[LinuxPPS] ldattach + Debian Lenny

[Joshua Anhalt]

Debian Stable (Lenny) is currently using a 2.13 variant of util-linux.  
(A summary of versions of util-linux for each debian release is copied  
at the end of this e-mail.)

Debian Unstable (sid) uses version 2.15 of util-linux, and includes  
ldattach.  (The next link shows ldattach is included in the unstable/ 
sid version of debian.)
	http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/util-linux/filelist

Unfortunately, I don't know of a safe way to use the unstable package  
on a stable machine. (Personally, I would not want to mix packages,  
especially for something as fundamental as util-linux.  I would  
recommend compiling ldattach from source.)

 From http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=util-linux&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

• etch (oldstable) (utils): Miscellaneous system utilities
2.12r-19etch1: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390  
sparc

• etch-m68k (utils): Miscellaneous system utilities
2.12r-19: m68k

• lenny (stable) (utils): Miscellaneous system utilities
2.13.1.1-1: alpha amd64 arm armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc  
s390 sparc

• squeeze (testing) (utils): Miscellaneous system utilities
2.13.1.1-1: alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390  
sparc

• sid (unstable) (utils): Miscellaneous system utilities
2.15.1~rc1-1: alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd- 
i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
2.12-3: hurd-i386

Joshua

On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> Felix Joussein wrote:
>> as you can see, no package named util-linux-ng nor a package  
>> containing
>> ldattach.
>
> Hmmm.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/v2.14-ReleaseNotes
> says that since june 2008 ldattach is part of util-linux-ng (note the
> -ng suffix).
>
> I saw that you found the offical util-linux-ng site so perhaps you can
> refer to the Debian maintaners for a bug to ask them to add ldattach
> and/or util-linux-ng 2.14 or newer?
>
> Kind regards,
> Udo
>
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