On 23-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:56:33AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: >> On 23-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:07:02PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: >> >> On 22-08-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > [...] >> >> > What is the reason to mandate a special field or comment in the META >> >> > field when it is created by debian? We are patching sources all the time >> >> > both for end user applications and develpment packages, without >> >> > attaching >> >> > an extra warning sign. What makes META files so special that warrants >> >> > an exception to that rule? >> >> > >> >> >> >> Whenever you patch the source, IMHO, you limit the patch to: >> >> - fix the build system to make it compile on Debian (source -> binary >> >> package, new OCaml version) >> >> - fix security bugs >> > >> > Certainly not. We do add features (I am speaking here of debian packages >> > in general, not only of ocaml libraries), and we fix things that are >> > broken. >> > >> >> Could you be more precise about the features we add. I don't have >> examples in mind. I don't consider that FHS compliance is a feature for >> example but I don't see any commmon case where Debian packagers add a >> new function to a library. > > Looking through the hevea changelog: > > * Modify hevea and imagen such that pictures are by default generated in > png instead of gif. Added options -gif to hevea and imagen for generation > of gif. Modify man pages accordingly. > > For that one we even had a discussion on this mailing list whether we > should stay with png even when the gif patent expired (the answer was yes) > > * removed spurious space in the definition of \cyan in html/color.hva > (patch sent in by Salvador Abreu <[email protected]> - thanks!). > Closes: Bug#136243. > > * Added an option "-charset" to specify the charset to be printed in the > META tag. The default is the output of "locale charmap" > (closes: Bug#165447) . > > * Don't insert a full stop in info output after reference "Up: (dir)" > (file: infoRef.mll, closes: Bug#179377). > > * Installed improved imagen script by Francois-Rene Rideau > <[email protected]>. > > and more. We also have improvements of documentation, additions of > examples, and so on. The bug fixes and the code are communicated to > upstream, who usually will use them (but a fixed release will be > published much later), or something doesn't agree. >
Are you not afraid of portability problem with other distro not shipping these changes? Doc and examples are ok because they don't imply incompatibilities. I am always afraid of mixing packager/upstream task... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
