These t-prot patches still did not make it into vanilla t-prot, mostly
for one of these reasons: They decrease performance, accuracy, flexibility,
-reliability or are hard to maintain.
+reliability or are a real burden to maintain.
Still, there might be a chance to have them included into vanilla t-prot:
You can send an email to the author and ask him to include this or that
at some time, because noone seems to need it.
-Some patches are there because they bring *big* changes and need some more
+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.
-RECENT PATCHES
-==============
+PERMANENT PATCHES
+=================
-t-prot-*-gpg1*.diff
-===================
-Your distribution's gnupg version is not quite up-to-date, and you want
-to use a current t-prot version with it? No problem, this patch changes
-the locales back to a not so current gpg version.
+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. :)
-Please note that this patch will most likely be applied by your t-prot
-package maintainer if the distribution makes use of an old gnupg version.
+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).
-t-prot-*-mutt15*.diff
-=====================
+t-prot-*-mutt15*.diff and t-prot-*-gpg1*.diff
+=============================================
You want to be on the bleeding edge, using a developer version of mutt?
-No problem, this patch changes the locales so most things should work
-smoothly. Please send a bug report if there are some great new features
-in the new mutt which break anything inside t-prot.
+Your distribution provides just an outdated version of gnupg?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.
+
+t-prot.sl-slang2.diff
+=====================
+Patch by Gregor Herrmann, making t-prot.sl run with Slang-2.
+
+
+
+RECENT PATCHES
+==============
+
+none
-Please note that this patch will most likely be applied by your t-prot
-package maintainer if the distribution makes use of mutt-1.5.4 or newer,
-e.g. Debian Testing/Unstable.
OBSOLETE PATCHES
================
+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
===================
This patch has been dropped. Noone seems to make use of it, and it
into vanilla t-prot. Thanks to everyone who sent bug reports or gave
feedback.
-t-prot-*-gol.diff
-=================
+t-prot-*-gol.diff (first version)
+=================================
This patch is no longer available.
The feedback to Debian Bug #193937 came only from two people: the Debian
I see no benefits in using Getopt::Long over Getopt::Mixed as long as
the latter is working and available at CPAN.
-t-prot-*-gpg107.diff
-====================
-This patch has been dropped, since noone seems to make use of it.
-
t-prot-*-indentms.diff
======================
This patch has been dropped, since noone seems to make use of it.
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