On Sunday 25 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- > > > Why not if it contains couple of important bugfixes? > > > > Here I disagree with Neil. While DEHS will detect it, having upstream > > visiting Debian BTS and emphasizing on new features/bugfixes is a good > > thing! > > Actually, I think we agree - the bug report didn't emphasise any new > features or detail any bug fixes so there was no benefit over the DEHS > email IMHO. When a "new upstream release" bug includes details of Debian > bugs (possibly) closed by the new version or important bugs discovered > and fixed upstream that didn't appear as Debian bugs, that I would > consider to be a good thing.
True. I just missed to inspect the buglog. > > Having upstream who helps improving Debian is also very cool, so if you > > find it useful, you can co-maintain the package together with an official > > DD. > > True - but I do know of instances where upstream have become more of a > nag than a help. This could be possible, but curable sometimes. If the upstream is sensible enough it shouldn't be a great effort to teach them towards Debian habits/culture. Perhaps I'm extremely lucky having to deal high quality upstreams (a dutch CS professor and hackers from large a telecommunication company, to name a few), but they are of a great help as co-maintainers wrt packaging not so trivial libraries. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
