Re: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas [Was: Re: About NM and Next Release]
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> >Do you think any DD reads those? Do DDs care about Bugs with patches?
> >And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
> ppp actually appears to be unmaintained. Many users requested essential
> features like pppoa and kernel space pppoe support but the maintainer
> never did it and has not released a new package in almost a year.
> I would like to know from Russell if he plans to start working again
> soon on ppp or would like to have a co-maintainer who will fix these and
> other problems.
> (If he is not interested then I'm determined to fork the package and
> upload ppp-cvs.)
Notice that pppoatm doesn't seem to be included in ppp-cvs. The patch
currently in one of the two bug report (unless they were merged) is not
ok. It works for pppoatm, but seem to break normal ppp operation, which
is not ok.
I know from my upstream of the unicorn ADSL drivers, that he worked on a
pppoatm patch for mandrake, which could maybe be used. I have not much
details about this though, and have not the time to look at this myself.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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