On Sunday 17 August 2008 01:37, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 01:27 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > For Debian, many maintainers keep their packages in their favorite VCS > > and so > > it's less relevant as a policy issue. > > Yes, but for the debian maintainers it will be easy to check for > separate patches on the debian derivatives than reading a big diff > including a lot of changes.
Which is why as a good downstream we should be filing bugs with explicit explanation of the patch and the patch in the upstream BTS. Even in cases where I'm the Debian maintainer and I made the change in Ubuntu I find the monlithic patches that get linked into PTS hard to deal with. In all the hundreds of uploads I've done, I can only recall one occasion where a Debian maintainer changed something based on just that patch. OTOH, I've had great success with bugs that have a good rationale and a patch. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
