Re: two issues: ssh and 2.2.9 kernel

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 9 Jun 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > 
> > >  
> > > > 2.2.9 seems to have fixed the high load problem.  However, there
> > > > definately *is* still a problem with gmp2 2.0.2-6.2 and ssh
> > > > 1.2.26-1.2.  As Ivan reported, it hangs on boot, sucking all CPU.
> > > > Very annoying.  I can neither ssh in nor out.
> > > 
> > > There was a bug in the shared libgmp. I am not sure it will fix
> > > your problem, but it did fix kaffe from coredumping.
> 
> > As the maintainer of libgmp2, I am a bit disapointed that NMUs are being
> > made without any notification sent to me.
> 
> NMUs were made by somebody, but they weren't NMUs of "libgmp2", but
> rather NMUs of "gmp2".  (Which also appears to be maintained by you.)
> My guess is that it's a depricated package that needs to be removed
> from potato.  I have no idea why people are releasing NMUs of an
> obsolete package (or NMUs of any package without contacting the
> maintainer).  Potato for i386 currently contains libgmp2_2.0.2-2 and
> gmp2_2.0.2-6.2.

I guess it's time for a bug report against the ftp site?

libgmp2 Replaces:, Conflicts:, and Provides: gmp2

Yes, gmp2 is depricated and should be removed from the distribution.

Thanks for clearing up the confusion.

Luck,

Dwarf
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