Hello, On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Package: unison > Version: 2.9.1-2 > Severity: minor > > The manual seems to be out of date. I tried to contact the upstream > authors directly, but all the addresses I found require me to > subscribe to some kind of mailing list (e.g., on Yahoo). Since I use > the Debian version I report them here so you can forward them (and > possible apply a patch in the meantime). > > Besides the points already mentioned in other bug reports, I found two > more issues > > a) Both CVS and Unison can be used to keep a remote replica of > a directory structure up to date with a central > repository. Both are capable of propagating updates in both > directions and recognizing conflicting updates. Both use > the rsync protocol for file transfer. > > This is not correct. CVS does not use the rsync protocoll. CVS > uses a text based diff-mechanism, while rsync is a younger, binary > diff mechanism (I don't know the exact terms, you might want to > contact the rsync and CVS maintainer to get a proper statement). >
Humm, you are right... ( i don't know either how to contact upstream author, i have adopted this package recently ). > b) * Robert McQueen maintains a Debian package for Unison. The > homepage is located at > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-us/unison.html. > > First the maintainer name is not correct (but this might be an > error on my on, I simply looked at the current package in > Debian), but more importantly the URL is 404. The correct URL is > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=unison > or, mor simply > http://packages.debian.org/unison > > Latest release was a fast adoption release. I will correct this error in the next release. Thanks for the bug report Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
