On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:20:38PM +0300, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2010 17:00:38 Markos Chandras wrote: > [...] > > > > > - There is absolutely no reference to any patch sent upstream and I > > > > > have not seen anything on the upstream dev ml. > > > > > > > > Thats because I didn't. I've fixed more than 40 bug wrt LDFLAGS. Do you > > > > expect me to subscribe to 40 different ML and send them upstream? > > > > > > you don't need to subscribe, there's usually an AUTHORS file with emails > > > you can use... > > > > As I said, I thought that maintainers was responsible to do it since they > > follow all the bug progress after all. So according to you I should do all > > the work. Tempting > > yes please; I consider not doing it a bit rude as the maintainers will _have_ > to clean after you. So do I. Fixing your package and you don't even bother to send a *ready to go* patch upstream seems like a bit rude to me as well. Perhaps, we do have a complete different point of view in this one. Recent example is Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn who thanked me for fixing his package, asked me to attach the patch so *he* can send it upstream. I thought that was the *default* policy. Anyway. I should talk to each maintainer separately when I fix his package. Seems to me is the best approach >[...] > A. >
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