On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 11:31:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Upstreams continue to disappoint me :(
I tend ending up as my own upstream a lot of the time, so I provide my
own disappointment.

Forks are a pain, but they often can be in the long run a benefit. This
is especially so if the parent project has gone dormant, which it sounds
like it for at least one of the cases.

procps is effectively a fork of a fork, for example

 - Craig
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