-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > For a "production" version, -DDEBUG is not appropriate. > > If the documentation is wrong about this, please use the bug tracking > > system. Debian maintainers are not always supposed to read this list. > > I could see your point about -DDEBUG not being appropriate for a > production program if the resultant output was only useful for debugging > Pine. However, the principal use of this information is for debugging > pine /sessions/ (and the default debug level can be set accordingly).
Again, there must be very few people interested on this. > Having the Debian pine package compiled without -DDEBUG, there is no way > to find out what pine is actually saying to the IMAP, SMTP etc. servers > and what they're saying back, short of using tcpdump to record all the > packets sent and returned. That's beyond me. > > So I think the documentation is correct when it says that pine should be > compiled with the -DDEBUG flag on. The default value can be set as low > as possible (0), I suppose, so people are still able to increase it on the > command line. But it will still create those ugly .pine-debug files. I could be wrong, but the only way to disable creation of these files is by not using DEBUG. Anyway, since the current Debian pine release (3.96L-3) is source-only and you have to compile it by yourself, you can do whatever changes before compiling. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM+n/CSqK7IlOjMLFAQEZdwP+Npg9vEFPiZyqTlPA5S4btwT5L0ZE/x3E klimftUncLSNi0310VKYz7xPv08+lNM2Ox2nqkhXLTJpZU+xZ7qnjaEQGHcAPllt PLLg+0yYipCL6xKuFPS9IU/O4+1oR9ngznIFiqEZy86ABL2gW+OTBLIzrUiAAw2S HRX079xztvI= =cx25 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
