Re: XFree86 modularization

Owen Taylor writes:
 > 
 > If the XFree86 version builds on OS X and the upstream vrsion
 > doens't, that is a clear sign to me that someone neglected to
 > send the patches upstream. And that wouldn't have happened
 > if there wasn't a copy of FreeType in XFree86.
 > 

That is clearly just procedural problem. The person in charge of
maintaining the XFree86-included version of FreeType (ie. the 
committer that looks after it) shouldn't accept any patches for
the XFree86-specific version but instead redirect them upstream
and later pick them up from there.
In fact this should be the procedure for all packages shipped in 
'extras'.
Another example where this doesn't get obeyed (and it's partly
my fault) is x86emu.

Egbert.