Package: qd Version: 1.0.0-rc2-4+b1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The website of Dick Howell, the author of qd, is now permanently offline.
Luckily there are at least two mirrors. One is courtecy of Larry Perry, the author of the EM3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] client monitor for Windows, the other is provided by myself. The mirror by Larry Perry is located at: http://home.comcast.net/~wxdude2/rph/fah.html and has an additional note on Dick Howells passing. This mirror was made on 4 August 2005. My mirror is slightly more recent, it has the very last update of the website on 11 August 2005. It's located at: http://linuxminded.xs4all.nl/mirror/www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html I've attached two patches, one is a patch to the control file of the qd deb package <<qd-control.patch>>, the other is a patch to the control file of the kfolding source package as installed by `apt-get source qd` <<kfolding-control.patch>>. All I did was change the Homepage URL to mirror of it. I noticed this while I was trying to create a debian package of the qd version I now maintain. It has a few bugfixes and some documentation nothing fancy yet. I'll probably file a more serious bug against qd when I have a working test case for another issue it has. All of Dick Howells versions of qd (up to and including functional revision 032), will crash if it is analysing a queue.dat file which has an entry for one of the projects worth more than 655.35 credits and it also needs that credit from its datafile qdinfo.dat. If qdinfo.dat has no entries for a project worth more than 655.35 credits all is OK, if it does but the queue.dat being analysed does not contain a project which is worth more than 655.35 credits, qd will simply not display the credits of each project at all. I've fixed this by changing the datatype to handle 32 bits ints, the credit is stored as credit*100. Regards, Bas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages qd depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an qd recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- control-orig 2005-12-29 15:00:09.000000000 +0100 +++ control 2005-12-29 15:01:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ information in a file called emprotz.dat (it used to be emprotx.dat), if it is present in the folding directory. . - Homepage: http://www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html + Homepage: http://linuxminded.xs4all.nl/mirror/www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html
--- control-orig 2005-12-29 15:04:50.000000000 +0100 +++ control 2005-12-29 15:04:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ information in a file called emprotz.dat (it used to be emprotx.dat), if it is present in the folding directory. . - Homepage: http://www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html + Homepage: http://linuxminded.xs4all.nl/mirror/www.boston.quik.com/rph/fah.html
