Packaging Policy.
On a side note as I send my lilo.conf thoughts, I had a rather nasty
problem recently where fetchmail suddenly started cutting off all my
inbound email partway through the messages. My mind boggled.
It turned out that a compile and install of Fetchmail 5.6.0 (unstable
currently has 5.5.3) solved the issue nicely. (There is a 5.6.2 now, but
the gzip was corrupt last I checked).
My issue is this, 5.5.3 is actually about 5 or 6 versions behind the
times. It was from about Sept last year if I recall. Now I don't know what
the status of the maintainer of this package is, but what are the Debian
policy/ethical issues involved if I suddenly piped up and said I had
[unofficial?] packages available for this?
Would anyone hunt me down with a sizable knife if I ever [unofficially]
packaged something that appeared to be a tad outdated? :)
Cheers,
Corey J. Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
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