Re: Bug#2092: procps needs an update for kernels > 1.3.53
On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Helmut Geyer wrote:
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> I have sent several patches to the procps maintainer several months ago
> and he promised to release a new version RSN. As this didn't happen,
> I have put together a procps suite including the patches from sunsite
> and some other fixes (e.g. the signal and cmd handling are broken in
> procps as well).
>
Could you be more specific about whom you contacted? Could you give a
name and e-mail address?
It's not clear to me who is the upstream maintainer of this package now.
> As I do not have current ncurses (needed for top and pstree) and the
> system should be tested before releasing it, I didn't make
> any binary package. The source package procps-test.tar.gz has been
> uploaded to ftp.debian.org. THIS IS NO PACKAGE MEANT FOR INSTALLING
> right now, please test it and tell me how yopu like it.
>
I tested your patch and both top and oldtop segfault. I guess it has
something to do with ncurses stuff but I haven't look into it yet.
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