Bug#873338: [PATCH] build: backup existing binaries before installing

[David Michael]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote:
> On 26/08/17 20:28, David Michael wrote:
>> A parallel "make install" invocation can sometimes install programs
>> first, then backup those programs as *.old files.  This randomly
>> caused duplicate programs to be installed.
>>
>> This change will only run the backup prior to installing, also
>> creating backups for updates.
>
> I don't think this affects Debian much, but I will apply it anyway. Thanks!

I noticed the issue in Gentoo, but sent it to Debian because the Linux
Foundation site lists Debian as the upstream bug tracker.

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/net-tools

Let me know if that's not the case and I can try sending it through
the SourceForge page.

Thanks.

David