Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-10-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:41:05AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Hi, thank you for the comment. > > > > I will stop to apply this patch until a better solution is found. > > Charles, could you please give an update of the stat

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-10-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi, thank you for the comment. > > I will stop to apply this patch until a better solution is found. Charles, could you please give an update of the status of mummer package? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200907281303.42301@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu>, Andreas Tille wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >>> > This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely >>> > considered user-friendl

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090728163525.gc31...@an3as.eu>, Andreas Tille wrote: >On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> > This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely >> > considered user-friendly. However, it is executed poorly; it's not >> > ready for upstream in its curre

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:50:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > This patch is a good idea -- fixed length buffers are rarely considered > > user-friendly. However, it is executed poorly; it's not ready for upstream > > in its current state. > > Hi, thank you for the comment. > > I will sto

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:38:51AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <20090704120642.gh6...@kunpuu.plessy.org>, Charles Plessy wrote: > >we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and > >detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would > >

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090704120642.gh6...@kunpuu.plessy.org>, Charles Plessy wrote: >we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and >detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would > prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few minutes > to throw

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 09:14:46AM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira a écrit : > > It will dynamically allocate space for the strings, instead allocating > a predefined size. Hi Nelson, thank you very much for the help. And only now I found that you forwarded it upstream five years ago :) https://so

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Charles! On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and > detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer > to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few minutes to throw

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Debian mentors, we have a patch in the Debian package mummer for which we lost origin and detailed description. I would like to forward it upstream, but I would prefer to know what it does before ;) Would somebody have a few minutes to throw an eye on it? It is in our SVN, and here is a copy

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:11:13PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/11/msg00045.html > > Hi Andreas, > > I tried to google further and found no explication about the buffer overflow > that this patch is preventing. Do you have something useful in your ma

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:20:47AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:47:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/mummer/3.20-3/01sm_src_tigr.diff > > See > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/11/msg00045.html Hi A

Re: MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:47:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Andreas and Steffen, > > Taking a new upstream release as an opportunity, I have made a lot of > modifications to the mummer package. The current version in Debian relies > heavily on patches that are not documented and not alway

MUMmer patches and Artistic license.

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Andreas and Steffen, Taking a new upstream release as an opportunity, I have made a lot of modifications to the mummer package. The current version in Debian relies heavily on patches that are not documented and not always suitable for upstream. I converted the pacakge from CDBS to debhelper in