On Wednesday 05 March 2008 03:44, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Russ, > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:26:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Does anyone know the right contact point to ask Ubuntu to stop making > > pointless changes to a Debian package? See: > > > > http://patches.ubuntu.com/x/xfonts-jmk/xfonts-jmk_3.0-16ubuntu1.patch > > > > I mailed the person listed in the changelog entry here and pointed out > > that there's no reason to patch a spec file for an Ubuntu or Debian > > package and didn't get any reply, and then when I uploaded another new > > version of the package, this pointless change was blindly merged again. > > Ugh... > > Well, one of the changes mentioned in the changelog is to "Update > maintainer field in debian/control." Based on the outcome of the poll > conducted on (IIRC) debian-project a while back, any modified package in > Ubuntu is supposed to have a maintainer field that points at the > responsible party in Ubuntu. In this case: > > -Maintainer: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So I would suggest contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone on the > MOTU team can do an upload to clean up this gratuitous diff so that the > next time it comes up for merge it will be more obvious that it should be > synced across instead. > > > It doesn't really matter -- it's not hurting anything -- but it's vaguely > > annoying to have the patch keep showing up on the PTS page when there's > > no useful content (and it obscures any actually useful modifications made > > in Ubuntu). > > When there are gratuitous diffs between Ubuntu and Debian, it wastes time > of both the Debian and Ubuntu developers in tracking the differences and > makes patches.ubuntu.com less useful for everyone. Better to spend the > time now to eliminate the unnecessary diff than to have it show up > repeatedly down the line.
Definitely. I'll upload a new revision removing this gratuitous difference and leave a note to make clear it's appropriate to sync the package. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
