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List:       zlib-devel
Subject:    [Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.5.ebuild [WAS: zlib-1.2.5 configure	script issues]
From:       weigelt () metux ! de (Enrico Weigelt)
Date:       2010-04-27 16:58:35
Message-ID: 20100427165834.GL12959 () nibiru ! local
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* Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> schrieb:

> Well, the flip side of that is that it can be useful to figure out why
> people find they need to change the code and try address those issues
> in the original project.

ACK. Often the distros do things which should be done by 
upstream (eg. bug fixing, generic customizability, etc) - but
many upstreams are far too slow or even dont have maintenance
branches/releases.

Ideally, distros should only have to do _really_ distro
specific things and only patch in extreme cases.

Actually, that's what the OSS-qm project (a kind of meta distro
or 2nd-upstream) is for: provide the yet missing link between
upstream and distros.


cu
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