On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:53:01PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Yotam Rubin writes: > > Greetings, > > > > The last libsafe upload has been over a year ago. Since then, libsafe > > has accumulated a large number of bugs. The current Debian release doesn't > > seem to be very effective. I've packaged the latest libsafe and made it > > available at: http://192.117.130.34/Fendor/debian/libsafe/ > > Can someone NMU that? I've contacted the maintainer but received no reply. > > It's a shame that libsafe wouldn't be usable for Debian users. > > - the upload isn't marked as a NMU
It's not. I only included the fixes. > > - the package does not build from source (calls ldconfig): That slipped in. It was actually disabled before I merged some patches. > > - the package does not build a -dev package. Correct? Indeed it doesn't, and it shouldn't. > > - the package overwrites the old library? Correct, if it's an > extension only. But then it needs to be marked in the shlibs file. > Else you need to build a libsafe2 and libsafe-dev package. > OTOH, no package depends on libsafe. Fixed. A new upload will take place in several hours. > > So it seems, we don't gain much to replace one buggy version with the > next buggy version. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >