On 2015-06-11 03:40, François Bissey wrote:
* fork upstream and keep it as a separate package but no one really wants to be the maintainer.
If it's decided that we are allowed to fork polybori, can this be applied to other packages too?
I have often been frustrated in Sage by people complaining that we should stay as close to upstream as possible, that we shouldn't patch packages in Sage, that we should stick to release (non-development) versions of packages in Sage.
Most recently for example in #18450 I was forced to rewrite part of a patch because upstream Cython didn't want to accept a patch (I still think that my patch was reasonable and I don't understand why upstream doesn't like it).
And every time I make a change to PARI, I feel resistance because we're moving further away from the released PARI version.
So I hope that you understand my frustration if other people can do with polybori what they want but I constantly hit walls because I am not allowed to patch other packages.
Really, I wish we could just give up on this whole "packaging Sage for distributions" effort.
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