[Xymon] 4.3.28 RC1 Released

Japheth Cleaver cleaver at terabithia.org
Wed Jan 4 21:01:36 CET 2017


On 1/4/2017 11:26 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Dear Japheth,
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 07:30:39PM -0800, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
>> 4.3.28 RC1 has been released and should now be available on the
>> SourceForge mirrors. You can download it at
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.28-rc1/
> Thanks!
>
> I'm currently working on integrating this version into the official
> Debian package (not sure if I'll also upload this RC version, but it's
> at least for testing it with local deployments).
>
> There's one thing I noticed in Xymon's C code (indentation adjusted):
>
> lib/sendmsg.c:        sendresult_t sendmessage(char *msg, char *recipient, int timeout, sendreturn_t *response)
> lib/sendmsg.h: extern sendresult_t sendmessage(char *msg, char *recipient, int timeout, sendreturn_t *reponse);
>                                                                                                         ^^^
>
> Notice the difference at the end. It probably doesn't have an actual
> effect on the program, but I think that typo should be fixed anyways.
>
> This and all other typos Debian's lintian tool or myself found so far
> (mostly in documentation and output strings in C code, occassionally
> also typos in code comments) are available in
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/75_fix_spelling_errors.patch
> (appliable patch at
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/plain/debian/patches/75_fix_spelling_errors.patch)
>
> And then there's also a patch for syntax errors in man pages at
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/78_fix_manpage_syntax_errors.patch
> respectively
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/plain/debian/patches/78_fix_manpage_syntax_errors.patch
>
> You might want to also have a look at these patches we apply in Debian:
>
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/00_htmlcontenttype.patch
>    (already posted in the past)
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/15_hobbitgraph.netstat.patch
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/24_hobbitclient-tmpfs.patch
>    (already posted in the past)
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/39_kfreebsd-makefile.patch
>    (already posted in the past)
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/63_netstat-ant-vs-ipv6-address-truncating.patch
>    (already posted in the past)
> * https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/84_fix_compilation_on_GNU_Hurd.patch
>    (only recently addeed)
>
> A feature which has been requested in Debian is added by
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/xymon.git/tree/debian/patches/27_hobbit_files_ifexist.patch
> so you might want to have a look at it, too, maybe only for 4.4, though.
>
> Haven't yet tested the built packages, but will do so soon. (And
> likely send another mail about the results.)
>
> 		Kind regards, Axel

Thanks! I actually have a patch coming through momentarily for fixing a 
FTBFS on older openssl's (<1.0.1) and some warnings on F25, so I'll 
probably be doing a fuller RC2 than expected. Many of these seem simple 
enough to bring in as well.

-jc




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