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On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:15:58 -0400 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> I think fixing upstream is a no-brainer. |
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It indeed is, this is the goal; you can force them in multiple ways, |
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some of which can be found on the Lua bug and previous discussion(s). |
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> The controversy only exists when upstream refuses to cooperate (which |
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> seems to be the case when we're one of six distros patching it). If |
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> there are other situations where we supply our own files please speak |
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> up. |
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Not that I know of; the refusal to cooperate is what this is all about, |
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see my last response to hwoarang before this mail for a short summary. |
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Though, I think that the Lua maintainers can explain all the details... |
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> When the only issue is maintainer laziness I could see fixing that in |
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> a different way... |
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It has always been an issue; we could always use more manpower, ... |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Gentoo |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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