Re: Debian and Y2K
That seems to be a good initiative.
I can check passwd, procps, psmisc if it is ok.
/Karl
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Ian Redfern wrote:
> According to http://www.debian.org/y2k/ there are a number of packages (some
> Debian-specific) that have nobody willing to state they are year 2000
> compliant.
>
> Over the weekend I took a look at the source of some of these packages in
> slink (the web page seems to only cover hamm). Some of them contain no
> executables (e.g. base-files), and many have no date/time-related code in
> them.
>
> I can't see anything that could cause a year 2000 problem in the source of
> the following:
>
> base-files-2.1.0
> base-passwd-2.0.3.3
> bsdutils-4.4.1.1
> debianutils-1.10
> fdflush-1.0.0
> hostname-2.04
> ld.so-1.9.10
> makedev-2.3.1
> modconf-0.2.26
> mount-2.8a
> setserial-2.14
> sysklogd-1.3
> sysvinit-2.76
> update-1.3
>
> I'm not competent to comment on the assembler in mbr-1.0.0, but a comment in
> the code implies it might not be midnight compliant.
>
> This leaves dialog, dpkg, e2fs-progs, elvis-tiny, kbd, lilo, login, mawk,
> modutils, ncurses3.4, passwd, procps, psmisc, syslinux, timezones,
> util-linux and whiptail just in base.
>
> Now, Debian can't be in the business of warranty for Y2K problems (nor can
> I!), but the web page could at least indicate if someone has looked at the
> code to see if there will be a difficulty. And if there are any, then users
> will need patches pretty soon. In particular, nobody else is going to put up
> a Y2K statement about debianutils.
>
> Is anyone else interested in this? Red Hat has been funding black box
> testing, but that's expensive and longwinded when you have the source.
>
> Ian Redfern (redferni@logica.com).
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