> As others pointed out this is quit acceptable. But there is a but:) > Official packages are tested/screned, and at least uptill now I trust > them. Now comes some one I don't no, telling me he has fixed some > probs. Nice nice, but would I want to handover my system to this guy? > No, I wouldn't. Installing a deb has to be done as root, and noway am > I going to run a prog as root of someone I don't know. No doubt > you're trustworthy, but I don't know for sure. But if you would > provide the diffs, I could check for myself that you did you job and > nothing more and would be able to compile it for myself. So please > put the diffs up somewhere too so that "apt-get source package" would > work.
As posted just recently there has been an adoption of fetchmail with the blessing of the current fetchmail maintainer, so I won't be putting anything up anywhere :) I will probably assist the new maintainer tho if necessary, as I have already played with both 5.6.0 and 5.6.2, which are the two latest versions of fetchmail. At any rate, its been interesting gauging the responses of the debian community - I could take the line that says "well ive got what I want" and ignore the broader community, but these responses have been positive enough to lean my thinking the other way. Corey Popelier.
