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Re: Which Linux distributions are the developers of glibc using?
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: james harvey <jamespharvey20 at gmail dot com>, nick <xerofoify at gmail dot com>, libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 10:47:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: Which Linux distributions are the developers of glibc using?
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On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 03:18:29AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 31 May 2015 02:37, james harvey wrote:
> > I don't get it. Why are distributions applying bug fixes to packages
> > on their own, rather than submitting them upstream, to the actual
> > project?
>
> because not all patches have yet been reviewed or fully triaged
Which ones? I looked at gentoo branch and can't remember about half of
patches that were submitted. Fedora wasn't synced since january 2014, so
I couldn't tell if all applicable patches were at least submitted.