Demonstration of gentoo /etc/portage/patches to fix irssi bug #1180

by winny 3 years ago

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Demonstration of patching a package on Gentoo using the local patches mechanism

The bug we’re patching: irssi: ctrl+space freezes irssi on GLib >2.62 https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues/1180

The patch https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/1183 ( https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/1183.patch )

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