On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:51:18AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or > >> circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, > >> and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply > >> himself but is good in our opinion. Depending on the package, you may > >> find huge patches for our packages > >> > >> I would not see why a missing functionality of gitlab would be different > >> here. > > > > Ole, it seems you didn't understand what Alexander ment when he described his > > reasoning with a single word, "nagios"? > > > > Do you know what he is referring too? > > No, I don't. I can speak only from my own experiences when packaging, > and from what I see f.e. as patches in iceweasel. It seems that we are > able to maintain significant patches for quite a while. The fact that we are able to do something does not mean that it is easy, or that we like having to do it.
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