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On 11/14/2012 06:17 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> so unless you are willing to go that far as introducing yourself at the |
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>> xfce devel mailing list and accepting the mantle of upstream of them, we |
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>> are really stuck at this distribution level patching just like others |
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> That makes no sense to me. If you (not you specifically, the generic |
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> 'you') have patches then you push them upstream. |
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> 0 distribution patches would only be unrealistic because of some |
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> refusal to work with upstream. |
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> If you are doing some patching of XFCE then I think there is no |
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> difference as far as the code goes between doing it in a gentoo |
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> repository and doing it in the upstream repository. |
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I think you're reading past what he said. He needs help submitting |
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things upstream, so that they can be added to portage. |
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There are a lot of xfce extras which in reality are unmaintained. Other |
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distributions have patches for them to make them forward-compatible. The |
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right thing to do, as you pointed out, is submit these upstream. Samuli |
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wants help doing that. |
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Once they're upstream (at least in git/bugzilla), those patches can be |
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added to portage. Or if anyone takes over maintenance of the package, |
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merged upstream. |
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Having someone maintain the extras would of course be preferable, but |
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this is better than rolling our own patches independent of the other |
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distros. |
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