Sam Morris wrote:
> Hi there,
Hi Sam
> I maintain the Debian package of pymsnt. I recently found the utnubu
> service that displays the differences between Debian packages and their
> counterparts in Ubuntu. I looked up pymsnt and saw that you're patching
> the code like so:
>
> diff -Nur pymsnt-0.11.2/src/main.py pymsnt-0.11.2.new/src/main.py
> --- pymsnt-0.11.2/src/main.py 2006-10-18 14:40:55.0 +1000
> +++ pymsnt-0.11.2.new/src/main.py 2007-04-05 10:14:37.0
> +1000
> @@ -390,7 +390,10 @@
> # Set SIGHUP to reload the config file & close & open debug file
> signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, SIGHUPstuff)
> # Load some scripts for PID and daemonising
> - from twisted.scripts import twistd
> + try:
> + from twisted.scripts import _twistd_unix as twistd
> + except:
> + from twisted.scripts import twistd
>
>
> def main():
>
> Could someone please let me know what the purpose of this patch is?
From debian/changelog:
- debian/patches/130_twisted_2.5.patch: Add patch to work with
Twisted 2.5.
I'm CCing Lionel, who added that patch, in case he has something else to
say.
> In addition it would be nice if you could push changes upstream to the
> maintainer of the Debian package and to the original upstream
> developers, so that other users of Debian, Debian-derived distributions
> and other distributions can benefit from them. :)
We try to do it, but it's true we can improve there. At least I can
improve :)
> Regards,
Cheers
Emilio
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