On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Nicholas Marriott < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 06:22:53PM -0700, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > If we are going to diverge from upstream less, a better starting > > point would be https://github.com/gdamore/less-fork > > > > See also http://garrett.damore.org/2014_09_01_archive.html > > > > If you decide to tackle that you'll also want to diff our less > > against the stock version to make sure we don't lose any local > > changes, of which there were a few. > > I looked briefly at this and it wouldn't be that hard. However, while it > would be fantastic to clean up all the crap from less, it isn't clear if > Garrett D'Amore is going to be keeping his fork up to date - if he > doesn't then we are then left with a much harder job to merge later > changes from the original less. Unless we are happy to fork and maintain > less ourselves without an upstream. > > IIRC our local changes are not huge and it is pretty easy to see them in > the diff (strlcpy, SMALL, less_is_more, a few other bits). > > Our patches https://github.com/shadchin/less/commits/openbsd for less-471 (man from -current, without merge changes less-471) -- Alexandr Shadchin
