Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-06
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 09:50:59PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> There are now 143 packages in the list, with upgrades on the way for 6
> more. Progress seems to have stalled on this front. Perhaps the
> remaining packages are truly uninteresting :-)
It could be that, but also there are some
big ones here, and perhaps nobody wants to tackle
a big package they don't really know.
Old source format in particular is a lot of work.
> Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>:
> lshell-2.01-8(extra)
Just sent in a non-maintainer of this.
> wml-1.3.1-1
Sounds big from the description.
> dbf2mysql-1.10b-0
There is a -2 in contrib/misc as well. Both libc5.
This is a bug, perhaps against ftp.debian.org?
> Igor Grobman <igor@vaca.net>:
> grmonitor-0.53-2
The package says Christoph Lameter is the maintainer.
Good luck to Igor, it looks like some work. I tried to compile it
just now.
> Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>:
> xarclock-1.0-3
Interesting program this. Just uploaded 1.0-3.1 (libc6).
> Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
> pacman-10-4
Compiled ok with libc6, but segfaults on execution.
> Fabien Ninoles <ninf01@gel.usherb.ca>:
> vrweb-1.3-1
Rather huge. Another day perhaps..
> Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>:
> dome-4.60-1
Compiled fine but appears to segfault on execution.
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>:
> whirlgif-2.01-2
Just uploaded -2.1.
hamish
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