Ticket #881 (closed defect: fixed)
debathena-discuss-server missing utility programs, esp. "byteswap"
| Reported by: | tlyu | Owned by: | mitchb |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | debathena-discuss (and friends) 10.0.15-0debathena2 | |
| Upstream bug: |
Description
The utility programs "recover", "expunge", and "byteswap" are missing from debathena-discuss-server. The Makefile doesn't have rules to build "byteswap" either, but that might be because it has severely bitrotted:
byteswap.c:57: error: conflicting types for 'malloc'
The most important one for my use case is "byteswap", because I'm migrating a discuss meeting from a big-endian machine. There's also the "disdebug" utility, but that might be less necessary.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jweiss
As noted over zephyr, "byteswap" is unneeded, as all moder discussds do this automatically if needed. Having expunge still might be useful, but the traditional problem is the name-space conflict with the expunge in the delete package.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by andersk
recover also conflicts with /usr/sbin/recover in the recover package. I would imagine these should be installed in /usr/lib/debathena-discuss-server, or renamed to discuss-expunge, etc. Let’s not add new overly-generic names to the PATH for no reason.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from accepted to committed
- Fixed in version set to debathena-discuss (and friends) 10.0.15-0debathena2
Nobody seems to have cared about this, and I don't want to scare off new developers by using discuss as an example of ... anything, so rather than save this for a hackathon, I've done it.
