From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pasanda.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24695>; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:57:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 19866 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 1998 11:47:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 19860 invoked from network); 5 Feb 1998 11:47:46 -0000 Received: from nan.cygnus.co.uk (tgoodwin@194.130.39.19) by dns.cygnus.co.uk with SMTP; 5 Feb 1998 11:47:46 -0000 In-Reply-To: <19980204212332.10457.qmail@np.nosc.mil> Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer? To: broman@nosc.mil CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:46:00 -0500 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: > Who is maintaining the rc package for Debian GNU/Linux? Can't help here. > There is also an > unstable rc-1.5b2 owned by debian-qa, I think, By "unstable", do you mean that you are aware of specific problems? If so, *please* let me know about them. > The upstream package maintener seems to be Tim Goodwin, > since last summer, but the mailing list for rc is quiescent. Yes, it's been fairly quiet around here. The current status of rc-1.5b2 is this. o There is a significant problem around the wait() code, which can cause rc to hang on (at least) Linux systems if you '^C' an application. There is a fix for this in the development version, but I'm not entirely happy with it yet. o There is a different bug near wait() which I haven't had a chance to track down yet. o There is a major thinko in the autoconf handling of signals, which causes problems on RedHat 5.0 (but hasn't been reported anywhere else). I believe this will be straightforward to fix. o Some minor tweaks and enhancements to configure have been requested. I haven't had much time recently to spend on rc, but as you can see from the above list, there's not much to be done before I release rc-1.5b3, and I *hope* that will be the last beta before a full rc-1.5 release (but maybe not :-). Again, if you've had any problems with rc-1.5b2, whether with the autoconfiscated build process or with the shell itself, please let me know. Thanks, Tim.