Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:32:29 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>, Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, rafan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH Message-ID: <permail-2009110221322980e26a0b00005a91-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <86bpjmkxre.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav schrieb am 2009-11-01: > Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> writes: > > great news. so should the PR be closed or should it remain in > > patched state in > > order for 7.x to get patched? > Set it to "patched" until you've merged the patch to 6, 7 and 8 > (IIRC, 6 > has the new ncurses as well) ok. the pr stays in patched state. right now the patch is in HEAD, 8-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE. rafan is thinking about mfc'ing the patch to 6-stable and 7-stable. however if somebody is willing to modify the patch so it applies = to those branches that'll be great > > another question: how about our ncurses base version in general? > > should it > > remain the ncurses release version with our own patchset or would > > it be better > > to update it more frequently with the official ncurses patchsets? i > > guess this > > is the way acpi in the base dir is being handled. vendor updates > > get > > integrated on the fly into the base dir. > I would just import releases, unless there is a compelling reason to > import a patchset (i.e. it fixes a serious bug and we can't easily > apply > just that one patch). my thoughts exactly. ncurses in the base dir is quite up to date. however i personally think that other contributed software should really be updated (binutils e.g.). but that's another story. ;) > DES
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