From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: patches question Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:41:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20160623104107.GA2505@shadowwalker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52564) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG26d-000844-KV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:43:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG26a-0007aW-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:43:31 -0400 Received: from 93-95-228-168.1984.is ([93.95.228.168]:50167 helo=beleriand.n0.is) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bG26a-0007a1-5T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:43:28 -0400 Received: by beleriand.n0.is (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 0bf241fe TLS version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org After the last reply to my netcat-openbsd, I am uncertain about the kind of patches which can be included by policy. For firefox, I would start to include what fixes buildprocess for us and fixes bugs (including features) upstream has not bothered to close yet or in general. That is what the netcat-openbsd-* files of debian are about I assume (but I have not asked debian yet). For firefox, bundled libraries and applications can be patched away (system graphite+harfbuzz), more I can not figure out in this state of package. Gentoo has 37 patches for the 45.x of firefox, some which are useless to us, some which can be useful completely or just in parts. Some are even solved through the way we can build software. Sometimes I don't want to wait up on upstream. Maybe some fixes by (example name) Gentoo have not been pushed back to mozilla, but if it fixes builds and features I see no reason why not to use it. In the case of firefox I'm willing to communicate with mozilla, as with all software, but I'd do this after inclusion of patches so we can drop patches once there has been a merge or a bug has been resolved. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 For non-prism friendly talk find me on psyced.org / loupsycedyglgamf.onion