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Re: Ubuntu Patches



On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:28:36AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:

> One suggestion: if any Ubuntu patches were CC'd to the Debian
> maintainer, or filed in the BTS, they would get applied quicker.  I've
> now put your gimp-print changes back into my packages, but I would
> have been happy to do this last October when they were originally
> created.  This should also lower your packaging overheads, since you
> won't have to re-patch for every new Debian revision.

Many Debian maintainers would consider this unwelcome noise.  In cases where
we can be certain that this is welcome (i.e., a bug is open in debbugs), the
patch is pushed, otherwise it is published so that it can be pulled by the
maintainer if desired.

-- 
 - mdz



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