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On 2016-07-01 15:39 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> Even poor patches are encouraged in bug reports, because a hacky patch |
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> can be turned into a better one. Chewi and monsieurp have done a lot to |
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> improve Java packages, but there are so many that they won't know which |
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> ones need attention without a bug report. |
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This is a misunderstanding: the thread mostly is about me migrating to a |
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relatively nice java using package (cgoban2) because its predecessor |
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(cgoban), written to bare Xlib, is insufferable. It is this latter |
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package I tried patching. |
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> As far as I understand, we generally recommend icedtea over Oracle's |
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> Java stuff. |
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Really? The thread started with me asking about the removal of icedtea |
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from stable. (Looking at its list of build dependencies, I sorta |
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understand :P) |
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Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. |
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Why does the arrow on Hillary signs point to the right? |
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