[OT] who maintains aptitude for rpm? (fwd)

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:33:16AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
[...]
> > Here is the aptitude patch for 0.3.5.1. The work is based on the patch from 
> > mandriva. I did some upgrades, installs and package removals this week on a 
> > fedora 5 computer and I did not have any serious problems.
> > When I do a update of the repository I get warnings about that there are no 
> > checksum files. However the update is working fine.
> 
> Thanks, the patch can now be found on http://apt-rpm.org/patches/
> 
> In the meanwhile, while looking at something different (although I can't 
> remember what exactly :) I stumbled across couple of patches in ALTLinux 
> apt package concerning aptitude 0.4.1 available for apt-rpm:
> ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/i586/SRPMS.classic/apt-0.5.15lorg2-alt6.src.rpm
> ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/i586/SRPMS.classic/aptitude-0.4.1-alt1.1.src.rpm

git repos are also available:

git://git.altlinux.org/people/raorn/packages/aptitude.git
git://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/apt.git

> The relevant patches wrt aptitude would appear to be 
> apt-0.5.15lorg2-alt-pkgCache-PrvIterator.patch and 

This one is relevant, corresponding bugzilla entry is
https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9604

> apt-0.5.15lorg2-alt-realloc.patch

This patch fixes another bug, see
https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409
for details.  You probably want to fix that bug, e.g. by applying this patch.

(There might be comments in bugzilla.altlinux.org written in russian but
reports are clear).

> There's plenty of other interesting stuff in the altlinux package as well, 
> I've been intending to go through them and apply what's useful upstream 
> but haven't really found the time to shift through them in enough detail 
> yet (some are obviously useful, others are less obvious). If ALTLinux 
> people happen to be reading:

At least me is reading :)

> when patching apt, *please* send the fixes/enhancements to me too :)

OK, I'll try.


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