[ATTN maintainer] rcs

[Corinna Vinschen]

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?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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