[systemd-devel] pre-release warnings? [was: 220 tarball erroneously ships keyboard-keys-from-name.gperf]

[Lennart Poettering]

BOn Tue, 26.05.15 16:58, Martin Pitt (martin.pitt at ubuntu.com) wrote:

> > 50 non-backport patches? That sounds like a lot...
> 
> It's not that bad, most of them are trivial, like tweaking tmpfiles.d
> or some extra historic udev rules. We have quite a bunch of patches to
> get rid of Fedora/RedHat-isms and replace them with Debianisms, and
> then there's a lot for having a non-merged /usr (which Debian didn't
> do yet). Aside from two or three which keep breaking most of them just
> tag along, but there's always enough noise to break completely
> automatically building packages from git master. Anyway, this is
> completely tangential.. :-)

But note that upstream is supposed to be non-redhat centric, and is
supposed to support non-merged /usr. If it's really about that, I#d be
inetersted to know what these patches are about, and maybe we can move
some upstream.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat