Dag-Erling Smørgrav schrieb am 2009-11-01: > Alexander Best <alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> writes: > > great news. so should the PR be closed or should it remain in > > patched state in > > order for 7.x to get patched?
> Set it to "patched" until you've merged the patch to 6, 7 and 8 > (IIRC, 6 > has the new ncurses as well) ok. the pr stays in patched state. right now the patch is in HEAD, 8-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE. rafan is thinking about mfc'ing the patch to 6-stable and 7-stable. however if somebody is willing to modify the patch so it applies to those branches that'll be great > > another question: how about our ncurses base version in general? > > should it > > remain the ncurses release version with our own patchset or would > > it be better > > to update it more frequently with the official ncurses patchsets? i > > guess this > > is the way acpi in the base dir is being handled. vendor updates > > get > > integrated on the fly into the base dir. > I would just import releases, unless there is a compelling reason to > import a patchset (i.e. it fixes a serious bug and we can't easily > apply > just that one patch). my thoughts exactly. ncurses in the base dir is quite up to date. however i personally think that other contributed software should really be updated (binutils e.g.). but that's another story. ;) > DES _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
