Package: tin Version: 1:2.6.5~20250409-1 Followup-For: Bug #1109039 First of all, expired filter rules have ever been removed from the filter file since Iain changed the format between tin-1.22 and 270194APLHA so that behaviour is the same for the last ~31 years.
Second, comments in attributes (and tinrc etc.pp) have ever been dropped when writing them since those file have a version number (for attributes that's since 1.5.18 release 20030602). Keeping expired filter rules should be doable with not too much efford (likely companied with a tinrc-var which defaults to "remove expired rules" but having an option to keep them). I'll put that on the TODO-list. Keeping comments in the versioned files (exception is filter whith "comment=" which was a 'simple' way to preserve them dating back to version 1.5.15 release 20021115; before that release comments were lost as in other files on rewrite) is more complex and I doubt it will be added (anytime soon). That's on the TODO-list since 04-2008: | o comments in attributes get lost (we need to do something like we do for | the filter file) | [20080425 Urs Janssen <[email protected]>] urs
