On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 05:25 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 01:37 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:30 -0700, Scott Anderson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > I posted this a while ago on this list.
> > > > 
> > > > You can get mail-notification to work with a simple patch if you're
> > > > happy to compile it from source.  I have it working with 2.6 quite
> > > > nicely.
> > > 
> > > Updating and fixing this is the distros duty, IMHO.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Because that's what distros do -- providing a working set of apps. :)
> 
> The original post mentioned mail-notification working with Evo 2.4,
> which changed when upgrading Evo to 2.6. Caring about such issues is one
> of the core duties of a distro. If they are going to update any app or
> library, they absolutely need to make sure that any app that depends on
> it still works afterwards.
> 
> (In this special case though we should not forget that Evo 2.6 is in
> Debian testing/unstable only. Whoever opts to use a non-stable branch
> must expect possible breakage anytime.)

Hmmm.  I was under the impression that mail-notification broke
upstream (Debian terminology, in this case, for you all).

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