How to see Macports patches

[Bill Cole]

On 5 May 2019, at 19:38, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I want to see the patches applied to Unistring
>> (https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/). I found the package in
>> search at 
>> https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=libunistring
>> . Following the "source" link to Macport's GitHub I see
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/textproc/libunistring/Portfile
>> , but it does not have the patches.
>>
>> Where can I find the patches for Unistring?
>
> Here are the ones I am interested in:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2019-03/msg00005.html
> and 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2019-05/msg00001.html
>
> The first one was fixed a couple of months ago. The second one is
> "won't fix" by the package, and I am interested to learn what Macports
> is doing for it.

Well, 'port info libunistring' shows that there is no maintainer for the 
port, so if you want a patch that is not yet in a release of the 
upstream package added to the port, you may need to do the work yourself 
and put in a ticket with the patches and new Portfile.

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