On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Francis Russell wrote: > So, I sent the patch to the upstream author late December 2008. They > responded that logging IP's for failed logins seemed like a useful idea > and that they would commit that bit. Anyway, I watched the upstream repo > and the patch was never committed. I sent a follow up e-mail in > September 2009 (just after the dropbear related bug report was filed > against fail2ban) seeing if I could get the patch committed, but never > received a reply.
So they were positive about it -- cool. Just please remind them politely once again about this outstanding wishlist patch ;) They could have been busy at that moment and your email was swallowed due to real-life issues ;) > I never tried submitting it to Debian since I didn't like the idea of > fail2ban having rules that only worked against patched versions of > Debian packages. yes -- upstream would be ideal... BUT debian maintainer might be a good friend of upstream and might give your patch "another cycle" ;) -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
