Re: get mozilla patches upstream?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:02:39PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> >         What might work is to pick one or two issues and submit
> >         individual clearly labelled PRs with associated patches.
>
> Like these?
>
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244010
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333347
>
> And let's not even think about the can of worms the ARM patches cause that
> they removed from their code after Mycroft not agreeing on a license change
> they wanted to enforce - and that are basically impossible to write
> differently (i.e. I could clean room those changes with some other developer,
> and the result would look like a verbatim copy of the removed changes)
>
> If you look at the dates of the two PRs referenced above you will understand
> why people stop feeding back changes and just keep on adding patches to
> pkgsrc.

        Maybe we could add a note to the firefox MESSAGE asking people
        to vote on some of the mozilla PRs...

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