Re: pkgsrc-wip: misc/DeepSeek-TUI renamed to misc/CodeWhale; editors/fresh 0.3.12

Benny Siegert <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Jun 2026 17:59:51 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 6 Jun 2026, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> This obviously needs to be clarified with respect to pkgsrc.  For example if 
> we have a package that has an important fix in their upstream repository but 
> hasn't made it to a release yet we usually apply that patch to pkgsrc.  Are 
> you saying that if upstream used an LLM we can no longer apply that patch 
> even if we didn't write it?  How is that effectively different from just 
> using an upstream tarball that includes the LLM patch?

AIUI, this rule does not apply to patches. Patches are considered part of 
the code base that is being patched and thus under the same licence.

What is not allowed (again, in my understanding of the rule) is using a 
coding agent for the pkgsrc files themselves (e.g. Makefiles). Since 
Chavdar is doing that, these packages are not allowed in pkgsrc itself.

-- 
Benny