On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:53:24AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Sponsors who upload packages that result in more than a fair share of > RC bugs are not looked upon favourably by the release team or other > parts of Debian. (This is why I do not sponsor PHP packages, despite > using PHP extensively myself.) > ;-)
Double standards! :-) > Maintaining packages in Debian *is tough* for people who have no > upstream experience or knowledge simply because they are dependent on > others to fix certain bugs. It is easier for Debian *and* for upstream > if the Debian maintainer has detailed knowledge of the upstream code > because bug reports can include working patches. One example is > architecture-specific bugs - upstream have no real way of fixing bugs > that only appear on some of the supported Debian architectures because > they don't have access to the hardware. If the Debian maintainer has > insufficient knowledge of the upstream code to fix problems specific to > Debian, these kind of bugs tend to escalate in severity until either > someone else has to do an NMU or the package is removed from testing. I understand. As you say, the quality of the package in Debian is also a function of the maintainer's familiarity with the package. Thanks for the clarifications! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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