bug#11580: [PATCH] Fix bug #11580

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net>]

On Saturday, September 29 2012, Roland Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> The attached patch fixes the bug listed on $SUBJECT.  Maybe there are
>>> better ways to fix it, but a quick hack did the trick so I am sending
>>> it for review.
>>
>> I don't use bbdb, so I've Cc-ed Roland who is the current bbdb
>> maintainer.  Roland, the complete bug thread is here:
>
> It seems this is all about BBDB v2. Unfortunately, the BBDB v3 that I
> have been working on for a little while has not yet been released
>
> Nobody on the BBDB mailing list has ever mentioned EUDC. So I never
> thought about this till I saw this bug report.
>
> I've tried to clean up the code of BBDB and make it more robust. Lots of
> things have changed along this way. It seems to me that eudc-bbdb.el
> would likewise benefit from that. However, the current version of
> eudc-bbdb.el will not work with BBDB v3.
>
> There are a few things left I'd like to do before making the first
> proper release of BBDB v3. It appears to me that then it would make more
> sense to look into adapting eudc-bbdb.el to BBDB v3.
>
> If in the meanwhile you have a patch that fixes the bug for you, can you
> continue with it till then?

Thank you for the explanations.  I think this patch has more to do with
EUDC than with BBDB, TBH.  And this is a simple fix to a long-standing
problem.

I am afraid I did not understand the last paragraph.  Are you saying
that it is OK to commit this patch upstream?

Thanks,

-- 
Sergio