Re: Debian Book Published

1997-10-20 Thread paulwade
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > I haven't yet figured out how Dale's book fits in the distribution. > > We should probably discuss this on the policy list. It doesn't fit in at all. Really. I mean it. > I brought this up before, but now that we have a nice piece of documentation > spec

Re: When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread joost witteveen
> Is there policy manual material on when to get the upstream maintainer > involved in a problem? If not, we need to insert some. > > In general, you should _not_ bother the upstream maintainer until you > have determined that there is a bug in their program. Specificaly: > > * Debian handles it

Re: When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
I think the Debian Project gets more and more overregulated. Maybe we should have some suggestions in the manual but the relationship between a package maintainer and the upstream author is generally dependant on the specific situation varying between "dont bother me" to "why did you not tell me!!"

Re: When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > Is there policy manual material on when to get the upstream maintainer > involved in a problem? If not, we need to insert some. > > In general, you should _not_ bother the upstream maintainer until you > have determined that there is a bug in their progra

When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Is there policy manual material on when to get the upstream maintainer involved in a problem? If not, we need to insert some. In general, you should _not_ bother the upstream maintainer until you have determined that there is a bug in their program. Specificaly: * Debian handles it own user suppo

Re: When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Bruce> This is in response to a complaint from Ted Tso's, who is the Bruce> upstream maintainer of e2fsutils. He said that Red Hat takes care of Bruce> its own bugs, and we should as well. I have to agree with him. File the complaintt under Debian haters. How many Debian-positive notes have

Re: When to get the upstream maintainer involved.

1997-10-20 Thread Bruce Perens
> I think that you're being a little too strict in your policy, Bruce. This is in response to a complaint from Ted Tso's, who is the upstream maintainer of e2fsutils. He said that Red Hat takes care of its own bugs, and we should as well. I have to agree with him. Bruce -- Can you get yo