Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021/07/03 15:43, Nam Nguyen wrote: >> - Since maintaining this many patches is clunky, should we consider >> mirroring the latest git checkout? > > I don't have any feel for what shape the upstream code is in, though > that is often safer than taking a big set of patches and hoping that > they don't rely on something else that was committed but not picked up > in the patches.. Other OS must have this problem too, it would be really > helpful if there was a newer release that everyone could move to, rather > than separately wrangling patches.
Hmm, upstream considers git master the "best version": https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/mailman/message/37254884/ What about mirroring the latest git checkout at the start of the OpenBSD release cycle, so it's tested well over the next months? Best Regards, Stefan
