On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > 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. > > > > *This* irritates me mightily. The reason, as given by a MOTU when I asked > > It irritates us all. But I'd rather have substandard patches submitted > (just don't expect me to not go medieval on anyone adding a [patch] tag to > something that is clearly crap) than losing the good ones along with the > substandard filth.
I think we're talking about different things. I was referring to the often brutal manner in which packages are modified to fit a quick need within Ubuntu. Whether or not those hacks then propagate back to the Debian BTS is a whole other matter. - Matt
