Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 01:30:41PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > > > As Linus Torvalds says, there's no real difference between "bugfix" and > > "security fix", and I would argue there's almost as little difference > > between "bugfix" and "new feature". > > If you added an unrelated HTTP-server feature to getmail for the remote > configuration, I call it a feature changes (, enhancement, bloat, or > ...).
Yes. I note I should have been more specific with the above: I meant specifically in regards to getmail in its "mature" state, where pretty much the only changes going in are bugfixes and minor feature enhancements, which are difficult to distinguish between. > > I don't think you need to drop *anything*. getmail hasn't had much in > > the way of new features in many years, and I try to maintain > > compatibility as much as is practical. Just update to the latest > > version. > > Thank you. I hope Debian can simply accept the newer version of getmail; as I said, I try very hard to keep it compatible when things like the additional SSL certificate options were added, and getmail v.4 by itself is more than ten years old at this point, long into its quiescent "adult" period as far as software goes ;) Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
