<pre>Try as a I might I could not locate contribution guidelines and was left with the impression that submitting a bug report with a patch should be enough. But my the traffic n the mailing list I see that I was wrong.
In any case - few weeks ago I entered this bug with patch
[#315256] Does not complete for local ~/.minirc.* config files
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=100114&aid=315256&atid=413095
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<pre>Summary:</pre>
<pre> minicom can be started with certain flag and an optional config CFGNAME where CFGNAME matches a</pre>
<pre> minirc.CFGNAME in a system dir or a .minirc.CFGNAME in users home dir.
The current implementation only checks system paths, the attached patch removes the exclusivity of any</pre>
<pre> of the possible directories and returns the config names from system or home directory"</pre>
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<pre>--Nevo</pre>