Friday, December 10, 2021

Re: [maintainer update] pekwm-0.2.1

Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:

> On 2021/12/10 09:50, Omar Polo wrote:
>> Timo Myyrä <timo.myyra@bittivirhe.fi> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Pekwm got new minor release containing fixes. It adds a new
>> > configuration option which allows us to remove local doc patch. With quick test
>> > seems to be working ok here on amd64.

Thanks, committed!

>> [...]
>>
>> Just one curiosity, now there are only two remaining patches and they're
>> both for pledge, has anybody tried to upstream those? They seem in a
>> good shape for being merged, but I don't see anything on github. I'm
>> missing some bit of history here?
>
> personally I prefer it if pledge patches aren't upstreamed unless
> upstream is actively running and testing with OpenBSD, we can easily
> end up in the situation like with i3 where we have to patch to remove
> them again.

I didn't know about the i3 case, I agree completely then. The two
patches are also small and not a burden.

(also, if upstream is actively running and testing with OpenBSD chances
are that we don't need to add pledge patches in the first place ;-)

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