Re: metamail & changes to make it work under unstable
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:59:21PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Michael Moerz wrote:
>
> > Hi!
>
> Hi Michael!
>
> > I have adopted metamail to make it work with unstable, but I used
> > autoconf&autoconf to rewrite the build-process. The problem was
> > that things were defined in a metamail header file that were
> > later redefined by an included system header file.
> >
> > My problem is that there is no upstream anymore and I have cutted
> > some c source away that was responsible for making metamail work
> > under AMIGA & DOS.
> > I have tried to find some policy that matches this situation, but
> > I failed and therefore I am asking this here.
> >
> > Well I believe that it is better to at least support Unix
> > than to support no OS at all so I simply decided to do it.
>
> Your decision sounds reasnable. The only thing you must do is to keep the
> upstream source unchanged in you orig.tar.gz .
>
of course.
> If there's no upstream anymore and you are working actively on the package
> you can perhaps ask the old upstream if you can become the new upstream?
>
hmm, that would become tricky since metamail was developed by someone
working at Bellcore, but this guy doesn't seem to be there anymore cause
i wasn't able to get an email contact. But I will give that an other try.
--
kind regards,
Michael Moerz
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