Merge from alioth

Replace deprecated string.$foo($bar, $ARGS) calls with $bar.$foo($ARGS).
Also cherry pick two fixes on the patch from later in that tree:
  revno: 375
  committer: Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org>
  branch nick: userdir-ldap-common
  timestamp: Thu 2008-01-10 13:44:07 +0000
  message:
    Don't convert strings to integers, just check that they could be converted.

    Noticed by Peter (again)
  --
  revno: 376
  committer: Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org>
  branch nick: userdir-ldap-common
  timestamp: Thu 2008-01-10 13:48:43 +0000
  message:
    and some more old CheckNumber fixes

diff --cc debian/changelog
Simple merge

diff --cc ud-userimport
index aa580fa,3e926ec..4e044c7
--- 1/ud-userimport
--- 2/ud-userimport
+++ b/ud-userimport
@@@ -88,8 -83,8 +83,10 @@@ def DoPasswd(l,Passwd)
  
        Split = re.split("[:\n]",Line);
        (Split[4],cn,mn,sn) = ParseGecos(Split[4]);
-       CheckNumber(Split[2]);
-       CheckNumber(Split[3]);
 -      Split[2] = int(Split[2])
 -      Split[3] = int(Split[3])
++      # This just tests whether these are integers and throws an
++      # exception if not
++      int(Split[2])
++      int(Split[3])
        Rec = [("uid",Split[0]),
               ("uidNumber",Split[2]),
               ("gidNumber",Split[3]),
@@@ -148,7 -143,7 +145,7 @@@ def DoShadow(l,Shadow)
           continue;
  
        for x in range(2,8):
-          CheckNumber(Split[x]);
 -         Split[x] = int(Split[x])
++         int(Split[x])
  
        Rec = [(ldap.MOD_REPLACE,"shadowLastChange",Split[2]),
               (ldap.MOD_REPLACE,"shadowMin",Split[3]),
@@@ -189,7 -184,7 +186,7 @@@ def DoGroup(l,Group)
        # Split up the group information
        Split = re.split("[:\n]",Line);
        Members = re.split("[, ]*",Split[3]);
-       CheckNumber(Split[2]);
 -      Split[2] = int(Split[2])
++      int(Split[2])
  
        # Iterate over the membership list and add the membership information
        # To the directory