Subject: Bug#4446: /usr/games/fortune needs recompilation

From: Barak Pearlmutter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 19:39:22 -0700

Package: fortune
Version: 2.1-1

The /usr/games/fortune executable is a.out rather than ELF.  Either a
dependency upon the old a.out libraries should be added, or the
executable should be recompiled.

$ ldd /usr/games/fortune 
        libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => not found

$ file /usr/games/fortune
/usr/games/fortune: setuid Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)

$ ls -l /usr/games/fortune
-rwsr-xr-x   1 games    root        29198 Jan  3  1995 /usr/games/fortune

$ file /bin/cat
/bin/cat:           ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, stripped

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From: Buddha Buck <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 01:30:51 -0400

> executable should be recompiled.

The executable should be recompiled.  There are a few outstanding bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that could easily be fixed by a repackaging.  I could be wrong, but it seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it.

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