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Re: 200 packages with the greatest number of patches




On 31.07.2016 22:47, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 31.07.2016 22:32, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 06:51:10PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> I've prepared a list of such problematic to maintain packages.
>>>
>>> If you are still a user and you could volunteer your time, feel free to
>>> remove from this list software you care about by improving support for
>>> your platform in upstream.
>>>
>>> http://netbsd.org/~kamil/top-200-packages-with-the-greatest-number-of-patches-20160731.txt
>>>
>>> Current top-10:
>>> wip/chromium-new      448
>>> wip/chromium      333
>>> wip/virtualbox      211
>>> mail/thunderbird38      174
>>> security/tor-browser      171
>>> www/firefox38      166
>>> www/firefox31      165
>>> mail/thunderbird31      160
>>> mail/thunderbird24      157
>>> x11/xview-lib      156
>>
>> That's not a very useful list. The Mozilla core has a bad record for
>> accepting patches and even if they do, there are lots of older versions
>> that needing them. xview-lib is just dead upstream, so not very useful
>> either. Chromium is similar yet different to Mozilla in that upstream
>> has expressed a clear disinterest in anything not Windows, Linux or OSX.
>>
>> Joerg
>>
> 
> These ones are for diehards... but still for every merged patch in
> upstream -> easier maintainership in future.
> 
> I'm upstreaming NetBSD code right now in VirtualBox and I'm
> repetitiously poking Chromium developers. With a legion of contributors
> we can make the NetBSD desktop better.
> 

For the reference - the first patch ever for NetBSD has been merged with
Chromium:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/969759f9970274b3aa8eae234b3d23eba398887d

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