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krims0n

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 17

Patching ?

Hi,

Question: I hit a (annoying) bug in epiphany, find out that this bug has been resolved upstream in Gnome 2.24 and I can fix it for myself in 2.22 using a patch supplied by upstream. What is the Arch way of fixing this not just for me but for others as well ? Should I create an AUR package with the patch applied ? Do I need to contact the package maintainer and ask if he will incorporate this patch ? Or do we have to manually patch ourselves and wait for gnome 2.24 to come out ?

Some pointers would be nice

Thanks !

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Patching ?

The KISS-est way would be to wait for gnome 2.24 to come out

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-09-03 09:40:38)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Patching ?

The correct way to deal with this is to post a feature request in the bugtracker - this is essentially "contact the package maintainer and ask if he will incorporate this patch", but in a more formal, trackable way. However, you should be aware that the gnome maintainer is more likely to concentrate his efforts on the upcoming new release - in other words, your feature request will be implemented by upgrading to 2.24 when it becomes available.