On Tuesday 21 January 2025 11:59:11 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> writes: > > You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be > > bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25? > > No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream - > i.e. the BOINC project itself - not by Gentoo. But it's Gentoo > that provides the OpenRC boinc.init and boinc.conf files - in the > sci-misc/boinc/files folder of the Gentoo repository - not > upstream. (If this were about files provided by upstream, rather > than by Gentoo, an issue would need to have been raised with the > BOINC project, not on the Gentoo bug tracker.) It's not Gentoo's > place to change version numbers of the software that Gentoo > packages, but Gentoo _can_ indicate revisions of how specific > versions of the software are packaged. That's what numbers like > -r1, -r2, etc. indicate. > > > Where on earth did you get that idea? I only said I couldn't see > > what > > to do, and asked for help with it. > > You wrote, as i quoted in my previous email: > > The scale of the changes proposed seems to me too big for such a > > minor revision bump, but more than that, it has several diffs > > against > > separate files, and I'm not /au-fait/ enough with patching to > > know > > what to do with them all. > > > > Would anyone here like to have a go at it? > > You didn't write: > > what to do with them all, and I need someone to explain it to > > me. Would anyone here like to have a go at it? > > or > > > what to do with them all. Would anyone here like to have a go at > > explaining to me what I need to do? > > and so i read "it" as referring to the scale of the changes > proposed being too big, and that you were asking for someone else > to put together a patch - particularly because people who need > help with something related to a bug report they've opened usually > ask for that help on the bug report itself, rather than asking for > help in some other venue. > > > Alexis.
I didn't read Peter's message as being (intentionally) offensive, or questioning the quality of your contribution, but raising points he did not understand fully and asking for help. I for one tend to avoid asking for detailed explanation and guidance in bug reports, because it could be seen as creating unnecessary noise and potentially taking up dev/maintainers' time for simpler issues for which I could hopefully find a solution offline. Since gentoo-user is a user rather than a dev mailing list, it allows for more noisy discussions and also helps the rest of us learn things we haven't come across in our travels. I don't use BOINC and haven't sync'ed portage to see what version(s) may be available, but isn't applying testing patches a matter of adding them in /etc/ portage/patches/ as explained here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches Or if you're scratching your own ebuild, by adding them in the ebuild files/ directory and calling them in src_prepare()? Like this: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_prepare/eapply/ index.html
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