On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Michael Shigorin
<mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's in vain if you don't push your changes upstream,
unfortunately. And that can be a pretty hefty effort either.
It may be in vain, but some of these changes are not the type of thing that would get accepted upstream. I've sent patches that weren't so specialized to some projects and some projects just aren't open to accepting patches. If the patches are generically useful, I send them back to the developers. However, I have quite a few from defunct projects, projects that don't want patches and some that add very specific functionality that a general user won't want. I am trying to minimize how to apply the patches, so they can be moved to future versions more easily if the application or library is still actively developed.
The most prominent boring people lurk in debian-legal@, IMHO :)
I should check that out.
> I'm not even sure which runtime library to use on Linux yet.
> I've been considering using lsb or musl.
If you'd like to avoid glibc for any of the reasons then musl
seems to be quite alive these days according to my coworker
in the system programming dept.