Re: [NetBSD 2.0_RC5] XFree86 man pages broken!

From: Igor Sobrado (igor_at_no-spam.on.the.net)
Date: 12/02/04

  • Next message: Benjamin Walkenhorst: "Re: NetBSD 1.6.2 installer segfaults" 
    Date: 2 Dec 2004 18:17:19 +0100

    Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
    > Igor Sobrado <igor@no-spam.on.the.net> wrote:
    >> I supposed that he opened a PR on this issue some time ago...
    >
    > sorry - no. I use google to find places where I should make comments, but
    > there are several bug-tracking systems to pay attention to (offhand I can
    > recall 8 that I check...)

    >From my previous experience sending patches to the NetBSD Foundation,
    bug-tracking systems members share a lot of information. Some of the
    patches I submitted were immediately send to the developers of the
    tools.

    I hardly imagine how a patch can be useful if it is not included in
    the main source tree of the broken tool... what happens if the tool
    is upgraded? Must the fix be applied again to the source code?
    Perhaps the upgrade breaks the patch!

    Sharing fixes with the tool developers is the only way to improve tools.
    Of course, if licensing terms or other issues[*] make it impossible
    the patch cannot be shared. But I hope it is an exceptional issue.

    [*] sometimes patches are highly specialized changes that are not
        of general interest for the tool users.

    Igor.

  • Next message: Benjamin Walkenhorst: "Re: NetBSD 1.6.2 installer segfaults"
    • Quantcast