[arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

Piscium groknok at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 15:20:36 UTC 2020


On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 14:59, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Note that backporting an upstream fix is not considered "patching
> upstream code".

Yes, that is more precise. Fedora packagers would do both, backporting
and patching according to what they thought it was needed.

> In that case, it will just depend on how problematic the
> issue is and whether it justifies the effort of a backport.

A good example below, thanks!
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=zfs-dkms&id=d364766c9b790b02ca72e38146a7d7ee21ca05ae


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