On Tuesday 21 January 2025 11:59:11 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:
> > You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be
> > bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25?
> 
> No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream -
> i.e. the BOINC project itself - not by Gentoo. But it's Gentoo
> that provides the OpenRC boinc.init and boinc.conf files - in the
> sci-misc/boinc/files folder of the Gentoo repository - not
> upstream. (If this were about files provided by upstream, rather
> than by Gentoo, an issue would need to have been raised with the
> BOINC project, not on the Gentoo bug tracker.) It's not Gentoo's
> place to change version numbers of the software that Gentoo
> packages, but Gentoo _can_ indicate revisions of how specific
> versions of the software are packaged. That's what numbers like
> -r1, -r2, etc. indicate.
> 
> > Where on earth did you get that idea? I only said I couldn't see
> > what
> > to do, and asked for help with it.
> 
> You wrote, as i quoted in my previous email:
> > The scale of the changes proposed seems to me too big for such a
> > minor revision bump, but more than that, it has several diffs
> > against
> > separate files, and I'm not /au-fait/ enough with patching to
> > know
> > what to do with them all.
> > 
> > Would anyone here like to have a go at it?
> 
> You didn't write:
> > what to do with them all, and I need someone to explain it to
> > me. Would anyone here like to have a go at it?
> 
> or
> 
> > what to do with them all. Would anyone here like to have a go at
> > explaining to me what I need to do?
> 
> and so i read "it" as referring to the scale of the changes
> proposed being too big, and that you were asking for someone else
> to put together a patch - particularly because people who need
> help with something related to a bug report they've opened usually
> ask for that help on the bug report itself, rather than asking for
> help in some other venue.
> 
> 
> Alexis.

I didn't read Peter's message as being (intentionally) offensive, or 
questioning the quality of your contribution, but raising points he did not 
understand fully and asking for help.  I for one tend to avoid asking for 
detailed explanation and guidance in bug reports, because it could be seen as 
creating unnecessary noise and potentially taking up dev/maintainers' time for 
simpler issues for which I could hopefully find a solution offline.  Since 
gentoo-user is a user rather than a dev mailing list, it allows for more noisy 
discussions and also helps the rest of us learn things we haven't come across 
in our travels.

I don't use BOINC and haven't sync'ed portage to see what version(s) may be 
available, but isn't applying testing patches a matter of adding them in /etc/
portage/patches/ as explained here:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches

Or if you're scratching your own ebuild, by adding them in the ebuild files/ 
directory and calling them in src_prepare()?  Like this:

https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_prepare/eapply/
index.html