Staging would probably mean it is pre-release, so they’ll be wanting to do some testing on it, before then next numbered release. Not knowing their release cycle, I’d just say give them a month or so. In the meantime, you can always build yourself, outside of a MacPorts install, if you want it now.
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 27, 2021, at 02:24, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 06:02, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Oct 20, 2021, at 22:06, Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to add an optional variant to the QEMU Portfile that would >>> apply this patch? >> >> Yes, it is technically possible to do that. However, we prefer not to >> include and forever maintain unofficial patches. Instead, we would prefer >> for such patches to be submitted to the upstream developers of the software. >> If they include it, then MacPorts will automatically get that and any other >> changes when we update to the next version of the software. If upstream >> elects not to include a patch, then we would have to seriously consider >> whether it would be appropriate for us to second-guess their decision and >> include it in MacPorts anyway. > > I checked their patch procedure which looks pretty involved ... > > ... but according to > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/85173 > it looks like upstream has already merged the changes. > > It's hard to follow exactly because commits don't exactly match the > contents of that patch, but by looking at and blaming individual files > (touched by that patch) in the master branch, the first three randomly > chosen changes seem to be included, some of them in the "staging" > branch, whatever that means. > > Given that HB has started this and seems to be actively involved in > maintaining the patches, I would say that it's probably perfectly safe > to include the patches on any arm machine at least. Most likely the > patches will either no longer be needed with the next release, or in > the worst case we can copy them over from HB once again. > > Ranga, if you are willing to prepare a pull request, I would support > that. I don't think we need a variant for that, I would just > unconditionally apply the patch, at least on any arm-based CPU. > > Mojca
