2003-Nov-01
Sent a patch to fix security issues with ispell to ispell developers. I now see my name is on the "Unofficial ispell releases" webpage at http://membled.com/work/patches/ispell/.
After mentioning to internal packages list yesterday, without feedback, I send-pr'd the two ispell security issues. Send-pr: security/23337: ispell's munchlist is unsafe (tmp usage)
I provided patches for review to ispell developers.
Committed patch for fonts/Xft2/buildlink2.mk so that also buildlinked the bin/xft-config script (to make sure correct one is used).
SDL failed to build under Linux because of missing ncurses buildlink. This was because aalib-x11 built with ncurses support because it detected it but it didn't have any include of ncurses buildlink either. The fix is easy: configure switch to disable ncurses or enable it and include the ncurses buildlink in the aalib and aalib-x11 buildlink2.mk files.
Worked on second rough draft of letter to solicit maintainers for packages that don't have maintainers. I rough drafts sent to internal packages list have already got maintainer for around 10 or so.