backport sysstat 8.1.7-1 from jaunty to Intrepid

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: sysstat

Hi all,
 Please backport sysstat 8.1.7-1 from jaunty to Intrepid.

From Ubuntu changelog

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/s/sysstat/sysstat_8.1.7-1/changelog

sysstat (8.1.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:46:29 +0100

sysstat (8.1.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:11:06 +0100

sysstat (8.1.6-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    + Daily data files format has changed again.
    + NFS v4 support added to sar -n (closes: #434442);
    + All sysstat commands are made consistent with how parameters are
      interpreted: "COMMAND <interval>" now generates a report continusouly,
      "COMMAND <interval> 0" causes an error, "COMMAND 0" displays a report
      since system startup (closes: #475707);
   + Option -S added to sadc, which replaces previous options -I or -d. Existing
     defaults file should be updated.
  * Standards-Version: 3.8.0 (no changes).
  * Merge the following change from Ubuntu:
    - remove call to execvp() as it's not needed and has potential
      security problems.
  *

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:36:17 +0100

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: sysstat 8.1.2-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: sysstat
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Jon Bernard (jbernard)]

I just verified that sysstat will build in a clean intrepid chroot with no source changes. Assuming the backport team approves I think this will be fairly easy. I'll see if I can upload an initial build to my PPA while once I finish reading through the backport documentation.

[Jon Bernard (jbernard)]

I've uploaded a backported version of sysstat to my ppa (https://launchpad.net/~jbernard/+archive/ppa). Give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback. If all goes well I can make a request to the backport team and I believe they will make the final decision.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the request.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Intrepid is going to reach EoL soon so I dont see a reason for this.

chuck