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> On 1 Jul 2016, at 00:28, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××.org> wrote: |
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> Example: games-board/cgoban2. I tried very hard to stay with the old, |
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> crufty Xlib based (so java free) predecessor cgoban which I used on |
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> Debian, but to make it usable at all its source needs to be patched, and |
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> in a Catch-22 the ebuild doesn't use EAPI 5 so patching is hacky in the |
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> extreme. |
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Surely if there’s an ebuild in the tree, yet it needs patching, you should be filing a bug to get the patch included. |
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An updated ebuild should be added to the tree, which will use EAPI 5 and include the patch. |
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Stroller. |
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