Installed setserial 2.15-9 (source i386)
Installed:
setserial_2.15-9_i386.deb
to dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/setserial_2.15-9.deb
replacing setserial_2.15-8.deb
setserial_2.15-9.diff.gz
to dists/potato/main/source/base/setserial_2.15-9.diff.gz
replacing setserial_2.15-8.diff.gz
setserial_2.15-9.dsc
to dists/potato/main/source/base/setserial_2.15-9.dsc
replacing setserial_2.15-8.dsc
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Format: 1.6
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:25:00 +0100
Source: setserial
Binary: setserial
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.15-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Gordon Russell <g.russell@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
Description:
setserial - Controls configuration of serial ports.
Closes: 40051 40957 40964 40965 40993
Changes:
setserial (2.15-9) unstable; urgency=low
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* The bug reports are starting to back up now. Sorry for any delay.
This release is more experimental than usual. PCMCIA users please
investigate with a little caution. The routines which protected you
have been removed from the control script and put into the C code.
* The patch to make compilation on sparcs and alphas was not applied
correctly. It was broken anyway. I have now read the manual on autoconf
and fixed it. Hope this is better for everyone...
(closes: #40051)
* setserial does not check for the existence of update-modules - I use
this in the postinst file, to support module loading and unloading from
the kernel. Although modutils is "required", and thus I should not have
to worry about it not being there, in truth if the serial module is
hardwired in the kernel, then it will never be unloaded, and thus I
do not really need modutils. So I will agree with the bug submitter, and
ignore its absence if that is the case.
(closes: #40957)
* In the postinst file for i386, I talk about saving when you "logout". I
really ment to say "shutdown or halt your machine".
(closes: #40993)
* Apparently the setserial as supplied from upstream does not AUTOSAVE
all the needed information to make a successful reload of all useful data.
I have edited the setserial.c code to do it properly, and send the changes
upstream.
A moan about the size of the /etc/init.d/setserial file was present.
Personally I don't see why it matters, but I have recoded much of the
code in c and put it into the executable. Again I will forward the
changes upstream. Of course, this is likely to produce even more bug
reports...
Please try to put only one bug in each report. This one griped about a few
things, which makes it hard to close. However, everything else is really
wishlist stuff so I am making the bold step of closing it anyway. If people
are unhappy they should resubmit the bugs seperately...
The additional problems were:
o manual page does not contain some useful information which is only
found in the docs - wishlist stuff, and maintaining a changed manual
page when the upstream maintainer changes is frequently is not my
idea of fun.
o complaint that if root sets the wrong configuration on the serial
ports, shutdowns and then reboots, then wrong configuration is still
there - root is a dangerous user and I don't know what to do to make
it safer!
(closes: #40964, #40965) (duplicated reports)
Files:
6e0a6d876ac5a6e2dd1b9bdd03b02832 636 base required setserial_2.15-9.dsc
7f2a89a57761352ac297e6fc5bbfb8a2 18753 base required setserial_2.15-9.diff.gz
bf0807d154307815949acbb53f4ef18a 29906 base required setserial_2.15-9_i386.deb
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