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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: ipt_recent needs a maintainer!
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:42:01 +0100
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Harald Welte wrote:
> Some people from the netfilter community have indicated that it's coding
> style rectifies a re-write, but that's something I don't want to address
> now.
> 
> What we need as a short-term solution is somebody maintaining this
> beast, somebody looking into bug reports, etc.

I think even the short term solution might be a rewrite :)

My guess is that rewriting this thing cleanly without the bugs
wouldn't take more time than fixing the bugs in the mess it is.