+T-PROT PATCHES
+==============
+
+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 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
+specific patch because you *need* it.
+
+Remember, filtering is a trade-off. If *many* people need a specific patch,
+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).
+
+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).
+
+If you know how to deal with the serious performance impacts Getopt::Long
+brings along, please drop me an email. Thanks.
+
+
+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+Your distribution provides just an outdated version of gnupg?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.
+
+t-prot.sl-slang2.diff
+=====================
+Patch by Gregor Herrmann, making t-prot.sl run with Slang-2.
+
+
+
+RECENT PATCHES
+==============
+
+none
+
+
+
+OBSOLETE PATCHES
+================
+
+t-prot-*-adjtz.diff
+===================
+This patch has been dropped. Noone seems to make use of it, and it
+depends on an external program (GNU date) that may not be available
+everywhere. Running this program and loading another additional Perl
+Module also decreases performance.
+