On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:11:07PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > found 357445 1.8.1-8 > thanks > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:14:22 -0500 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:40:03PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [...] > > > geomview puts a number of files in /usr/lib/geomview with names such > > > as .geomview-sweep. chkrootkit flags these up as being suspicious, > > > and indeed it is unusual to have dot-files installed by a package. > > > > I agree, it is unusual. Geomview is ancient code and not > > really maintained anymore. However, it is useful to some. > > It does *not* seem to be unmaintained: according to its official > website[1], a new pre-release testing package was out in october > 2006. Hence there seems to be some activity, even though the pace > is not very fast...
True; however, it was effectively unmaintained when I wrote that (above). > IMHO, the way to go is fixing this for Debian and then forwarding > the patch to upstream, so that it can be integrated in version 1.8.2 I agree that this is annoying and useful to fix. I'll forward this request to the geomview list and see if anything develops. Patches are welcome, of course. Regards, -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
