From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 22 20:06:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388BD200 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:06:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@feld.me) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFF91BD7 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway2.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id E668320BB9 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.213]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:06:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=feld.me; h= message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh= 7CSD76EjHrb2XjenID5Zr2sPHK4=; b=iz8tRKNi/8KimHDxdK3pJqWP1Mr+3ylJ Fnhyt0LcNMtXUtm6GfNWj1/5o5LMF64oc0zLzxuf1VnBuL0RWx1QDZiiQGjDiTB8 TM7xomGMbn7pZZsLsu0uQGDKkOolmP+QXEKzL1wPrAIR1ItHc+4dcazKvDD9fafT wvh1A/Li5yc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=7CSD76EjHrb2XjenID5Zr2sPHK4=; b=Yyk W1xRoM7uo4yPqBn3SsC2mH2ensL5MAwcJxQcKqbzEc5ypUGPVrw1blj11bp+M5Pm /r7I5VFKoLt0WbEfgVAntKa8oTMFpMwIx5sYL8NGZ3A9YqE7x+uB/7OiYclSragU 1Qbb+aE/vgo5zxAZV61tXaM92N7PTTk9d440qhgY= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 77861B00003; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1371931585.12063.140661247273837.65C9D1AA@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: +zRldcNmEkOPX3405izwaYad6gS1H66pkB/F9UHzuFXe 1371931585 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-5ae8e04c In-Reply-To: <20130621074223.GA2453@treefort> References: <20130621074223.GA2453@treefort> Subject: Re: When to submit regression in a PR Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:06:25 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 20:06:33 -0000 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013, at 2:42, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > > My question therefore is: while I will mention these problems upstream, > should I also make the PR? Contact the port maintainer directly? > I understand it is not FreeBSD specific (same issue on Debian Sid) > however it really make the current port unusable for those working on > laptops and those needing to input characters only reachable with the > compose key. > It's probably a good idea to open a PR and let the port maintainer know, but we really need to have upstream to fix it. FreeBSD discourages doing custom "development" in the ports tree, so even if you could whip up a patch to fix it we would prefer that it get committed upstream and the port updated to pull the new version rather than have the port committer include a custom patch with the port.