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Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/mdocml



On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:47:19AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20110817212805.GB16537%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >Could you please stop randomly changing 3rd party code without
> >contacting the maintainer?
> 
> Unless the rules have changed, for simple compilation fixes we don't do that.
> Otherwise the overhead of doing so would be too large. In this particular
> case, do you have a different/better way of fixing this? If yes, I'd like
> to know now.

How can it be a simple compilation fix if you also change the Makefile?
You are craeting additional work for every future import without
providing much value. This is not specific to this case, but many other
of your recent changes to stuff that can just as well be changed
upstream first and reimported later.

Joerg


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