Re: NMU for ngrep, what to do?
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:53:02PM +0200, Alexander Neumann wrote:
> since I would dislike to see ngrep beeing removed from unstable I would
> like to do an NMU, but I'm unsure about the exact procedure in this
> case.
>
> It's a bug which affects only SPARC and there is a patch available in
> the BTS. I'm not sure if this was sent upstream. Should i simply build
> a new ngrep-package with the patch and do an NMU (to prevent the
> removal and to close the bug) and send the patch to the maintainer and
> upstream (again)?
>
> Can someone please comment on this?
Unless I am mistaken, ngrep requires root privileges in order to work, at
least in the test case in the BTS. If you have a SPARC available to test
on, then great. If not, then I do and you can send a package to me for
testing.
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- mdz
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