We might be in some cases be upstream to some projects and that's fine - we hate patches within packaging and so does everybody else. If the code can peacefully co-exist and be maintained, I don't see a problem.
This is likely to fix us having some issues in GCC4.8 as well, judging by the patch, so makes sense to merge? /Carsten 2014-05-15 17:27 GMT+02:00 <sfietkonstan...@free.fr>: > Hello, > > Today, a strange pull-request landed in mapplauncherd [1]. I replied that > this kind of patching should happen in distro specific area (ie in > downstream packaging). While the change might be trivial, I'm reluctant about > accepting this PR. > > However, I'm not sure if there is any rule preventing downstream adaptation > to appear in NemoMobile code base, so I would what you think about this. > This discussion can also lead to some more precise rules for code > contribution, > as I'm unable to find the right information in the Wiki. What do you think ? > > Regards, > Lucien > > [1]: https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd/pull/24 > >