Re: Bug#74715: ITP: Star Office -- Open Source Office Suite
> The main point of suggesting contacting upstream is because you have to
> contact upstream sooner or later, so better do it sooner. In fact, the
> author may have a completely valid reason why one should not package
> something, e.g. if his program is in a highly alpha phase of development
> and he doesn't want a slew of bug reports all of the sudden.
So it should be more clear, so that the question is...
"I'd like to package foobar. Is the 0.89 release ok, should I wait for a
more stable?"
instead of...
"Hi, I'm contacting you in order to ask your permission to package foobar."
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