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 ...
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.)
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