[arch-general] Fixes for alot of PKGBUILDs

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 20:38 +0600, Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 12 June 2010 16:30, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010/6/12 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> >> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 03:38 -0400, Christopher Rogers wrote:
> >>> I have fixes for alot of packages in extra and community.
> >>>
> >>> you can find the fixes here:
> >>> http://github.com/godane/abs-source/tree/my-fixes
> >>>
> >>> its best to 'git clone git://github.com/godane/abs-source.git' without
> >>> quotes.
> >>>
> >>> Do a 'git diff abs-20100611 my-fixes' without quotes to see the fixes i
> >>> added to them.
> >>>
> >>> You can ignore aumix-gtk since it was updated. Also all texlive-*-doc url
> >>> are broken. There url is you guys so i didn't bother to fix those.
> >>>
> >>> I hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Any reason why you're maintaining these fixes without submitting them to
> >> the proper places (Arch devs/TUs for packaging patches, upstream for
> >> app-patches)?
> > Yeah, I have the same question, in my memory, devs/TUs are quite happy
> > to emerge good patches.
> 
> It's perfectly fine to share those here, since there are fixes for
> community and the official repos. Perhaps he didn't want to label all
> these as "bugs", hence not being a bug report instead.
> 
For clarification, I didn't mean to imply these shouldn't be shared, I
was simply wondering what sort of fixes require maintaining a separate
list of patches outside the extra/community repos.

Then again, my curiosity did not extend to actually checking his abs
tree out, so go figure =).