New john (experimental) packages

[Guilherme de S. Pastore]

Em Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:57:20 +0200,
"Javier Fern=C3=A1ndez-Sanguino Pe=C3=B1a" <jfs@computer.org> escreveu:

> After a bit of testing, I've managed to have new experimental packages=20
> available. They fix quite a lot of bugs, which is good, but might intro=
duce=20
> a number of other bugs.

That's what experimental is for =3D)
I would just like to take a look at the packages before to know what's
going on, but that's all.

>=20
> Some of the changes which could be moved to the 'unstable' packages are=
=20
> related to the debian-specific stuff:
>=20
> - use 'generic' target for systems which do not have an specific target=
 or=20
> fail to build (sparc). Solar Designer thinks it's ok to do this. We can=
=20
> trust the tests john makes after being compiled or even add the=20
> 'testbuild' mechanism I added in the experimental branch
>=20

Yup. I've even mailed the list yesterday because the change is really
needed, and we need some bugfixes to progress into testing, otherwise
we'll have to reopen lots of bugs. Do you object to an upload of the
current CVS version? If you don't, let me know and I'll upload it =3D)

> - use 'start-stop-daemon' to start and stop the john process. The curre=
nt=20
> code to extract the PID will not work since it's not backgrounded and t=
he=20
> code to mail the passwords should run when 'cronjob stop' is run. The c=
ode=20
> in the experimental version will work but needs to be changed to adapt =
to=20
> the behaviour of the stable release. I.e.:
> 	- john.rec -> restore
> 	- instead of --private -> cd to the dir (could use the --chdir=20
> option from start-stop-daemon instead of 'cd X && john')
> [ Note: This changes fix some important bugs like #213164=20
> and #251172 ]
>

I think we could postpone this a little bit for the unstable version,
since hopefully the devel snapshot is going to be ready for unstable
soon =3D)

> I'm uploading the packages right now, further testing, as always, is=20
> encouraged.

Pretty nice =3D)

Regards,

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Guilherme de S. Pastore (fatalerror)
<gpastore@colband.com.br>