Re: procps-ng 3.3.17 released

Hi,
  On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 23:52, Adam Sampson <[email protected]> wrote:

> - The directory name inside the tarball doesn't match the tarball name:
>   it's called procps-3.3.17, rather than procps-ng-3.3.17. Many
>   packaging tools will expect these to be the same (as they were in
>   previous releases).
>
That was the case in Debian about, I think it was a decade ago, I remember
that issue with apache 2.0, most packaging setups don't seem to care now
unless you're starting from a blank slate.
 I can repack that easily enough.

- The test suite fails -- when pkill is invoked by the testsuite, the
>   binary name is something like "lt-pkill", and the new code added for
>   pwait doesn't handle this. So the pkill tests can't work as written.
>
I think this depends on the version of libtool. All my "real binaries" (the
ones hiding under .lib) don't have the lt- prefix anymore which is why my
tests run fine. I'll add the additional check in anyway.

 - Craig


>   The old version of the code used strstr rather than strcmp to compare
>   the names; I've attached a patch to make the new code do the same.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Adam Sampson <[email protected]>                         <http://offog.org/>
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