On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:56:29PM +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 09/05/2010 04:54 PM, Brad Fanella wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > > >I have a few popular packages I would be interested in moving to and > >maintaining in [community]. However, I recall reading somewhere that AUR > >software that includes a patch is typically not accepted in community until > >the upstream developers fix/merge the patches into the software and release > >it. Is this correct, or am I being misled? > > > >Thanks, > >Brad > > usually we accept patches that fixes compilation issues or > functionally if the patches are accepted upstream. > > we don't accept patches that extends the applications and haven't > been accepted upstream > > -- > Ionuț
I see. So as long as a patch isn't adding new features that haven't been built in the package upstream (or something similar), then it is perfectly fine to include it? Thanks for clearing things up.
