From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:32:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20140214123214.GA4956@jocasta.intra> References: <87zjlvh276.fsf@netris.org> <20140213080720.GA28268@jocasta.intra> <87txc3h005.fsf@netris.org> <871tz7p354.fsf@gnu.org> <87ha83m0wg.fsf@netris.org> <87r4763qp7.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WEHwb-0000ZK-Re for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:32:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WEHwX-0003Qe-19 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:32:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r4763qp7.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:59:32AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: However, we???re just packaging an existing application. IMO, when we find such limitations (it???s really a limitation, and not something that makes it completely unusable), we should submit the improvement upstream, unless upstream no longer exists (I???m not sure if this is the case here.) I think the following are true (please correct me if not): * Most (all?) the files in gnu/packages/patches fall into the category of "limitations" to upstream. * In principle, those patch files could be directly applied to upstream without modification. This being the case, would it not be a good idea, to have some kind of web interface to these patch files to make it easy for upstream maintainers to fetch them. (perhaps there is sucha page already) Then we can publish this page and say "hey upstream maintainer! Your package has limitations. Please apply these patches." J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.