xapian-check - bad table code error

[Sam Pearson]

Hi,

> I'm currently working on getting 1.4.18 packaged and uploaded (bindings
> still in progress) and I can also provide that for buster-backports and
> stretch-backports-sloppy.

That would be great - I can already see some source packages in
deb.debian.org.

I have started to build some locally for testing, but if there were official
packages in the repositories that would be fantastic - thank you!

> (For stretch-backports proper it has to come from buster itself, so
> there's a clean upgrade path from stretch+stretch-backports to buster
> without backports - the -sloppy pockets relax this requirement and
> guarantee, which should be fine if you're happy to keep backports
> enabled when upgrading to a new release.)

We would in this case (assuming we upgraded the existing host rather
than replacing it with a fresh build) and I'd be content to enable sloppy at a
low priority to get the odd package like this.

>
> Cheers,
>     Olly

Thanks,
Sam

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Sam Pearson
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