Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Only Debian developers can push changes into Debian, and indeed only > particular Debian developers can push particular changes into Debian. > Routing patches through this mesh involves a lot of overhead, especially in > the form of latency. It's commonplace in Debian to wait weeks for a > response from a maintainer, for example, and there's no one covering for > them during that time. Just as some aspects of Ubuntu's operation are not > visible to the Debian community, Ubuntu MOTUs for example cannot be > reasonably expected to know who is responsive, who is MIA, whether a > particular maintainer doesn't want to receive email with the word "Ubuntu" > in it, etc.
It's amazing how the Debian project manages to communicate fixes to an even more diverse set of upstream authors, isn't it. -- see shy jo
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