> From: "Shahrukh Merchant" <shahr...@shahrukhmerchant.com>
> Hi António, > >> I guess that by "Linux" you mean "a given distribution". > > Or I suppose I meant "a given repository," which then affects all > distributions that use that repository ... though as I mentioned I'm > still trying to figure out the correlation between those two. :-) Each distribution (well, each release of each distribution, but it's generally the same person) has a role called Release Configuration Manager, whose job is to select the packages and versions that will be in that release, building test versions of the distro and running them (hopefully) through distro-level test scaffolding to make sure everything builds and all dependencies are fulfilled. That's the person -- or one of zir deputies -- who is generally responsible for making sure the most recent version of a package is in the distro... but "the most recent" generally means "in our repo". That person is generally called a "maintainer" or "packager" -- and they might be on the distro side or they might be on the package developer side; different combinations of distro and package approach it different ways, usually for hysterical raisins. Finding out who the maintainer is for the combination of package and repo is the important part -- sometimes developers know who their packagers are, sometimes RCM's know who *their* packagers are, and sometimes it's just some random person with commit access to the repo, and someone's gotta look it up. This google search looks to have some informative data: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk03TeSpmd8E_fcx81ut8hI6ujK7hRw:1587413591635&q=ddrescue+%22packager%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2sPa56PfoAhWBUt8KHf4eB2gQ5t4CMAB6BAgCEAk&biw=1184&bih=561 Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274