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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Minimal patching vs. fixing the whole Universe</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Wed Jun 22 23:34:12 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Op woensdag 22 juni 2011 22:47:40 schreef Radu-Cristian FOTESCU:
><i> I would say that the general principle should be to apply a _minimal_
</I>><i> patching, not to try to rewrite the work of the developers of hundreds of
</I>><i> packages!
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</I>><i> A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as
</I>><i> long as this is not a real bug.
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</I>><i> "Should" Mageia try to "fix" something that is not actually broken? There
</I>><i> might be hundreds of packages with thousands and thousands of questionable
</I>><i> decisions taken by the upstream developers -- however, why fixing
</I>><i> something that works?
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</I>><i> You see, I hate conflicts (although I seem to be a maestro in generating
</I>><i> them), but I also need simplicity and clear policies. Also, policies that
</I>><i> can be applied. "Perfect" policies that would require the revision of
</I>><i> hundreds of packages that actually work are not my cup of tea.
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</I>><i> Of course, I am _not_ a Mageia packager and this is not "my" package, but
</I>><i> I'd like to know Mageia's policy wrt building packages. Normally, patches
</I>><i> are not meant to optimize but to fix breakages. If the packagers are
</I>><i> compelled to "improve" upstream's work, this can prove to be catastrophic
</I>><i> in complex cases.
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</I>><i> Thank you,
</I>><i> R-C aka beranger
</I>
imho, it's something like: "as long as you're patching it anyway, make it
python and possibly add a conflicts with python >= 3.0" or something.
besides, by the time we'll actually have python3, it's likely that the
upstream will already have been ported to python3... or the buildsystem would
fail anyway...
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