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Re: Need advice if changes to file_5.04-6 enabling build on GNU/Hurd are OK?



On 08/02/11 23:29, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 23:13 +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 08/02/11 22:55, Svante Signell wrote:
>>> I've managed to make the package file_5.04-6 to build on Hurd overcoming
>>> the MAXPATHLEN problems. Three .c files and one .h file was changed: Can
>>> somebody take a look to check if the the patch attached below is correct
>>> (before I create send a bug report to the package managers). Sorry for
>>> some blanks and tabs changes.
>>
>> You can compare this with my patch on alioth:
>>
>> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312334&group_id=30628&atid=410472
> 
> What a waste of effort, I did not know that a patch existed already. Why
> are patches newer applied, your patch seems to be a year old!

I never got to look at Samuel's comment and submit it to the Debian package /
upstream.

> Before I
> get into trying to fix more packages, how to find out for which failed
> packages, see http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/failed_packages.txt.gz
> a patch (not-applied) already exist??

See the patch tracker at http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-hurd

Cheers,
Emilio


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