Re: pkgquilt

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Reading this thread, it occurs to me that the quilt scheme is an
approach to deal with two situations which are both problematic:

  A) a fork being maintained in pkgsrc, because upstream is nonfunctional
  or won't take patches

  B) lots of patches that should have been upstreamed haven't been


and for solutions

  A) actually fork and package the fork

  B) follow our documented policy and send them upstream