From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: PATCH: LibreOffice Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:40:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87y4k3gqt9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150531090831.GA4344@debian> <87pp5gtzi1.fsf@netris.org> <20150531181916.GA3182@debian> <87fv6c1o9k.fsf@gnu.org> <20150601125205.GA31003@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVZx-0002Dq-BN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:40:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVZt-0005vV-TD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:40:57 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVZt-0005vF-BP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:40:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150601125205.GA31003@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:52:05 +0200") 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org John Darrington skribis: > Obviously any exercise in Free Software is "doable" (we have the source c= ode!)=20 > but, my experience in packaging for Guix tells me that it can be very eas= y to > fall into the trap of making changes to the upstream packages which effec= tively > forks them. Then we become the maintainer of a forked package. Apart from elogind, I can=E2=80=99t think of any package that Guix provides= that would qualify as =E2=80=9Cforked.=E2=80=9D Ludo=E2=80=99.