[pacman-dev] Patch Policy Inquiry

[Sijie Bu]

Hello,

Not sure if I'm posting it to the right place, but this is a developer-related question so hopefully it's in the right place.

I will be starting an internship project with CIP United, a company specialized in MIPS processors, and will be porting Arch to MIPS64 R6. And my project supervisor would like to know pacman's patch policies for architecture-specific modifications.

I have already asked on arch-ports list and was told by people from Arch Linux 32 that the pacman codebase is generally portable, but I see them maintaining a fork for certain i486-specific optimizations. I have also looked at the readme files (HACKING etc.) but was unable to find a clear statement of your patch policies. Therefore, I would like to know some details about your patch policies, especially the ones regarding non-amd64 architectures.

Thank you for your time and have a nice day.

Sincerely
Tom