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Re: ifupdown

According to Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > According to Anthony Towns:
> > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:00:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > He might be helpful with the numerous NMUs, but he doesn't
> > > > surrender his baby to people who might care more than him.
> > > 
> > > Mmm. That'd be the people who don't understand how it works and can only
> > > "help" if it's rewritten from scratch [...]
> > 
> > And would the presence of actual working patches to the current source
> > base suggest the existence of such understanding?  (cf. bug #235993)
> 
> As a matter of fact that patch is not actually working

What's the symptom?  "It doesn't work" doesn't tell me much.

> have you tried to build a package with it? (Note: I have)

I built and installed a deb, as usual, before submitting the patch.
In fact my laptop is currently running with it ('0.6.4-4.6.0chip1').
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Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K
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