writes:
> The real sources and patches that have gone into the current Debian
> release of MH should be clearly documented, and the way in which
> those patches were applied to the original 6.8.3 source tree should
> be scriptitied in the debian/rules file.
The lineage, for the record:
MH-6.8.3
+ MH-6.8.4 patches
+ portions of the old MH-linux patches
+ Lots of my own work to correct the problems with the old MH-linux patches.
A couple of other notes:
The MH-6.8.4 patches were released by the current maintainer of MH,
therefore I see no reason to pretend they're unofficial just because
the maintainer hasn't bothered to produce a patched source release.
Also, I doubt there is any need for the patches recently posted to
c.o.l.a---they're probably all superceded by the work I did, and I
suspect they might not do as good a job for some stuff, as I spent
some time analysing what the old patches were doing and was able to
eliminate some unnecessary indirection that the old patches had done.
Furthermore, MH is technically PD, and I believe the old MH patches
were also made PD, so technically the source is as much ours as
anyones.
Mike.
Forwarded to bug-mh@ics.uci.edu;
Maintainer for mh is
Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>.
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:36:23 +0100
From: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
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Hi,
I'm not certain to what extent you would consider this a bug, but the fact
that mh-6.8.4 is not available as a tar (but only as a patch from 6.8.3) makes
people think that the Debian maintainer made this version up, and so causes
suspicion.
If you could put the tar of 6.8.4 on ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu, I'd appreciate it.
Cheers, Phil.
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