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Subject: Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?
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On Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:43:15 am Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 15:29, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > but we do add patches to make things work on FreeBSD.
> 
> We add patches to make ports...
> ... work on FreeBSD
> ... conform to FreeBSD hier (to an extent)
> ... work with alternate compilers, PREFIX, etc.
> 
> We shouldn't add patches which "continue development". In all cases
> the goal should be to upstream the patch ASAP. If there is no active
> upstream and the patch does more than the above that is a sign that
> someone needs to be willing to become the upstream maintainer first.

In this case we probably should become the upstream maintainer.  My patch 
actually bumps the version to 1.3 as it is sort of intended to do that.

-- 
John Baldwin