On 05/12/2014 06:47 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >>> Longterm, this makes it year after year more difficult to develop >>> software for "Linux". >> >> I'm with you here, but what is the solution? >> >> If we say we stick to upstream then we don't provide pkg-config files >> at all (in these cases). > > I think this is a sane default. > > >> Then when Debian does the other upstreams use them and then those >> packages break on Gentoo. > > I like Gentoo to stay very close to upstream.
Gentoo should be close to upstream as much as possible and developers are actively encouraged during recruitment sessions to always try to upstream their patches. If you think a maintainer deviated from upstream for no good reason, well, I would like to think this is an exception instead of common practice. -- Regards, Markos Chandras
