Re: Bug Terrorism
severity 23000 normal
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> The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification
> to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail
> should probably be more graceful about handling it, it is not a
> release-critical error. A vast majority of people (like everyone but you)
> don't go breaking procmail for the fun of it. It is NOT SENDMAIL's FAULT
> that you broke it's MDA. I really don't understand why people want to
> blame sendmail when they do stupid things like this.
While the tone is a bit harsh, I agree with the idea. This is not worth
holding up the release of Hamm for. The simplicity of the fix is not
relevant.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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