I was packaging something this week and noticed they hadn't tagged any release on git, despite having releases.
I asked them to tag it because it'd be easier for me and they did it within a couple of hours. Often in my experience they're happy to have patches too of they make sense outside of Debian. Il Ven 22 Nov 2024, 20:53 Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> ha scritto: > I'm still trying to understand if it's a good idea to contact upstream > authors and tell them their software is being worked on to be included in > Debian, or not. > My own experience has been that most upstream projects don't care about > Debian. > Some do, of course. But many don't. > With my experience, I realized that saying nothing was a safer bet > (sometimes it's really a good idea and most of the time it's not > acknowledged, and a few times it's a bad reception). > but it's somewhat disturbing ! > That subtlety in contacting upstream is documented somewhere ? > >
