Riku Voipio schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. May 2008: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:32:21PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Martin Pitt schrieb am Wednesday, den 28. May 2008: > > > How many patches does Debian get from Ubuntu [1]? How many from those > > > other derivatives? > > > In the last few years for my packages? 0 from all. > > I have fixed a bunch of FTBFS bugs this spring by applying > the patch from PTS ubuntu patch link. Typically in these > cases the debian maintainer has been effectively MIA. So > the ubuntu patch service is definetly usefull. I guess other > derivates could be holding changes that would be usefull to get > pushed to debian (and upstream), but so far only ubuntu has > provided us with such service. There is one thing I never understood:
we have that great bugtracking system and on the other side there is some ubuntu guy who thinks a package needs a patch. Why is it not possible that the same guy who does the patch fills a bug in the bts? That would allow a maintainer to track the patch, add comments and would help other people to understand why a patch is/or is not added. If we use that patch "service" (I don't call it a service, its a burden) where are some patches, some broken, many without context and with no option to track them or add comments we have all possible disadvantages that are possible with such a system. We have a working patch service - its called bts (http://bts.debian.org for all who don't know) and it would be great if this would be used and nothing else. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
