Re: Patch for smail
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:49:00AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 27 Jan 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:
>
> > I patched smail for alignments errors and send the patch to the maintainer.
>
> Hmm, you should have sent the patch to the BTS, that way there is some
> form of record that you did it. Now he could claim he never received
> it, if he wanted to be evil :-)
>
> > Since I got no response this month I think he is not going to incorporate it
> > for us. Do you think I should do a binary-only NMU and send the patch to BTS
> > or wait until the maintainer picks up on this (eventually sending a bug when
> > he still doesn't respond)??
>
> I'd do a sourceful NMU, if the maintainer hasn't responded for a
> month... Be kind and also upload an i386 version if you can :-)
If this sort of NMU is made without a corresponding i386 version, is
there a risk of losing the patch if an x86 version is uploaded that
disregards the alpha patch and deb?
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