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
