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Markos Chandras: |
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> On 05/09/2014 09:32 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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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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> Well to me it feels that gentoo specific .pc files is a similar problem |
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> to any other patch that affects upstream code in order to make the |
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> package compatible with gentoo. Some people may consider downstream pc |
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> files more dangerous because reverse deps are affected. But really, if |
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> there is no other alternative, we shouldn't be treating this as a |
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> special case. We patch upstream packages all the time after all |
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I don't agree with that. Pkg-config files are like headers and library |
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files. They affect code of developers. |
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If I mess with random configure.ac files in ffmpeg... it doesn't really |
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affect any1 other than gentoo users in 99% of the cases. |
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