[Fink-devel] Getting patches back "upstream"

[Karin K. <ky...@gn...>]

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Hi everybody,

  I have a question concering your policy on the patches you create.
While Fink is a great distribution, there are obviously people out there
who will just go to their favourite GNU (or whatever) mirror and
download the source code of the package they are looking for from there.
It would be great if the patches you make are integrated into the
individual software source trees (where possible) so that the greatest
number of users can enjoy the fruits of your work. I have just read the
FAQ entry on that (q2.1), and among the other (very valid) reasons you
state that sometimes you (the Fink people) are just too busy to take the
considerable hassle of making clean patches, explaining things, etc. 

Now my question is: Do you mind if somebody else does this? When I need
a specific package, try to compile it, see that it doesn't work per se,
but Fink has it in the distribution -- would you mind if I reported this
back to the maintainer (making patches and explaining the Mac
specifics, of course giving full credit to you)?

Regards,
#!/kyrah






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Karin Kosina (vka kyrah)
http://kyrah.net

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