On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:33 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > an you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical > functionality patches which were actually submitted to the upstream > projects in question and were rejected. > My existing understanding is that unity can operate without any vendor > patches being applied outside of compiz, and the patches to compiz > have been upstreamed. > Everything else is enhanced functionality that is non-critical. > Particularly the xorg patches, as I am not aware of any critical xorg > patches that exist. Obviously the utouch stuff, regardless of its > upstream nature, is not critical functionality. > > That being said, I'm pretty confident the maintainers of the impacted > packages are not going to take on substantial non-upstream patch sets > to Xorg and Gnome. It really goes against the upstream what is > reasonable ethos of this distribution. I'll remind you again that > Unity isn't packaged in Debian for a reason. I would suggest this deep > vendor patching of shared components is part of that reason. I haven't looked at current unity, but the gmenu and gapplication work that has been included in glib/gtk+ in the last cycle should let them drop most of their menu-related patches. This work was done in cooperation with Canonical, and we've invested considerable effort into narrowing the gap - or preventing it from becoming a permantent rift. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
