[cmake-developers] What is necessary for including fixes from current development branch to official release

[Nils Gladitz]

On 09/19/2014 03:40 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I guess I could have copied the module into my project module folder and
> applied it locally, but that seems like a worse workaround than patching at
> the distro level.

I think I would personally prefer that over changing the package for the 
whole distro.

The project is under your direct control and the modified module will be 
available with the project on all distributions (or platforms/operating 
systems) that users might try to build your project e.g. not just the 
distribution you happen to work on.

By modifying the module on the distro level this changes behavior also 
for projects that did not ask for that change (which might work out in 
some cases but might just as well break in others).

Nils