Bug#397092: cyrus-imapd-2.2: source package includes CVS directories

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Sun Nov 5 17:32:49 CET 2006


bts tag 397092 + upstream
thanks

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> This is a known issue. We decided that it was more important to preserve
> the exact upstream tar ball than to remove them. Someone
> (*cough*hmh*cough*) was supposed to bring the issue to the attention of
> upstream, I don't know if this was done.

It was done a lot of time ago, and upstream told me they feel that giving
people that download the tarball the ability to just cvs update is worth
the hassle, so, they won't remove it.

Maybe Cyrus upstream will switch away from CVS someday, and then the dirs
will go away :-p

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  Henrique Holschuh




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