Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"): > Second draft: ... > The Committee recognises that there is a need for packages to behave > differently when built on different distributions, but this should be > done by using different source packages, or as part of the build > process, using current and future practices such as patches with > conditional behaviour, patching of files during the build, rather than > at source unpacking time.
This is all good but can I suggest using the phrase `differing source packages' rather than `different' ? `Different' might mean source packages with different source package name. `Differing' more clearly refers to source packages of the same name but which are different to each other. Thanks, Ian.