ubuntu-specific modifications of pymsnt

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Sam Morris wrote:
> Hi there,

Hi Sam

> 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?

From debian/changelog:

    - debian/patches/130_twisted_2.5.patch: Add patch to work with
Twisted 2.5.

I'm CCing Lionel, who added that patch, in case he has something else to
say.

> 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. :)

We try to do it, but it's true we can improve there. At least I can
improve :)

> Regards,

Cheers
Emilio

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