Among the 1 debian patch available in version 8.17.1-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:
commit b4ce4bd3df033a748aba949148ea2598f8709462 Author: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> Date: Mon Oct 30 18:52:22 2023 +0100 debian/salsa-ci: disable crossbuild arm64, which fails. commit c462d1172a5ed738335e087a730497b310e6feea Author: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> Date: Mon Oct 30 17:11:34 2023 +0100 03_texinfo7.1: Workaround for texinfo 7.1 which renamed set_form_init_file to texinfo_set_from_init_file.