Fedora 12 Update: minicom-2.3-8.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4720
2010-03-18 02:12:57
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Name        : minicom
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.3
Release     : 8.fc12
URL         : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/
Summary     : A text-based modem control and terminal emulation program
Description :
Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation
program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing
directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting
language, and other features.

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Update Information:

- Fixes program crash when removing USB-serial converter.  - Fixes crashing in
some translations.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 16 2010 Jan Görig <jgorig at redhat.com> 2.3-8
- stripped translation overflow patch
* Tue Mar 16 2010 Jan Görig <jgorig at redhat.com> 2.3-7
- modify minicom-2.3-rh.patch - wrong doinit checking (#519637)
- backported translation overflow patch (#555283)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #552693 - [abrt] crash detected in minicom-2.3-6.fc12
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552693
  [ 2 ] Bug #555283 - [patch] crash on startup
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555283
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update minicom' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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