On 2018-02-12 14:11 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Colin Watson (2018-02-12 13:18:04) > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:09:50PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > > I'd have done the same as Simon. The main advantage is that it makes > > > the tarball free software, which we generally don't get any leeway > > > about > > > > The same advantage is gained by simply patching the replacement code > > into the regenerated tarball in a single step, rather than removing in > > one step and adding in another. > > The tarball should contain only upstream code. Not patched code (then > you arguably are making a fork). But we are encouraged to fork vigorously and often these days (github...I'm looking at you). So Colin can very easily make a fork and then package that and it will still be 'upstream'. It'll make him look younger :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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