On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:57:44PM +0800, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have > > not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, > > from those being paid by Mark). > > So, let me get this straight. You find the efforts of full-time > dedicated Canonical staff contributing back to Debian ok. Your problem > is with the *users* not contributing back to Debian? And that surprises > you?
I think you are getting it wrong. It is just the maintainer should push back changes to upstream, whether it is the original software author, or even better, Debian, in this case. While Debian has set up some infractructure to take what is made available from Ubuntu (e.g. patches from Ubuntu are visible on Debian QA pages). However, it is just that they could be done better, and in a more proactive manner. For example, some Ubuntu maintainers (or whatever you call them) forward bugs in Ubuntu packages to the Debian packages' bug tracking system with patches, which is very much appreciated since things can be kept in sync more easily than using a monolithic patch from patches.ubuntu.com etc. Several Ubuntu contributors are also members of Debian packaging teams (e.g. Debian Python Teams) and keep their packages in both archives in sync. This takes them virtually no extra time and effort, and makes a larger number benefit. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
