On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 14:59, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Note that backporting an upstream fix is not considered "patching > upstream code". Yes, that is more precise. Fedora packagers would do both, backporting and patching according to what they thought it was needed. > In that case, it will just depend on how problematic the > issue is and whether it justifies the effort of a backport. A good example below, thanks! https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=zfs-dkms&id=d364766c9b790b02ca72e38146a7d7ee21ca05ae