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@@ -14,50 +14,53 @@ odds are high for it to be included into vanilla t-prot, even though there
 are some drawbacks with it. If you keep silent, the patch will be dropped
 at some time, because noone seems to need it.
 
-
 Some patches exist because they bring *big* changes and need some more
 testing. So if you use these patches, please send an email to the author,
 and give some feedback on how well the patch works. It will be most helpful
 to decide if some specific feature makes it into vanilla t-prot.
 
 
+PERMANENT PATCHES
+=================
+
+These patches are updated as need be, as several distributions (that
+is, their t-prot package maintainers) use them to adapt t-prot to the
+distribution's environment. They will _not_ get dropped just because
+nobody bugs me. :)
+
+Users: Please note that these patches will most likely be applied by the
+t-prot package maintainer(s) of your distribution (if the distribution
+makes use of said Slang, mutt and gnupg versions).
+
+none
+
 
 RECENT PATCHES
 ==============
 
-t-prot-*-gol.diff
-=================
-Getopt::Mixed is abandoned and marked deprecated by its author, and many
-distributions would like nothing better than to get rid of it. Using this
-patch, you can make t-prot use Getopt::Long (which comes bundled with
-standard perl).
+none
 
-If you know how to deal with the serious performance impacts Getopt::Long
-brings along, please drop me an email. Thanks.
 
+OBSOLETE PATCHES
+================
 
 t-prot-*-mutt15*.diff and t-prot-*-gpg1*.diff
 =============================================
-You want to be on the bleeding edge, using a developer version of mutt?
-Your distribution provides just an outdated version of gnupg?
-
-No problem, these patches add the locales needed for them to work
-smoothly. Please send a bug report if there are some great new
-features in the new mutt or gnupg which break anything inside t-prot.
+By now it seems safe to assume every distribution is using mutt version
+1.5.x and gnupg newer than 1.2.6, so these patches have been incorporated
+into t-prot in version 3.0.
 
 t-prot.sl-slang2.diff
 =====================
-Patch by Gregor Herrmann, making t-prot.sl run with Slang-2.
-
-
-Please note that these patches will most likely be applied by the t-prot
-package maintainer(s) of your distribution (if the distribution makes
-use of said mutt and gnupg versions).
-
-
-
-OBSOLETE PATCHES
-================
+Slang-2 seems to be standard nowadays, so we drop Slang-1 support.
+
+t-prot-*-gol.diff (2nd version)
+===============================
+This patch has been incorporated in t-prot since version 2.95, when
+Getopt::Mixed would have broken existing configurations with the new
+behaviour of the -c command line switch. The performance issues are
+still not solved, though, so if you have an idea how to improve the
+performance of Getopt::Long, please drop a note.
 
 t-prot-*-adjtz.diff
 ===================