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Re: What has happened to glim(pse)



On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:33, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:16:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote:
> > > E: Package glimpse has no installation candidate
> > > 
> > > Has it been obsoleted or removed for some reason?
> > 
> > Yes, it was removed a long time ago:
> > 
> > =========================================================================
> > [Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:34:44 -0400] [ftpmaster: James Troup]
> > Removed the following packages from unstable:
> > 
> >    glimpse |      4.1-2 | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc
> > Closed bugs: 109355
> > 
> > ------------------- Reason -------------------
> > ROQA; no FHS transition, maintainer MIA, 1.5 year old grave security bugs.
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > =========================================================================
> > 
> > Maybe htdig or mnogosearch is what you're looking for?
> 
> Those two seem to be for web sites. What about for indexing an arbitrary
> collection of text files?
> 

You can get glimpse from their website, it compiled and installed ok on
my sid box last night.  It's version 4.17.4.  I'll have to check into
the security issue, should have done that before I installed it, the
changelog stops at 4.12.6.  

http://webglimpse.net/trial/glimpse-latest.tar.gz

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