Does your upstream know you? They should. (Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian)
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:17:16AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Imagine you are the developer of some random piece of free software. You
> don't necessarily use Debian; you certainly don't understand all its
> systems and protocols.
> The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a free
> software project to raise an issue is to write to the -devel list. It's
> not surprising that this is what people do with debian.
>
> By all means suggest they write to foo@packages, but there's no need to
> flame people for doing the normal and reasonable thing.
A Debian maintainer should not be a stranger to the upstream maintainer.
Your (active) upstreams should _already_ know who you are and that you are
responsible for the Debian packaging of their software. The one thing that
they need to know about Debian is that you are their point of contact.
I'm pretty sure this is in the developer's documentation somewhere, but if
it isn't, it certainly should be.
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- mdz
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