From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patches question
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:14:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160623201450.GA2529@solar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623113034.GA4667@shadowwalker>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:30:35AM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> In the case of netcat-openbsd, Debian is the Linux upstream,
> maintaining the port of netcat from OpenBSD.
> The patches have not seen an update since 2012 and are still
> functional.
> I can understand that we don't want to maintain more patches
> than necessary, so in the case of netcat-openbsd I'll contact
> Debian, as mentioned in the thread of the patch, to ask about
> a merge of their patches into their maintained port.
So did I understand correctly that the Debian project maintains the "official"
tarball of the software package, and at the same time, the same person main-
tains a patch series that is not part of the tarball? This sounds very
surprising.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-23 10:41 patches question ng0
2016-06-23 11:09 ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-23 11:30 ` ng0
2016-06-23 20:14 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-06-23 22:18 ` ng0
2016-06-23 13:23 ` ng0
2016-06-23 20:27 ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-24 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-24 13:43 ` ng0
2016-06-24 15:48 ` Tor Browser Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-24 17:49 ` ng0
2016-06-26 10:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-29 12:48 ` ng0
2016-06-30 10:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-30 16:09 ` ng0
2016-06-30 18:00 ` ng0
2016-08-05 13:35 ` ng0
2016-08-06 4:05 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-06 11:14 ` ng0
2016-08-08 8:03 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-10 20:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11 8:51 ` ng0
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