git-merge-changelog is a tool from gnulib designed to help with this
 for the case of GNU-style ChangeLogs; it can be used with at least
 git, bzr, and hg.

gnulib: GNU Portability Library

 The GNU portability library is a macro system and C declarations and
 definitions for commonly-used API elements and abstracted system behaviors. It
 can be used to improve portability and other functionality in your programs.