Hi, I'd like to see more of the debian/patches merged, especially the exec_filename_* series. These patches cover a lot of files, and they often break and I have to amend them manually. More often than not the fix is trivial, but it is still a nuisance. I'd also like to see the dde stuff from the incubator repository merged upstream.
1/ Code that does not live in the Hurd repository receives less attention. I've been doing a lot of cleanups, static analysis and performance improvements lately. The dde stuff for example has not received any of those. 2/ The nice Guix folks surely also want all those goodies, so they either have to copy those patches, or they miss out. In either way, I feel like we (Hurd upstream) would have failed them. 3/ I feel that this situation creates an unnecessary drag for the development. I'm working on protected payloads to improve the object lookups in the Hurd servers. I've just came up with a patch that fixes some object lookups in libports. This requires changing the API of libports. I fixed all the code in the Hurd repository accordingly, unfortunately the dde stuff breaks if it isn't fixed as well. If it was living in the same repository, I could fix it up in one commit, making sure that the change is atomic. So, is the dde stuff a first class citizen? If so, I believe it should be merged. If not, may I change the API of, say, libports freely? May I merge that patch that breaks the dde servers? If not, why not, and what is the best way to proceed? Cheers, Justus
