From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: LibreOffice
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:40:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4k3gqt9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150601125205.GA31003@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:52:05 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> Obviously any exercise in Free Software is "doable" (we have the source code!)
> but, my experience in packaging for Guix tells me that it can be very easy to
> fall into the trap of making changes to the upstream packages which effectively
> forks them. Then we become the maintainer of a forked package.
Apart from elogind, I can’t think of any package that Guix provides that
would qualify as “forked.”
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-01 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-31 9:08 PATCH: LibreOffice Andreas Enge
2015-05-31 17:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-31 18:19 ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-31 20:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-01 12:52 ` John Darrington
2015-06-01 19:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-06-01 19:50 ` Andreas Enge
2015-06-01 19:56 ` Andreas Enge
2015-06-03 12:39 ` Andreas Enge
2015-06-04 20:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-04 20:56 ` Andreas Enge
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