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Re: Debathena: lenny version of bash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael A Forbes)
Sun Jan 11 02:57:54 2009
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:56:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael A Forbes <miforbes@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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Okay, I can live with this. Thanks.
-Michael Forbes
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi Michael -
> We're currently having issues with our build system because while
> Lenny uses bash 3.2, Feisty through Jaunty have also been using bash
> 3.2. The tarballs for each distribution both have the same file name,
> but are different because the Lenny version removes some documentation
> that isn't compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
>
> We don't currently have a way to upload two files from the same package
> with the same filename but different md5sums. We've filed a bug with
> Debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488666), but
> we're not entirely clear on the means by which this would be fixed,
> which makes it kind of hard to push for a correction.
>
> For what it's worth, though, the only change we make to bash in the
> Debathenification process is to add support for referring to lockers by
> using a path of the form ~~<locker> - you can likely get away with
> always referring to lockers by /mit/locker
>
> - Evan
>
> Michael A Forbes wrote:
>>
>> Would it be possible to update the lenny version of debathenified bash
>> (the debian version is now higher)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Michael Forbes
>
