Hi again Just another thought about qa: Should we make it the official address to send help requests from developers? I did not see many of this on -devel so I think it would be a good thing because
a) This messages often stay unanswered on -devel and b) we have the people with the knowledge to help (at least I think so :) Okay, here is such a message (I will look at it myself when I am back from university): ----- Forwarded message from Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- To: Debian devel mailinglist <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> Subject: [Georg Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Bug#34299: midentd: reverse in procstr on PPC is a bad idea From: Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 Apr 1999 17:32:11 +0200 I really need help to solve this. First of, I don't really undertand the problem (technically, that is), secondly, I don't have any means of trying a fix... I have a patch I _THINK_ would fix the problem, but i don't know anyone with a PPC w/ masquerading... (powerpc.debian.org don't have masquerading compiled in). So if someone with (good ?) perl knowledge can take a look at this, I would be great full.... Subject: Bug#34299: midentd: reverse in procstr on PPC is a bad idea Resent-CC: Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 21:03:01 GMT Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:57:17 +0100 From: Georg Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: midentd Version: 1.4-2 Due to different endianess between Intel and PPC, midentd only works right on one of both platforms in it's current form. At least the PPC version is broken in the procstr sub, as there the IPs are reversed before unpacked. Throw out the unpack and the lookup works. - - System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux jill 2.2.1 #101 Fri Feb 5 16:17:12 EST 1999 ppc unknown Versions of the packages midentd depends on: ii netbase 3.11-4 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries -- strategic Panama Peking kibo [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] PLO AK-47 assassination Ft. Bragg Delta Force explosion counter-intelligence Waco, Texas ammunition $400 million in gold bullion ----- End forwarded message -----
