Re: Intro + Re: Heads up: Bug#981055: O: john -- active password cracking tool
Hi Samuel,
Samuel Henrique wrote:
> > Will hopefully finish that part this night and upload.
Uploaded it just now. The fix for #640288 looked as if it needed some
more fine-tuning to not run into piuparts-related issues. postrm might
be a bit noisy now, but at least it's telling what it's removing (and
what not).
> I was about to send an email talking about this, I started working on
> it myself to get an idea of how much work will be needed and I totally
> gave up trying to get it for bullseye (especially considering the
> deadline for NEW is tomorrow).
Would the jumbo patch have to go through NEW? I only see john,
john-data and john-dbgsym in Kali (i.e. same package names as in
Debian).
> > * Check how much the packaging from Kali and Debian differs.
> > * Check how well debian/copyright was maintained in Kali for the jumbo
> > patch part.
> > * Eventually merge the two packagings and upload the result to
> > Experimental (at least if we're still in the freeze then).
>
> I agree with your plan of action.
:-)
> Here are a few notes I got from my quick look at it:
Thanks for these.
Regards, Axel
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