Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:
You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be
bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25?
No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream -
i.e. the BOINC project itself - not by Gentoo. But it's Gentoo
that provides the OpenRC boinc.init and boinc.conf files - in the
sci-misc/boinc/files folder of the Gentoo repository - not
upstream. (If this were about files provided by upstream, rather
than by Gentoo, an issue would need to have been raised with the
BOINC project, not on the Gentoo bug tracker.) It's not Gentoo's
place to change version numbers of the software that Gentoo
packages, but Gentoo _can_ indicate revisions of how specific
versions of the software are packaged. That's what numbers like
-r1, -r2, etc. indicate.
Where on earth did you get that idea? I only said I couldn't see
what
to do, and asked for help with it.
You wrote, as i quoted in my previous email:
The scale of the changes proposed seems to me too big for such a
minor revision bump, but more than that, it has several diffs
against
separate files, and I'm not /au-fait/ enough with patching to
know
what to do with them all.
Would anyone here like to have a go at it?
You didn't write:
what to do with them all, and I need someone to explain it to
me. Would anyone here like to have a go at it?
or
what to do with them all. Would anyone here like to have a go at
explaining to me what I need to do?
and so i read "it" as referring to the scale of the changes
proposed being too big, and that you were asking for someone else
to put together a patch - particularly because people who need
help with something related to a bug report they've opened usually
ask for that help on the bug report itself, rather than asking for
help in some other venue.
Alexis.
