Hi Barry, On Nov 27, 2014, at 11:45, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:
> A year or so ago, when using T2, I discovered that the 'bc' package, > 1.06.95, has a serious bug. I don't recall what the bug was, but I > found that patches from Debian fixed it. > > I created a single patch, but I never supplied it for inclusion in T2. > > Anyway, here it is now. > > Note, the download URL for 1.06.95 has changed. > > Here is my quick hack of bc.desc: > > [S] Stable > #[V] 1.06.95 > [V] 1.06.95-debian28jul2011 > [P] X -----5---9 109.500 > > #[D] 2965882030 bc-1.06.95.tar.bz2 http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bc/ > [D] 0 bc-1.06.95.tar.bz2 http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bc/ > > The patch, 'bc-1.06.95-debian28jul2011.patch', is attached. I do not really like to switching such a base / core package away from it’s stable release. Historically we sometimes had really bad luck with things like this (bash, binutils, make, etc.). Any chance you can find what bug that was and we can cherry pick just the fix for that? René -- ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10117 Berlin http://exactcode.com | http://exactscan.com | http://ocrkit.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
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