On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:12:44 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > How can we make sure that those Debian patches, as long as they are > still needed, are retained for new upstream versions, when they are > packaged?
this is mostly a matter of trusting the maintainer to do the requisite background work (applying patches from the old version if they are still relevant) when preparing a new upstream version. this isn't policyified, but one would also hope that other maintainers/users are reviewing the changes to make sure regressions don't happen. > Moreover, how can we make sure that packages fixed in stable and > testing, but not in unstable, get fixed in unstable too, before a new > version migrates from unstable to testing? > Maybe by filing appropriate RC bugs? yes, if unstable is missing a security fix that is in the testing or stable packages, then that is a regression, and a serious bug should be filed. mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
