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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>]

Hi,
I have got this email, any volunteer to test it? :)
Ladislav Hagara

Hello Ladislav,
I've noticed that you sent a couple of patches for checkinstall to the 
mailing list and/or bugtracker. As you know, Felipe doesn't really maintain 
his site or checkinstall very well anymore. I thought you might be interested 
in switching to use my fork of installwatch. Back in 2008 or 2009 I forked 
installwatch because felipe had left some unfixed bugs for 2-3 years already. 
I change the name of the library to libsentry -I was already using 
installwatch in my project calles 'src2pkg' which does complete builds of 
software from source and creates clean, conformant packages of several types.

The last few commits of installwatch actually incorporate code which I wrote 
-fixing it, as nearly always, to work with newer versions of glibc. Felipe 
seemed to be inspired by that and actually implemented further uses of the 
new code. I have continued to update ilibsentry whenever something comes up 
-including your last patches which you posted on the checkinstall mailing 
list.

libsentry has been extremely reliable for me -even though there are a very 
few sources where the linker causes an odd, non-fatal error.
Even if you do not want to use my fork of installwatch, I would very happily 
include any fixes which you find for installwatch in my code, if they apply 
to libsentry or have not already been fixed. If you do have such fixes, 
please forward them to me.

Respectfully,
Gilbert Ashley
amigolinux.org