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Re: ITR: cryopid - QA upload



On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:56 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2008, 19:56 +0100 schrieb Neil Williams:
> > Julian, in #428739, the maintainer who orphaned this package says:
> > 
> > "Prospective adopters are still welcome to ask me for sponsoring."
> > 
> > I wonder, have you contacted Christoph Berg (myon) via this list or
> > direct about that offer?
> It was actually more or less part of my NM process. It is not uploaded
> because the executables created by the command do not run, they always
> segfault. At least that was the situation on sid/amd64 with kernel
> 2.6.25. (If you create them using the old version from the archive, they
> work)

> - Have you successfully managed to freeze and continue a process?

That was going to be the next thing to check . . . (in a chroot,
naturally).

>  - If yes, on which architecture?
>
> See Bug#479902 for further information.

I note that the request to check the package on i386 has had no reply.
However, the Ubuntu bug against cryopid claims segmentation faults on
i386 WITHOUT your changes:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryopid/+bug/227252

The follow-ups appear to indicate that a rebuilt tickless kernel may be
necessary.

It may be best to retitle #428739 as a request for removal and reassign
it to ftp.debian.org so that cryopid can be removed from unstable as a
follow-up to the removal from testing.

Upstream appears dead, the download link was last updated: Wed, 23 Nov
2005. The homepage promotes cryopid as a solution that does not require
kernel modifications, so it would appear that the package simply has not
kept up with kernel changes and has lost a large part of it's
functionality.

http://cryopid.berlios.de/

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/cryopid-devel/2008-July/000215.html
"> Is anyone maintaining this program?

Nope. I have dreams of picking up again soon, but haven't yet found the
time. A home with a new maintainer would be welcome.

Cheers,
Bernard."

Maybe Debian (and Ubuntu) would be better off without cryopid.

This isn't an issue for Lenny, anyway.

The listing on mentors could also be removed/clarified/modified to
indicate that the version on mentors is not actually ready.

-- 


Neil Williams
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