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Old patches from Red Hat (continued)


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Old patches from Red Hat (continued)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:09:20 -0400

On 28-Apr-2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| One thing I forgot to mention about the help patch was the following 
| comment from the build script that may shed some light on why it's there:
| 
| * Wed Jul 30 2003 Lon Hohberger <address@hidden> 2.1.50-3
| - Fix for Bugzilla #101299, round 2.  Include a patch to
| quell sterr from info; it gives us funny messages if $HOME/.info
| does not exist.

This makes no sense to me.  I don't have a $HOME/.info file
(directory?) and I don't see any messages going to stderr from info.

So I still don't understand what problem this patch is trying to
solve.  I'd say omit it and see if anyone complains.

jwe



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