-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:29:14AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:22PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> >> This says you are wrong: >> >> >> >> http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ > >> > So if I were to diff the Debian archive against the Fedora one, I'd be >> > contributing to Fedora? Cool! That'll bolster my CV a bit. > >> If Fedora were using the same packaging system so that the packaging diffs >> were meaningful, you separated out the diffs for the upstream source and >> the diffs for packaging, and you continued doing this on a regular basis >> so that Fedora maintainers could see what changes were made in Debian that >> they might be interested... yes, you would indeed be contributing to >> Fedora. > > As absurd as Andrew's comparison may seem, the diffs distributed from > http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/patches/ are pretty underwhelming as far as > "contributing back to Debian" is concerned. I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a corresponding patch filed in the BTS, but I have found it useful a couple of times in the past. OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package they were changing. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDoCS3VcFcaSW/uEgRAorJAJ0bN/qrjEOOF0Bnc9d0JkIJt96FjwCgo+3s E3/O4Fa9GwTs2g+MmU+GBYM= =hiDo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
