Bug#930764: 3.0.8-6+deb10u3 on Buster

[Andy Bennett]

Hi,

I am seeing this with 3.0.8-6+deb10u3. Will an update eventually trickle 
through?



Thanks!

Best wishes,
@ndy

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Bug#770369: Bug#737491: eterm: Occurs on upgrade to Jessie from Wheezy

[Andy Bennett]

Hi,

Andy, I have tested a couple of solutions and I think the 
easiest way for you is just to
download the Eterm package for Stretch (testing) and install it 
in your system manually with:


dpkg -i eterm_0.9.6-4_amd64.deb

I have just installed the Eterm version in testing and no new 
packages are needed, just this one and it is working in my 
system.
(One can use pinning in apt to install packages for several 
distributions, but for just one package I think it is not 
necessary in this case).


Please, let me know if this solution is not working for you to 
try a more elaborate fix until Stretch is released.


That works great, thanks!


Thank you so much for your help; it's been really generous of you.





Regards,
@ndy

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Bug#770369: Bug#737491: eterm: Occurs on upgrade to Jessie from Wheezy

[Andy Bennett]

Hi,

Thanks for your help!



I think this bug is the same than bug #770369.


I tried to file this as a followup to the existing bug but must have messed 
up with my usage of `reportbug`; sorry!



This bug is close in stretch (testing). As it is expected the 
release stretch occurs soon, the easiest way is:


1. To wait for the release of stretch to get this problem fixed 
when you upgrade from Wheezy to Stretch.
2. Downgrade the Eterm package to the version in Jessie so you 
can use it until the upgrade to Stretch.


Do you mean wheezy? Do you have a command to hand that can do that for me 
or is it best to fetch the .deb out of the appropriate package pool?



I am trying to maintain Eterm package, but my process of 
learning to do it properly is getting a little long so

I have not prepared a new Eterm package.

I have checked the fix proposed and my local Eterm package is 
working in Jessie-amd64 (thanks to Charles Gorand and Arnaud 
Ceyroll for the fix).


Andy, if you want I can send you my local package to your 
e-mail, so you can use it.


For Santiago Vila (or other developers) I have modified the 
source package in Jessie by performing the fix suggested by 
Arnaud and Charles to the command.c file, just
recompiled in my Jessie system and the new Eterm package is 
working again.


Maybe I can try to build my own local package? Are you able to send me the 
patch for the Jessie package?



Maybe it is worth to propose an update for Jessie 
so the package will be usable again
for all the users. I will have some spare time after the middle 
of June, so I would be able to apply the fix in the correct way 
(I have just edited the source to test it, I have to read deeper 
the maint-guide to

do it in the right way).

After the release of Stretch I will try to fix the UTF8 problem 
in Eterm to finally maintain this package.


Thanks for your help and for giving the time.



Regards,
@ndy

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