Svante Signell, le lun. 03 sept. 2018 01:18:20 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 01:07 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > So has the debian patch been submitted in #900240 upstream by you or > > > Petter > > > Reinholdtsen yet? I don't believe so! > > > > I don't think so either, it'd be marked forwarded. That doesn't mean you > > can't help with it. > > Regardless who is submitting patches upstream, two problem remains: > 1) The delay until upstream makes a new release.
Nope, the maintainer said he was happy to cherry-pick. > 2) The delay until the Debian Maintainer creates an updated package from that > release (if ever). Example: emacs26 Again, cherry-pick don't need to wait for the introduction of the new release to Debian. > And how many maintainers do cherry-pick patches accepted upstream, very few > :( Here the maintainer explicitly said we would happily do it. Samuel
