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Re: [opensuse] THANKS! Evolution pword patch!
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:12:01 -0800
- Message-id: <200704172112.02591.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't
> apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
> Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
Exactly so.
But submitting patches to your Distro of choice ought to be fairly easy
and let the distro's package manager decide if it fixes something upstream
and submit it in a professional way.
It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit
of C should be submitting patches.
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> A patch just out-there will be of little value. It very possibly won't
> apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
> Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
Exactly so.
But submitting patches to your Distro of choice ought to be fairly easy
and let the distro's package manager decide if it fixes something upstream
and submit it in a professional way.
It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit
of C should be submitting patches.
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John Andersen
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