Bug#3066: a.out binaries in various packages
Craig Sanders writes:
> My semi-automated a.out binary checker has detected that the following
> packages installed on my system contain a.out binaries:
How do you check them? Do you have a script? If so would you mail it to me?
> Package: a2gs
> Section: text
> Maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald <K.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk>
> Version: 1.0-4
> /usr/bin/a2gs: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
Do we really need this anymore?
> Package: elv-ctags
> Section: editors
> Maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
> Version: 1.8pl4-20
> /usr/bin/ctags: Linux/i386 impure executable (OMAGIC), stripped
>
> ----------------
>
> Package: elv-fmt
> Section: editors
> Maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
> Version: 1.8pl4-20
> /usr/bin/fmt: Linux/i386 impure executable (OMAGIC), stripped
I believe these are outdated. Elvis has version 2.0-1 now.
> Package: gs
> Section: text
> Maintainer: Ted Hajek <tedhajek@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
> Version: 2.6.1pl4-5
> /usr/bin/gs: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
There are two newer version in ELF.
> Package: pdksh
> Section: shells
> Maintainer: Martin Schulze<joey@debian.org>
> Version: 5.2.3-1
> /bin/ksh: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
The new one is ELF.
> Package: pgp-i
> Section: non-free
> Maintainer: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
> Version: 2.6.2i-5
> /usr/bin/pgp-i: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
Strange. I have the same version, but it's ELF.
Michael
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