Prepare for release mc-4.8.23

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3955_cleanup
Initial changeset:3ccbcce70545c5655a77d1262303d0128ef24602

[andrew_b]

Thanks!

mc-3955-achown-cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warning.patch​ and
mc-3955-tar-cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warning.patch​: squashed and applied.
mc-3955-panel.c-cleanup-potential-conditional-uninitialized-warning.patch​: will be squashed with the original commit.
mc-3955-edit.c-cleanup-cast-align-warning.patch​: no need NULLization of WEdit members before purge.
mc-3955-viewer-cleanup-string-conversion-warning.patch​: these assertion are removed.

[and]

Great, next chunks will come

[andrew_b]

Thanks!
mc-3955-autoconf-cleanup-ac_error-obsolete-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-autoconf-cleanup-ac_prog_libtool-obsolete-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-autoconf-cleanup-ac_try_link-obsolete-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-autoconf-remove-obsolete-ac_onceonly_m4-file.patch​: applied.

[andrew_b]

Thanks!

mc-3955-editcmd_dialogs.c-cleanup-cast-align-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-man2hlp-support-re-macro.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-utilunix.c-cleanup-Wdangling_else-warning.patch​: another fix is applied.

[andrew_b]

I thinks GCC is paranoid in those cases.

mc-3955-dialog.c-cleanup-null-dereference-warning.patch​
Widget list in the dialog cannot contain empty elements. Dialog list cannot contain empty elements too. I simplified some checks.

mc-3955-dir.c-cleanup-null-dereference-warning.patch​
vpath_str is NULL only if vpath is NULL. vpath is argument of dir_list_load() and should never be NULL.
I think, this is a common case when a function cannot accept NULL (e.g. strlen).

mc-3955-direntry.c-cleanup-null-dereference-warning.patch
The same about accepting of NULL.

mc-3955-interface.c-cleanup-null-dereference-warning.patch​
Can't say when vfs_path_get_last_path_vfs() can return NULL. If it occurs, this is abnormal case and should be fixed.

[andrew_b]

mc-3955-file.c-cleanup-cppcheck-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-hex.c-cleanup-cppcheck-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-panel.c-cleanup-cppcheck-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-setup.c-cleanup-cppcheck-warning.patch​: applied.
mc-3955-autoconf-fix-gcc-function-check-detection.patch​: applied.

Thanks!

[andrew_b]

Branch 3955_cleanup rebased on top of recent master.
Initial changeset:1dd8a47987ebd3d02f333163e2221a591856fe6f

At this moment, 3955_cleanup has about 50 commits. I'm planing to test this branch next week and then merge it into master if there are no regressions. Then we will continue to clean up.

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [e806c2bac667cf59d38980b3c6806394a8c9c7c7].

git log --pretty=oneline 76d6430..e806c2b

New branch HEAD: [e806c2bac667cf59d38980b3c6806394a8c9c7c7]

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3955_cleanup
Initial changeset:8b9ab9d77c8245e7754b7b1fc0a529db978ad794

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [e1d11906b37b65756857786a4caf4f8f2b4f29b4].

git log --pretty=oneline 91d6d55..e1d1190

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3955_cleanup
Initial changeset:e67f63ca4f5d94ecc85866c4ae35d8bb1afc579e

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [846d92b9b7f2ccf2e8edc370aa37379784409244].

git log --pretty=oneline 0cf2ded64..846d92b9b

[zaytsev]

prepare repository for release

done

download PO-translations from Transifex.net

done

store translations in git repo

done

download the hint translations from Transifex.net

done

store translations in git repo

done

create new NEWS wiki page for next version

done

add content of current NEWS wiki page to the doc/NEWS file in git repo

done

new version in Trac

done

new milestone in Trac

done

[zaytsev]

create new tag in git by command

done (not pushed yet)

create tar.(bz2|xz) package files

done

make checksums for archives

done

upload source packages and checksums to the special upload area

done - ​https://www.midnight-commander.org/nopaste/tarball/

[zaytsev]

developers should download tarballs

done

upload source packages and checksums

done

update Wiki start page with latest release number

done

write an announcement

done

create new ticket

#3997

close ticket for release

done

close current milestone

done