From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi.
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:05:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3umby1w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54BFC4FF.5030006@gmail.com> (Marek Benc's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:25:51 +0100")
Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com> skribis:
> On 01/21/2015 04:03 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I agree with Andreas: there are 20 patches, and that level of patching
>> goes beyond our mission, IMO.
>>
>> I would rather leave it as is if it’s usable, or remove it, or point to
>> a new upstream if there is one.
>
> In that case, I think at least two of the patches should be allowed to
> get in, the ones about the Berkely db library, since it's spewing out
> errors without them. (but the editor itself works)
You mean there are run-time errors without nvi-db4.patch? What kind?
The second patch is about page sizes apparently. Do you know what the
deal is?
Two/three patches would be OK, but we need to have an understanding of
why we’re carrying these particular patches.
Thank you!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2015-01-21 14:44 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add most debian patches to nvi Marek Benc
2015-01-21 15:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-21 15:25 ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 16:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-01-22 16:39 ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 16:45 ` Marek Benc
2015-01-22 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 22:17 ` Marek Benc
2015-01-23 8:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-20 18:20 Marek Benc
2015-01-21 9:35 ` Andreas Enge
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