Re: pkgquilt

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 03:16:47PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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
> 

Greg, to put this as polietly as possible, when you're reading
pbulk reports like dh does, you have to mass patch many
different packages that you _don't care about_.

You're not forking them. Nobody is upstreaming patches to add
GCC14 support and fix a recently-revealed segfault in a 
Xlib application that last got a new version in 2003.

This is a problem that many old package managers have to deal
with. Debian, for example. And more tooling is always nice.

It's a whole different problem to maintaining a handful of
packages in the geography category and needing to patch them