Bug#507021: helpdeco: 507021: status update

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:52 +0900, Paul Wise wrote:

 I'm still optimistic about fixing this before everything is ready for
 lenny though.

I finally got the reporter's .hlp file to decompile on amd64. I now need
to do the following (after I recover from new years  the leap second).

Test the changes with the rest of my WinHelp corpus to make sure I
didn't miss any more issues.

Compare the i386 and amd64 results with the i386 results without the
changes to ensure no regressions and consistency.

Test some parts of the corpus on my OpenMoko (armel) and on some of the
Debian porter machines.

One last run with zzuf to be safe.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/


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Bug#507021: helpdeco: 507021: status update

[Paul Wise]

I've made a fair bit of progress on this issue but I keep finding more
issues as I progress towards a full solution. I'm not yet at the point
where the .hlp file mentioned in the initial port can be decompiled on
amd64, but I am getting closer.

Based on the issues I found and fixed in upstream SVN last year with the
zzuf input fuzzer, I don't think the current version should be allowed
into lenny on any architecture, so I won't be re-uploading it restricted
to i386. I really shouldn't have gotten this uploaded to Debian in the
first place and I'm sorry for having done so.

For any release team members who see this: if this bug is holding up the
release, please just remove helpdeco from lenny and I'll provide a lenny
backport when the fixes are complete. I'm still optimistic about fixing
this before everything is ready for lenny though.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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