Re: Upcoming re-releases

Alexander Schreiber wrote:

>At least two of the distributions I use
>regularly (Gentoo and Debian) have the habit of adding a load of patches
>during package build. And not all of those go back to the upstream, to
>put it mildly ...
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And they are not always sensible. A while back the Gentoo packagers 
decided to "improve" the messages from initdb - the patch they applied 
was completely erroneous, and I believe they have now fixed it.

I tend to be suspicious of distro applied patches. (I do like the change 
to use log rotation that recent Rh/Fedora packages have made.)

cheers

andrew