Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I have heard people say that distributions should not carry >> feature branches or long term fixes, but push it upstream; but in a >> non ideal world some upstreams do not respond as quickly as one wants, >> and secondly, a user obsession requires that users get desirable >> features, even if upstream is tardy or does not see the light, and thus >> feature branches might linger. > > That is _NOT_ distro's business. If you want such things, do a clean > fork - w/ all implications. This creates a new/different package, out > of the original package's versioning line. (eg. ff vs. iceweasel).
Can I just point out that this is your policy for your definition of a distro. Others may feel differently. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
