[gpsd-dev] Getting ready to ship 3.8

[Eric S. Raymond]

I'd like to do a point release soon. No one big reason, but we've had
an accumulation of minor fixes, feature additions, and packaging
tweaks that I want to get out the door.

However, there are two reported segfault errors - Debian bug #689187
in gpsfake and Savannah bug #37451 in gpsmon - which I haven't been
able to reproduce. They may point at a difficult-to-invoke bug in the
NMEA driver.  Due to these, we're currently in state Red.

The bug reports are here:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?37451
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689187

All experienced devs: please try to reproduce these and see
if you can generate any insights.
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