Ludovic Courtès writes: > ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> skribis: > >> On 2016-06-22(11:23:28PM+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> skribis: >>> >>> > * gnu/packages/admin.scm (netcat-openbsd): New variable. >>> > * patches/netcat-openbsd-0001-port-to-linux-with-libbsd.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0002-connect-timeout.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0003-get-sev-by-name.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0004-poll-hup.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0005-send-crlf.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0006-quit-timer.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0007-udp-scan-timeout.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0008-verbose-numeric-port.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0009-dccp-support.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0010-serialized-handling-multiple-clients.patch, >>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0011-misc-failures-and-features.patch: New files. >>> >>> Sorry for joining late, but I think 11 non-trivial patches is not OK (we >>> have the policy of not keeping non-trivial patches, unless they fix an >>> immediate bug or a Guix-specific issue.) >>> >>> Is there an upstream for this package? >> >> The upstream is the debian port to linux of the nc binary of OpenBSD >> (see in code comment on upstream), mentioned in the package. > > I see. Does Debian have a Git/SVN repo for this code? It would be best > to fetch from that repo than to carry all these patches. > > If that is not possible, another option is to download all these patches > using origins, which would at least make it clear where they come from: > > (package > (name "netcat-openbsd") > ;; … > (source (origin > ;; … > (patches (list (origin > ;; … > (uri "http://debian.org/…";)) > …))))) > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. >
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