Prepare for release mc-4.8.21

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3876_cleanup
Initial changeset:ab244340e5bd5323e21e50f362394ee1399843c3

[and]

How do deal with deprecated makedev(),major(),minor() pull from sys/types.h since glibc 2.25 ?

​https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-02/msg00079.html

parse_ls_vga.c:791:13: error: In the GNU C Library, "makedev" is defined
 by <sys/sysmacros.h>. For historical compatibility, it is
 currently defined by <sys/types.h> as well, but we plan to
 remove this soon. To use "makedev", include <sys/sysmacros.h>
 directly. If you did not intend to use a system-defined macro
 "makedev", you should undefine it after including <sys/types.h>. [-Werror]
         s->st_rdev = makedev (maj, min);
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:226:0,
                 from /usr/include/stdlib.h:291,
                 from parse_ls_vga.c:40:}}}

[egmont]

Replying to and:

How do deal with deprecated makedev(),major(),minor() pull from sys/types.h since glibc 2.25 ?

This problem was already raised in #3780 and #3857. No resolution yet I'm afraid. Perhaps autoconf needs to be upgraded to a git version on every system where mc's ./autogen.sh is run (that is, developers' and tarball creating machines).

[and]

Replying to egmont:

Replying to and:

How do deal with deprecated makedev(),major(),minor() pull from sys/types.h since glibc 2.25 ?

This problem was already raised in #3780 and #3857. No resolution yet I'm afraid. Perhaps autoconf needs to be upgraded to a git version on every system where mc's ./autogen.sh is run (that is, developers' and tarball creating machines).

Ahh thanks, I will take #3857 for further discussion regarding <sys/types.h> warning.

[andrew_b]

mc-3876-panel.c-Cleanup-potential-null-pointer-dereference-warning.patch​: applied.

mc-3876-dir.c-Cleanup-potential-null-pointer-dereference-warning.patch: I think this is overcheck. vpath_str == NULL is the result of vpath == NULL. If vpath == NULL, then mc_opendir() returns NULL, and line 653 is not reached.

mc-3876-edit.c-Cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warnings.patch​:
mc-3876-editwidget.c-Cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warnings.patch:
mc-3876-info.c-Cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warnings.patch: applied and combined into single commit.

mc-3876-utilunix.c-Cleanup-implicit-fallthrough-warning.patch​:applied.

mc-3876-edit.c-Cleanup-unreachable-code-return-warning.patch​: applied.

Thanks!

[andrew_b]

At this moment, 3876_cleanup has 35 commits. I thing this is time to make the first merge of this branch to master.

3876_cleanup rebased to current master.
Initial changeset:98f6c26304d3006e4ed4148eb810562a4e97d880.
Please review.

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [c9ca0cc01bd627c19626083b88a5a3dd0642c6db].

git log --pretty=oneline e4d9a81..c9ca0cc

[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

NEWS-4.8.22

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

done

[zaytsev]

create new tag in git

done

new version in Trac

done

new milestone in Trac

done

create tar.(bz2|xz) package files

done

make checksums for archives

done

upload source packages and checksums to the special upload area

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

developers should download tarballs, verify checksums, compile and install locally; if everything is ok, then developers vote for the ticket

[zaytsev]

upload source packages and checksums

done

run command

done

update Wiki start page with latest release number

done

write an announcement

done

create new ticket (type=task, component=adm) for the next release

done; #3915

close ticket for release

done

close current milestone

done