Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> 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.

I think most of the patches in there are fixes (normally submitted
upstream), or adjustments so that things can build/run in our
environment (patches we don’t want to submit.)

> 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)

Yes, the page is:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html

It lists patches and ‘patch snippets’ for each package.

Ludo’.