On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:50:27 +0900 "Emmet Hikory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007 9:22 PM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what is it that an Ubuntu developer develops for Gimp? I thought > > it was the Gimp developers who developed Gimp. If I find a bug in > > Gimp I will address it with the Gimp developers and not with an > > Ubuntu developer. That's like saying if you run into a bug with > > Firefox on windows you'll write Microsoft. > > Ubuntu developers perform three major activities (and lots of > others), specifically packaging available software, patching that > software to address reported bugs, and working to integrate that > software with the rest of the distribution. If an issue is > encountered with a package, it is much preferable to report it to > Ubuntu, as it may or may not affect the upstream package (and the > Ubuntu developers will forward the report if it does). Because of the patches created by the Ubuntu developers you'll have to report it to Ubuntu developers which means a big workload compared to releasing the package as provided by the original developers. > > > I appreciate the patches that Ubuntu developers make, I've seen them > > when creating packages but when an update of a package comes out, > > not a major release but a minor one like Gimp 2.4-rc3 -> 2.4.0 -> > > 2.4.1 , it's my believe you'll only have to check if your patches > > are still relevant. Any comments for this one??? > > > > Is it Ubuntu's policy to do Q&A on all the packages it puts in the > > repositories? > > Yes, every update to a release goes through a QA process to ensure > that it does not cause regressions in behaviour. Packages in each > development cycle are tested thorugh a series of Alpha and Beta > releases, where the developers attempt to address any discovered > outstanding bugs. Further, near the end of a development cycle, and > for the life of a supported release, effort is made to not update the > software in such a way that might introduce new bugs, specifically > meaning that while additional patches are applied to address old bugs, > new version are only very rarely imported, to reduce the chance of a > new change causing additional bugs. > I understand the point of view of not fixing bugs at the end life of a cycle, but certain software updates aren't in Ubuntu yet while new version have been out for a while now. Azureus for example is still 2.5.0.0 in the official repo while 3.0.2.2 has been out before the package freeze for Gutsy. -- Peter van der Does GPG key: E77E8E98 IRC: Ganseki on irc.freenode.net Blog: http://blog.avirtualhome.com Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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