Bug#594684: Package

[Panayiotis Karabassis <panayk@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

On 09/20/2011 12:55 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 16:35:37 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> 
>> Is this dictated by Debian Policy? Just curious.
>>
> It's dictated by wanting to remain sane, as much as possible.  Which
> implies not forking X with random feature patches.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

It's not a random feature patch. X is unusable on Yeelong without this
patch.( So I am told, I have not tried ). Recompiling X takes about 3
hours on Yeelong. And nothing prevents you to drop the patch when it's
included upstream. Quilt will just tell about it.

What do others think?

-- 
Best regards,
    Panayiotis Karabassis