Bug#904302: That's a free software issue!

2018-10-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Anonymous writes ("Bug#904302: That's a free software issue!"): > If Debian want patches it has to support this process with tools. The > attitude Debian owns all source packages is wrong. Sharing source > packages among different vendors is more efficient. Different patch > series may be the best

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 02 Oct 2018 at 07:48PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Given the entire decision has been delegated to us, I think we should, > yes. If we'd just been asked to decide on a matter of technical policy, > that would have been slightly different. I think that the wording of my

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-10-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philip Hands > On reflection this seems like we're straying into micro-management. > Should we really be determining the detail of how this is done in > policy? Given the entire decision has been delegated to us, I think we should, yes. If we'd just been asked to decide on a matter of