Hi Hilmar, On Thu, 02 Jan 2025, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > > Then your patches will just end up in the bit nirvana. > > > They do not, but the processing can be delayed heavily (years if one is > unlucky). So directly speaking to the upstream author raises drastically the
Yes, that is what I meant. The patches of course remain somewhere in the BTS forever. > Let me know if this was the wrong way to address the issue. I'm willing to > speak to upstream authors, but this may take time... All fine from your side. For the patches that concern TeX Live internal man pages, Karl will apply them. For those coming from third-party sources, one needs to talk to up-upstream. Best regards, and Happy New Year! Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info arXiv / Cornell University + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
