Re: Bug#286456: Man page no longer maintained?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Ralf Treinen a écrit :
> > - the previous version of advi contains a long list of debian patches,
> > and most of them do not apply to the newest upstream version. So
> > updating the package would mean quite some work, and probably good
> > knowledge of advi.
>
> Why are there so many patches, by the way? Have them been submitted
> upstream?
Good question. It seems to me that they date back to the
time when Sven was maintaining that package. No idea
whether they have been communicated back to upstream.
Anyway, this is not the easiest upstream that one can
imagine; you have to subscribe to their mailing list
just to have the right to submit bug reports.
> > - There is a security issue with advi, so one needs to carefully patch
> > the upstream source here.
>
> Could you give more details, please? Or give some pointers...
I'll rather not tell on a public mailing list (for the record: in
the current debian package this issue is resolved AFAICS). Stéphane:
I'll tell you next week when I am back in Paris (to Helge in Junichi: in
private mail in case you are interested).
-Ralf
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Ralf Treinen
Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes
Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/
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