Version in Ubuntu's repositories is old 0.6.0 with bugs

[goldnchild]

Hi Alexandros,

I installed bless 0.6.0-7 running on ubuntu 20.04 from Ubuntu Software and it's really problematic.

I struggled with weird bugs like trying to insert a byte and not having it insert properly, unable to save files, and constant "reload" messages when all I did was read a file that was open in bless, and also displaying 0x10f instead of 0x1f0 in the address locations.

It looks like a nice program but I gave up after struggling with it and switched to GHex. The comments in Ubuntu's Software App seem to echo my experience.

Can you push them get them to update their version? Looks like debian's using the same version.

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/bless
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bless

https://home.gna.org/bless/ doesn't seem to work anymore

[afrantzis]

Hi! There is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914217 (filed by me), and also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=975251 notifying the Debian developers about the new version and homepage. Unfortunately no one has stepped up to package the new version in Debian (and Ubuntu) yet.

[ppazos]

In my Mint 19 the Bless version that I can see is 0.6.0-5 :(

[ghost]

The latest version was uploaded to Debian Sid two days ago. It has also been synced into Ubuntu Jammy, so Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) will include it.

[goldnchild]

Cool! I see it at:

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bless/

[MvGulik]

Linux-Mint 20.3 + Bless 0.6.0-7 (installed from Software Manager - That's the Non FlatPak/hub case, I don't use that ... stuff)
No problems so far. (load/save-as/insert/save/settings/close)

-- merged with last (now deleted) post --

Somewhat Minor issue. If file-meta data changes, like just opening or reading the file, Bless interpret that as a file change.
+(link in about-box ... is still outdated)

-- update --
... Seems Bless is actually triggering this itself, when reading a new section of the file.
IE: After a bit of scrolling the "file-updated" case is triggered (again, and again, and again, ...)

... O well. At least this one its better than the previous supplied Bless version for Mint.