On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:19:33AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > please consider adding apt-cacher 0.9 to Sarge. It's not an easy > decission but I would do that. The current version had following > problems (summary):
> - for many it is not useable well with apache2: seems to leave many > zombies with Apache2 in with popular configuration (#310566, > #281697) > - had bad locking problems: #251468 (this alone should have been RC, IMHO) > - could only be used with apache or apache2 (no alternatives because of > use of proprietary CGI vars). The new version allows usage of > any httpd-cgi provider (in theory) > - does not support time stamping, leads to desynchronisation of > Packages/Release/package files with the remote archive > - some cruft code I rewrote in 0.9 most likely caused package data > corruption (#251660) > - just look at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=apt-cacher , about 20 > bugs would have been fixed by using version 0.9.2 > Current bugs in my new version 0.9.2: none (that I am aware of) > Potential bugs: IMHO not in the parts I worked on (I have adopted the > package). The experimental features are disabled by default, disabled in > a non-invasive way. The people need to run an upgrade script once but > that's all. The cached data is not damaged by the upgrade and can be > converted easily. Approved. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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