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What? Are you maybe talking about the extent of downstream patching? Because Arch Linux does insert it's own "junk" into upstream, but probably to a lesser exte
by wander_homer 6y ago
What? Are you maybe talking about the extent of downstream patching? Because Arch Linux does insert it's own "junk" into upstream, but probably to a lesser extent than Ubuntu or maybe Debian.
- veeti 6y agoCompare: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/tree/debian/patches https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/tre... https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/f17cbb1cbc8274b2f94d173c87229ec9e688bffc/trunk/ https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/f17cbb1c...
- GlitchMr 6y agoJust to be clear, because it's non-obvious, Arch Linux has a single patch (not stored in .patch file however), but all things considered it's very simple. sed -i '/dbus_conf_dir/s/sysconfdir/datadir/g' meson.build This likely is needed for the package to build to begin with.
- wander_homer 6y agoI'm not sure what this supposed to demonstrate. I literally said that Arch Linux probably applies downstream patches to a lesser degree than Ubuntu. My point was that the person I responded to made it sound as if Arch Linux doesn't do any patching, which is obviously false since they have dozens if not hundreds of packages with downstream patches.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoWhat you call "junk" in Debian are security and stability fixes.