Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 09:46:28AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > mate-terminal and tilix, both terminals, have been adapted to Ubuntu > having patched vte to stay with pcre instead of moving to pcre2. > mate-terminal could easily use cpp; tilix is written in D, and I don't > know whether that has

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-08-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 09:22:17 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > There are currently at least 18 source packages which use > vendor-specific series files. I have not been able to determine an > upper bound. Here is a survey of packages that do this, based on this search from Stuart Prescott $ apt-fi