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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE-3.96 patches ?
From:       Nathan Aubrey <nathan () paysonlinux ! org>
Date:       2007-11-26 21:35:45
Message-ID: 200711261435.45406.nathan () paysonlinux ! org
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On Monday 26 November 2007 14:28:38 Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 26.11.07 12:38:55, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > > On Monday 26 November 2007 12:23:11 Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > > > On Monday 26 November 2007 20:00:35 Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > > > > I apologize for being new to this area. Is there a good place to
> > > > > locate all the patches available for a specific release?
> > >
> > > What about contributed patches?
> >
> > Also there are patches from the packagers of various distributors, those
> > usually are kept together with the package metadata.
>
> Just to overspecify: KDE does not maintain patches from distribution
> packagers.  If you want to see what patches Red Hat applies to their KDE,
> you would need to consult the Red Hat source RPMs.  Likewise for Debian,
> Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.
>
> Overtimes these are attached to KDE bug reports and thereby eventually make
> it into our code base.  But we don't track what patches are applied by each
> distro.
>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne

I appreciate that as well. I am only interested in the KDE patches, not the 
distro patches, but thinking about it now I know there are some things I'd 
like to add to my 3.5.8 tree that I need to get from the distro patches, but 
I would not have thought to check their source rpms. Thank you.

Nathan
 
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