Am 22.03.2014 03:05, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
On Fri, 21.03.14 23:35, Reindl Harald (h.reindl(a)thelounge.net)
wrote:
>> In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or
removed in Fedora we have to not only
>> deal with our usual politics and bureaucracy but also all the downstream
distribution to us as well...
>
> no, in other words he told you that whe world is not turning around
> a few people deperecating anything which does not get a update for
> the sake of a update and what some people calling "legacy" might
> be things not needing updates because they just works and update
> and replace/drop for the sake of a change does not make things
> better for no good reason
>
> the author of tcpwrapper is Wietse Venema, the perosn who created
> and maintains postfix - frankly if only 1% of the software out
So, you do realise that the same Wietse Venema who wrote and then
stopped maintaining tcpwrappers is the one who didn't add *any*
tcpwrappers support to Postfix? To this day Postfix doesn't do
tcpwrappers. Probably for a good reason, don't you think?
until you managed the same stability of interfaces for a couple
of years like postfix don't strip quotes
> most of the replacements in the last few years could have been
> becakward compatible if the developers would not be too lazy
> to care about
Wietse is such a lazy person that he didn't had hosts.allow/.deny
compatibility support to Postfix, isn't he?
ask him why