On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:51:12PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Speaking as PAM maintainer, I will not accept new patches for > portability to the Debian PAM 0.72 packages. We're already too far > out of date with regard to upstream. If patches are submitted I'll > ask people to redo them after I get 0.75 packages ready and close the > bug.
Sure, sounds sane. > So, if PAM becomes part of your critical path, volunteering to help do > the work necessary to move to the new upstream would be better than > writing patches against the current code. No problem. > I'm not trying to be difficult; Debian on a BSD kernel is something I > care a lot about (although I have limited time to work on it). I'm > simply trying to avoid getting in a situation where the upgrade path > for PAM is more impossible than it already is. I've been playing with PAM today without complete success - I'll try again with 0.75 once it appears. It's certainly not vital for the moment. Thanks, -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
