Re: collecting pending Amanda 3.5.x patches

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 21:00:16 +0000, Chris Hassell wrote:
> Are those fixes all in PRs ... or where else are they?
> 
> I don't see any other live dev branches ... 

In the Jean-Louis days all this happened on the mailing lists (both
amanda-users and -hackers).

A few of the fixes I have in mind Jean-Louis committed to the main
repo's 3.5 branch before he left (but after the 3.5.1 release).  The
rest are rather buried in the list archives, but at the point you are
ready to start reviewing/comitting things, I (and presumably others)
will be happy to cull the key patches and highlight/resend them for you.


> though I do wonder if Red Hat or Ubuntu has some good patches for us.

I am not sure about Red Hat off hand.  Ubuntu itself does not have its
own patches, but the Debian source package has a bunch, many of which
are Debian specific but a few of which should definitely be considered
for upstreaming.

(This came up in an earlier amanda-users disussion under the Subject:
"upstreaming patches currently found in Debian Amanda packages", and on
Fri, 24 May 2019 14:37:15 +0000 you mentioned that you had pulled the
patches from the Debian source repo into the upstream repo, but as far
as I have noticed nothing happened to them after that.  Though off hand
because the patches mix in Debian-packaging-specific stuff I am inclined
to think it will be easier for you to look at specific patches one at a
time rather than try to work off a branch...)

							Nathan

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