Re: Question regarding bug fixes.

["Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/07, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Michael Banck, le Thu 31 May 2007 19:50:32 +0200, a écrit :
> > It is certainly a goal to have fixes for major packages applied upstream
> > as well, but we cannot chase after every patch, our manpower is limited.
>
> I'd say that when it is just a "fixme" patch (like MAXPATHLEN,
> PATH_MAX), we generally don't take the time to forward, there are too
> many of them :)
>
> When it is really "porting" software (like Xorg driver for
> keyboard/mouse), we have to work with upstream for working out the best
> method anyway, so it ends up in upstream.
>
> Samuel

Oh,

I just asked because I think the hurd can also be built from source
and everybody could benefit from the fixes, so that rediscovering the
wheel is not an issue, :)...

Any ways, I just wanted to know.

Thanks a lot for the responses...

--
Javier