Re: Trying to resolve issues with home page busybox.net

On 24 Apr 2026 at 10:09, Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue wrote:

From:	Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue <[email protected]>
To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
Copies to:	[email protected]
Subject:	Re: Trying to resolve issues with home page busybox.net
Date sent:	Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:09:59 +0200

> "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> wrote on 24/04/2026 at 03:21:11+=
0200:
> 
> > On 24 Apr 2026 at 0:22, Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue wrote:
> >
> > From:	Pierre-Elliott B=C3=A9cue <[email protected]>
> > To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
> > Copies to:	[email protected]
> > Subject:	Re: Trying to resolve issues with home page busybox.net
> > Date sent:	Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:22:53 +0200
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> wrote on 21/04/2026 at 17:40:=
29+0200:
> >> 
> >> > Trying to contact maintainer at list addresses get no response.
> >> > trying his redhat.com address also get no respone.
> >> > Message on list are between users, no maintainer or users that 
> >> > handle site work.
> >> > Also messages to the Hosting Oregon site don't provide info.
> >> >
> >> > Problem.
> >> > Main page shows 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> >> > Site has like 45 - 404 errors and 3 403 errors on main page.
> >> > If one download the link to busybox 1.37.0 the bz2 file is from tha=
t 
> >> > date with no updates.
> >> > 1.37.0 git is one of the broken links.
> >> > If one does a git clone or git pull it is downloading 1.38 which do=
es 
> >> > have some activity. The snapshot directory has 32 files listed.
> >> > Last 31 days and a snapshot listing that is same as last days image=
.
> >> > At the moment the files fall into two groups of identicle files.
> >> > 2669360 Mar 22 10:20 busybox-20260322.tar.bz2 File 01 to 22
> >> > 2669851 Apr 13 10:20 busybox-20260413.tar.bz2  File 23 to 32
> >> >
> >> > So, Main Page has lots of broken links, and no reference to the 
> >> > 1.38 git??
> >> 
> >> Debian does not manage busybox.net, we can't help you with the site's
> >> situation.
> >> 
> >> > AI did mentiono your page having activity, so looked for some info
> >> >
> >> > Did notice somewhat outdated copyright?
> >> >
> >> > Debian Package Tracker =E2=80=94 Copyright 2013-2025 The Distro 
> >> > Tracker Developers
> >> 
> >> tracker.debian.org's source code did not get updated since 2025, so
> >> this is ~normal.
> >> 
> >> > Thanks. Have a project going back to 2004 that uses busybox, and 
> >> > updates were generally about 1/2 year until 1.37 when main page 
> >> > stopped. mailing list mentioned the git, and that has worked, but 
> >> > see other things. 1.37 is listed as unstable, with 136.1 being last=
 
> >> > stable listing. compairing the 1.37 bz2 to the latest 1.38 snapshot=
 
> >> > bz2 shows about 12,000 lines added and 6,0000 lines removed.
> >> > So has been significant changes.
> >> 
> >> Debian doesn't ship unreleased busybox versions, so you'll have to wa=
it.
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply.  Unfortunately, the last stable release of=
 
> > busybox would then be 136.1 
> >  busybox-1.36.1.tar.bz2  2023-05-18 22:37  2.4M 
> > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> >  busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2  2024-09-26 21:31  2.4M 
> 
> I didn't write "unstable", but "unreleased".

Been using busybox going back to 2004, and have understood to 
released version would be one listed as stable? But guess you use a 
different definition?

Perhaps someone might want to download the latest 1.38 git and 
build your .config with that to see the differences. My custom build 
is about 20K larger with 1.38 than 1.37. 

April 13th patch updated libbb, telnet.c and telnetd.c with CVE 
issues. 

But understand Fedora also has 1.37.0-3 as its version of Fedora 
43, so they have made some changes. 

Chatted with an AI, and it mentioned your release as monitoring 
the busybox. But guess monitor only the released version rather 
than active git updates.

Again. Thanks for your reply. Will drop your link, since it does't 
show anything usefull. Busybox mailing list has occassional 
updates, but nothing solid from maintainer.

Have a nice day.
> 
> > Latest snap versions with differences from busybox.net.
> > busybox-20260325.tar.bz2    2669360 2026-03-25 (FILE 01)
> > busybox-20260413.tar.bz2    2669851 2026-04-13 (FILE 20)
> > Which include a number of security patches for known issues.
> 
> I am aware, but as long as 1.38 is not released officially, there is
> little chance that Debian packages the changes.
> 
> -- 
> PEB
> 


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