Re: how best to maintain a patch

[David Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>]

Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> David Coe wrote:
> 
> > We have a patch to ispell, submitted to one of the
> > open bugs, which upstream maintainer has decided
> > isn't important enough to incorporate ...
> 
> Why not? ... 

Upstream author says it's a glibc bug, debian people say
it's a glibc feature (i'm oversimplifying; you can read
about it at http://bugs.debian.org/35288 if you care).

> > I think I like the separate patch file better,
> > though, because it'll be easier ...
>
> There is a system for doing this (used in egcs and XFree86) which was
> written Adam Heath (IIRC) but it's not been released properly for
> general use yet due to lack of documentation.

Thanks, I'll check it out.