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From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>
To: Michael Mattsson <michael@××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.1/3.2
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:09:22
Message-Id: 1027937360.1120.32.camel@gentoo.shacknet.nu
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.1/3.2 by Michael Mattsson
1 On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 02:14, Michael Mattsson wrote:
2 > > the gcc-3.1 patches. As far as where I send the patches to... I go to
3 > the
4 > > maintainer's website and e-mail it to him/her and also explain all my
5 > > changes.
6 >
7 > Gentoo patches 3rd party apps for new GCC versions? I would have
8 > expected the original package author to be doing that, not people from a
9 > particular distro.
10
11 Not every upstream author is using the latest tools. There have been
12 dozens of patches sent upstream for gcc3.x-related things so far alone.
13
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15 Matthew Kennedy
16 Gentoo Linux Developer