Re: the solicitation of opinions

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:18, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> > In the line of newer pkgs, I'd like
> > 
> > pine-4.5x -- adds threading support. I've got an rpm
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=pine
> 
> Since Red Hat has deprecated this, it will be very hard to do security
> updates for it. If someone wants to volunteer to maintain it (and
> monitor pine security updates, and build new pine updates as needed),
> I'll consider it, otherwise, no.

I'll volunteer. I don't have any sparc32 to build on, but other than that
I'm already keeping my own updated pine RPMs anyway for Intel (I've been
doing so for a while, and it's a good thing since it's already been pulled
from rawhide)

> > aspell-0.5x -- the aspell in RHL 9 consumes all CPU when trying to
> >       parse structured documents (XML, HTML, SGML). This fixes it,
> >       but it's a fairly invasive change, so I don't know if it's
> >       worth the effort?
>
> Hmm. I'll consider it.

good deal. New aspell replaces both pspell and aspell, and there's a lot of 
software which gets build dependencies on specific versions of one or the 
other, so it gets ugly quickly if a user tries to just upgrade on their own.

> > cipe 1.5x -- backwards-compatible, supported upstream (the version RH
> >       ships is years old and not supported), lots of new features
> >       for things like IPv6, bridging, PKI support so works in
> >       conjunction with dynamic IPs / NAT. Might require assembler
> >       hacking to compile it, though?
> 
> I'll give it a shot.

thanks!

> > postfix-2.0 w/ SASL2 support -- lot more flexible than SASL1. Of course,
> > 	it's hard to go SASL2 w/o also revving OpenLDAP....
> 
> Thats a pretty invasive change. Same deal with pine, if someone wants to
> own OpenLDAP, SASL2, and postfix-2, I'll consider it, otherwise, no.

The other option here is to use postfix 2 compiled with SASL2 but w/o 
OpenLDAP. That'd be less invasive -- depends on if people who use Postfix 
want LDAP more, or SASL2 more.

What's the procedure for submitting stuff?

later,
chris