Adding upstream version 2.23+dfsg.upstream/2.23+dfsgupstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+2.23: 2023-01-27::
+  Fix typo in support for IPv6 listening.
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+2.22: 2022-03-15::
+  Add support for IPv6 listening.
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+2.21: 2022-01-25::
+  Restore function of immediate option.
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+2.20: 2021-09-20
+  Added --posord-file option
+  Add socket connection-timeout option.
+  Ubuntu deleted /usr/bin/python, change all invocations to Python 3.
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+2.19: 2020-06-29
+  Codebase is now fully forward-poerted to Python 3.
+
+2.18: 2016-06-02 
+  Add the ability to set the notification-message template (Debian bug #824512)
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+2.17: 2016-03-14
+  Add a reconnect delay (Debian bug #749650).
+  Add proxy support (requres setting some variables in the source file).
+  Use git abbreviated hash to address Debian complaints.
+
+2.16: 2016-02-18
+  Code now runs under either Python 2 or Python 3
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+2.15: 2016-01-12
+  Emergency backout of getaddrinfo, it randomly hangs.
+
+2.14: 2016-01-12
+  Lookup with getaddrinfo allows use with IPv6.
+  Documentation improvements.
+
+2.13: 2015-06-14
+  SSL validation fix.
+  Hardening against Unicode decode errors.
+  irk becomes a library so it can be re-used.
+
+2.12: 2014-10-22
+  Catch erroneous UTF-8 or non-UTF-8 from servers.
+  Also autodetect the right logging device under FreeBSD: /var/run/syslog
+
+2.11: 2014-06-20
+  With -i, message string argument now optional, stdin is read if it is absent.
+  Auto-adapt to BSD & OS X log device as well as Linux's.
+
+2.10: 2014-06-19
+  irk no longer fails on ircs channel URLs.
+
+2.9: 2014-06-01
+  If irkerd is running in background, log to /dev/syslog (facility daemon).
+  New -H option to set host listening address.
+  Add support for using CertFP to auth to the IRC server, and document it.
+
+2.8: 2014-05-30
+  Various minor improvements to irk.
+  Cope better with branch names containing slashes.
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+2.7: 2014-03-15
+  Add support for ircs:// and SSL/TLS connections to IRC servers.
+  Add support for per-URL usernames and passwords.
+
+2.6: 2014-02-04
+   Fix for an infinite loop on failing to connect to IRC
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+2.5: 2013-12-24
+   Bug fix - remove a deadlock we inherited from irclib.
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+2.4: 2013-12-03
+   Bug fix release - some users reported failure to connect with 2.3.
+   Also prevent a crash if Unicode shows up in the wrong place.
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+2.3: 2013-11-30
+  -i option enables immediate sending of one line in foreground.
+
+2.2: 2013-11-29
+  Fixed Unicode processing - got busted in 2.0 when irclib was removed.
+  Show Python traceback on higher debug levels.
+
+2.1: 2013-11-26
+  A performance improvement in the git repository hook.
+  Documentation polishing.
+
+2.0: 2013-11-16
+  The dependency on irclib is gone.
+  An email delivery method, suitable for use on SourceForge.
+  irkerhook can now be used as a hg changegroup hook.
+  Prevent misbehavior on UTF-8 in commit metadata.
+  Fix a crash bug on invalid hostnames.
+
+1.20: 2013-05-17
+  Compatibility back to Python 2.4 (provided simplejson is present).
+  Increased anti-flood delay to avoid trouble with freenode.
+
+1.19: 2013-05-06
+  Fixed a minor bug in argument processing
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+1.18: 2013-04-16
+  Added -l option; irker can now be used as a channel monitor.
+  Added -n and -p option: the nick can be forced and authenticated.
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+1.17: 2013-02-03
+  Various minor fixes and bulletproofing.
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+1.16: 2013-01-24
+  Deal gracefully with non-ASCII author names and '|' in the command line.
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+1.15: 2012-12-08
+  Don't append an extra newline in the Subversion hook.
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+1.14: 2012-11-26
+  irclib 5.0 and urlparse compatibility fixes.
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+1.13: 2012-11-06
+  Fix for a very rare thread race found by AI0867.
+  Work around a midesign in the IRC library.
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+1.12: 2012-10-11
+  Emergency workaround for a Unicode-handling error buried deep in irclib.
+  The IRC library at version 3.2 or later is required for this version!
+  Only ship to freenode #commits by default.
+
+1.11: 2012-10-10
+  Code is now fully Unicode-safe.
+  A 'cialike' option emulates the file-summary behavior on the old CIA service.
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+1.10: 2012-10-09
+  Expire disconnected connections if they aren't needed or can't reconnect.
+  Eventlet support removed - didn't play well with the library mutex.
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+1.9: 2012-10-08
+  Proper mutex locks prevent an occasional thread crash on session timeout.
+  There's now systemd installation support for irkerd.
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+1.8: 2012-10-06
+  It's now possible to send to nick URLs.
+  Cope gracefully if an IRC server dies or hangs during the nick handshake.
+
+1.7: 2012-10-05
+  Optional metadata filtering with a user-specified command.
+  irkerd code is now armored against IRC library errors in the delivery threads.
+
+1.6: 2012-10-04
+  In 1.5 trying to appease pylint broke the Mercurial hook.
+  Added credits for contributors in hacking.txt.
+  Fix the aging out of connections when we hit a resource limit.
+
+1.5: 2012-10-03
+  Mercurial support.
+  Shorten nick negotiation by choosing a random nick base from a large range.
+  Make irkerd exit cleanly on control-C.
+
+1.4: 2012-10-02
+  Graceful handling of server disconnects and kicks.
+  Distribution now inclues an installable irkerd plist for Mac OS/X.
+  The color variable is no longer boolean; may be miRC or ANSI.
+  The installation instructions for irkerhook.py have changed!
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+1.3: 2012-10-01
+  Support for an irker.conf file to set irkerhook variables under Subversion.
+  Color highlighting of notification fields can be enabled. 
+  irkerhook.py now has its own manual page.
+  Added channelmax variable for rate-limiting.
+  irkerd now uses green threads, with much lower overhead.
+  Fix a bug in handling of channel names with no prefix.
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+1.2: 2012-09-30
+  All segments of a message with embedded newlines are now transmitted.
+  Message reduction - irkerhook drops the filelist on excessively long ones.
+  Shell quote hardening in irkerhook.py and some anti-DoS logic.
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+1.1: 2012-09-28
+  Add a delay to avoid threads spinning on the empty-queue-check, eating CPU.
+  Fix a bug in reporting of multi-file commits.
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+1.0: 2012-09-27
+  First production version, somewhat rushed by the sudden death of cia.vc
+  on 24 September.
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