[pacman-dev] Patch Policy Inquiry

[Allan McRae]

On 29/4/21 10:46 am, Sijie Bu wrote:
> 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.

I doubt you will need any patches for a MIPS port (and am quite
surprised there are patches for i486...), but we are happy to accept
patches to support other architectures.

Allan