> Some searching shows that although the patch *is* in the gnats
> database, it never made it to the mailing list, so probably
> noone has really noticed it.  How can this be?  I might have
> done something wrong, since I used send-pr on a NetBSD machine
> where I can't send mail, and fixed up the mail and sent it from
> a different machines, but what?  While the PR itself isn't very
> important it should have come to the mailing list :-)

Yes.  Actually, i think it's known that a not-insignificant fraction
of PRs that go into the database simply never appear on mailing lists,
because of what I presume to be list software bugs.  The PRs have no
distinguishing characteristics (i.e., they're not confidential, they
don't all hit a specific problem area, etc.), so it's not content
based or anything like that.  It seems that some of them simply get
dropped on the floor by what should be an automatic, "foolproof"
process.

At least some members of 'core' _do_ know about this problem, and as
far as I know nothing's been done about it.  Take that as you wish.



cgd