Hi, On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 04:01:05PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: [...] > > So, in grsecurity2 pacakge, upstream is www.grsecurity.net. > > And you can check it in copyright file as "Upstream Author(s):". > > So it almost means 'the original developers'. The expression "upstream developers" is Debian specific but suit perfectly with what it means. Any packages are original. From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]: upstream adj. [common] Towards the original author(s) or maintainer(s) of a project. Used in connection with software that is distributed both in its original source form and in derived, adapted versions through a distribution (like the Debian version of Linux or one of the BSD ports) that has component maintainers for each of their parts. When a component maintainer receives a bug report or patch, he may choose to retain the patch as a porting tweak to the distribution's derivative of the project, or to pass it upstream to the project's maintainer. The antonym downstream is rare. Cheers, -- Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org GPG: 1024D/23706F87 : B906 A53F 84E0 49B6 6CF7 82C2 B3A0 2D66 2370 6F87
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