On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:55:20AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > Every project I know off makes changes locally first and then pushes > them upstream. It is not practical to wait for upstream to be fixed > first, specially in cases of security fixes. In some cases we > maintain many thousands of lines of diff just because upstream will > not take them, and the version control systems do a pretty decent > job merging new vendor branches.
This is just ignorant of the fact that a number of NetBSD developer maintain projects where they also have upstream commit access. As such you are doing nothing but increasing the maintainance cost. Stop making it harder. Silly GCC warnings fall into this category. Joerg
