On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:28:16PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > On Monday 30 March 2009 17:23:48 Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > Hello Peter, > > > This is not even an RFS :) > > > > Now, seriously - I've prepared a package for dma, the DragonFly Mail > > Agent, as ITP'd in my #511410, I've uploaded it to mentors.d.n, and > > I've sent out a request for debconf translations. The call for > > translations should hit the -i18n list in a couple of minutes, and > > there's a ten-day timeout on it. > > > > Still, if any of you could find the time to take a look at the dma > > package itself and tell me if I've done anything horribly wrong, > > I had a look at it and found nothing horribly wrong, though packaging MTA is > not that trivial, no matter how lightweight it is.
Yeah, I learned that the hard way. However, $REALJOB really *really* needed something to replace nullmailer with, and since I'd noticed dma mentioned on the FreeBSD lists recently, I thought I'd give it a try. > The one that grabbed my attention is the large list of patches applied to the > upstream code (if we don't take into account the debian-specific ones > 0x-debian-*). Some of them are also hunk'ing, but you can fix that. > [snip] > > > > Note: the dma sources themselves are NOT available for direct > > download from http://www.dragonflybsd.org/. I've made the tarball > > from a git checkout as of, well, 2009/01/10 :) The only change > > since then has been a raised C compiler warnings level. > > I also had a look at the FreeBSD port of dma [1] and it doesn't seem to be so > heavily patched. So, it seems like either your colleague is missing something > or you are just taking the chance to develop in debian/patches/ ;-) ... hence > communicating and consulting your changes upstream would bring these > improvements to more users and developers. > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/dma/ Errr... and of course I forgot to mention this in my not-an-RFS :) All the patches that are not Debian-specific have been submitted upstream in the DragonFlyBSD issue tracker: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1321 I hope that some of them will get folded into the "main distribution". > Otherwise the packaging looks solid, but then again I'm not an MTA wizard ;-) Neither am I :) And thanks for the time you've taken! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical.
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