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Re: [ATTN maintainer] rcs


On Jul  3 15:10, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> 
>     > On Jun 29 20:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> I've developed a patch for the infamous and two-year-old rcs bug that
>     >> destroys data, based on the analysis by Peter Wagemans and an earlier
>     >> demonstration script by Don Hatch.  The patch has been sent upstream,
>     >> but there was no reaction for the last week:
>     >> 
>     >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs/2772
>     >> 
>     >> I have compiled test packages for both architectures including this
>     >> patch.
>     >> 
>     >> # The first line sets up shell variable wget, to be used by all later lines
>     >> # simply paste into the shell from here
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     >> wget="wget -rxnH http://cygwin.stromeko.net/x86_64/release/";
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1-src.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/setup.hint
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/rcs-debuginfo-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/setup.hint
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>     >> 
>     >> # The first line sets up shell variable wget, to be used by all later lines
>     >> # simply paste into the shell from here
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     >> wget="wget -rxnH http://cygwin.stromeko.net/x86/release/";
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1-src.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/setup.hint
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/rcs-debuginfo-5.9.2-1.tar.xz
>     >> $wget/rcs/rcs-debuginfo/setup.hint
>     >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
>     > Volker was supposed to be abroad until end of June.  Are you back
>     > Volker?  Any spare cycles to have a look?
> 
> Hi Corinna
> 
> Yes, just 2 days ago, and I have to catch up with real work again. It
> also looks like I can't do any cygwin work until begin if august, sorry.
> 
> It would be nice if Achim takes over rcs, as I don't use it anymore
> these days. It's already cygported...

Thanks, Volker.  Achim, are you taking the offer?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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