Re: [Pan-users] Re: Upgrade to 0.113 in debian etch causes proxy connection to fail

[pan user and I like it]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:18 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> pan user and I like it <address@hidden>
> posted address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 08
> Oct 2006 10:54:41 -0400:
> 
> > I use a ssh tunnel connection to premium nntp service. Before upgrade to
> > 0.113 all was fine.
> > 
> > After upgrade ssh connection in pan 0.113 fails to connect. I use terminal
> > to open connection to ssh tunnel server.
> > 
> > Fire up pan after upgrade and no connection is made, no time out errors or
> > other errors noted. Just does not connect.
> > 
> > Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> FWIW, I can confirm there are a few others that use pan in a similar
> manner, but I'm not one of them, so can't confirm what versions of pan if
> any have issues with it.  Hopefully you'll get a fuller response from one
> of them, but I can at least confirm there are others doing it, and haven't
> seen any reports of problems before yours, so I'd /suspect/ it's something
> specific to your system and config.
> 
> BTW, with 0.115 now out and maybe 0.116 today or shortly, I'd suggest
> trying a later version.  IIRC, there were still some major bugs being
> reported with 0.113, 0.114 cured many of them and the big thing with 0.115
> was some further/major memory optimizations.  Therefore, I'd suggest
> trying 0.114 at least if not 0.115, and see if the problem continues to
> exist, before getting /too/ worried about it.  Yes, with close to weekly
> builds on average, sometimes more frequently, keeping up /can/ be
> difficult, but thru at least 0.114 there were significant bug fixes in
> every one, so...
> 
> (If you are on amd64, 0.115 requires a patch to build.  See
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358654 and use the rollup patch I
> posted.)

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the info.