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Re: New release time?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:33:52AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:55:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Why does it matter if a package maintainer does things quickly or not?
> Things will still work. The answer just changes in the cygwin mailing
> list from "It's not possible" to "The package maintainer needs to rebuild"
It matters mostly for the uid/gid problem. A uid of 65536 is returned
as uid 0 by getuid(). ls and id will print wrong uids and gids for
ids >64K. sshd will refuse logins. That sort of stuff comes to mind.
I'm just trying to overcome this sort of problem as soon as possible.
> I am sure a lot of packages are sans maintainer. I agree that we should
> ask people to rebuild but, again, I don't think it's urgent.
6 months? As I said, I think it should be done quickly for a bunch
of applications and I know I will rebuild my stuff soon.
> However, I think I'll go bump the version to 1.5.0 now. What the heck.
Fine, thanks.
Corinna
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