On Monday 09 June 2008, Tim wrote: > I use the small C utility ez-ipupdate to keep a dynamic DNS account > up-to-date with ZoneEdit, a free dynamic DNS provider. Recently, > ZoneEdit changed the page that updates A records; ez-ipupdate needs > to be changed to reflect this. > > Here's where I run into an issue. I've managed to successfully patch > the code to make it work again, but I can't get in touch with the > upstream maintainer. His personal email and mailing list are both > hosted on a system that doesn't exist (at least according to DNS - > ironic, no?). His "contact me" page returns a 404. Several other > links on his site are broken or outdated. > > What's the "Gentoo way" here? Should I keep trying to get in touch > with the maintainer, file a bug in Gentoo Bugzilla, or just live with > it?
File a bug, attach your patch and mention that upstream is uncontactable. It's the gentoo maintainers call for what to do next. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
