On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 13:18 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > And it might be so that the Debian > > Maintainer choose to approve the patch before upstream, > > Or it can be the other way round, where maintainers do want > issues/patches filed/fixed upstream first before introducing > potentially incompatible changes in the packages. > > It is also _much_ easier, in case you want to really have it fixed > in Debian without waiting for a new upstream release, to just ask > for the backport of a patch already committed upstream, as it is then > already reviewed and approved by upstream.
If you had done that for audiofile, it had saved me time for creating my version of the patch for that package. Are you submitting a Debian bug report? Otherwise I'll do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
