[aur-general] Question about patches in [community]

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On 09/05/2010 04:54 PM, Brad Fanella wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a few popular packages I would be interested in moving to and maintaining in [community]. However, I recall reading somewhere that AUR software that includes a patch is typically not accepted in community until the upstream developers fix/merge the patches into the software and release it. Is this correct, or am I being misled?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad

usually we accept patches that fixes compilation issues or functionally 
if the patches are accepted upstream.

we don't accept patches that extends the applications and haven't been 
accepted upstream

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