Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:59:32AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     However, we???re just packaging an existing application.  IMO, when we
     find such limitations (it???s really a limitation, and not something that
     makes it completely unusable), we should submit the improvement
     upstream, unless upstream no longer exists (I???m not sure if this is the
     case here.)
     

I think the following are true (please correct me if not):

* Most (all?) the files in gnu/packages/patches fall into the category of 
  "limitations" to upstream.

* In principle, those patch files could be directly applied to upstream
  without modification.


This being the case, would it not be a good idea, to have some kind of web
interface to these patch files to make it easy for upstream maintainers to 
fetch them.  (perhaps there is sucha page already) Then we can publish this
page and say "hey upstream maintainer! Your package has limitations.
Please apply these patches."

J'

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