On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue 31 Aug 2010 00:48 -0500, Nathan O wrote: >> > What should I do about software that won't work, not due to the fact >> about >> > how it is packaged, but badly coded? I am finding some packages of mine >> that >> > won't compile or run and the author(programmer) doesn't seem to be active >> > anymore >> >> Patch them if you want, orphan them if you don't. >> >> Some applications I can patch or use sed, but there are some packages that, > in my opinion, would require somebody that knows programming in order to fix > the issues. >
You could check what patches other distros have applied.
