On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt:
> > Is the regular maintainer required to apply the diff? In doing
> > some non-maintainer upgrades just for libc6 reasons, I have
> > fixed some bugs where these are readily fixed. If the non-maintainer
> > work does not have to be used, there is every risk of bugs
> > being closed which are then unfixed with the next maintainer
> > release.
>
> The normal maintainer can of course choose not to apply the diff.
> However, we should say that:
>
> * The person making the non-maintainer release should provide a
> description of all the separate bugs that they fix.
>
> * The normal maintainer should do at least one of
> - apply the diff
> - read the diff and decide on each part of it themselves
> - read the description of the patches and ensure that they fix
> each problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release.
>
> Perhaps this should be incorporated into our policy ?
I'll include your request in the next policy weekly posting.
Thanks,
Chris
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