Re: Bugs against package 'timeout'
On 2013-05-16 14:42 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> While triaging bugs that don't belong to any package I have found these:
>
> $ querybts --buglist timeout
> Querying Debian BTS for reports on timeout...
> #585745 Please drop timeout binary package
> #531787 timeout move to coreutils?
These can obviously be closed, because timeout is now indeed provided by
coreutils.
> #520323 wrong exit code when timeout not reached
> #531025 change in usage should be doc in NEWS. timeout command always take 'time' seconds to finish
> #639197 timeout program does not return exit status of executed program
> #399769 timeout: bad support for processes which use a process group
After a quick glance, it seems to me that coreutils' version of timeout
behaves correctly in all these cases, but you might want to double-check
that.
> #292817 timeout: Please support more time formats
Implemented in the coreutils version, see "timeout --help".
> As far as I can tell the package is not in Debian anymore[1] so I
> propose closing these bugs. If there is no disagreement I will do so in
> a few days.
Seems good to me.
Cheers,
Sven
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