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Re: glibc alpha patches


On Thursday 15 January 2009 06:11:50 Oliver Falk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 05:17:27 Oliver Falk wrote:
> >> I have a few alpha patches for glibc alpha. I've attached 'em.
> >>
> >> Since there's no glibc alpha maintainer (any more) and alpha has been
> >> moved to ports, nobody seems to be interested in commiting those.
> >>
> >> Do you see any chance for me to make this process a bit more simple?
> >
> > if no one is going to be alpha maintainer, then i wonder if we could rule
> > by community ;)
>
> No, not rule by community. That's not what I meant. I was wondering, if
> someone with appropriate rights could commit 'em.

but there isnt a maintainer and i dont think anyone with commit privs will 
apply patches.  i dont even really know what being a maintainer requires (docs 
doesnt seem to cover this).

> > at any rate, your dl_support patch is wrong. see the one i wrote instead:
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.9/6018_all_alpha-g
> >libc-2.8-cache-shape.patch?rev=1.1
>
> Not totally wrong. :-) But yes, your patch is more correct.

fair enough

> Mike. You have the same problem as I/we have, right? Or don't you mind
> that your patches are not in upstream cvs?

i dont think distros should have to maintain out of tree patches
-mike

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