Re: chromium: pkgsrc import request

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

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 22:57, Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 02:26:05PM +0100, Robert Bagdan wrote:
> > >
> > > I've just imported the package. Thank you very much for tackling this
> > > Herculean task!
> > >
> > > Is there a chance to get (some of) the patches merged upstream?
> > >
> >
> > Thank you very much for the import :)
> >
> > Upstreaming is a hard task. As I saw there were many merging requests
> > to import changes to chromium, but all are inactive nowadays. Maybe
> > the problem is
> > chromium changes frequency too fast, however the merging request
> > process is too slow
> > as BSDs are not officially supported platforms for chromium, so the developers
> > have no motivation to review the increasingly obsoleting patch sets...

Some upstreams are just unwilling to accept patches for other
platforms and there is nothing to be done.

Sometimes you can open a dialog and find an upstream dev who is
willing to suggest a form in which some subset of patches might be
accepted and it is possible to at least reduce the ongoing patch
maintenance load. Sometimes... :)

> Hi,
> For such particular case, may it be the alternative to fork it on github
> and add tags?

If packagers from other BSDs are willing to work together a fork could
end up being a very helpful way to maintain the diffs

Either way, thanks again for the package!

David