On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:09:42PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > 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. The same reason there is so many patches in our packages and why so few our bugreports get forwarded to upstream backtracking systems: lack of time. > 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. Same could be said about our diff.gz files from upstream POV. > We have a working patch service - its called bts (http://bts.debian.org for > all who don't know) Actually that link does not work ;) > it would be great if this would be used and nothing else. The world does not spin around debian. -- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups
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