On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:34:44PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mark van Eijk wrote: > >On second thought... Looking through the serpento package and seeing the > >lack of active bug-fixing from the serpento packager, I'm dropping this > >package and switching back to dictd. > > I have not the time to do deeper investigation into serpento, but would > you think that it qualifies for an NMU that fixes this very problem? In > this case I would go for it because it fixes an RC bug.
An NMU would have to solve: * #218254 (pidfile handling in initscript broken) * #277925 (force-reload does not work) As far as I can see, the latter is a result of pidfile handling being broken (#218254). It seems that the pidfile handling can be fixed by using the patches attached to #218254. (These patches have been available since 2003-10-30, which should tell you something about the responsiveness of the package maintainer.) If you combine this with your hackish fix, then you solve #356796 and #356909 in the process. To summarize, if you decide to NMU the package, you should be able to fix #218254, #277925, #356796, #356909 and #357020. This shouldn't be too much work if you start out with the NMU-version already available in the repository (serpento 0.4.1) and check out the patches that were supplied (see #218254). If I can be of any assistance, please let me know. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
