At 10:05 AM -0400 4/25/01, Steven Champeon wrote:
> I'd also like to request that the kind folks at qpopper pay closer
> attention to this list, where complete patches often fix problems with
> the distros that your subsequent releases ignore. For example: there
> is no rule to make install for poppassd in 4.0.1; there is no definition
> of INSTALL in the Makefile for poppassd; there is still a bug in the
> build rule for poppassd that ignores the settings for ${LIBS} (so that
> if you define -lcrypt it gets added to ${LIBS} but ${LIBS} is not used
> to build the binary, only ${NETWORK_LIBS}; etc.
>
> Of course, you're free to ignore us, but please bear in mind that it is
> your users who often find the gruesome holes in your software and supply
> patches weeks before anyone else does, and if we keep getting ignored,
> we may as well stop submitting patches. Understand that I don't really
> care that my patch was ignored or that I was not given any credit for
> publicly posting the patch. What irks me is that I have to mention that
> the distro still has most of the same bugs it had a week and a half ago.
I apologize for overlooking your patch. Certainly I would have
preferred that it be included in 4.0.1.
--Randy
