Re: patch-o-matic problems..?

[Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>]

Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> I have to agree with these guys, the whole POM and Xtables things is
>> extremely confusing to the newbies.
> 
> Indeed. IMO they should not exist anymore.
> 
> With regards to POM(-ng) - I cannot talk about the other project since
> it is not supported by the Netfilter Project itself - it was something
> that we needed during the 2.4 days, since we could not add new features
> to the kernel that quickly. However, with the new 2.6 development cycle,
> features can get into kernel faster. So if you need some feature or some
> contibution into mainline, go and ask for it. Of course, it must suit
> the standards and it must be an interesting contribution to what we
> already have. On the other hand, you may also get the reason why it is
> not in mainline yet.
> 
> Well, Anyway I think that we've already discussed about this in a long
> thread [1].
> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter&m=121484288209802&w=2
> 

Could the netfilter team at least publish something along the lines of:
  POM(-ng) is now being deprecated. There is another independent project 
run by X over at U which performs a replacement service ...


AYJ