Hi Michael,

Le vendredi 22 mars 2013 18:51:49, Michael Schmitz a écrit :
> Matteo,
> 
> > I am closing this bug because:
> > 
> > 1. It has not been reproduced with the last version of fdutils, despite a
> > call for testing launched in 2011 by myself.
> > 
> > 2. m68k is not even a Debian architecture any more.
> 
> Can't fault you there - I can't remember seeing the CFT but then, I had one
> ot two catastrophic mail spool crashes on this system. Anyway -
> 
> > Furthermore, after discussing with Alain Knaff (fdutils' upstream), it
> > appears that Amiga was never supported, as their floppy controller had
> > nothing to do with Intel controllers. However, Atari should probably
> > work.
> 
> According to the old bug report, it did fail on Atari.

Yes but again, with an old version of fdutils.

> m68k/amiga not
> working I can see, and m68k/mac I never expected to work (similar for Apple
> ppc).
> 
> > Please feel free to reopen this bug if you are able to reproduce it.
> 
> I'll see whether I can get a recent version from debian-ports.

In answer to my CFT, Thorsten Glaser built the last version of the package for 
m68k, so it is on debian-ports. See:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2011/08/msg00007.html

http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-
m68k/main/f/fdutils/fdutils_5.5-20060227-6_m68k.deb

> Not a
> priority though unless a m68k user complains (heh).

Of course :-)


> In the meantime - thanks for putting this one to rest.

And thanks for your answer. Let me know when you have some fresh information.

Cheers,
  Matteo

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