On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:51:09PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote:
> > > > 7. glimpse
> > > > Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > Has a grave security bug files now for almost 1.5 years (/tmp races).
> > > > Probably won't make it into woody anyway. Is the maintainer MIA?
> > >
> > > We currently need it for the lists archives, as far as I can remember.
> >
> > Yes, but if glimpse can't be fixed, it doesn't matter. lists-archives'
> > dependency on it doesn't have to be Depends:.
> >
> > Jaako Niemi said he's going to get mnogosearch to work for list archives,
> > anyway :)
>
> Jossip,
Sorry for the misspelling, Jaakko :) It's Josip, too :)
> Craig has this already planned afaik.
Does he? I haven't heard a word from him about it in months, after I
mentioned to him that it should be done.
> I'm certainly willing to help. If the version of glimpse that is
> currently used does not have better support for utf-8 & other character
> sets than 3.1.17 of mnogosearch, I don't need any reason to push killing
> glimpse any further. Next major version of mnogosearch will have a lot
> improved support for different character sets.
I don't believe it has support for non-US-ASCII languages, but then again, I
don't quite know how to test that properly. ('sides, it's completely broken
right now. :)
> We can set up and test mnogosearch on the side without affecting the
> current search thingy. Whenever master has postgres 7.x installed,
> databases created and one extra uid created, we can start
> installing.
Looks to me master has 7.1release-3.potato.1. The databases and UID can be
set up if we ask debian-admin, they shouldn't have anything against it.
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