All,
   I had gotten started on updating the Debian packageing for Fidogate,
with the eventual intent of getting it back into Debian, but ended up
having to take a bit of a break because the system I was doing the package
testing on decided it didn't want to work anymore... I'm putting another
system together for doing testing but in the mean time I decided I'd make
changes in how the package gets built.

   I had been able to get the programs updated to the current version in
CVS (v4.4.11) & I had an operational node running using those programs.  
Installs, however, were still broken:  missing directorys, it still
installing an old version of the config files, etc. Since I need to do
changes anyway now that v4.0 of Debian (Etch) has been released, I've
decided to update the packageing using the more current standards;  need
to do that in any case, in order to possibly get the package back in to
the Debian distribution.

    File announcements of in-progress files will be in the usual File
Announcment echos;  & if no one has problems with the idea, I can have any
such posted here as well...   They will be available from my system in the
i386 & source (and perhaps, amd64) sub-directories as follows:
    http://ftn.rocasa.us/files/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/
    ftp://ftn.rocasa.us/ftn/apps/fidogate/debian/

    They will also be available for FREQ from my system via POTS,IBN, etc;
and I will be using the following magics for current versions of them: 
FGDEBX86 & FGDEBSRC (& possibly, later, FGDEBA64).  (Note that right now
they only point to old versions...)


Jame


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