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Re:The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and ... by terinjokes on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @06:10AM (#43555209)
All since ~mid 2005. Unfortunately a tarball I've been looking for was added before then, but replaced before a release was cut (so it's also missing from those archives).
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Re:The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and ... by pabs3 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:50AM (#43566273)
Which one?
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Re:The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and ... by terinjokes on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:03AM (#43567842)
The OpenAL source tarball that was imported into Debian as version "0.0.200101102349-1".
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Re:The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and ... by pabs3 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:28AM (#43571144)
Thats an incredibly old version, I think you are going to be out of luck and wonder what you need from it.

That said, a couple things to try though:

Email Dan Helfman <[email protected]> and ask if they have a copy lying around in backups anywhere. They aren't a Debian member any more but incredibly are still posting to the Debian BTS occasionally, as upstream developer of borgmatic.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056364#10 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1096005#10

Contact the Icculus folks, the CVS server mentioned in debian/copyright of the oldest version of openal on Debian snapshot points to the Icculus server. Won't get you the debian/ directory, but could possibly get you some sort of CVS access.

http://cvs.lokigames.com/ https://icculus.org/

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Re:The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and ... by terinjokes on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:33PM (#43577106)
Yeah, I reached out to Dan a few months back. Unfortunately, didn't have a copy anymore (and they were awesome enough to even check backups, props!). At this point I'd be happy with just the headers, the ones from "0.2001061600-2.3" just a few months later seem different enough.

Not a blocker for what I'm working on, but more of an itch to track down the lost version.

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