Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-10-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi, thank you for the comment. I will stop to apply this patch until a better solution is found. Charles, could you please give an update of the status of mummer package? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de --

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-10-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:41:05AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi, thank you for the comment. I will stop to apply this patch until a better solution is found. Charles, could you please give an update of the status of

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely considered user-friendly. However, it is executed poorly; it's not ready for upstream in its current state. Hi, thank you for the comment. I will stop to

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely considered user-friendly. However, it is executed poorly; it's not ready for upstream in its current state.

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 200907281303.42301@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely considered user-friendly. However,

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090704120642.gh6...@kunpuu.plessy.org, Charles Plessy wrote: we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few minutes to throw an

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Debian mentors, we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few minutes to throw an eye on it? It is in our SVN, and here is a

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Charles! On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Charles Plessyple...@debian.org wrote: we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:47:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Andreas and Steffen, Taking a new upstream release as an opportunity, I have made a lot of modifications to the mummer package. The current version in Debian relies heavily on patches that are not documented and not always

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:20:47AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:47:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/mummer/3.20-3/01sm_src_tigr.diff See http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/11/msg00045.html Hi

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:11:13PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/11/msg00045.html Hi Andreas, I tried to google further and found no explication about the buffer overflow that this patch is preventing. Do you have something useful in your mailbox?

MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas and Steffen, Taking a new upstream release as an opportunity, I have made a lot of modifications to the mummer package. The current version in Debian relies heavily on patches that are not documented and not always suitable for upstream. I converted the pacakge from CDBS to debhelper