Re: [libunwind] adding libunwind to Debian/testing

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:28:38AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:17:31 +0100, address@hidden said:
> 
>   >> Matthieu Delahaye already created Debian packages for a slightly
>   >> earlier version of libunwind (see
>   >> http://www.esiee.fr/~delahaym/libunwind/), so hopefully creating
>   >> the updated packages is straight-forward.
> 
>   Matthieu> At the URL you precised below, the packages for the 0.96
>   Matthieu> version are available for testing. On a very short term,
>   Matthieu> Al Stone or me will upload them.
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to see what packages
> exist, without having to go through apt-get?  That would be handy for
> me since I won't normally install the Debian packages, but
> occasionally might need to check on them.

There might be a better way to do it once packages.debian.org is back
up after the intrusion, but one way for sure is that you can just look
at the ftp archive.  eg:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/libunwind/

There's nothing there right now because libunwind isn't part of Debian
yet, but that's where it'll end up.

Otherwise you can do "apt-cache show libunwind".

Alternatively, since you're nice enough to let Matthieu know when you
upload the latest version of libunwind, I' sure he'll be only too happy
to return the favour and let you know when he uploads a new version
to unstable.  There's no notification when a package transitions from
unstable to testing, so someone would have to watch for that themself.

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