A. Costa wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:13:19 +0200
> "Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hope this helps...
> >
> > Yes it does. Thanks for all these patches. I'm not sure what
> > Debian prefers, but for me, working upstream, inlined patches,
>
> That's interesting; as you deduced, the Debian guys seem to prefer the
> '-u' attachments. There may be a fix, but it's out of my hands
> at the moment. Background:
>
> I'm not a Debian maintainer, but a few years back I wrote a
> Debian-centric script to find and submit typo bugs, the script relies
Cool!
Is this maybe integrated in lintian/linda? If not, it may be worth
taking it there. At least lintian is run periodically over all
packages in unstable and many maintainers run it locally on their
packages as well.
> on the Debian BTS as a "one size fits all" interface with the rest of
> upstream. The occasional Debian maintainer has suggested it would be
This should work fine.
> more efficient to send typo patches directly upstream; but then this
> script would have to cope with a plethora of upstream variables, (e.g.
> addresses & preferences), instead of one server interface; the Debian
You'd also have to take care of typos introduced by a sloppy Debian
maintainer - when the typo does not exist upstream.
Regards,
Joey
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