Modified channel handling; full DiSEqC support

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 - Avoiding restarts due to 'panic level' when switching channels on the primary
   device during EPG scan.
 
-2002-09-30: Version 1.1.12
+2002-10-06: Version 1.1.12
 
 - Fixed a missing Flush() call in the remote control learning procedure (thanks
   to Oliver Endriss).
+- Modified channel handling to cover all parameters necessary for DVB-C and DVB-T
+  (see man vdr(5) for the meaning of the additional parameters stored in the field
+  previously named 'polarisation'). Thanks to Uwe Scheffler for testing.
+  If you have a system with different kinds of DVB cards, like DVB-T and DVB-C,
+  for instance, there is no more need to distinguish the channels through the
+  'Ca' parameter in order to assign them to the various DVB cards. This is now
+  taken care of by the "source" parameter. So a channel marked as "terrestrial",
+  for example, will only be received on DVB-T cards.
+  Note that the cChannel class has been moved into a separate file (channels.[ch]),
+  and that all data members have been made private and are now only accessible
+  through member functions. You may have to change any plugin code that accesses
+  cChannel data accordingly.
+- The new configuration file 'sources.conf' contains the various signal sources
+  (satellites, cable and terrestrial) which are used in 'channels.conf' and
+  'diseqc.conf' (thanks to Reinhard Walter Buchner for adding some satellites to
+  'sources.conf' and Oliver Endriss and Lauri Tischler for testing and debugging).
+- The 'diseqc' parameter in the channel definitions has been redefined to hold the
+  "source" of the given channel (which can be either a satellite, cable or terrestrial).
+  For compatibility with channels.conf files from older versions, numeric values in
+  this parameter will be tolerated, but they have no meaning. If you want to use
+  DiSEqC you will need to replace these old values with the proper source identifiers
+  defined in the new configuration file 'sources.conf'. See how this is done in the
+  'channels.conf' file that comes with the VDR package.
+- The new configuration file 'diseqc.conf' can be used to set up the individual
+  diseqc configuration (see man vdr(5) for a description of the file format).
+- The "Edit channel" menu has a new entry "Source:" in which the source of this
+  channel can be selected (either a satellite, cable or terrestrial). The set of
+  parameters at the end of this menu will change according to the type of source.
+- The "Use DiSEqC" parameter in the "Setup/LNB" menu has been moved to the beginning
+  of the list and disables the rest of the parameters when set to "yes", since these
+  are now only meaningful if DiSEqC is _not_ used.