On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:30:35AM +0000, ng0 wrote: > In the case of netcat-openbsd, Debian is the Linux upstream, > maintaining the port of netcat from OpenBSD. > The patches have not seen an update since 2012 and are still > functional. > I can understand that we don't want to maintain more patches > than necessary, so in the case of netcat-openbsd I'll contact > Debian, as mentioned in the thread of the patch, to ask about > a merge of their patches into their maintained port.
So did I understand correctly that the Debian project maintains the "official" tarball of the software package, and at the same time, the same person main- tains a patch series that is not part of the tarball? This sounds very surprising. Andreas
