On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:11:39PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > Sounds like reasonable suggestions. The best place to introduce these > man page (and possibly -h message) changes would be upstream, but a good > way to start is to introduce the changes in the Debian package. Then the > changes can be pushed upstream. > > The man page changes are best done as a regular diff -u against this > file: > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc > > The -h message requires deeper changes but generally if you just make a > diff against the original source then I can convert it into a dpatch, > which is what this package currently uses for Debian modifications. Of > course, you can make the dpatch yourself very easily, just browse the > debian directory under trunk as in the above link. > > You may also want to push the changes upstream. This is best done by > submitting the patches via their bugzilla: > https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/ >
Russell, I've been triaging and cleaning up bugs in cyrus-sasl2 and I came across your report. Fabian's guidance is still good. If you want to submit a patch, then I would be happy to include it in the next upload of cyrus-sasl2. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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