Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:51:18AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: >> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> >> We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or >> >> circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, >> >> and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply >> >> himself but is good in our opinion. Depending on the package, you may >> >> find huge patches for our packages >> >> >> >> I would not see why a missing functionality of gitlab would be different >> >> here. >> > >> > Ole, it seems you didn't understand what Alexander ment when he described >> > his >> > reasoning with a single word, "nagios"? >> > >> > Do you know what he is referring too? >> >> No, I don't. I can speak only from my own experiences when packaging, >> and from what I see f.e. as patches in iceweasel. It seems that we are >> able to maintain significant patches for quite a while. > > The fact that we are able to do something does not mean that it is easy, > or that we like having to do it.
Sure. At the end this is left to the maintainers. All I wanted to say is that long-term patches are no show-stopper for Debian packaging. Best regards Ole