[Slackbuilds-users] How best to contact Slackware devs?

David Woodfall dave at dawoodfall.net
Tue Jan 9 15:37:21 UTC 2018


>  Since upgrading to 14.2 I've had an issue with my MUA, alpine-2.20. When a
>message is forwarded the subject line is not copied from the original
>message to the one to be forwarded. This does not affect replying to
>messages.
>
>  A subscriber to the alpine-info mail list found the problem and is fixed by
>replacing strncpy by memmove. I'd like to make Pat and crew aware of this
>issue.
>
>  Test case using strncpy:
>
>$ ./forward 1: Test Subject
>2: Test Subject
>3: Test Subject
>4: 5:
>
>  Test case using memmove:
>
>$ ./forward 1: Test Subject
>2: Test Subject
>3: Test Subject
>4: Test Subject (fwd)
>5: Test Subject (fwd)
>
>  Source code for both sent upon request.
>
>Rich

This sounds more like an issue for the alpine devs. Have you looked to
see if a fix has been made for this issue? If not then it's worth
opening a bug report with them.

Dave


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