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Re: design issues in debian packages



On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:37:31AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Brian May wrote:
> > 1) packages that create a new userid and send mail to that userid
> > without the administrator realizing. One great offender I just noticed
> > recently (and still have to fix) is cricket.
> 
> cricket sends mail to root now. Is does have another major flaw
> related to email that explains your huge mailbox: if you ever get a
> single error that gets logged it will mail that error to you every time
> it runs after that, which is every 5 minutes by default. 

Which is fixed by 1.0.3-6, now in Incoming.

-- 
 - mdz



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