Re: Aging Dependencies?

On 21 April 2012 at 1:14, Alexander Zangerl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:21:31 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes:
> >It looks like the issues are: either mmencode needs a home, or we need to
> >switch exmh to a package that is more recent than the first Clinton
> >administration.
> 
> the debian variant of exmh (which i maintain) goes for mimencode
> or recode and falls back to the tcl decoder. the changes are small and 
> trivial (see attached patch).
> 
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/x-shellscript
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=10_nometamail.dpatch
> 
> #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
> ## 10_nometamail.dpatch by  <[email protected]>
> ##
> ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
> ## DP: fix fd leakage, add support for recode as alternative to mimencode
> 
> @DPATCH@
> diff -urNad exmh-2.7.2~/lib/mime.tcl exmh-2.7.2/lib/mime.tcl
> --- exmh-2.7.2~/lib/mime.tcl	2008-06-18 21:50:33.863033779 +1000
> +++ exmh-2.7.2/lib/mime.tcl	2008-06-18 21:54:39.608893927 +1000
[snip]
 
Hiya,

Does it make sense to inclue Alexander's patch in CVS for testing
prior to 2.8.1?  Maybe it's a good fallback patch for systems
which won't have metamail?  Would it give exmh more portability
across various systems?

Thanks....

--
Kevin