On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:01AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > Of course it would be nicer if patches were reported automatically to us. > > This is by no means a universally held view within Debian. The current > approach of only pushing patches to Debian maintainers as manual bug > reports is a result of public discussion several years ago on debian-devel > (or debian-project), in which a number of developers objected to the idea of > receiving automatic mails every time Ubuntu made a change on the grounds > that this would generate lots of unwelcome noise. > > If you prefer to be automatically notified about all changes in Ubuntu, I > believe the PTS gives you an option to do this by subscribing to the > 'derivatives' keyword. For my part, as a Debian maintainer I greatly prefer > receiving bug reports with Ubuntu patches because I find the signal-to-noise > is much better when you have a person to talk to instead of trying to > extract meaning from a changelog alone.
I think I misexpressed myself here. What I meant is contrary to us pulling patches manually out of Launchpad or the Ubuntu archive our other Ubuntu sources. It should be called semi-automatically or something like that. Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
