Re: vim on powerpc
On 10/12/25 6:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 2025-10-12 at 15:23 +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
>> On 10/12/25 06:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>
>>> There is no need for a manual build. Just download vim-common in the
>>> version 2:9.1.1230-2 from snapshot.debian.org:
>>
>> Wasn't there a security advisory recently?
>
> Stan is using an unsupported distribution on an unsupported architecture,
Well, the PowerBook G3 Wallstreet is only as unsupported as every other
Apple PowerMac G3 or G4 32-bit system.
And the distribution I'm using for this particular Wallstreet testing is
default Debian SID, including systemd. That's why I "blindly" updated it
(I'm using all the defaults, except for GRUB). I did add a few things to
make it usable (dump/restore, telnet, telnetd, ftp, ftpd, ifconfig,
etc.). But it's basically a default Debian SID system.
> I don't think that he cares about some vulnerabilities in vim ;-).
Well, sure, I always care about vulnerabilities. But if it's something
like a local privilege escalation exploit, it doesn't really matter on
my test systems. People in corporate environments should care, but most
of them won't be using PowerBook G3 systems anyway. If it's a data
corruption issue, I would like to know about it.
Thanks again for the fix.
>
> Adrian
>
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