Question on "-O" ports
Hi,
Some packages, like Tcl (its networking is hosed), in the Debian-Alpha
distribution are seriously hosed because they were compiled with -O2
with the broken egcs. Compiling with -O fixes the problems.
So, I now have a fixed tcl. Obviously, there is no desire to submit a
patch upstream since this is not a bug in Tcl, it's a bug in egcs.
In the case of Tcl, the version in the archive is old anyway. But for
regular ones, is a point release (like a NMU) the correct thing to do,
with no patch submitted upstream?
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