>>>>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:50:28 +0000, Dave Shield 
>>>>> <[email protected]> said:

DS> -  is this a sensible thing to consider doing?

Yes.

DS> -  are there any licensing issues to prevent us simply picking
DS> the patches up from the relevant *BSD archives ?

What's the license of their patches?  I'd assume since it was a *BSD
based system it'll be a BSD based patch, which obviously should work for us.

DS> (As opposed to the BSD people supplying them to us)

That would have been nice.  Chalk it up to yet another distribution not
providing patches to the upstream.  A (very big) personal pet-peeve.

DS> I'd been planning to release 5.5.1.pre2 tomorrow, but feel it's
DS> probably worth holding off to get these fixes in first, if this is
DS> felt to be a sensible/acceptable way forward.

I'll leave that decision to you.

>> I have tried merging the whole thing, and it adds up to
>> something like 2500 lines of patch ...

DS> My inclination would be to apply the patches individually, rather
DS> than all in one go.   That might be a bit more work, but should
DS> make it easier to identify related changes (and what problems they
DS> are trying to address).

Should be fairly automatable, aside from the commit messages.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
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