From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: patches question Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:14:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20160623201450.GA2529@solar> References: <20160623104107.GA2505@shadowwalker> <20160623110943.GA748@solar> <20160623113034.GA4667@shadowwalker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGB1g-00015A-6R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:15:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGB1a-0002wg-7L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:14:59 -0400 Received: from mailrelay2.public.one.com ([91.198.169.125]:26691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bGB1Z-0002wI-Qg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:14:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160623113034.GA4667@shadowwalker> 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 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