when DEP-3 compliant patches in Fedora?

Marcin Juszkiewicz mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 13:10:27 UTC 2015


W dniu 28.08.2015 o 14:44, Florian Weimer pisze:
> On 08/28/2015 02:11 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

>> Who knows what it does and why? For some reason it has a name
>> '64bitfix' but why it is needed? Did upstream ever saw it? No
>> idea.

> In reality, here's what the Debian version of this patch looks like:
>
> <http://sources.debian.net/src/monsterz/0.7.1-8/debian/patches/010_64-bit-alignment-issues-with-python2.5.diff/>
>
>  I'm not sure if it's all that more helpful, to be honest.

I would say that it is a bit better. Now I at least know that it is
related to Python 2.5 (which we no longer ship) and some 64bit alignment
issues due to it ;D

> (In general, if there is no upstream to contribute such fixes to,
> it's probably best not to ship such software at all.)

But yes, with dead upstream it is not so funny.




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