ubuntu-specific modifications of pymsnt

[Sam Morris]

Hi there,

I maintain the Debian package of pymsnt. I recently found the utnubu
service that displays the differences between Debian packages and their
counterparts in Ubuntu. I looked up pymsnt and saw that you're patching
the code like so:

        diff -Nur pymsnt-0.11.2/src/main.py pymsnt-0.11.2.new/src/main.py
        --- pymsnt-0.11.2/src/main.py	2006-10-18 14:40:55.000000000 +1000
        +++ pymsnt-0.11.2.new/src/main.py	2007-04-05 10:14:37.000000000 +1000
        @@ -390,7 +390,10 @@
         	# Set SIGHUP to reload the config file & close & open debug file
         	signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, SIGHUPstuff)
         	# Load some scripts for PID and daemonising
        -	from twisted.scripts import twistd
        +	try:
        +		from twisted.scripts import _twistd_unix as twistd
        +	except:
        +		from twisted.scripts import twistd
         
         
         def main():

Could someone please let me know what the purpose of this patch is?

In addition it would be nice if you could push changes upstream to the
maintainer of the Debian package and to the original upstream
developers, so that other users of Debian, Debian-derived distributions
and other distributions can benefit from them. :)

Regards,

-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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