Package: tin Version: 1:2.4.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The patches you pulled from the unreleased version 2.4.1 are known to break -A to force nntp authentication. A fix is available in http://lists.tin.org/pipermail/tin-dev/2016-December/000042.html Not being able to use -A breaks using the popular news server news.eternal-september.org, as this server allows posting to a limit set of groups even without authentication, so tin sees no reason to authenticate. Most users of eternal-september.org need full access to that server and not just to the limited set of groups exposed without authentication, so forced authentication is needed here. Regards, Michael Karcher -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tin depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libcanlock2 2b-8 ii libicu57 57.1-5 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libuu0 0.5.20-9 Versions of packages tin recommends: ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.88~RC6-1 Versions of packages tin suggests: ii gnupg 2.1.16-3 ii ispell 3.4.00-5 -- debconf information: shared/news/server: news.eternal-september.org
