Changes to rjk-nntp-tools

Miscellaneous build fixes.

Miscellaneous build fixes and bug fixes.

New program, news-sources, for graphically representing the share of news sent by each peer.

In the Debian package, spoolstats runs as user news by default now. This can be changed by editing /etc/default/spoolstats.

Less warnings from spoolstats.

New user-agent table entries for spoolstats.

Trivial fixes plus a new tool, find-unhistorical, to find articles in an INN news spool that aren’t in the history.

lj2news

• Check the HTTP status and content type before assuming that the data at the given URL is RSS. This should produce more comprehensible error messages, particularly when using unreliable feeds.
• Limit the protocols supported to HTTP and HTTPS.
• More verbose debug output.

bzr2news and git2news

• Include MIME headers documenting the encoding used, and translate encodings as required to produce coherent results.
• Track posted commits locally rather than relying on the news server rejecting duplicate message IDs.
• bzr2news now works properly.
• Improve --help output.

lj2news

• Don’t choke on RSS that uses XML namespaces.
• New --timeout option to lj2news.
• Honor -4 and -6 options more fully.

Spoolstats

• The Y axes are now set more closely.
• The color and font of the graphs have been changed slightly.

• When the graph covers a small number of years, unlabelled ticks are included for each month.
• The scan and report phases can be individually suppressed; the results of the scan phase are written to logfiles.

Miscellaneous

• Build fixes for OSX/Fink.
• Properly initialize gcrypt.
• Disable O_NONBLOCK when invoking authinfo generic helper.

git2news now supports using non-default branches. For instance you can write:

git2news -n example.commits rjk-nntp-tools rjk-nntp-tools:release

…to publish commits from both the default (master) and release branches.