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Re: Third-party forks of packaged projects



On 4/27/20 10:34 PM, Kyle Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 20:31 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> If the library you need to package isn't needed by any other package,
>> simply apply the needed patch and upload. Even better if it's only a
>> build-dependency, in which case it wont ever be a problem.
> 
> This brings up an interesting question: are things that are build-
> dependencies only covered by the no-vendoring rule?

Of course yes. Otherwise, we would leave all Go stuff vendored and never
care, for example.

> In my case, I *am* upstream. So, for example, we forked enet and made
> some changes to how it works. In that case, I could make a new package
> called adios2-enet or ornl-enet, and depend on it for ADIOS. Is that
> correct?

That's IMO the recommended way, yes.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)


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