On Friday 29 May 2009 03:08:15 Ryan Niebur wrote: > I will > strongly object to any more patching of this script in the package, > and want the existing patches in the package to be applied upstream or > removed. I also think that in general new features shouldn't be > implemented as patches in Debian packages, unless you're damn sure > that upstream will never touch the code again, which is clearly not > the case here, because then you have the risk that either upstream > will implement it themselves in a different way and break > compatibility for existing users or upstream will reject the idea and > then you're stuck maintaining the patch forever.
I like that. Note that in general, if (and only if) the original author doesn't want to maintain a script anymore, there's also still the possibility of pushing bugfixes directly in or taking over maintainership of a script in the irssi.org scripts archive (by mailing [email protected] and explaining the original author isn't interested anymore). Regards, Wouter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
