Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:24:48AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or >> circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, >> and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply >> himself but is good in our opinion. Depending on the package, you may >> find huge patches for our packages >> >> I would not see why a missing functionality of gitlab would be different >> here. > > Ole, it seems you didn't understand what Alexander ment when he described his > reasoning with a single word, "nagios"? > > Do you know what he is referring too?
No, I don't. I can speak only from my own experiences when packaging, and from what I see f.e. as patches in iceweasel. It seems that we are able to maintain significant patches for quite a while. If nagios is a counterexample, it may be worth to see how it differs from our successfull stories. Best regards Ole