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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:48:34 +0200
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r320546 - in head/devel: . tradcpp tradcpp/files
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnt%2BvpD_zFVbe5GwcwZB5_gsB67SkwN5_2Xw7dPkkNVJw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130611164037.GD35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <201306111055.r5BAtHmb094470@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxg=iqSGrFK3Ug0Hzh6nRGnzUA5-Ug_aXrGs4xybBPAty3A@mail.gmail.com> <20130611164037.GD35160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
> No patching is better, has I'm heavily working with upstream on this port.
>
> In general disable warning is something I don't like, I prefer to fix them, and
> I don't find that complexify the port at all.

I've found patching software often leads to introducing subtle bugs:
its incredibly annoying trying to track down a bug only to determine
that is is a distro patch.  Also, it makes it more difficult for the
reader of the patch to figure out why the patch is there:
it increases the mental effort before "oh, maintainer is just working
around compiler warnings"

That said, this isn't a strong feeling.



-- 
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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