Upstream Advice?

[Chris Maness <christopher.maness%gmail.com@localhost>]

I have uploaded two pkg programs on GitHub --  ham/tnt and ham/dpbox.
They sort of work on a modern NetBSD system, but need patching and
modernization.  I have begun this process, but also want this
reflected in a public place since I can't email the author with
patches for him to commit my changes to the upstream tarball.  My
changes are made after "make patch".  So I am including the pkgsrc
patches on top of the pristine upstream tarball in my git repository.
I would imagine that the correct way to do this is to become the pkg
maintainer, then move upstream to github with the pristine upstream
source from the original author (no NetBSD patches applied).  Then I
could make my patches part of the applied patches that NetBSD applies.
I am not sure what is best.  It used to work in Linux, but the latest
version of Linux I could get it to compile on was c. 2006 distro of
Slackware (v.11).  This is ancient.  It compiles on NetBSD, but runs
with lots of bugs and crashes.

Probably the BEST BEST way is to fix it for modern Linux, then port
the fixed version here to pkgsrc so everybody can reap the benefit,
but I don't think I have the motivation for that.

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Thanks,
Chris Maness