Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Sam Hartman writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive [and 1 more messages]"): > So imagine that Ubuntu and several other downstreams care more about > security and hardening than they do about backward compatibility and > they choose to change a

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Actually directly switching on vendor seems fairly bad. However, to the extent that downstream changes can be encapsulated into options/deltas that someone might want, I think it may often be reasonable to carry the delta in Debian. So imagine that Ubuntu and several other downstreams care more a

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"): > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:21:07PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > IMO policy should recomend the use of separate source packages as the > > prefered solution to the problem that vendor-spe