Fwd: Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi!

This is a trivial package that is rather outdated, and the old version
has a bug that is affecting me on the XS. I am not sure how responsive
Axel Thimm ( the current packager of fakeroot) is - not much wrt
fakeroot anyway :-) - see the email below...

If an updated version gets into F9 ( thanks to magic fairies :-) ) I
can rebuild it for F7.

It is a bit awkward that Clint is not publishing the tagged tarballs
(AFAICS!). Makes it hard to package an updated version. There is the
tla sources :-/

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Subject: Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from
To: Development discussions related to Fedora
<fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>, Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org>,
Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net


Hi!

Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected
by a somewhat nasty race condition.

The bug was characterised here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with
trivial repo steps here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was
fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.

Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included.
Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a
package for the school server and offer it here.

To Clint  - looking for a link to the latest version to grace this
email, I cannot find a source package or a tagged package anywhere.
The most recent release I can see on Debian is 1.9.5 on Lenny and
1.9.6 on Sid, but there are no upstream tarballs on Alioth. Fakeroot
is useful on many platforms - is it possible to arrange for publishing
the tarballs somewhere?

cheers,



m
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