I'm considering removing the entire patches section from
www.qmail.org.
Why? Because a patch implies that something is wrong, and needs to be
fixed. However, when someone produces a "patch" for smtp-auth, that
implies that qmail-smtpd has a problem that the patch fixes. I'd
rather see people steal the necessary parts of Makefile, and Dan's
library code, and create a stand-alone "qmail-smtpd-auth" program.
I've found a couple of places where Dan decries patches:
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail9812/214/1/2/1/3/2/1/2/1.html
http://msgs.SecurePoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail9905/164/3.html
Somewhere he recommends that people make a copy of the necessary parts
of his code and distribute the changed code as a separate package.
Can anybody find it for me? I've failed to find it in nearly an hour
of archive searching.
I'm not going to do it unless a majority of the authors of patches are
willing to repackage them as standalone programs. So if there's a
firestorm of protest from those authors, I won't do it.
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