Re: [ATTN maintainer] rcs

["Dr. Volker Zell" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com>]

>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:

    > 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?

Hi Corinna

Yes, just 2 days ago, and I have to catch up with real work again. It
also looks like I can't do any cygwin work until begin if august, sorry.

It would be nice if Achim takes over rcs, as I don't use it anymore
these days. It's already cygported...

    > Thanks,
    > Corinna

Thanks
  Volker