This file documents the patch files patch-1, ... that are applied to the mirror package beyond the mkls-lR patches provided by Ian. patch-1 Patch to mirror-master by Marc Merlin but one part not applied, see bug #43402 for details patch-2 Patch to mirror.pl provided by SuSE to not mirror file like ../*, see bug #46678 Dirk Eddelbuettel Contact with Lee McLoughlin, the author and upstream maintainer, was lost in 1999. Bug reports have continued to flow in and the number of Debian patches has grown. Lee's copyright policy requires bug fixes are applied only as patches at installation time. Very inconvenient compared with GPL but still "free" software. To mimimize the number of patches applied at installation time they have been consolidated into one patch per file named after the file. These patches are made from the current version of the file when the package is built. Comments identifying bug numbers and authors are included only in patches to Lee's Perl code. Mirror bugs will be fixed and patches accepted by the Debian maintainer if: 1. Debian Project policy requires it; 2. or the program deviates from the author's documentation; 3. or they change only documentation to improve its accuracy; 4. or they are needed extensions which do not change previous standard behaviour. All other bugs and patches will be placed on the wishlist for the upstream maintainer. Ian Maclaine-cross 2001/09/09