On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 02:33:04AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [010925 22:59]: > > Why, btw, are you uploading a NEW package with the maintainer set to -qa, > > especially when -qa has already asked for the package to be removed from > > It's absouletly horrid code to look at and has a locking scheme I wish > not to overhaul to get into the fnctl, then dotlock policy. > > Right now it seems to dotlock only, never fnctl. > > It might not be a bad idea for MUA maintainers to check on how their > packages handle the munging of mailboxes. This can be a pretty > 'critical' thing because users using NFS mounted mailspools can quickly > lose whole spools with bad locking practices. This is well and good, but offtopic. This thread isn't (supposed to be) about "xmailtool", it's about ITP bug reports being in a state that more accurately represents what's going on with the corresponding packages. I posted no ITP for xmailtool, for two reasons: 1) It wasn't really "new", since madison knew about it, and it exists in the current release of Debian; and 2) I wasn't sure I wanted to maintain it. If xmailtool implements brain-dead mail locking, I'm pretty sure I don't want to dirty my hands with it. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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